Dive lights sometimes incorporate a red emitter to make up for sunlight wavelengths that have been absorbed by water depth. The cute3 SS is the best triple optic I have used, it would be great if you carried them Hank.
I really worry about the XPL & XML reflector compability.
Are we sure that the XML reflector is compatible with the new XPL?
Is the focusing more difficult with XPL?
CUTE-3 SS is not made for tiny XP LEDs, it is made for XM-L, I have several CUTE optics, but you can check that out on the Carclo website and there are past members with personal projects using CUTE3 and XM-Ls.
Vetoed. Look at the LED configuration. The only way a quad optic for that configuration would show up would be comfy doing it just to prove me wrong ;-). Seriously though, this board is not intended for actual quad use. “Circle packing” tells us that a quad optic should be laid out as a square, not as a triangle with a dot in the middle. The actual uses of this optic have already been covered earlier in the thread…
Without being facetious, have you looked at the Cute-3? The 3 optics overlap. All 3 touch at the center. There isn’t enough room for what’s already there. In order to accommodate a fourth emitter mounted to the center of the 32mm Noctigon you’d need an optic of similar height, right? So another 20mm optic (someone can correct me if I’m wrong, but the Cute-3 is already made of something along the lines of 3 chopped up 20’s). So you’d be lopping off most of the triple optic in order to….
Mine got here today and got emitters on it (after making a single cut to make them individually addressable) and fitted Into the EA41 host.
(Running on ~8h of sleep total over the weekend that one set of markings was really screwing with my brain so they had to go)
One thing I need to figure out is what to do about the feet of the CUTE, they’re much taller than the boards are thick so pressure from the optic does not hold the board in contact with my heatsink. They’ll either have to be shortened or the Noctigon will have to be screwed down (the most likely solution).
Does anyone have a source for the narrow/tight optic? All I could get ahold of was the medium (with textured surface).
This is obviously a RGB built (pukelight) but I will be doing a white XP-L triple “Ea41_CK” (watch for release thread in a couple more weeks!) and on those I will be mounting a red XP-e2 on the center 4th pad for moonlight red light (will require my own FW/MCU or to hack the stock PIC).