FRITZHID
Flashlight Enthusiast
Re: XX to XXX Watt Pichel Industries Rare Handheld Short Arcs. Military Quality
It's alive..... ALIVE! WooHoo!
'Gratz B.! glad it's work'n!
I Can't speak for TaskLED or DIW but we're all here to help each other so i'm glad we could assist in your revival!
Another update: After really tracing out the board, I, with the help of FritzHID determined that there is No Current Limiting happening on the PC board. No components to do so, not even a "ballast resistor". Input power + lands on the spade terminal, goes thru the small copper coil (which operates an ignition controlling reed switch) to the main power Diode, thru the diode and out to a trace that goes to the spade terminal where a wire from the main ignition coils lands and thru that wire direct to the ignition coil windings and then to the lamp Anode.
I can't very well carry along my 40lb Sorensen power supply to the field so I set out to find a current regulator. Member FritzHID suggested member DIWDriver who suggested TaskLED's H6CC tiny round 6.7Amp CC driver made for driving LED's. I bought one from George, mounted it to a small heatsink, wired it up to my PS and my electronic load so I could preset output at 5.7 Amps and then temporarily hooked it to both my lights, one at a time and it works perfectly from the PS and from a 6-cell LiFeP04 battery. 5.6 Amps gives me 77 Watts to the lamps. I just spent about 2 hours aligning and focusing the lamp on light #2. It's difficult to move the lamp 004" or 006" with your fingers. Its not that far off from my Gen3 MB
So somewhere in or on the original battery vest/pack, they utilized some type of current regulator. I wish the lights would have come with at least one setup. So now I need to design and build a battery pack with integral TaskLED current regulator. Probably around 9AH for about 70 minutes of run time. I'd like to do a comparison beam shot with my Gen3 Maxabeam with enhanced reflector running at both 75 and 80 Watts. But I need to find a new test range.
It's alive..... ALIVE! WooHoo!
'Gratz B.! glad it's work'n!
I Can't speak for TaskLED or DIW but we're all here to help each other so i'm glad we could assist in your revival!