Re: bi-flupic'd Rainier P7 (in progress)
And it's done!
Here's all the parts ready to go in.
Bored out rainier - peak epoxy potting all gone(it's some nasty stuff)
solid copper heatsink, cut from rectangle stock, dremeled and hand filed
to shape. never again...my hands are sore and blistered. it's time for a lathe.
mock setup, i did have to trim the outer hexagon off the ledil-s reflector.
bi-flupic mod:
getting ready to solder the extra ldo chips to extend the flupic to 2 amp high.
one side of the stack
other side.
holes drilled in heatsink for wires and a razor thin layer of AA to isolate the
p7 slug.
p7 thermal epoxied in place.
setup the led inside the head and let the epoxy cure with reflector in place.
leads soldered
test fit..i did goop up the sides and bottom with some thermal grease,
just didnt grab a pic as my hands were greasy from it and didnt want to
touch the camera.
getting ready to solder to flupic
flupic in place, there's also an aluminum slug and more thermal grease on
the other side of the board for heatsinking. didnt grab a pic before i sealed it.
Board and battery are also spaced away from the led heatsink. no fear of
overheating. there's a lot of mass in a rainier head.
copper nub soldered on + to maintain original height.
Low beam - the low is pretty clean and quite floody. the center spot
is huge.
High Beam - spot is LARGE and clean, spill is very bright...then there's a dark
ring and some more less bright spill. for only being 20mm the ledil-s is
pretty sweet. i'm impressed. Although it looks like a standard hotspot and
spill, it is not..the beam it is still very floody compared to a single die beam.
(there's no blue ring, thats my camera flipping out, SWO tint is on the warm side)
the p7 flupic head also works on the 2AA body.. it's less bright, but it
works just fine. kinda cool running a p7 on 2 AA's.
front shot of 3 modded rainiers. (have a SS w/K2 TFFC and an untouched HAIII too)
my notes...
I'm still learning the flupic..it's my first time using one.
It's not as bright as the Direct driven MC-E Rainier..but plenty bright.
No heat issues as the whole head is basically a heatsink now, the brass
gets warm, but never too hot.
This light could easily be EDC'd as runtime is great utilizing the lower modes.
It's also very weird seeing strobe coming from a peak. lol
The ledil-s boom would be perfect in multiple p7 mags.
buy a lathe.