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McLux-III PD-Ti Cree Modification ... modamag / goldserve style ... :nana:
With such a great a beautiful light (McLux-PD) and the introduction of Cree, goldserve just couldn't keep his hands off modifying this thing. It was scheduled for almost one month back but due to our timing and availability it got delayed until now.
Without further a due ...
The design phase ... well at least it wasn't on a piece of knapkins.
The crutial element. Well we could have done what so many ppls did by just placing the cree on a pedestal to raise the height for proper focusing. But we didn't, I didn't feel comfortable with the thermal conduction. So a whole new Cree heatsink was fabricated. Ofcourse with the build in feature of self alignment on the Y-axis. We had quite a few hurdles to over come, one of the most memorible was when goldserve hand threaded the HS with some of my 2-56 SS socket screw. Don used some tini wini 0-80 or 1-64 screw to keep good contact between the emitter HS & the converter board. So we did the same with the emitter HS & Ecan, unfortunately the smallest tap I got was an OSG 4-40
Kevin have now gave me another excuse to give myself more xmas present from MSC.
Sorry for the unfocus picture (proprietary info J/K) It was getting late, and I was too lazy to get my other camera/tripod.
Alright here's the other proprietary picture. The e-can for the goldserve's piglet with it's little tail sticking out. Not that we're anal or anything. It's just that the piglet was a tad bit (0.100") smaller than the original board so that's why we made the E-Can.
Enjoy Everyone!
Wait Wait WAIT A MINUTE!
What you said ... No beamshots ... Well we work on this mod on Thursday night @ 9PM (right after Smallville ends) and proceded deep into the night. I think we called it quit @ sometime @ 2AM or was it 3AM :thinking: So a few pictures are missing. I'll let goldserve finish up the story.
I too was going to perform this mod, but after seeing the time involved to do it right, I opped to keep my beautiful gold PD the way it is beautiful shelf queen.
Cheers,
Jonathan
With such a great a beautiful light (McLux-PD) and the introduction of Cree, goldserve just couldn't keep his hands off modifying this thing. It was scheduled for almost one month back but due to our timing and availability it got delayed until now.
Without further a due ...
The design phase ... well at least it wasn't on a piece of knapkins.
The crutial element. Well we could have done what so many ppls did by just placing the cree on a pedestal to raise the height for proper focusing. But we didn't, I didn't feel comfortable with the thermal conduction. So a whole new Cree heatsink was fabricated. Ofcourse with the build in feature of self alignment on the Y-axis. We had quite a few hurdles to over come, one of the most memorible was when goldserve hand threaded the HS with some of my 2-56 SS socket screw. Don used some tini wini 0-80 or 1-64 screw to keep good contact between the emitter HS & the converter board. So we did the same with the emitter HS & Ecan, unfortunately the smallest tap I got was an OSG 4-40
Kevin have now gave me another excuse to give myself more xmas present from MSC. 
Sorry for the unfocus picture (proprietary info
J/K) It was getting late, and I was too lazy to get my other camera/tripod.
Alright here's the other proprietary picture. The e-can for the goldserve's piglet with it's little tail sticking out. Not that we're anal or anything. It's just that the piglet was a tad bit (0.100") smaller than the original board so that's why we made the E-Can.
Enjoy Everyone!
Wait Wait WAIT A MINUTE!
What you said ... No beamshots ... Well we work on this mod on Thursday night @ 9PM (right after Smallville ends) and proceded deep into the night. I think we called it quit @ sometime @ 2AM or was it 3AM :thinking: So a few pictures are missing. I'll let goldserve finish up the story.
I too was going to perform this mod, but after seeing the time involved to do it right, I opped to keep my beautiful gold PD the way it is beautiful shelf queen.
Cheers,
Jonathan
