After having the parts here for more than the whole year, I finally installed them
(wondering noone beat me to that mod)
main point: must be redoable!
* simply had a "seat" for the led mounting/thermal plate milled into the back of the head (inside),
* cut a disc out of aluminium sheet to mount the led and driver, should feature a very tight fit to the "seat"
* dremeled 2 possibilities for the screws to fix the "sandwich" into head
mount driver and led,
* built a "seat" for the reflector with epoxy soaked foam (reflector is too big to go through the hole, so has to be put in from the front)
* put everything in
8X:
original LA right, sandwich left (fits inside back of the head):
Sandwich with Reflector "mounted" (in use will be pressed in by the front glass):
back side of sandwich, showing springs and how SHARK is placed:
back end of head, showing the milled "seat" for the mounting plate:
from the front, showing the places for the screws (and the sandwich behind):
look into back end of head, with Sandwich mounted:
other side:
with reflector mounted:
atm the board is set to ~500 mA per die, to give something like 1.5 hours of runtime on full.
Of course the three-cell battey is not perfect for a quad-die step-up setup.
Gotta have to do some measurements and additional thoughts.
... and somehow have to include a low/high switch (which has to work like the original ui).
I have an idea already, but that needs a very tiny switch, and ...
PS: + have to add some glow epoxy
(wondering noone beat me to that mod)
main point: must be redoable!
* simply had a "seat" for the led mounting/thermal plate milled into the back of the head (inside),
* cut a disc out of aluminium sheet to mount the led and driver, should feature a very tight fit to the "seat"
* dremeled 2 possibilities for the screws to fix the "sandwich" into head
mount driver and led,
* built a "seat" for the reflector with epoxy soaked foam (reflector is too big to go through the hole, so has to be put in from the front)
* put everything in
8X:
original LA right, sandwich left (fits inside back of the head):
Sandwich with Reflector "mounted" (in use will be pressed in by the front glass):
back side of sandwich, showing springs and how SHARK is placed:
back end of head, showing the milled "seat" for the mounting plate:
from the front, showing the places for the screws (and the sandwich behind):
look into back end of head, with Sandwich mounted:
other side:
with reflector mounted:
atm the board is set to ~500 mA per die, to give something like 1.5 hours of runtime on full.
Of course the three-cell battey is not perfect for a quad-die step-up setup.
Gotta have to do some measurements and additional thoughts.
... and somehow have to include a low/high switch (which has to work like the original ui).
I have an idea already, but that needs a very tiny switch, and ...
PS: + have to add some glow epoxy