Spy 007 Turbo Head / UV

EDIT - I have made more these Turbo Heads and offered them for sale. Please see info further down the thread.


Ultimate aim is to build a Spy 007 with a UV emitter. However I wanted a Fatty head with a XR27 reflector. I had the CNC guy machine me the 'fatty head' to fit the 007.

I am pleased with the outcome.

Comparison of completed Turbo Head and standard head



Below is the turbo head , xr27 reflector and ring



Side profile of head - note only 1 groove - I deliberately didn't want the extra groove to make it 1.5.



Inside the fatty head - fine thread to accept ring to secure lens



Reflector drops in place



Lens in place



Ring screwed on - it all fits in nicely to the spy to complete groove



Completed light - notice this was done on a XML host.



The spy on lowest setting




Now to go and swap the emitter to UV which I hope to do in the next few days. This will go on a xpg host as I only need a maximum of 800ma.


Beamshots added tonight


Here is a simple wall shot - both XML spy lights at full setting -1400ma. Slight difference in tints but both essentially neutral emitters




Turbo head - clearly bright hotspot - I didn't make any adjustments - just pointed and shot - there is a slight difference in shutter speed 1/10 for turbo head and 1/8 for normal spy. Aperture is 2.8 and ISO 800



Normal Spy

Nice:twothumbs. Can you maybe take a photo of the beamshot first with the original LED ?

Make a few more that would be ready for a XM_L spy light?

grayhighh said:

Nice:twothumbs. Can you maybe take a photo of the beamshot first with the original LED ?

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Cary - thank you. I will try and do that tonight. Not very good with beamshots (never really got the hang of it properly) - but maybe I will give it a try

chipwillis said:

Make a few more that would be ready for a XM_L spy light?

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Well the drawings are done and CNC program is done. So if there any one who wants one done it can be sorted I am sure. The first one is always the hardest one and that took about 5 hours from drawings to final item. Subsequent items should not take more than a hour to machine if done in batches. There are numerous operations involved - turning, boring, cutting 2 sets of threads each requiring tool changes and setting up. It was a nice challenge and I am glad it came out nice. I now need to see if the XR27 reflector will make a significant difference to the beam profile.

Was so beautiful!
It is so shocking!
007 even more magnificent!
Hope it will soon put into production, I'm looking forward to it
Brian

That is great Mohan. Not sure if I would be brave enough to mod my XM-L. You are a brave man
I love the look of that Turbo head. Greatly increased throw?

Dave

Not had a chance to try beam comparisons - will wait until I Finnish work this evening and get home tonight. I made the head to fit in a xpg host that will have a UV emitter. However to swap the head takes less than 1 minute as it literally requires bezel to be loosened , reflector taken out and head to be unscrewed. New head screws in and the whole thing is tightened by screwing the outside ring tight.

As you know I was on a SWM V10r Ti for a while and now turned my attention to the Spy Lights. I needed to accumulate a few hosts so I could set about trying various mods.

murpharoo said:

That is great Mohan. Not sure if I would be brave enough to mod my XM-L. You are a brave man
I love the look of that Turbo head. Greatly increased throw?

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This looks fantastic Mohan!

This is what I have been waiting for before trying to acquire a 007... Now the hunt begins. I need to decide if I want an xml or xpg 007.

That's cool looking, would it fit any spy 007 or just the XLM.

Thanks Ryan.

KuanR said:

This looks fantastic Mohan!

This is what I have been waiting for before trying to acquire a 007... Now the hunt begins. I need to decide if I want an xml or xpg 007.

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Should fit a xpg or XML

mohan

GLOCK18 said:

That's cool looking, would it fit any spy 007 or just the XLM.

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Wow!, Mohan that really looks great. The whole head looks like it could be original to the light. I vote for those beam shots as well.

Beamshots added to first post. There is a considerable difference. To really validate this properly I think I ought to take the beamshots with the same light with different reflectors to eliminate any bias. However this is cumbersome for me - I wanted to demonstrate that the XR27 reflector makes a demonstrable difference to the throw. Both the lights are XML lights which have been reset to factory defaults. The lights were shone approx 10m /30 feet away from the driveway.

I think you would see an even bigger difference between the turbo head versus the stock head with an XP-G version

I would like one complete ready to screw in. Another ring to match the origional would even be better.

Thanks for the beamshots. The beam pattern looks awesome !

Mohan Mohan Mohan, you never cease to amaze me.
I don't even have a 007 and now you give me ideas to get another for this mod.
You are really bad influence for my pocket...
Congrats.
:thumbsup:

This turbo head is the reason why I'm finally taking the plunge for a 007.

Hey Mohan, is the front lens held in with an o-ring? I can't really tell from the pictures

KuanR said:

This turbo head is the reason why I'm finally taking the plunge for a 007.

Hey Mohan, is the front lens held in with an o-ring? I can't really tell from the pictures

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No I didn't mount a O ring as I had a very think lens at 2.6mm - I need to find thinner glass as 1.5mm / less than 2mm really. Mounting a o ring should not be a problem as it can sit between glass and washer ring.