Having got hold of a couple Nuwai 0.5W TM310H 1AAA from Litemania and as I missed out on Lambda Pocket-Illuminator I thought I'd have a go at making one. A quick email to Lambda and some $$ got me the heatsinks and circuit boards. I knew this was going to be a tight fit but looking at the picture below the heatsink is nearly a third the height of the original circuit.
So after assembly of the Minipro heatsink and SSC P4 USWOH it looked like this
Next up was to widen the hole in the reflector to fit the P4 seeing as the reflector is not removable from the back of the head and the lens is held in by what Kevin described as as"some nuclear type glue" I used a bit of sandpaper stuck to the end of a wooden dowel. Great I thought not long before I'll have a pocket rocket!
So after carefully washing out the bits I set the head by the fire to dry. Well it all went pear shaped from there yep you guessed it I left it too long and the reflector melted.
I did have another head I could use but not wanting to waste this one I pulled the reflector out. The lens was fine. So in order to get a new reflector in I discovered that with a bit more heat I could pop the lens out. Luckily when I ordered my P4s I also got a couple of the Khatod 17mm reflectors as well.
As you can see it's not quite a direct replacement.
I had to dremel out the head and also sand the reflector to fit. Sorry no pictures as I didn't have my camera with me.
When I went to assemble the head again I discovered that when the Minipro was installed I had about 4 threads left for the barrel to screw into however the barrel had a few threads shy of the end and wouldn't even grip.
So it was out with the dremel again to cut the barrel down and cut a new lens from a thinner lens I had lying around.
I also wrapped the barrel in some Teflon tape to give it a friction fit and some stability. Those of you that have read this far probably can guess what my next problem was that the battery was now sticking too far out the back for the tail switch to fit on.
The tail switch on these has a momentary push and you twist it for constant on. I could have removed the switch and just made it a twisty but nope I liked the momentary bit so I made a very basic one out of a thin copper disk and a small spring with a foam doughnut acting as the insulator to hold the spring off the battery.
After all that what does it look like?
Can you spot the difference? It's the left one and it ended up a little shorter.
However face on that's a different story..
And now some beam shots taken rather badly as they were done in a hurry.
All using fresh Energizer AAA Lithium's
Standard
Modded
And just for reference standard (not for long) Luxeon LOD on high
Eryk
So after assembly of the Minipro heatsink and SSC P4 USWOH it looked like this
Next up was to widen the hole in the reflector to fit the P4 seeing as the reflector is not removable from the back of the head and the lens is held in by what Kevin described as as"some nuclear type glue" I used a bit of sandpaper stuck to the end of a wooden dowel. Great I thought not long before I'll have a pocket rocket!
So after carefully washing out the bits I set the head by the fire to dry. Well it all went pear shaped from there yep you guessed it I left it too long and the reflector melted.
I did have another head I could use but not wanting to waste this one I pulled the reflector out. The lens was fine. So in order to get a new reflector in I discovered that with a bit more heat I could pop the lens out. Luckily when I ordered my P4s I also got a couple of the Khatod 17mm reflectors as well.
As you can see it's not quite a direct replacement.
I had to dremel out the head and also sand the reflector to fit. Sorry no pictures as I didn't have my camera with me.
When I went to assemble the head again I discovered that when the Minipro was installed I had about 4 threads left for the barrel to screw into however the barrel had a few threads shy of the end and wouldn't even grip.
So it was out with the dremel again to cut the barrel down and cut a new lens from a thinner lens I had lying around.
I also wrapped the barrel in some Teflon tape to give it a friction fit and some stability. Those of you that have read this far probably can guess what my next problem was that the battery was now sticking too far out the back for the tail switch to fit on.
The tail switch on these has a momentary push and you twist it for constant on. I could have removed the switch and just made it a twisty but nope I liked the momentary bit so I made a very basic one out of a thin copper disk and a small spring with a foam doughnut acting as the insulator to hold the spring off the battery.
After all that what does it look like?
Can you spot the difference? It's the left one and it ended up a little shorter.
However face on that's a different story..
And now some beam shots taken rather badly as they were done in a hurry.
All using fresh Energizer AAA Lithium's
Standard
Modded
And just for reference standard (not for long) Luxeon LOD on high
Eryk
