PEU
Flashlight Enthusiast
Since year 2000, I met with friends for a barbecue every friday, during the summer season (now) we eat at the terrace which is not properly illuminated for having a dinner, so a solution was in order
Using my lathe I machined a not sofisticated head and a direct driven solid chunk of aluminium light engine with a pedestal for a cree XR-E, here are the photos of the 1st incarnation of the frankenstein E-series, this was a week ago:
As we all know now, the XR-E is a throw monster and there was no need for a reflector since what I needed was a flood beam over the dinning table, so for this week I decided to do another head, this time using a flood Neoca Creeflector prototype. Unfortunatelly doing tests during this last week I blew the original XR-E, so instead I used a XR7090 (older brother of the xre)
I looked for a proper diameter piece of ALU and I found nil, so I used acrylic , a little concerned about heat dissipation, but since the xr7090 was being unused I decided to go ahead.
The head uses the same light engine, a pineapple body and a 2 levels McTailcap, the reflector is heavily sputtered and the retaining ring is held in place by just pressure, here are some pictures of it:
It was on for about 1.5 hours and the heat wasn't a problem at all. When I buy more xre's I will replace the led for more efficiency, but the good'ol xr7090 served the purpose very well. Now, the frankenstein e-series light, is officially our new terrace light
Have fun!
Pablo
Using my lathe I machined a not sofisticated head and a direct driven solid chunk of aluminium light engine with a pedestal for a cree XR-E, here are the photos of the 1st incarnation of the frankenstein E-series, this was a week ago:
As we all know now, the XR-E is a throw monster and there was no need for a reflector since what I needed was a flood beam over the dinning table, so for this week I decided to do another head, this time using a flood Neoca Creeflector prototype. Unfortunatelly doing tests during this last week I blew the original XR-E, so instead I used a XR7090 (older brother of the xre)
I looked for a proper diameter piece of ALU and I found nil, so I used acrylic , a little concerned about heat dissipation, but since the xr7090 was being unused I decided to go ahead.
The head uses the same light engine, a pineapple body and a 2 levels McTailcap, the reflector is heavily sputtered and the retaining ring is held in place by just pressure, here are some pictures of it:
It was on for about 1.5 hours and the heat wasn't a problem at all. When I buy more xre's I will replace the led for more efficiency, but the good'ol xr7090 served the purpose very well. Now, the frankenstein e-series light, is officially our new terrace light
Have fun!
Pablo