lightnin'hopkins
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- Oct 18, 2010
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Hi, I've been a bit clumsy & need some advise.
I need a new emitter on a mounting plate so I just need to solder the wires to the plate.
I think it's a XP-E R2. The plate is 10mm.
Where can I get one or a similar suitable replacement?
And what are the alternatives?
I'm a noob & all the R2 this & Q5 that is really confusing.
Will this work?
"Cree XPE WC-Q5 LED Emitter on 12.8mm Base"
And btw, must be available to Sweden at a reasonable price.
The whole story is kind of stupid:
Was evaluating some battery runtimes in turbo mode with the help of my camera in time-lapse mode.
On the fourh battery, the emitter developed a dark spot on the surface of the glass dome lens thingy.
Had the lamp head covered in bicycle inner tubing & on top of that a big plasic tripod clamp.
25 degrees celcius ambient temps.
Guess that was too much heat insulation.
The lamp still worked fine but a little dimmer & with a oval-ish hotspot.
Anyways, I decided to open it and try to file off the spot.
As I said, it looked to be only on the surface and pretty shallow too.
The PD20 proved to be a complete ******* to open as it had serious amounts of thread glue.
I finally got it opened & while filing, the dome broke & the tiny wires became severed.
Duh.
(Bump & pictures added)
Oh no.
Sunspot.
My poor XPE.
Dent, scratchmark & thread-glue.
What was I thinking? Now I've killed it.
I need a new emitter on a mounting plate so I just need to solder the wires to the plate.
I think it's a XP-E R2. The plate is 10mm.
Where can I get one or a similar suitable replacement?
And what are the alternatives?
I'm a noob & all the R2 this & Q5 that is really confusing.
Will this work?
"Cree XPE WC-Q5 LED Emitter on 12.8mm Base"
And btw, must be available to Sweden at a reasonable price.
The whole story is kind of stupid:
Was evaluating some battery runtimes in turbo mode with the help of my camera in time-lapse mode.
On the fourh battery, the emitter developed a dark spot on the surface of the glass dome lens thingy.
Had the lamp head covered in bicycle inner tubing & on top of that a big plasic tripod clamp.
25 degrees celcius ambient temps.
Guess that was too much heat insulation.
The lamp still worked fine but a little dimmer & with a oval-ish hotspot.
Anyways, I decided to open it and try to file off the spot.
As I said, it looked to be only on the surface and pretty shallow too.
The PD20 proved to be a complete ******* to open as it had serious amounts of thread glue.
I finally got it opened & while filing, the dome broke & the tiny wires became severed.
Duh.
(Bump & pictures added)
Oh no.
Sunspot.
My poor XPE.
Dent, scratchmark & thread-glue.
What was I thinking? Now I've killed it.
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