Ganp
Enlightened
This is a custom build for a fellow flashaholic. It takes 1 x 123 cell, and as you can see from the photo', it is quite short, but
very chunky - a full 1'' body diameter. In use this little light feels very secure in either a 'cigar' or 'fist' grip.
Other than finishing it in bare alloy I had free reign, so I used a modified reflector that I had wanted to put in a build for
some time ... I just hadn't had the time to do it for myself.
The tailcaps are C fitting, so the battery can be loaded from the back, and the switch is a McClickie modified with a larger
contact ring.
Choice of tails ....
The head is E fitting and takes an Aleph light engine. This one has an XR-E Q5 with a WH tint, and a GD1000 driver. Cree XR-Es'
and Seoul P4s' work well with this reflector provided they are positioned well.
The bezel join is almost invisible ....
As it started life as part of a Cree drop-in module there is nothing unique about the reflector, but with some re-sizing, and a
head designed specially to make the most of the spill. It gives a very nice beam - IMHO.
But you can decide for yourselves ....:nana:
The same light engine and battery was used for all the beamshots, and they were all taken at the same exposures for each group,
and with the white balance set to daylight. All at 1metre from the wall. None of the beams look quite so 'ringy' to the eye as they do
in the photos'
Compared with some McR classics, exposed for the spill ....
And exposed for the hotspot ....
The hotspot from the custom reflector is very similar in size to the McR19 hotspot, and almost identical in brightness. The spill is
as wide as that of the McR38, but not quite as bright.
I hope its new owner will like it. I'm finding it quite hard to part with, so an HA-natural version is probably going to be next.
Thanks for looking,
Colin.
very chunky - a full 1'' body diameter. In use this little light feels very secure in either a 'cigar' or 'fist' grip.
Other than finishing it in bare alloy I had free reign, so I used a modified reflector that I had wanted to put in a build for
some time ... I just hadn't had the time to do it for myself.
The tailcaps are C fitting, so the battery can be loaded from the back, and the switch is a McClickie modified with a larger
contact ring.
Choice of tails ....
The head is E fitting and takes an Aleph light engine. This one has an XR-E Q5 with a WH tint, and a GD1000 driver. Cree XR-Es'
and Seoul P4s' work well with this reflector provided they are positioned well.
The bezel join is almost invisible ....
As it started life as part of a Cree drop-in module there is nothing unique about the reflector, but with some re-sizing, and a
head designed specially to make the most of the spill. It gives a very nice beam - IMHO.
But you can decide for yourselves ....:nana:
The same light engine and battery was used for all the beamshots, and they were all taken at the same exposures for each group,
and with the white balance set to daylight. All at 1metre from the wall. None of the beams look quite so 'ringy' to the eye as they do
in the photos'
Compared with some McR classics, exposed for the spill ....
And exposed for the hotspot ....
The hotspot from the custom reflector is very similar in size to the McR19 hotspot, and almost identical in brightness. The spill is
as wide as that of the McR38, but not quite as bright.
I hope its new owner will like it. I'm finding it quite hard to part with, so an HA-natural version is probably going to be next.
Thanks for looking,
Colin.
