Focusable Mod. Revamped(Finished)

[Morepower!]

I finally got around to putting one of the modded 60W ballasts, now with heatsink, into the focusable mod I built a little while ago. It now has variable output power, the option of 8.5Ah(for light weight option) or 17Ah 11.1V lithium batteries giving 14 or 28Amp discharge capability, detachable 300W AC inverter, compact high current DC out Merit Plug(40Amp) and heavy duty internal wiring. I decided to buy another new light of the same model and swapped the bits over to the new body, the old body was riddled with now unused holes and cut outs from the many different things I tried out on it. I figured I'd set it all up properly and make all the mistakes on the old light first, then it was only a matter of measuring it all and duplicating it. It's not completely finished yet, but it's not far off.

Original mod HERE.

Just don't look at the switch :laughing:

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[Morepower!]

Re: Focusable Mod. Revamped

It's all done, and it even works. This is by far my best light to date, though I do really like my MF Warrior. At 62W it definately pumps out alot more light. The only thing letting it down now is the cheap bulb, though I hope to rectify this with a 50W Fatboy. With two 11.1V, 8.5Ahr batteries in parallel it easily runs the inverter and the ballast at the same time drawing 16Amps with no heat build up in the wiring or the plug. The heatsink for the ballast seems to be working nicely, though I havn't done any heat testing on it yet.

I want to do some long distance beam shots and see what the focused beam can do but honestly know very little about using the manual camera settings. I know how to change the settings, just not what to. Could someone please give me a starting point for the settings. Once I have somewhere to start from I should be able to fumble my way through it.

There's even room for the adaptor

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[BlueBeam22]

Very nice work on your focusing HID Thor.:thumbsup: It is one of my favorite lights on CPF.
What is its beam pattern like on spot mode? Does it have a super bright hotspot? What are the farthest away objects you have ever illuminated with it?

 

[Flashanator]

great stuff, :devil:

what is your idea of a safe runtime b4 ballast gets too hot with 62w output?


is it alot brighter then the standard 42w output? or just "meh a little"?

 

[Morepower!]

Very nice work on your focusing HID Thor.:thumbsup: It is one of my favorite lights on CPF.
What is its beam pattern like on spot mode? Does it have a super bright hotspot? What are the farthest away objects you have ever illuminated with it?

Thanks for that Blue, I was hoping to have had the chance to get the light out by now to get some accurate distances for you but i've just been too busy. But I can tell you that 700m is no problem for it, and that was in the old case with the old power levels. The hot spot is very bright, the pattern isn't too bad considering it has a smooth reflector, see pic below.

Flash the difference from 42-62W is very noticable and well worth the effort. Without any additional heatsinking I wouldn't run them for any longer than 15mins at a time, 20mins might be ok but to be safe I wouldn't run them for that long.



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[BlueBeam22]

Thanks for that Blue, I was hoping to have had the chance to get the light out by now to get some accurate distances for you but i've just been too busy. But I can tell you that 700m is no problem for it, and that was in the old case with the old power levels. The hot spot is very bright, the pattern isn't too bad considering it has a smooth reflector, see pic below.

Flash the difference from 42-62W is very noticable and well worth the effort. Without any additional heatsinking I wouldn't run them for any longer than 15mins at a time, 20mins might be ok but to be safe I wouldn't run them for that long.



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Very nice!:thumbsup: It looks way brighter than anything I own.

 

[Flashanator]

this light being black rather then yellow, looks bad @$$.

 

[BlueBeam22]

this light being black rather then yellow, looks bad @$$.

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