Techjunkie
Enlightened
I had some fun today, mishing the parts around from several of my lights. Some of my lights that have received transplants of fresh XM-L donated their discarded LEDs to the cause... but this is not their thread. No, this is what became of the XM-L have-nots. There's even an incan in the mix!
On the left is a total Franken-light by its very nature (think Frankenstein's monster if you didn't get it the first time around). An UltraFire WF-500 incan head with a DX 53mm MOP reflector with base, attached to where the bezel attaches to a WF-502C head, driven by a KD 8.4V 3A driver and powered by 2 LiFePO4 18650 through a KD fwd switch in the tail. This once hosted a cool white MC-E. It is now the place where my de-domed 5700K top bin SST-50 has finally found a home.
In the middle is a black 2D host that used to be home to all the parts of the silver 2D incan hotwire that comes next. It's now an LED light built using this recipe, hosting a new heatsink and new deep MOP, XR-E reflector (DX 18841). Inherited parts include an 8.4V multi emitter boost driver modded for single mode (DX 26106) from the Silver 2D below, a neutral white MC-E donated from another light and remounted on a 4S star, and two LiFePO4 32600 cells also donated from the Silver 2D.
On the right is the silver 2D - once built as the black 2D is now only with a cool white MC-E and really grungy heatsink and reflector (see recipie thread linked above). I guess the reason I like this one is because before it, all my incans were black and now I have a sliver one. Also, I was happy I could recycle the host whos neck was so bored out I had to shim it to make good thermal contact with the Kiu incan kit. It hosts a Kiu bi-pin kit, a Philips PH7388 bulb, a KD P7 53mm MOP reflector and is direct driven by two Sony 26650VT LiNiCoMn 3.7V batteries.
Requisite beamshots to prove it really happened (taken with a crappy camera). That target is a piece of cardboard with lines drawn on it covering an unfinished basement's window.
Up first, the de-domed SST-50 W5700K
Second, the neutral white (4A tint) MC-E:
Finally, the PH7388 incan in P7 reflector:
And coming soon...
Triple 4500K SST-50 and triple cool white MC-E:
On the left is a total Franken-light by its very nature (think Frankenstein's monster if you didn't get it the first time around). An UltraFire WF-500 incan head with a DX 53mm MOP reflector with base, attached to where the bezel attaches to a WF-502C head, driven by a KD 8.4V 3A driver and powered by 2 LiFePO4 18650 through a KD fwd switch in the tail. This once hosted a cool white MC-E. It is now the place where my de-domed 5700K top bin SST-50 has finally found a home.
In the middle is a black 2D host that used to be home to all the parts of the silver 2D incan hotwire that comes next. It's now an LED light built using this recipe, hosting a new heatsink and new deep MOP, XR-E reflector (DX 18841). Inherited parts include an 8.4V multi emitter boost driver modded for single mode (DX 26106) from the Silver 2D below, a neutral white MC-E donated from another light and remounted on a 4S star, and two LiFePO4 32600 cells also donated from the Silver 2D.
On the right is the silver 2D - once built as the black 2D is now only with a cool white MC-E and really grungy heatsink and reflector (see recipie thread linked above). I guess the reason I like this one is because before it, all my incans were black and now I have a sliver one. Also, I was happy I could recycle the host whos neck was so bored out I had to shim it to make good thermal contact with the Kiu incan kit. It hosts a Kiu bi-pin kit, a Philips PH7388 bulb, a KD P7 53mm MOP reflector and is direct driven by two Sony 26650VT LiNiCoMn 3.7V batteries.
Requisite beamshots to prove it really happened (taken with a crappy camera). That target is a piece of cardboard with lines drawn on it covering an unfinished basement's window.
Up first, the de-domed SST-50 W5700K
Second, the neutral white (4A tint) MC-E:
Finally, the PH7388 incan in P7 reflector:
And coming soon...
Triple 4500K SST-50 and triple cool white MC-E:
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