aUtOnOmOuS_Robot
Newly Enlightened
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- Jan 24, 2010
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- 9
Hi all,
I'm an avid mountaineer and I'm looking to replace my Petzl Myo XP with something brighter. When you're ascending a 14er with 1000ft drops on either side of you in pitch darkness anything short of searchlights is inadequate. I like what I've seen of the Petzl Ultra but there are a few improvements I'd like to make, and being an amateur robot builder I think I can do it myself.
I really like the myo xp's diffuser lens so I'd like to have this on my lamp. Rather than try and build a sliding lens I think I'll just have two groups of leds, some that throw and some that flood.
I like Petzl's approach of lots of leds underdriven for improved efficiency but I'd like to be able to fully drive them if I so desire. I'm thinking 8 P4's, 4 with wider optics and 4 with spot optics. I would like this to be fairly compact so I'm thinking about designing a pcb to put the leds on rather than using a bunch of stars. Will that be able to dissipate enough heat?
I plan on using two 1A buckpucks pwm'ed by a microcontroller to drive them. I'm using two pots to separately control brightness of the wide angle/spot. I have ~1" diameter weatherproof knob covers for the pots as well as on/off switches that fit into the ends.
I'll be CNC'ing the housing from aluminum. I'll design a li-ion battery pack using 18650's.
I think I have a pretty good handle on every aspect but optics. What should I use?
Thanks,
Scott
I'm an avid mountaineer and I'm looking to replace my Petzl Myo XP with something brighter. When you're ascending a 14er with 1000ft drops on either side of you in pitch darkness anything short of searchlights is inadequate. I like what I've seen of the Petzl Ultra but there are a few improvements I'd like to make, and being an amateur robot builder I think I can do it myself.
I really like the myo xp's diffuser lens so I'd like to have this on my lamp. Rather than try and build a sliding lens I think I'll just have two groups of leds, some that throw and some that flood.
I like Petzl's approach of lots of leds underdriven for improved efficiency but I'd like to be able to fully drive them if I so desire. I'm thinking 8 P4's, 4 with wider optics and 4 with spot optics. I would like this to be fairly compact so I'm thinking about designing a pcb to put the leds on rather than using a bunch of stars. Will that be able to dissipate enough heat?
I plan on using two 1A buckpucks pwm'ed by a microcontroller to drive them. I'm using two pots to separately control brightness of the wide angle/spot. I have ~1" diameter weatherproof knob covers for the pots as well as on/off switches that fit into the ends.
I'll be CNC'ing the housing from aluminum. I'll design a li-ion battery pack using 18650's.
I think I have a pretty good handle on every aspect but optics. What should I use?
Thanks,
Scott