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This Mod is part two of the first torch I made using Tritium, Strontium Aluminate & 25 9000+ mcd Nicha's (posted a few weeks ago)
For Ver 2.0 I choose the Craftsman 75th anniversary 3D torch as I did not like the quality of the MAG lamp assy.
This light was made for moddin! Anyone know if it's OEM'd to Craftsman?? or do they make it?
It is all aluminum and has one real nice lamp assembly (aluminum screw down cap for heat sinking ). It also features a nice 3 color battery voltage indicator LED built in. Similar to the Brinkman, it also has a rubber overlay hand grip so it won't slip out of your hand.
I used 3 1 watt LS's and 3 BB700's all provided by dat2zip. (thank you sir!)
This thing is seriously bright!!! brighter than 1.0. I wish I had a light meter to read output power. 2.1 amps of power going to the LED's So battery life may be a concern... I have not done runtime plots yet so I still have no clue. However, I have been blinding the Owl in my back yard quite a bit and playing with it in the house lighting up entire rooms. The battery LED indicator has only dipped into yellow once so far.
Anyhow, in the spirit of ver 1.0, this light has 9 Tritium glowring elements in the face to provide complete emergency lighting for the next 10 to 15 years without any light charge.
I then backed up that with four dusted coats of Bright Green Strontium Aluminate Glow powder from http://www.readysetglo.com/products.html
This time however I did not mix it into Epoxy, but rather used the "dusting" technique mentioned somewhere else on the forum and it works very well. (very bright stuff)
Top it off with the standard NX105 optics and this thing rocks!
My next version may use the new 6 degree optics or I may attempt using a 5W SE and reflector. (or even three mini mag reflectors with 5watters)
Sorry... I love this light way to much to sell it.
Plus it took way to many hours to build. I have included many pics below and will be happy to add any other pics upon request so you can build one of these yourself.
1st pic is the heat sink\original lamp assy I modded for the LS's to dissipate heat. It works very well... the light gets slightly warm and the LS's are well within tolerance for temp (I also used lots of artic silver epoxy and compound on all metal connections. The threaded disk on the left without the thread center shaft is the original lamp assy.
Here is the optics\Tritium assy with cut down reflector as I first set it up. This was before adding the last three Tritium elements and the cut down reflector is really for enhancing the Tritium glow effect. (Dremels are awesome and the black dots are only for alignment purposes)
Next is emitters mounted with Artic Silver epoxy. (awesome stuff) I ran extra grounds in addition to the frame for best current capability.
Here I masked the LS's and painted the surface white then dusted glow powder on the white paint while it was still wet. then followed by 3 coats of clear acrylic and dusted each layer as I went while wet.
Very effective... I will from now on only use this method as it has produced the brightest glow for me to date.
Here is the pic showing the battery indicator. and if you look closely you can see the super bright light striking dust particles as the beam burns a hole in the wall.. (ok kidding about the burning hole thing.)
Continued....
This Mod is part two of the first torch I made using Tritium, Strontium Aluminate & 25 9000+ mcd Nicha's (posted a few weeks ago)
For Ver 2.0 I choose the Craftsman 75th anniversary 3D torch as I did not like the quality of the MAG lamp assy.
This light was made for moddin! Anyone know if it's OEM'd to Craftsman?? or do they make it?
It is all aluminum and has one real nice lamp assembly (aluminum screw down cap for heat sinking ). It also features a nice 3 color battery voltage indicator LED built in. Similar to the Brinkman, it also has a rubber overlay hand grip so it won't slip out of your hand.
I used 3 1 watt LS's and 3 BB700's all provided by dat2zip. (thank you sir!)
This thing is seriously bright!!! brighter than 1.0. I wish I had a light meter to read output power. 2.1 amps of power going to the LED's So battery life may be a concern... I have not done runtime plots yet so I still have no clue. However, I have been blinding the Owl in my back yard quite a bit and playing with it in the house lighting up entire rooms. The battery LED indicator has only dipped into yellow once so far.
Anyhow, in the spirit of ver 1.0, this light has 9 Tritium glowring elements in the face to provide complete emergency lighting for the next 10 to 15 years without any light charge.
I then backed up that with four dusted coats of Bright Green Strontium Aluminate Glow powder from http://www.readysetglo.com/products.html
This time however I did not mix it into Epoxy, but rather used the "dusting" technique mentioned somewhere else on the forum and it works very well. (very bright stuff)
Top it off with the standard NX105 optics and this thing rocks!
My next version may use the new 6 degree optics or I may attempt using a 5W SE and reflector. (or even three mini mag reflectors with 5watters)
Sorry... I love this light way to much to sell it.
Plus it took way to many hours to build. I have included many pics below and will be happy to add any other pics upon request so you can build one of these yourself.
1st pic is the heat sink\original lamp assy I modded for the LS's to dissipate heat. It works very well... the light gets slightly warm and the LS's are well within tolerance for temp (I also used lots of artic silver epoxy and compound on all metal connections. The threaded disk on the left without the thread center shaft is the original lamp assy.
Here is the optics\Tritium assy with cut down reflector as I first set it up. This was before adding the last three Tritium elements and the cut down reflector is really for enhancing the Tritium glow effect. (Dremels are awesome and the black dots are only for alignment purposes)
Next is emitters mounted with Artic Silver epoxy. (awesome stuff) I ran extra grounds in addition to the frame for best current capability.
Here I masked the LS's and painted the surface white then dusted glow powder on the white paint while it was still wet. then followed by 3 coats of clear acrylic and dusted each layer as I went while wet.
Very effective... I will from now on only use this method as it has produced the brightest glow for me to date.
Here is the pic showing the battery indicator. and if you look closely you can see the super bright light striking dust particles as the beam burns a hole in the wall.. (ok kidding about the burning hole thing.)
Continued....