modamag
Flashlight Enthusiast
You know guys, I'm a big fan of LED for a long time.
I made my fair share of high power incands years back but it never really put out the WOW factor.
I was playing around one day with couple of my old buddies by flashing them with my measly 180 lumens of Draco light ... WHAM! BLAM! First thing they said is wow that's bright. "What was that ... a white laser?"
We then started talking about lights. I raised the topic that incands can do couple Ks worth of lumen. They just go hum hah. Their $40 Home Depot work light can put out the same thing. Yeah it's 120 VAC and is a troll to carry around but do they care. I parted from the discussion and felt a little embarassed that I didn't "SHOW THEM A THING OR TWO WITH FLASHLIGHT"
So consulting JimH, my incand informant. (He and I have been dueling LED vs Incand war for couple years). He then pointed me to Lux's crazily most powerful incand chart.
Well I first started out seeking something in the 5K lumens range, then almost immediately they found the Osram 64657 250W doing over 15K lumens worth. Holly C~@$. Surely this will impress my friends. Well not really. HD also have one of those 300W HID light which puts out rediculous lumens. So I figure I won't fight the lumen war. Instead I'll fight the lux battle. :devil:
I've manage to put the 64657 inside my Colossus. With the reflector tuned to maximize human perception, we'll see what they say after seeing this.
Let me now present modamag's version of the Vaporizer.
Just the lamp ... Admire the beauty ... Well at least for you ... I was almost blinded while taking these shots and can only do so during the off cooldown period.
Camera Setting ISO800 - f/4 - 1/10s
Base image with street light I have to severely stopped down -8.00 eV my camera otherwise the next couple will be overexposed.
Camera Setting ISO800 - f/4 - 1/10s
The monster on LOW, just couple thousand lumens ... la ti dah!
BTW: This is equivalent to at least 3 or 4 Mag85 on LiIon steriods
Camera Setting ISO800 - f/4 - 1/10s
Just plain old MEDIUM
Camera Setting ISO800 - f/4 - 1/10s
Now it's on HIGH. You know I'll be getting an earful from this neighbor tomorrow. I think I faded the paint of her white car.
I'm now just a happy as her during Xmas morning.
=== Build List ===
Collossus Extended Body
AW's prototype high output 3-stage incand driver
Osram 64657 250W
8x 18650 Konion VT Lithium Ion Cells fresh of the charger @ 4.15V
Artic Silver Thermal Grease @ all critical joints
It's hard to perceive how big the filament of the 64657 is. I had to use the shortest standoff screws. As you can see from the MED picture there is a dense white spot on the road.
I did couple stupid mistake when playing with the light. Not being used to the soft start feature of AW's magnificent switch, I looked down the reflector and
WHAM! <eye closed> ... <second> WHAM! (when reaction to reopen iris)
. I think I'll start listening to the inductor hiss from now on as a cue.
The other mistake was shining the light in the air checking for pencil beam. Well within 15 minutes I got the PD flying chopper around my house. I hope it's just a coincident. I don't want them back when I fire up my next toy.
:naughty:
So far I was able to run the light for at least 5 mins hand held w/o any problem. The reflector coating is holding up well. According to Lux it's only about 240 degrees max, so it didn't posses any problem. The coating suppose to handle 400 degrees. It's amazing the amount of IR is projected out the front. Here in CA we're having a cold spell (almost 0* C), and you can literally see the smoke puffing the moisture in front of the Borafloat lens.
It was really weird that the neck of the light (where the switch is located) is the warmest part of the light. The battery tube and head was just luke warm. I think in part due to the interlocking reflector and massive amount of surface area.
The only QUALM I have is that the cycle time is just way too long. 5 mins of play and hours of recharge. I found out that my old Wolf Eye charger that I got from my Lion Heart kit is overcharging my cells to 4.5V
At least I caught it in time, so only 1 cell is overcharge. Luckily with an old Triton @ hand I just discharge it back to 4.1V Now that Wolf Eye is heading straight for the trash tomorrow night if I can tuned it down.
I'll have to build myself a 10 bay adapter, so I can use my FMA CellPro to charge & balance in 1/2 hr, but that's another day and another project.
Check! One incand project completed now gotta get back to my spotlight project
Thanks to JimH, LuxLuthor, and AW for the motivation and inspiration.
I made my fair share of high power incands years back but it never really put out the WOW factor.
I was playing around one day with couple of my old buddies by flashing them with my measly 180 lumens of Draco light ... WHAM! BLAM! First thing they said is wow that's bright. "What was that ... a white laser?"
We then started talking about lights. I raised the topic that incands can do couple Ks worth of lumen. They just go hum hah. Their $40 Home Depot work light can put out the same thing. Yeah it's 120 VAC and is a troll to carry around but do they care. I parted from the discussion and felt a little embarassed that I didn't "SHOW THEM A THING OR TWO WITH FLASHLIGHT"
So consulting JimH, my incand informant. (He and I have been dueling LED vs Incand war for couple years). He then pointed me to Lux's crazily most powerful incand chart.
Well I first started out seeking something in the 5K lumens range, then almost immediately they found the Osram 64657 250W doing over 15K lumens worth. Holly C~@$. Surely this will impress my friends. Well not really. HD also have one of those 300W HID light which puts out rediculous lumens. So I figure I won't fight the lumen war. Instead I'll fight the lux battle. :devil:
I've manage to put the 64657 inside my Colossus. With the reflector tuned to maximize human perception, we'll see what they say after seeing this.
Let me now present modamag's version of the Vaporizer.
Just the lamp ... Admire the beauty ... Well at least for you ... I was almost blinded while taking these shots and can only do so during the off cooldown period.
Camera Setting ISO800 - f/4 - 1/10s
Base image with street light I have to severely stopped down -8.00 eV my camera otherwise the next couple will be overexposed.
Camera Setting ISO800 - f/4 - 1/10s
The monster on LOW, just couple thousand lumens ... la ti dah!
BTW: This is equivalent to at least 3 or 4 Mag85 on LiIon steriods
Camera Setting ISO800 - f/4 - 1/10s
Just plain old MEDIUM
Camera Setting ISO800 - f/4 - 1/10s
Now it's on HIGH. You know I'll be getting an earful from this neighbor tomorrow. I think I faded the paint of her white car.
I'm now just a happy as her during Xmas morning.
=== Build List ===
Collossus Extended Body
AW's prototype high output 3-stage incand driver
Osram 64657 250W
8x 18650 Konion VT Lithium Ion Cells fresh of the charger @ 4.15V
Artic Silver Thermal Grease @ all critical joints
It's hard to perceive how big the filament of the 64657 is. I had to use the shortest standoff screws. As you can see from the MED picture there is a dense white spot on the road.
I did couple stupid mistake when playing with the light. Not being used to the soft start feature of AW's magnificent switch, I looked down the reflector and
WHAM! <eye closed> ... <second> WHAM! (when reaction to reopen iris). I think I'll start listening to the inductor hiss from now on as a cue.The other mistake was shining the light in the air checking for pencil beam. Well within 15 minutes I got the PD flying chopper around my house. I hope it's just a coincident. I don't want them back when I fire up my next toy.
:naughty:So far I was able to run the light for at least 5 mins hand held w/o any problem. The reflector coating is holding up well. According to Lux it's only about 240 degrees max, so it didn't posses any problem. The coating suppose to handle 400 degrees. It's amazing the amount of IR is projected out the front. Here in CA we're having a cold spell (almost 0* C), and you can literally see the smoke puffing the moisture in front of the Borafloat lens.
It was really weird that the neck of the light (where the switch is located) is the warmest part of the light. The battery tube and head was just luke warm. I think in part due to the interlocking reflector and massive amount of surface area.
The only QUALM I have is that the cycle time is just way too long. 5 mins of play and hours of recharge. I found out that my old Wolf Eye charger that I got from my Lion Heart kit is overcharging my cells to 4.5V
At least I caught it in time, so only 1 cell is overcharge. Luckily with an old Triton @ hand I just discharge it back to 4.1V Now that Wolf Eye is heading straight for the trash tomorrow night if I can tuned it down.I'll have to build myself a 10 bay adapter, so I can use my FMA CellPro to charge & balance in 1/2 hr, but that's another day and another project.
Check! One incand project completed now gotta get back to my spotlight project
Thanks to JimH, LuxLuthor, and AW for the motivation and inspiration.
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