Ti Key may have been the Titanium light that cheapened the Ti market on flashlights.
The Lights wasn't well received, as it's got a 5mm Led, bluish tint,
5mm led now a days very few flashlight maker can get away with,
certainly not TrueNite, who didn't have enough reputation to pull it off.
However, it is a Tiny Titanium light that has the ability to host 10180 without modifications, so with some effort, one can turn the Ti-key into a respectable Key chain flashlight rival such CPF fave. such as Orb Raw NS.
1. Materials needed:
2, The hard part (Bore out the head) is over, now the lens fits well in there:
3. Cut a small aluminum section from a 13mm Alu. rod as heat sink,
this is necessary to transfer heat to the body, it is directly glued to the bottom of the XPG board.
The heat sink must fit the Ti-key head side wall perfectly, then use Thermo paste to finish the heat transfer.
4. After the light engine is put inside the head, I used Carbon fiber to isolate the positive contact center, which is the small contact disk recycled from stock Ti-Key. Now, the bottom view of the head fished:
5. The front view of the finished light, Ti-Key XPG R5:
6. Size of Ti Key XPG R5 vs. Raw NS XRE R2:
You could call this Titanium clone of Orb Raw, as it's as bright as the Raw NS, same shape
but slightly smaller in size. Imagine The cost of a Titanium Raw at $250-$300 range,
this is a viable alternative at fraction of the cost.
7. Beam shot:
The LISA 2 with XPG gives a pretty nice hot spot:
8. Beam shot #2
The Lights wasn't well received, as it's got a 5mm Led, bluish tint,
5mm led now a days very few flashlight maker can get away with,
certainly not TrueNite, who didn't have enough reputation to pull it off.
However, it is a Tiny Titanium light that has the ability to host 10180 without modifications, so with some effort, one can turn the Ti-key into a respectable Key chain flashlight rival such CPF fave. such as Orb Raw NS.
1. Materials needed:
- Cree XPG R5 on 10mm board
- 10mm Lisa 2 Optics (Similar to original Lisa XP but this is new for XPG).
- The Head of Ti-key bored out to 10mm ID using step-drills or what ever method you have. A lot harder than aluminum, took me 3-4 hrs.
2, The hard part (Bore out the head) is over, now the lens fits well in there:
3. Cut a small aluminum section from a 13mm Alu. rod as heat sink,
this is necessary to transfer heat to the body, it is directly glued to the bottom of the XPG board.
The heat sink must fit the Ti-key head side wall perfectly, then use Thermo paste to finish the heat transfer.
4. After the light engine is put inside the head, I used Carbon fiber to isolate the positive contact center, which is the small contact disk recycled from stock Ti-Key. Now, the bottom view of the head fished:
5. The front view of the finished light, Ti-Key XPG R5:
6. Size of Ti Key XPG R5 vs. Raw NS XRE R2:
You could call this Titanium clone of Orb Raw, as it's as bright as the Raw NS, same shape
but slightly smaller in size. Imagine The cost of a Titanium Raw at $250-$300 range,
this is a viable alternative at fraction of the cost.
7. Beam shot:
The LISA 2 with XPG gives a pretty nice hot spot:
8. Beam shot #2
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