traplight
Newly Enlightened
Hello to all!
New here and it seemed appropriate to stop the lurking (a week now) and join this forum for some advice.
I've built several headlamps, knives and the like for hunters in the Rockies over the past decade... Only recently has the Super high output (anything over 300Lum) LED bug given the big slap in design profiling. Have decided to do something a little beyond the realm of conventional design and work within a design of power efficiency.
Why hasn't anyone developed a liquid cooling system for HI-LUMEN leds? or is there?oo:
As it stands now, the best we get for heat dissipation is a small chunk of aluminum, maybe the reflector, and possibly the flashlight body... and even then .. the thermal transfer from improper fitted pieces defeats the purpose of having multiple points of heat sinking!
If this thought has passed through your grey matter at one time or another, I've got full scaled CAD recipes in any language you want. So far it's just a headlamp front light module, but can be easily reworked into almost an format (regardless of size restrictions).
Please, PLEASE, attack me with your ideas if you are up for a collaboration!
New here and it seemed appropriate to stop the lurking (a week now) and join this forum for some advice.
I've built several headlamps, knives and the like for hunters in the Rockies over the past decade... Only recently has the Super high output (anything over 300Lum) LED bug given the big slap in design profiling. Have decided to do something a little beyond the realm of conventional design and work within a design of power efficiency.
Why hasn't anyone developed a liquid cooling system for HI-LUMEN leds? or is there?oo:
As it stands now, the best we get for heat dissipation is a small chunk of aluminum, maybe the reflector, and possibly the flashlight body... and even then .. the thermal transfer from improper fitted pieces defeats the purpose of having multiple points of heat sinking!
If this thought has passed through your grey matter at one time or another, I've got full scaled CAD recipes in any language you want. So far it's just a headlamp front light module, but can be easily reworked into almost an format (regardless of size restrictions).
Please, PLEASE, attack me with your ideas if you are up for a collaboration!