Geez, everyone's acting like I'm trying to crank out ARC-LS clones! Admittedly, I'd like a nice large volume end fed lathe to put in the garage and the ability to do HA at home, but I'm not seriously looking into that. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif I'm thinking, maybe a 14x6" lathe with some milling ability so that I can make my own lights--like CNCDan.
So, as I said *in the first post in this series*, I have an injured grey kit that I want to heal. I had been told, behind closed doors, the part ## for the chip, but this reminded me that it had been mentioned that it would, at some time, become public knowledge. See what a little *pokeing* can do? (triumvarate films (sp?) Pokey-pokey for anyone who's interested)
Thanks, Wayne and Peter.
For Wayne, I looked at the design and think it's a great combination of small and efficient, so please, take a bow. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif I, personally, would never have used it as I'm more willing to sacrifice space and weight for efficiency and flexability. But, I'm not trying to fit a ckt into an already designed light where space is at a premium. I'm gonna' put a big, fat torrid right in there and a synchronous buck regulator with some d2pak sized FETs with the lowest R(on) I can find....
The power source will be 2 or 3 roughly 1.5Ah Li-ion cells (depending on if it's the 1W or 5W version).
Construction will be simple thick walled tube stock + threads. I'll work out those details whenever my fiance gets me a lathe (and I'm all out of birthdays for a while). So, noone hold their breath.
It will be open source, though. All plans mechanical, electrical, or firmware will be freely available. I'm not interested in becoming a flashlight company.