*Update 10-20-03: Today the postal carrier came and went -- leaving a HUUUUUUGE box of stuff that was all being held at the post office for us during our trip, but after sorting through the contents it contained nothing I needed to complete this BP run. Dang.
Did get a bunch of interesting stuff for future projects though, but if I told I'd have to blind everybody, not to mention hide out from a couple of mod partners afterwards.
Oh well, it has been my experience in the past that sometimes there are actually two HUUUUUUUUGE boxes and they can't or won't bring it all out at one time. Seeing the size of the little postal mini-vantrucks they use here, I don't blame'em.
We'll see tomorrow...thanks for your continued patience...
Remember that little 5W light with the big head? Yeah, mebbe a little too big, but the output in such a small package running on just a single CR123 was too intriguing to shelve, so until my search for an example of the new Fraen Low Profile optic bears fruit, I decided to wrap some SAT (no, this isn't what you college students might think, it stands for Self Amalgamating Tape) around the body threads -- and screwing on perfectly like it was made for it, I used my "Legend LX On A Diet" head that was so elegantly trimmed down by our very own CPF'er Matt the Machinist.
Here it is standing on its own (one) foot next to the only two regular production 5W lights in existence today, the Streamlight TL-3 and SureFire L4:
A look down the business end of these lights:
Here are comparison beamshots of the lights in the same order:
As you can see, the little-bighead Baby Pin was obviously brighter by a good margin. And this is using just one CR123, against two lithiums in the SureFire and three in the Streamlight.
And finally, on this night the light meter said:
The circuit used in this particular Baby Pin was the new-style BadBoy 750, courtesy of dat2zip (Thanks, Wayne!).
The search for a brighter yet smaller head/optic combination for the Baby Pin continues, but we are indeed getting closer...hmmm, wonder how the head would look anodized black?
Did get a bunch of interesting stuff for future projects though, but if I told I'd have to blind everybody, not to mention hide out from a couple of mod partners afterwards.
Oh well, it has been my experience in the past that sometimes there are actually two HUUUUUUUUGE boxes and they can't or won't bring it all out at one time. Seeing the size of the little postal mini-vantrucks they use here, I don't blame'em.
We'll see tomorrow...thanks for your continued patience...
Remember that little 5W light with the big head? Yeah, mebbe a little too big, but the output in such a small package running on just a single CR123 was too intriguing to shelve, so until my search for an example of the new Fraen Low Profile optic bears fruit, I decided to wrap some SAT (no, this isn't what you college students might think, it stands for Self Amalgamating Tape) around the body threads -- and screwing on perfectly like it was made for it, I used my "Legend LX On A Diet" head that was so elegantly trimmed down by our very own CPF'er Matt the Machinist.
Here it is standing on its own (one) foot next to the only two regular production 5W lights in existence today, the Streamlight TL-3 and SureFire L4:
A look down the business end of these lights:
Here are comparison beamshots of the lights in the same order:
As you can see, the little-bighead Baby Pin was obviously brighter by a good margin. And this is using just one CR123, against two lithiums in the SureFire and three in the Streamlight.
And finally, on this night the light meter said:
The circuit used in this particular Baby Pin was the new-style BadBoy 750, courtesy of dat2zip (Thanks, Wayne!).
The search for a brighter yet smaller head/optic combination for the Baby Pin continues, but we are indeed getting closer...hmmm, wonder how the head would look anodized black?
