Juggernaut
Flashlight Enthusiast
In all the years I've been here, and all the lights I've made, I've never really had a real demonstration of any of them, I've also never been able to do any beam shots. Well that all changes now that I have a good camera. Since I can finally do beam shots I decided to do my favorite throwing light first, the L.Y.L.L. or "Little Yellow Laser Lantern. This light was made years back to settle once and for all "at least in my mind" the importance of surface brightness and how high you could get it with an Incan. Thus I set out to find the best standard medium sized Incan reflector "this one actually has a double 2-way reflector design that catches most of the side spill and concentrates it into the main beam". I then spent hours trying countless different bulbs and drive rates "with many casualties on the way
!" to find the highest surface brightness bulb possible. After much time I determined that this current bulb "who's filament measures only 1.5x0.125mm in size
was the best one. Starting off at an original 2.75 watts the extra power pushes it to about 50 out the front lumens I'm estimating. The beam however compensates for the extremely low output by diverging only 0.98 degrees. This can change quite a bit if the bulb isn't centered ever so perfectly. In the beam shots the beam converges about 100 feet up which is wrong if I fiddle with some duct tape I can normally get it so the beam never converges at all.
While I still don't have a Lux metter "I will most likely soon" I've illuminated objects well in excess of 500 yards and in direct comparison between the L.Y.L.L. and the DEFT the L.Y.L.L. produces a good deal of extra throw "of course with a beam so small one can hardly make out what it is they are looking at:thinking:, in fact it is all but impossible to use this light. By the time the beam fades out and stops illuminating it would not have even have spread out enough to illuminate an entire SINGLE tree
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In the end this light serves it purpose very well it demonstrates the concentrated power of the Incan when given the proper set up, to the point of beating out any LED or HID "well if scaled up that is, I can't think of too many super LED or short arcs that only make 50 lumens
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Do to the hardness to obtain or even get properly aligned bulbs. It's total run time was doubled just in taking the beam shots.. It probably has 7 minuets on the bulb now after 2 years....
!" to find the highest surface brightness bulb possible. After much time I determined that this current bulb "who's filament measures only 1.5x0.125mm in size was the best one. Starting off at an original 2.75 watts the extra power pushes it to about 50 out the front lumens I'm estimating. The beam however compensates for the extremely low output by diverging only 0.98 degrees. This can change quite a bit if the bulb isn't centered ever so perfectly. In the beam shots the beam converges about 100 feet up which is wrong if I fiddle with some duct tape I can normally get it so the beam never converges at all. While I still don't have a Lux metter "I will most likely soon" I've illuminated objects well in excess of 500 yards and in direct comparison between the L.Y.L.L. and the DEFT the L.Y.L.L. produces a good deal of extra throw "of course with a beam so small one can hardly make out what it is they are looking at:thinking:, in fact it is all but impossible to use this light. By the time the beam fades out and stops illuminating it would not have even have spread out enough to illuminate an entire SINGLE tree
! In the end this light serves it purpose very well it demonstrates the concentrated power of the Incan when given the proper set up, to the point of beating out any LED or HID "well if scaled up that is, I can't think of too many super LED or short arcs that only make 50 lumens
!" Do to the hardness to obtain or even get properly aligned bulbs. It's total run time was doubled just in taking the beam shots.. It probably has 7 minuets on the bulb now after 2 years
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More Beamshot! More Beamshot!
