FOR SALE -- \"Super Needle\"
This light has been renamed the Super Needle since it will be a one-off (although I reserve the right to make more in the future if I ever find more X3Ts -- or even better bins!).
The X3T-binned one-of-a-kind Super Needle is up for bid, with a portion of the winning proceeds going to CPF. This will end at 6 p.m. HST Saturday, which by then will be just TWO hours behind PST, or FIVE hours behind EST (just so no one has to stay up too late).
Thank you for your participation...
Yes, I know I said I would quit making Space Needles and I have (sorta). But there were a few pewter Mag 2C host bodies laying around, and a few heatsinks waiting to be sunk, and a coupla 5W HD emitters waiting to be set free from their pesky Stars. A coupla rather highly-binned emitters, I might add:
Yup, they were X3T's (theme from "Jaws" starts thumping in the background...)
Worried to death about heat, I pulled out all the stops and took out a double insurance policy by sticking in a double-high finned heatsink stack ("normal" Space Needles only get one about half as tall):
Here it is next to my personal black-bodied Space Needle II keeper, the brightest and absolutely whitest example I have ever come across (up until now):
Disclaimer: the following beamshot on the ceiling 20 feet above was taken with the digital camera turned down to its absolute lowest setting, which has a way of making even the brightest and whitest lights look awfully dim and green -- obviously the X3T Space Needle's beam is on the left:
I initially tried taking the beamshot with the camera on its normal auto setting and all I got was a big white washed-out rectangle...
And finally, the photo everyone's waiting for:
Yes, that's a full, no-holds-barred 10,750 lux -- hey waitaminute, I didn't even put in the UCL lens yet...
This light has been renamed the Super Needle since it will be a one-off (although I reserve the right to make more in the future if I ever find more X3Ts -- or even better bins!).
The X3T-binned one-of-a-kind Super Needle is up for bid, with a portion of the winning proceeds going to CPF. This will end at 6 p.m. HST Saturday, which by then will be just TWO hours behind PST, or FIVE hours behind EST (just so no one has to stay up too late).
Thank you for your participation...
Yes, I know I said I would quit making Space Needles and I have (sorta). But there were a few pewter Mag 2C host bodies laying around, and a few heatsinks waiting to be sunk, and a coupla 5W HD emitters waiting to be set free from their pesky Stars. A coupla rather highly-binned emitters, I might add:
Yup, they were X3T's (theme from "Jaws" starts thumping in the background...)
Worried to death about heat, I pulled out all the stops and took out a double insurance policy by sticking in a double-high finned heatsink stack ("normal" Space Needles only get one about half as tall):
Here it is next to my personal black-bodied Space Needle II keeper, the brightest and absolutely whitest example I have ever come across (up until now):
Disclaimer: the following beamshot on the ceiling 20 feet above was taken with the digital camera turned down to its absolute lowest setting, which has a way of making even the brightest and whitest lights look awfully dim and green -- obviously the X3T Space Needle's beam is on the left:
I initially tried taking the beamshot with the camera on its normal auto setting and all I got was a big white washed-out rectangle...
And finally, the photo everyone's waiting for:
Yes, that's a full, no-holds-barred 10,750 lux -- hey waitaminute, I didn't even put in the UCL lens yet...
