vinsanity286
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Hi all,
This is my first attempt at making a light so go easy on me. You guys make it look easy:shakehead The body is made from brass and the heat sink is copper, as you can tell. I have temporarily made the head out of delrin and as such I did not put much time into making it fancy. I hope to replace it with copper but at the moment I do not feel I can produce quality internal threads in copper. For now the light is running direct drive, though I plan on making a two or three stage resistor pack. Or better yet, does anyone know where I can get some QTC? Anyways, on to the light.....
You can still smell the machinists blue.
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Using a hi cri xpg on a 10mm board from illumination supply. The optic is a tina-2 from Cutter. Don't have any proper wire so this will do for now. Still pulls ~.9 amps from a cell with 3.8v free load.
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Bottom of heat sink showing positive brass contact insulated in delrin. The positive wire is soldered to the brass contact and the negative wire is a friction fit between a slot cut in the delrin and the sink.
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Assembled light engine.
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Threaded into head. Dull, bent drill bit in dremel=sloppy holes
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Stainless ITP a3, the watchamacallit, Peak El Capitan QTC.
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Hopefully with time I can produce a better product. Comments/critisism always wealcome and again, thanks for watching.
Vin.
This is my first attempt at making a light so go easy on me. You guys make it look easy:shakehead The body is made from brass and the heat sink is copper, as you can tell. I have temporarily made the head out of delrin and as such I did not put much time into making it fancy. I hope to replace it with copper but at the moment I do not feel I can produce quality internal threads in copper. For now the light is running direct drive, though I plan on making a two or three stage resistor pack. Or better yet, does anyone know where I can get some QTC? Anyways, on to the light.....
You can still smell the machinists blue.
Using a hi cri xpg on a 10mm board from illumination supply. The optic is a tina-2 from Cutter. Don't have any proper wire so this will do for now. Still pulls ~.9 amps from a cell with 3.8v free load.
Bottom of heat sink showing positive brass contact insulated in delrin. The positive wire is soldered to the brass contact and the negative wire is a friction fit between a slot cut in the delrin and the sink.
[video]
Assembled light engine.
Threaded into head. Dull, bent drill bit in dremel=sloppy holes
Stainless ITP a3, the watchamacallit, Peak El Capitan QTC.
Hopefully with time I can produce a better product. Comments/critisism always wealcome and again, thanks for watching.
Vin.
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It actually came out really nice. Also made a brass bezel to give it some more contrast. Overall I am very happy with the light. I might replace the optic with the reflector from my dead ITP a3. It has nice flood but it doesn't have the wow factor I was hoping for. The reflector should give it the punch I am looking for.
