It\'s HERE... Snake Eyes 2: The Sequel...
<font color="brown">NOTE: Head to page two for UPDATES AND LINKAGE AND NEW PICS AND BEAMSHOTS and all that sorta good stuff like that there.</font> /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
This project's been in a holding pattern for a while now (about two months, actually) while I acquired all the bits. But, I got the final pieces of the puzzle last week, muahahahahaha...
Doesn't look like much from that angle, but the two Luxeon IIIs inside, coupled with the modded PM6 reflectors, throw a BRIGHT and pure white beam about four hundred yards. (It's raining here at the OddLair, but I can make out the spot on buildings I know are 300+ yards distant)
Full power should be cranking out 130-150 LUMENS, too (no idea what the actual brightness is as I don't have a meter) - bright enough for annoying neighbors. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Oh, it gets better...
The LEDs are fed power from a uFlex driver. Power comes from four 123 lithium batteries, and full-brightness runtime should work out to about four hours.
It ain't tiny - it's five inches long, almost three inches wide, and an inch an a half thick. Since the LEDs are thermo-glued to a HALF-INCH THICK aluminum heatsink, temps will -not- be an issue. I also mounted a button on the back, so when it's time to head out I can pop it on my belt and go. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
A full writeup with quite a number of pics will be coming to OWLI in the next few days, give or take. I tell ya, if I ever get my hands on a lathe and milling machine (or get the $ to pay a machinist to make parts to spec) I'ma be REAL dangerous, muahahahahaha...
oO
<font color="brown">NOTE: Head to page two for UPDATES AND LINKAGE AND NEW PICS AND BEAMSHOTS and all that sorta good stuff like that there.</font> /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
This project's been in a holding pattern for a while now (about two months, actually) while I acquired all the bits. But, I got the final pieces of the puzzle last week, muahahahahaha...
Doesn't look like much from that angle, but the two Luxeon IIIs inside, coupled with the modded PM6 reflectors, throw a BRIGHT and pure white beam about four hundred yards. (It's raining here at the OddLair, but I can make out the spot on buildings I know are 300+ yards distant)
Full power should be cranking out 130-150 LUMENS, too (no idea what the actual brightness is as I don't have a meter) - bright enough for annoying neighbors. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Oh, it gets better...
The LEDs are fed power from a uFlex driver. Power comes from four 123 lithium batteries, and full-brightness runtime should work out to about four hours.
It ain't tiny - it's five inches long, almost three inches wide, and an inch an a half thick. Since the LEDs are thermo-glued to a HALF-INCH THICK aluminum heatsink, temps will -not- be an issue. I also mounted a button on the back, so when it's time to head out I can pop it on my belt and go. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
A full writeup with quite a number of pics will be coming to OWLI in the next few days, give or take. I tell ya, if I ever get my hands on a lathe and milling machine (or get the $ to pay a machinist to make parts to spec) I'ma be REAL dangerous, muahahahahaha...
oO