Zelandeth
Flashlight Enthusiast
Silly idea? Interchangable TC\'s
Found myself pondering this this afternoon...
Some lights, I've noticed, there's a lot of space in the tailcap - relative to the size of a lot of the Luxeon drivers these days anyway.
In the world with this ever increasing demand for lights where you can change between output levels easily, a common solution seems to be to have several heads for one body, with a different driver for what is essentially the same LED.
Would it not be possible to set up a head with your LED of choice, and have the driver circuitry in the tailcap...therefore allowing you to have drivers set to whatever drive currents you wanted, switchable by a simple switch of tailcap. As the LED would be attatched in a more peremenent manner to the body, I figure a better thermal path could be designed in. Plus, the cost of just a driver and a tailcap would mean that the individual modules could be cheaper, as you're not having to buy an LED for every one of them.
Am I totally missing the point here? I am NOT a modder, just someone who got REALLY bored in the 23 hours we didn't have power yesterday, and thought this sounded interesting.
Most likely it's been done before if it's worth even thinking about though.
Found myself pondering this this afternoon...
Some lights, I've noticed, there's a lot of space in the tailcap - relative to the size of a lot of the Luxeon drivers these days anyway.
In the world with this ever increasing demand for lights where you can change between output levels easily, a common solution seems to be to have several heads for one body, with a different driver for what is essentially the same LED.
Would it not be possible to set up a head with your LED of choice, and have the driver circuitry in the tailcap...therefore allowing you to have drivers set to whatever drive currents you wanted, switchable by a simple switch of tailcap. As the LED would be attatched in a more peremenent manner to the body, I figure a better thermal path could be designed in. Plus, the cost of just a driver and a tailcap would mean that the individual modules could be cheaper, as you're not having to buy an LED for every one of them.
Am I totally missing the point here? I am NOT a modder, just someone who got REALLY bored in the 23 hours we didn't have power yesterday, and thought this sounded interesting.
Most likely it's been done before if it's worth even thinking about though.