Hey guys,
I've been sick as a dog and haven't been able to leave the house for a couple of days, but I felt better for a bit today and I got on the lathe for an hour or so.
Anyway, a fellow CPFer sent me a Q3 to play with. He had already gotten into it, so getting it open was a matter of twisting the head.
There have been a few mods for the Q3, which included simply swapping stars and swapping circuits. Well, this light strikes me as being very mod friendly too and has lots of potential.
I wanted to do something that would be flexible and allow people to take advantage of what is already readily available.
OK, enough chatter. This is what I came up with...
Yes, it's an adapter that allows the use of a standard sandwiche in the Q3. This adapter wound up standing the reflector off of the luxeon and the reflector no longer sits on the shoulder of the luxeon. I thought that this might have an adverse affect on the beam, but oddly enough, I think it actually tightened it up a bit. I don't have much experience with this reflector, so I'm going to have to play with it a bit.
Here's a beam shot about 20' from a white wall. The sandwiche is a TX1J/NG667 combo.
This is pretty neat and would allow all of those sandwiches out there another host. If there is enough interest, I may consider seeing about having a run of these made to modify Q3s with. I may even be able to source some Q3s at a reasonable price. I'm only mentioning that because I don't know how consistent the internals of the Q3 are from unit to unit and the adapter MAY require fitting to each individual light. What this may consist of is adjusting how tightly the reflector is screwed in against the lens. At this point I don't know.
The adapter is the first iteration and modifications to the design may be necessary.
Thanks for looking,
I've been sick as a dog and haven't been able to leave the house for a couple of days, but I felt better for a bit today and I got on the lathe for an hour or so.
Anyway, a fellow CPFer sent me a Q3 to play with. He had already gotten into it, so getting it open was a matter of twisting the head.
There have been a few mods for the Q3, which included simply swapping stars and swapping circuits. Well, this light strikes me as being very mod friendly too and has lots of potential.
I wanted to do something that would be flexible and allow people to take advantage of what is already readily available.
OK, enough chatter. This is what I came up with...
Yes, it's an adapter that allows the use of a standard sandwiche in the Q3. This adapter wound up standing the reflector off of the luxeon and the reflector no longer sits on the shoulder of the luxeon. I thought that this might have an adverse affect on the beam, but oddly enough, I think it actually tightened it up a bit. I don't have much experience with this reflector, so I'm going to have to play with it a bit.
Here's a beam shot about 20' from a white wall. The sandwiche is a TX1J/NG667 combo.
This is pretty neat and would allow all of those sandwiches out there another host. If there is enough interest, I may consider seeing about having a run of these made to modify Q3s with. I may even be able to source some Q3s at a reasonable price. I'm only mentioning that because I don't know how consistent the internals of the Q3 are from unit to unit and the adapter MAY require fitting to each individual light. What this may consist of is adjusting how tightly the reflector is screwed in against the lens. At this point I don't know.
The adapter is the first iteration and modifications to the design may be necessary.
Thanks for looking,