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That's right FireFarter. I named it after the fact that everything I focus on spits out a flame kernel and a popping sound.:evil: Pyro posted in a thread a while back and from what I gather this is a name for a stage device the pops up a massive bursts of propane. MUUUUHHAAA:eg::eg::eg:
Enough of the intro lets see the guts....:beer:
9mm 445nm DTR
TEC 40mm MPJA
Sunan 20mm fan E-Slave
2 X-drives 1@1.1 & 1@2A
Copper 9mm mod. from DTR.
1 AixiZ 405nm-445nm lens
2 32600 Batt. KD
The challenge as most TEC builds was dumping the heat, in this case the heat generated by both the diode & the drivers. Moving the heat from the sink into the peltier, then of course, into a large aluminum mass and finally into the host/air. My concept meant having channels built into the device for both airflow and room for wiring
I built a groove in the sink just wide enough to sandwich the 2 X-drives into. The peltier was big for this build (40mm @12V 2.6A rating).
With over 30 solder joints in this build it was very time consuming I had multi testing sessions on everything from peltier current setting to fan speed and finally toward the end cooling test runs (very fun stuff):wave:
At this point without the diode I felt like 1.1A was the final sweet spot to run the TEC. I did not feel as though chilling the diode was achievable without all the dreaded condensation problems. I felt that room temp. would sufice and it does.
Here is the little beast wired up... this was a very fun process.:beer:
I had to put a smooth angle on the bottom of the peltier sink I did NOT want to have any scuffed wires... I came up with plenty of ideas for the next build PLENTY.
One thing that I worried about was heat dumping back into main heasink from the host... well I sanded just a mm of the top of where the threads are in the neck of the mag light and what do you know it lifted the whole device up and now the top of the heatsink is pressing on the rubber o-ring and ever slightly away from the host that little lucky deal WILL go into the next build cause it isolates the entire upper heasink.:bowdown:
The final assembly:
Here is a short vid if you listen you can hear it popping (popping real good about 45sec. mark) while it's lazing... it literally does this to everything and with only my laserbee USB 2.5W LPM to measure it tops that out in seconds.
Well It does what I wanted... at the main heatsink it is a tick above room temp at 5 min mark @2A I do not want to push this diode further. The rest of the unit from the neck down gets really hot makes me nervous for the batteries.
I'm having a real problem putting this bad boy down it's that much fun. Thank you for reading and feel free to ask questions.:thanks:
Enough of the intro lets see the guts....:beer:
9mm 445nm DTR
TEC 40mm MPJA
Sunan 20mm fan E-Slave
2 X-drives 1@1.1 & 1@2A
Copper 9mm mod. from DTR.
1 AixiZ 405nm-445nm lens
2 32600 Batt. KD
The challenge as most TEC builds was dumping the heat, in this case the heat generated by both the diode & the drivers. Moving the heat from the sink into the peltier, then of course, into a large aluminum mass and finally into the host/air. My concept meant having channels built into the device for both airflow and room for wiring
I built a groove in the sink just wide enough to sandwich the 2 X-drives into. The peltier was big for this build (40mm @12V 2.6A rating).
With over 30 solder joints in this build it was very time consuming I had multi testing sessions on everything from peltier current setting to fan speed and finally toward the end cooling test runs (very fun stuff):wave:
At this point without the diode I felt like 1.1A was the final sweet spot to run the TEC. I did not feel as though chilling the diode was achievable without all the dreaded condensation problems. I felt that room temp. would sufice and it does.
Here is the little beast wired up... this was a very fun process.:beer:
I had to put a smooth angle on the bottom of the peltier sink I did NOT want to have any scuffed wires... I came up with plenty of ideas for the next build PLENTY.
One thing that I worried about was heat dumping back into main heasink from the host... well I sanded just a mm of the top of where the threads are in the neck of the mag light and what do you know it lifted the whole device up and now the top of the heatsink is pressing on the rubber o-ring and ever slightly away from the host that little lucky deal WILL go into the next build cause it isolates the entire upper heasink.:bowdown:
The final assembly:
Here is a short vid if you listen you can hear it popping (popping real good about 45sec. mark) while it's lazing... it literally does this to everything and with only my laserbee USB 2.5W LPM to measure it tops that out in seconds.
Well It does what I wanted... at the main heatsink it is a tick above room temp at 5 min mark @2A I do not want to push this diode further. The rest of the unit from the neck down gets really hot makes me nervous for the batteries.
I'm having a real problem putting this bad boy down it's that much fun. Thank you for reading and feel free to ask questions.:thanks:
One question why the 3 ele lens? I once heard rumours that the 3 element lenses arent good for high powered builds due to internal reflections? 
