Yes it does. Essentually the pill is integrated into the heatsink design, as it has proper 17mm board pocket in it. Heatsink being as massive as it is, it'll do a very good job of soaking up the heat of both high-end diodes and inefficient drivers. Thing weighs a ton! Metric ton!

Sorry to hear that the package for trashed. It seems to be a very rare occurance, every now and then, at seemingly random locations people report ripped out packages - happens without any pattern. First time in Canada now.

Glad to hear everything's alright. Let me know how the host performs in therms of heatsinking your 405nm!

Time to go postal!!! Hope mine is fine!..

Asked and answered on the last post..

Put a B50 and a Saik in a baggie for me. I'm still waiting to hear about the C2 did you get your hosts yet? I got mine just no heatsinks.. These chinese cree's are all the same barrel just different heads and tailcaps prety much...

Still havent recieved the first order yet but I am assuming any day now..

I hear Eudaimonium spitefully runs his hosts and heatsinks over with a huge dozer before he sends them out.

Just kidding! Couldn't resist!

Just yesterday I raised an RMA case with DX because, out of my order which consisted of:
1x SAIK,
1x C2 host
1x Flat to round converter
2x 17mm driver boards,

I recieved only SAIK and converter, and instead of C2 I got C6 for whatever reason, and no drivers anywhere.

Somebody within my cartel appears to be leaking.

Excuse me while me, and my dear friends mister Smith and mister Wesson do some creative fixing.

Dang there is a .357mm hole in the side of my Phobos!!!

Bla I cant wait your cartell's work is suppurb from what I can see.. I'm glad you eliminate the origional pill trying to screw them in with a driver in there can B a biatche' and you also gain allmost 1/2" / 1cm by building it in for extra battery space... Kudos!!! You guy's put alot of thaught into these!!

I believe you were going for a joke about .357 caliber magnum handguns I frequently use to shoot my hosts.

You got the number wrong a bit, see the calibers are denoted as fraction of one inch, so ".357" is 0.357 inches in diameter, or in Metric, 9,06 milimeters. Not to be confused with standard 9x19mm parabellum rounds.

See here for more info:
.357 Magnum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
9×19mm Parabellum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Overlooking that, it was a good joke.

Perhaps I should add an additional service to my shop?
Have your host shot with:
7,62x25mm Tokarev: $2
9x19 mm parabellum: $1.50
.357 Magnum: $5

Own a unique host! Choose the caliber of the round used to shoot a very nice, strategically placed yet aesthetically pleasing bigass hole in your host!

Note: If you choose two shots through your host, I will ran it over with my car for free!

Maybe I got your c2.. they only sent out 1 of mine.. then I got the other next day with the whole order it payed off to go pay4shipping with DX..

I am definitely interested in a phobos. I want to see what sinners magicstickv2 is going to be about first, though.

I've yet to put a build in mine, need to find a spring for the driver.

Btw would it be possible to buy just the focusing head the host is fine but the focus head got wrecked

Yep I havent built my Phobos either just been playing with it again tonight to see what I can do.. I know a round driver wont work with mine unless I drill out the heatsink 16mm x 8mm and then there is the long spring needed I got one from a grey guidesman that was used to connect the + I was going to use a large slurpee straw or electrical tape to keep the long spring from shorting out on the sides of the battery compartment or something like that. I didnt get a clicky switch with mine but I had just baught 10 from DX and they seem to fit ok. All in all the Pobos is really nice but you need to be carefull building it. I'll make a post once I get it all figured out.

Really? What do you mean, it got scratched really bad?

Sure I can send out a replacement, just seems weird that the focusing head would be destroyed in transport. I mean, it's aluminium, not plastic.

It didn't get destroyed in transit and i'd want to pay for the replacement. No it didn't get scratched, I'll pm you.

Wtf else can happen then? I kinda want to know now.

If he's not saying it in public forum, neither will I.

Anyway, yeah I can make and ship parts of Phobos host, they're not pre-made and on stock, whenever somebody needs one I make it.

So I can make individual parts at no greater cost or loss of material than it would be the case if it was a custom ordered heatsink.

Thanks, just let me know how much a replacement will cost, i don't get paid for 7 more days but will order it as soon as I do.

No more than $10 I'd say, even though it's wider, it's relatively simple to make.

Haha not true I used 2 x AW IMR 14500's with a spacer in my build! Here if youre interested: +2.5 W Saik
They actually do really well and run the beast for quite a while... I would have preferred the single battery option, but only had a Moh linear at 1.8A!

Having said all that, its still not as sexy as my phoboses!

Hmm, you are drawing quite a lot of current from those poor 14500's, but seeing they're top of the line quality, I guess they hold out quite well.

I'm amazed at the power level, 2.5 Watts on 14500 batteries, I would never have guessed.

If you're looking to replace the linear driver, you can use these:
18V 5W Cree Circuit Board for Flashlights (16.8mm*5.5mm) - Free Shipping - DealExtreme

Solder one 1 ohm resistor in parallel to existing R200 one, and you've got 1.75 Amps output, and since it's a switching driver, you'd going to draw less current from your batteries, at aroudn 1 Amp I think, for same output.

They can actually discharge at 5 A! It isn't a problem anyhow, as I measured the tail cap current and it was only 1.75 A, but at 8.2 V.

Cool thanks for the tip! I wont replace this one, because I was actually trying to make a high power build and its all sealed with arctic silver! I was aiming for 2.2W + and was quite happy with the result. Ill definitely consider the driver for a red mits 500 I was thinking of building and any subsequent blues I build. Would be a lot more convenient and by the sounds of it much more efficient. Any idea of the current stability?

That 1.8A mogasm linear rocks. Never seen the 2.5W+ out of a m140 b4 though.. nice job.

Say did you get your C2 yet Euda??

I don't have an oscilloscope but I'm guessing the current is pretty stable for a $2 driver, it's powering my blue laser just fine.

DX says it was shipped a while back. I'll let you all know.

Any word on the new designs? I am very seriously hunting for a nice host for a 532nm module to be put in. I am willing to pay a decent amount for a host that looks good (really what I'm after is looks otherwise I would just use a flashlight) and has decent heatsinking. Your phobos looks good and is well heatsinked, but it looks too much like a grenade style host for my liking. I know it takes a lot of time and effort to make a design like this, and I appreciate your hard work (and your fathers). Please just let me know how soon you plan to reveal your new host ideas. Thank you.

Hmm, what kind of host design did you want?

My Phobos design is more of a "mini RPL" or alikes, where battery barrel is bare minimum but the head is massive for great heatsinking.

Why don't your PM me with some of your ideas or sketches or whatever you have in mind, we could work something out!