I've been keeping busy lately with a few flashlight builds in between assembling drivers. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to take many pictures during the build because my GF was gone for the weekend and needed the camera. I still have to go out on a dark and foggish night to take some beamshots and comparisons.
Build 1 : Triple XM-L
This is built into a black 3D Mag host, uses britelumens heatsink + chinese triple reflector, which might be replaced by S Lenses, to gain a little bit of throw from it. Currently, it's a wall of light, insanely bright and floody.
It uses this 30W buck driver from KD : http://kaidomain.com/product/details.S020121, on which I replaced the wiring with much stronger gauge.
Switch has been modified with a spring and a flat cap that makes contact with the bottom of the driver, allowing the head to be screwed off completely without damaging any wiring.
I knew that running 3 32600s would be extremely tight if not impossible in the 3D body, so I sleeved the tube with inch and a quarter hose connectors, shaved down to fit the barrel tightly. This enables me to fit 4 x 25500s which is more than plenty to run 3 XM-L in series.
Final product :
Build 2 : Red PhlatLight (PT-54)
This is built into a 2D Red Maglite, looks a whole lot similar to Fiddy's builds, but is instead running on a 3-mode 9A driver from KD. Redid the wiring on the driver, removed the contact board, and heatsinked it :
It's pulling about 3.5A at the tail off fully charged 32600s, so it's probably delivering closer to 7-8A rather than 9, but is still a very bright light. Quite the novelty! Heatsink's been custom made by Euds :
Modified tailcap spring and had to trim the reflector a little to fit my heavy gauge wiring.
Final product :
And now...
A little backstory. I bought a 6D Maglite host without any real plans for it, just knowing that I could go over the top with it someday. The first major part for it came today
XM-L on the left, SST-90 in the middle, and... a 90W 24 die LedEngin.
The XM-L burns around 10W.
The SST-90 almost 30W.
The LedEngin 90W LZP runs 4 channels of 6 dies. Recommended driving current around 700mA to a max of 1000mA per core. Each channel runs between 21-23V, depending on input current. I'll be running this guy with a taskled Hyperbuck, delivery 3200mA. This will give me 800mA per channel, and can handle output voltages upto 50V... which is more than I'm gonna need. This will be run by an insane 7 x 25500s, giving 29.4V at full charge, and dropping the driver out of regulation around 3.2V. This driver also allows an external pot to be attached to control light output via Dial instead of having modes
3.2Amps @ 23V = 73.6 Watts... out of a single package. According to the datasheet, this should be outputting roughly around 5000 lumens. I bought a short-angle lens made specifically for this emitter, and also bought a 72mm dia. reflector, will see which gives me more throw.
Here's a view of the differences between the XML and its 20mm lens, the SST90, and the huge LedEngin and lens :
Obviously, I still need a head extension, heatsink, to order the driver... this is a long way from being done...
Also, a shot with a blue PhlatLight that came from mouser along with this order...
I'll update as I build this ridiculous light.
Build 1 : Triple XM-L
This is built into a black 3D Mag host, uses britelumens heatsink + chinese triple reflector, which might be replaced by S Lenses, to gain a little bit of throw from it. Currently, it's a wall of light, insanely bright and floody.
It uses this 30W buck driver from KD : http://kaidomain.com/product/details.S020121, on which I replaced the wiring with much stronger gauge.
Switch has been modified with a spring and a flat cap that makes contact with the bottom of the driver, allowing the head to be screwed off completely without damaging any wiring.
I knew that running 3 32600s would be extremely tight if not impossible in the 3D body, so I sleeved the tube with inch and a quarter hose connectors, shaved down to fit the barrel tightly. This enables me to fit 4 x 25500s which is more than plenty to run 3 XM-L in series.
Final product :
Build 2 : Red PhlatLight (PT-54)
This is built into a 2D Red Maglite, looks a whole lot similar to Fiddy's builds, but is instead running on a 3-mode 9A driver from KD. Redid the wiring on the driver, removed the contact board, and heatsinked it :
It's pulling about 3.5A at the tail off fully charged 32600s, so it's probably delivering closer to 7-8A rather than 9, but is still a very bright light. Quite the novelty! Heatsink's been custom made by Euds :
Modified tailcap spring and had to trim the reflector a little to fit my heavy gauge wiring.
Final product :
And now...
A little backstory. I bought a 6D Maglite host without any real plans for it, just knowing that I could go over the top with it someday. The first major part for it came today
XM-L on the left, SST-90 in the middle, and... a 90W 24 die LedEngin.
The XM-L burns around 10W.
The SST-90 almost 30W.
The LedEngin 90W LZP runs 4 channels of 6 dies. Recommended driving current around 700mA to a max of 1000mA per core. Each channel runs between 21-23V, depending on input current. I'll be running this guy with a taskled Hyperbuck, delivery 3200mA. This will give me 800mA per channel, and can handle output voltages upto 50V... which is more than I'm gonna need. This will be run by an insane 7 x 25500s, giving 29.4V at full charge, and dropping the driver out of regulation around 3.2V. This driver also allows an external pot to be attached to control light output via Dial instead of having modes
3.2Amps @ 23V = 73.6 Watts... out of a single package. According to the datasheet, this should be outputting roughly around 5000 lumens. I bought a short-angle lens made specifically for this emitter, and also bought a 72mm dia. reflector, will see which gives me more throw.
Here's a view of the differences between the XML and its 20mm lens, the SST90, and the huge LedEngin and lens :
Obviously, I still need a head extension, heatsink, to order the driver... this is a long way from being done...
Also, a shot with a blue PhlatLight that came from mouser along with this order...
I'll update as I build this ridiculous light.
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