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Hello everyone,
First review here, I'll try to do Sinner's host justice.
So I originally ordered the last Cypreus II with the dual driver mount, but unfortunately that one was damaged in a few spots. Then I talked to Sinner, showed him the damage, and almost immediately he offered to send me a new host, the Cypreus IIb. Which was amazingly kind, and I am so thankful. He's a great guy.
I finally got around to building it, a little overdue. Here are the pics:
Disassembled and coated with Everbrite
Close up on my module:
I used a blitzlinear driver set to 720 mA. These drivers are solid, and I heatsinked it on both sides (which also isolated the driver, which is continuous positive)
Side view:
It fit nicely inside the heatsink, with room to spare.
I then thermally connected the bottom driver heatsink to the main heatsink for best heat transfer
I tried to solder to connect the contact board, but that just did not work, so I ended up sandwiching the driver ground wire in between the contact board and the heatsink
Screwed in the heatsink and lens (g2, which was too short so I added thermal paste between the lens and the focus adapter, which worked well)
Quick power test read 989mw (did not have time to clean the lens yet)
Now for the beams:
It's blue?? Not really, just my galaxy s3 camera...
A little better
Through a diffraction grating
Conclusion:
- Great host and innovative design
- Amazing customer service
- Nice weight, feel
- Of course, this heatsink is outstanding and also overkill for this diode/driver combo (intentionally so)
- I like the idea of interchangeable modules, I will need to pick up a couple extras.
- I highly recommend
Suggestions: (very small, inconsequential things)
- If it was me, I might put a spring inside the tailcap, so there does not need to be one on each of the screw-in modules (and so nobody thinks it's case positive)
- The o-ring on the front could be a little smaller, it's very tight and the focus is difficult to adjust.
Thanks for reading
First review here, I'll try to do Sinner's host justice.
So I originally ordered the last Cypreus II with the dual driver mount, but unfortunately that one was damaged in a few spots. Then I talked to Sinner, showed him the damage, and almost immediately he offered to send me a new host, the Cypreus IIb. Which was amazingly kind, and I am so thankful. He's a great guy.
I finally got around to building it, a little overdue. Here are the pics:
Disassembled and coated with Everbrite
Close up on my module:
I used a blitzlinear driver set to 720 mA. These drivers are solid, and I heatsinked it on both sides (which also isolated the driver, which is continuous positive)
Side view:
It fit nicely inside the heatsink, with room to spare.
I then thermally connected the bottom driver heatsink to the main heatsink for best heat transfer
I tried to solder to connect the contact board, but that just did not work, so I ended up sandwiching the driver ground wire in between the contact board and the heatsink
Screwed in the heatsink and lens (g2, which was too short so I added thermal paste between the lens and the focus adapter, which worked well)
Quick power test read 989mw (did not have time to clean the lens yet)
Now for the beams:
It's blue?? Not really, just my galaxy s3 camera...
A little better
Through a diffraction grating
Conclusion:
- Great host and innovative design
- Amazing customer service
- Nice weight, feel
- Of course, this heatsink is outstanding and also overkill for this diode/driver combo (intentionally so)
- I like the idea of interchangeable modules, I will need to pick up a couple extras.
- I highly recommend
Suggestions: (very small, inconsequential things)
- If it was me, I might put a spring inside the tailcap, so there does not need to be one on each of the screw-in modules (and so nobody thinks it's case positive)
- The o-ring on the front could be a little smaller, it's very tight and the focus is difficult to adjust.
Thanks for reading
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