Beam shots, hot rods, pretty girls, post some eye candy or take some in.

[BowtieGuy]

Ken Lingenfelter.
Search "Lingenfelter Collection", or "Lingenfelter Performance" for a look at some of his car collection, and his high performance option kits for cars.
He has some seriously nice stuff!

Starlight knows him personally, he could give you more info. on him and his collection.

 

[Trendkilla254]

Wow, it must be awesome to be friends with Ken Lingenfelter. I'm jealous of his Chevelle's and Nova's for sure. Are there more expensive cars in his collection, sure.

 

[APEX1]

Figured I'd add to this awesome thread..

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[RedCowboy]

There's just something about multiple beams isn't there?
I had a lot of fog the other night after a lot of rain and I love it.
I want to build a multi diode HH just for foggy nights, at least 3 but maybe 5 or 6 modules all in one big HH would look great.


@ Gabe: If you do different colors and they are not balanced in brightness then one would detract from the other.
nwfreefly has a good balance on his RGB below.
I had thought about doing 13 diodes, 1 surrounded by 6 with 6 more around the spaces between and make it 3 green 4 638 and 6 blues so that as they shot into the clouds the whole thing would turn white, then you could spin it and make it look white all the way.
But other than that all the same would have a nice effect, and all the fog around you would glow.

 

[Gabe]

There's just something about multiple beams isn't there?
I had a lot of fog the other night after a lot of rain and I love it.
I want to build a multi diode HH just for foggy nights, at least 3 but maybe 5 or 6 modules all in one big HH would look great.

Ooh that would be nice. Great pics phaser. You thinking different coloured diodes, or all the same RC?

 

[Laser Chick]

Sweet 593.5nm

 

[olympus mons]

There's just something about multiple beams isn't there?
I had a lot of fog the other night after a lot of rain and I love it.
I want to build a multi diode HH just for foggy nights, at least 3 but maybe 5 or 6 modules all in one big HH would look great.

Have you seen Alaskan's triple diode hand held? Might want to check it out. I'm not sure of he has put any diodes in it yet but he had a host builder make it for him and it looks sweet. I would love to build an RBG 3 in 1 HH some day.

Here are some of my better pics of eye candy.

My RGB Kryton builds

Foggy night and 200mW 638, 400mW 532, and 2W 450

My wife giving my my birthday wish last year. I am a lucky man to have a partner that loves my nerdy hobby. She asked what I wanted to do on my birthday. My answer, "here put these on" lol

 

[RedCowboy]

Sweet 593.5nm

I've seen people do that before with all kinds of light sources, you use a long exposure time right? It's called painting with light isn't it?

@ nwfreefly: Hey Nice pics

 

[Laser Chick]

@ RedCowboy you are correct. It is a 3 second exposure.
I have seen some 2 to 3 minute exposure paintings that are mind blowing.

@ nwfreefly, nice images!

 

[Gabe]

I adore those groove hosts with the glow inserts, NWF. Purdy pics.
Just recently been experimenting with making my own beam expander, and it's been as simple as cutting up a simple plastic body and glass lens pair of binoculars, and taping it onto the end of my pro :crackup: My Pro used to have a divergence of about 2.1 mRad, which was noticeable when pointing into the sky. This apparatus halves the divergence, without making it super wide to start out with. The final result is a needle thin beam that appears to go on to infinity and projects its dot on the bottom of clouds. I'm extremely proud of what I've created . Ugly as a wart, but hey. If it looks stupid but it works, it's not stupid

 

[Laser Chick]

You rolled up your sleeves and jumped in with both feet. :gj:

 

[Pi R Squared]

You rolled up your sleeves and jumped in with both feet. :gj:

I think it's too cold up there to do that.:crackup: Good job Gabe, very clever and innovative, and a way to save money.

Alan

 

[Gabe]

Thanks friends . The great thing about binoculars, there's two beam expanders in each of em! So I got an extra one laying around for whatever, as well as another set of higher quality binoculars I've cut up that expand the beam much wider, but there must be some prisms or optics in there because output seems less than through this set of lenses. Pi, funny you should mention that. I think this week is gonna be the last warm week for us for the next six or seven months, until it gets consistently warm again. Reached an actually quite nice 22°, and I think when I was taking that beam shot, that's gonna be the last time for a looong time I'll be able to go outside in my bare feet and sit on the grass, and enjoy the warm breeze. Winters are tough, man!

 

[GSS]

Gabe you have every right to be proud, nice inventing:beer:

 

[olympus mons]

Thanks friends . The great thing about binoculars, there's two beam expanders in each of em! So I got an extra one laying around for whatever, as well as another set of higher quality binoculars I've cut up that expand the beam much wider, but there must be some prisms or optics in there because output seems less than through this set of lenses. Pi, funny you should mention that. I think this week is gonna be the last warm week for us for the next six or seven months, until it gets consistently warm again. Reached an actually quite nice 22°, and I think when I was taking that beam shot, that's gonna be the last time for a looong time I'll be able to go outside in my bare feet and sit on the grass, and enjoy the warm breeze. Winters are tough, man!

I love your adaptive techniques Gabe. Awesome work my friend. I'd rep you but gotta spread some more around says the computer, lol.
So here is a smiley emoji. :beer::yh:

 

[Gabe]

Thanks Pi, laser chick, GSS, and NWF for making my morning! :beer: I believe the next step is a low-budget beautification project this is the 'eye candy' thread after all, no? Will keep you all posted.