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I found this host on Ebay and thought it looked cool.
I actually really like this host, the focusing is internal by rotating the barrel, it's smooth and stays where you put it.
The adjustment is fine tuned inside when you assemble it so it doesn't hit the diode holder but you have full range of adjustment.
It is actually designed for a case positive driver board with a spring on it. Battery negative toward board. I don't really like those much so I took two rings from a driver pill.
Soldered them together so I had clearance for my components on the driver and thermal epoxied it to my host.
Now I have a way to mount my X-boost driver that I had got from Flaminpyro and set it up with my super nice test load from Flaminpyro
Cool, fits like a glove. This might actually work
It fit nice and tight and there was really no need to solder the ground tabs to the ring. I ran a separate ground wire from the backside of the driver and soldered it to the backside of the diode holder. I might want to get at my adjustment pot in the future :eg:
The diode holder is a press fit into the host. Heat transfer seems to be really good. Here is the 12x diode I got from DTR :beer: pressed into the host using the fabulous press tools from Flaminpyro :beer:
There is a gap between the threaded part of the diode holder and the host that's not used, but there is about a 1/4 to 1/2 inch that's not threaded for heat transfer. It fits REALLY tight. I know it looks off center in the pic. It's just a shadow and the camera angle.
Holy Mother of Light ! It works !
That is with the stock lens that came with the host. So, and I'm rounding off here from memory. $20 host, $20 driver, $50 diode, $8 battery, about $100. It's a pretty cool one for $100 ! I like it anyway.
Here it is doing what it does.
I actually really like this host, the focusing is internal by rotating the barrel, it's smooth and stays where you put it.
The adjustment is fine tuned inside when you assemble it so it doesn't hit the diode holder but you have full range of adjustment.
It is actually designed for a case positive driver board with a spring on it. Battery negative toward board. I don't really like those much so I took two rings from a driver pill.
Soldered them together so I had clearance for my components on the driver and thermal epoxied it to my host.
Now I have a way to mount my X-boost driver that I had got from Flaminpyro and set it up with my super nice test load from Flaminpyro
Cool, fits like a glove. This might actually work
It fit nice and tight and there was really no need to solder the ground tabs to the ring. I ran a separate ground wire from the backside of the driver and soldered it to the backside of the diode holder. I might want to get at my adjustment pot in the future :eg:
The diode holder is a press fit into the host. Heat transfer seems to be really good. Here is the 12x diode I got from DTR :beer: pressed into the host using the fabulous press tools from Flaminpyro
:beer:
There is a gap between the threaded part of the diode holder and the host that's not used, but there is about a 1/4 to 1/2 inch that's not threaded for heat transfer. It fits REALLY tight. I know it looks off center in the pic. It's just a shadow and the camera angle.
Holy Mother of Light ! It works !
That is with the stock lens that came with the host. So, and I'm rounding off here from memory. $20 host, $20 driver, $50 diode, $8 battery, about $100. It's a pretty cool one for $100 !
I like it anyway.Here it is doing what it does.
