First HD-DVD Build

[bmansc]

It still needs a little finishing work, but it's coming together nicely. Powered by a Lavadrive and a Ultrafire 14500 3.6v lithium battery. It's currently running at 100ma, and smokes dark colored stuff quite well.

The host is an old Maglight clone by Brinkman, but it has a nice clicky switch in the end cap.

I think the night mode on my camera phone does an extended exposure, hince the multiple dots. The beam isn't as bright as it looks here, but it is very visible in the dark.

And a couple shots of it going through some magnesium mineral oil that happened to be close by. Hard to tell from the pics, but the beam changes to a nice pale green color with little specks of violet when it hits a floating particle.

Beam reflecting off the surface of the oil.

 

[robjdixon]

looks great!

 

[glona]

whear did you get that host?

 

[bmansc]

I've had the host for years. Don't remember where it originally came from, I just found it in a drawer collecting dust [smiley=happy.gif]. It's a Brinkmann Legend, but not sure if they even still make them.

Had to put a spacer (steel bolt, heh) between the battery & the tail cap, since it's originally designed for 2 AA's. The single 14500 left plenty of room for the circuitry, though.

Just need to put together some kind of heatsink now, the little Aixiz module gets pretty hot after a minute or two.

 

[bmansc]

Smoke machines are great [smiley=grin.gif]

200mw Red (DX), 803T Blu (100ma). Wicked Core 5mw Green