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I thought I would show off a recent build. The ZY-C01 fantastically illustrates how a "ho-hum" looking host online, can turn out to be a real gem up close. From the photos on DX, this looks like a rather boring flashlight:
Smallsun ZY-C01 Stainless Steel Cree Q5-WC 3-Mode 190-Lumen LED Flashlight (1*16340) - Free Shipping - DealExtreme
Yet when it arrived, I was impressed to see that the host walls are almost 4mm thick in some spots. The tailcap forgoes the cheaper silicon "clicky" approach, and instead all metal, with a lanyard loop that honestly looks like it was carved away by hand (in a good way). Those black rings are not cheap plastic "style accents", but rather practice rubber "runners" that both maintain some degree of water-tightness, and also ensure a good fit between the body components. The threading is not quite true "square threading", but it's closer to it than you'd find on a typical host (SH-032, C3, etc)
I built this 445 at a relatively low output power of ~900mW. I actually built this guy about a month ago when I was testing one of the Ben Boost PCB revisions. It runs on a single 16340. Of course, what really makes it shine, is the Flaminpyro Hydro focus adapter (check them out here: http://laserpointerforums.com/f48/flaminpyros-custom-focus-adapters-71257.html).
Not much else to say about this guy. It's not an FS thread, so I'm not going nuts with LPM charts or spectrometer readings. Just a cool build that I had fun making.
Again, the host for anyone interested, the host is this guy:
Smallsun ZY-C01 Stainless Steel Cree Q5-WC 3-Mode 190-Lumen LED Flashlight (1*16340) - Free Shipping - DealExtreme
The driver is this fellow (though I used an earlier revision of the PCB without polarity protection):
http://laserpointerforums.com/f39/presale-ben-boost-72527.html
And the custom focus knob is from this fellow:
http://laserpointerforums.com/f48/flaminpyros-custom-focus-adapters-71257.html
Smallsun ZY-C01 Stainless Steel Cree Q5-WC 3-Mode 190-Lumen LED Flashlight (1*16340) - Free Shipping - DealExtreme
Yet when it arrived, I was impressed to see that the host walls are almost 4mm thick in some spots. The tailcap forgoes the cheaper silicon "clicky" approach, and instead all metal, with a lanyard loop that honestly looks like it was carved away by hand (in a good way). Those black rings are not cheap plastic "style accents", but rather practice rubber "runners" that both maintain some degree of water-tightness, and also ensure a good fit between the body components. The threading is not quite true "square threading", but it's closer to it than you'd find on a typical host (SH-032, C3, etc)
I built this 445 at a relatively low output power of ~900mW. I actually built this guy about a month ago when I was testing one of the Ben Boost PCB revisions. It runs on a single 16340. Of course, what really makes it shine, is the Flaminpyro Hydro focus adapter (check them out here: http://laserpointerforums.com/f48/flaminpyros-custom-focus-adapters-71257.html).
Not much else to say about this guy. It's not an FS thread, so I'm not going nuts with LPM charts or spectrometer readings. Just a cool build that I had fun making.
Again, the host for anyone interested, the host is this guy:
Smallsun ZY-C01 Stainless Steel Cree Q5-WC 3-Mode 190-Lumen LED Flashlight (1*16340) - Free Shipping - DealExtreme
The driver is this fellow (though I used an earlier revision of the PCB without polarity protection):
http://laserpointerforums.com/f39/presale-ben-boost-72527.html
And the custom focus knob is from this fellow:
http://laserpointerforums.com/f48/flaminpyros-custom-focus-adapters-71257.html
