bunglesnacks

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Nitecore has announced an original LED design in c/flashlight@lemmy.world
[–] bunglesnacks@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

The odds these aren't 7000K or green as grass is slim to none.

Convoy 18350 Party in c/flashlight@lemmy.world
[–] bunglesnacks@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What clips be those?

Got some nice lights there.

Aluminum tape to fix orange beam in c/flashlight@lemmy.world
[–] bunglesnacks@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Nice job! I used GITD tape to do this on my green D4K, white tape with blue glow, and it brought Duv down .0010. I'll have to snag some aluminum tape for some other lights!

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[NMD] Finally got around to getting some lights figured out - FW1A and my TS10s. Very happy. Pics in body. (lemmy.world)
 

I've been wanting to get these changes done for awhile this weekend I've finally had time to mess around with them.

All of the lights (bah ba ba ba ba bah bah):

• First up are my TS10s. The copper one had a damaged emitter and Wurkkos sent me a new MCPCB with orange aux for it. Seemed like a good time to swap in some E21As and some other things around.

Left to right: Cu (CSP 5800K), Red/White (E21A sm503), White/Red (E21A sm453)

Pretty happy. Got three TS10s that resemble daylight CCT/CRI for some true color rendering. The E21A are ever so slightly tighter beams but definitely not as high of output.

• Next I can't tell how many different reflectors and MCPCBs and TIRs and emitters I've had in this light but I've finally got it set. It will die like this.

FW1A with KD new gen 4000K XPLHI and Mcgizmo MCR20 reflector on Noctigon 20mm 3535 MCPCB using a centering gasket from a Sofirn SC21 / SP10 Pro (3535 6mm). Perfect.

Different exposures:

Left to right: SC64w HI (stock), FW1A, D1 (70.3 5000K) up close

Left: SC64w HI (level 8) / Right: FW1A (step 65) from 5ft

If anyone is curious:
Step 65: 2,400cd
Turbo: 30,000cd

Thanks for looking!

Pre-release: Zebralight SC65c HI, the first flashlight with a stacked LED in c/flashlight@lemmy.world
[–] bunglesnacks@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I worry about the huge flux range. Most emitter bins are like ±4-5% flux. 719A bins are ±10% flux. So theoretically you could be looking at close to 20% swings in lumens and throw from emitter to emitter. And you can't drive them past 2.5A so you can't drop one into a D1/KR1 or any lights really since most 6V drivers are 4A+.

Hopefully they are more throwy than an XPLHI or XHP35 otherwise idk.

[NMD] FWAA with W1s next to my FWAAs with XP-P - first post! in c/flashlight@lemmy.world
[–] bunglesnacks@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I was both surprised and disappointed I didn't get more throw out of the W1s than the XP-Ps. Especially considering the CRI and CCT difference. The 3000K XP-Ps are the 2nd lowest flux bin Cree sells and they throw just as far as the W1s. And they actually throw farther on lower settings for example on step 65 the 3000K measure higher candela. On turbo they are about equal. The 4000K out-throw both at every level but not by much, not anything noticeable to the eye.

The whole idea of putting them in there was that I thought they would outthrow a similar 70CRI 6000K XP-P and since I have a bunch of W1s that would save me from placing another order.

As far as the FWAA goes it's limited by the battery size. 14500 max rated are 10A if you buy the Vapcell H10. Factor in some resistance and such and you probably get about 7-9A of actual output, somewhere in there. XP-P can only be driven to 3A safely. So in an FWAA they are nearly maxed out in terms of output. A W1 can be driven to 5-6A safely and at those outputs would definitely out throw an XP-P. So all in all it seems the XP-P has a little bit higher candela/watt or something like that than the W1.

Now I want to try one of the higher Flux bin XP-P.

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[NMD] FWAA with W1s next to my FWAAs with XP-P - first post! (lemmy.world)
 

I have no idea how this place works or how this will show up. Every post I saw only had one pic posted. And I posted them in the body and not the URL link not sure if thats right or not. I guess I'll find out!

Anyways i wanted an FWAA with warm, neutral, and cool and figured why bother with 6000K XP-P when I can just put W1s in it.

I thought it would easily outthrow my XP-P FWAAs but that's not the case. 4000K XP-P actually throws farther than W1. 8600kcd to 7600kcd. It actually throws the same as the 3000K XP-P. Too bad you can't drive these XP-Ps more. Still a fun mod.

Ok hope someone finds this mildly interesting. Thanks for checking out my first post.

Does this thing have an app? Logging on each time is going to be annoying. Hopefully r/flashlight gets back to its glory someday.