ambientmind
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Tri-Rebel Star Flood Monster (update! now regulated!)
I wanted to make something small with an incredible amount of output for extremely dark outdoor situations, or just to light up an entire room. I also wanted the body to be durable, inexpensive, and use an 18650 battery for runtime and current capacity. I settled on the Ultrafire C2 with the HAIII coating on it and used the Endor 7007-PWC-10-3 tri rebel star that puts out 540 lm @ 700 mA. My original plan was to use three 1050mA driver boards to power the leds, but there simply was not enough room to fit all three so it became direct drive off of the battery. Total current draw is about 2.2A, so each led is seeing approx 733mA initially. It is impossible to focus this star to a spot, but it is close. Due to the three slightly different emission points of light, there are three small holes in the spot of the beam. Overall, its a great flood light and does exactly what I need it for. It still throws about 250', but lights up an area about 150' wide at that point, great for seeing everything around you. Beamshots will come later, but for now here is the light.
The business end with glow epoxy on the surface of the star.
Update 4/28/08
Using the information from this thread:
https://www.candlepowerforums.com/threads/192677
I was able to make a driver for this light with multi modes! So many thanks to netkidz! :twothumbs The hard part was making it so it one board could be stacked on top of the other, I took some pics to show what I did. I had to cut a small part off of the 1.4A board so make room for the wires. I just left out the positive battery spring that was on there before to make room for the driver in the battery tube. But now it has useful lower modes, and the high is only slightly more current than before, or its supposed to be anyway. I dont notice really any difference in brightness on high, but the low mode is nice and strobe will really drive you crazy. but now with all the P7 mods, this one is old news but i still like it! anyway, enough talk...:nana:
I wanted to make something small with an incredible amount of output for extremely dark outdoor situations, or just to light up an entire room. I also wanted the body to be durable, inexpensive, and use an 18650 battery for runtime and current capacity. I settled on the Ultrafire C2 with the HAIII coating on it and used the Endor 7007-PWC-10-3 tri rebel star that puts out 540 lm @ 700 mA. My original plan was to use three 1050mA driver boards to power the leds, but there simply was not enough room to fit all three so it became direct drive off of the battery. Total current draw is about 2.2A, so each led is seeing approx 733mA initially. It is impossible to focus this star to a spot, but it is close. Due to the three slightly different emission points of light, there are three small holes in the spot of the beam. Overall, its a great flood light and does exactly what I need it for. It still throws about 250', but lights up an area about 150' wide at that point, great for seeing everything around you. Beamshots will come later, but for now here is the light.
The business end with glow epoxy on the surface of the star.
Update 4/28/08
Using the information from this thread:
https://www.candlepowerforums.com/threads/192677
I was able to make a driver for this light with multi modes! So many thanks to netkidz! :twothumbs The hard part was making it so it one board could be stacked on top of the other, I took some pics to show what I did. I had to cut a small part off of the 1.4A board so make room for the wires. I just left out the positive battery spring that was on there before to make room for the driver in the battery tube. But now it has useful lower modes, and the high is only slightly more current than before, or its supposed to be anyway. I dont notice really any difference in brightness on high, but the low mode is nice and strobe will really drive you crazy. but now with all the P7 mods, this one is old news but i still like it! anyway, enough talk...:nana:
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