Great story Guy! All but the shattered screen part anyway.
Thanks
It was very sci-fi / Hollywood-ish at the time!
Amazing story, Guy!
It is a pity your UV cure light is out of commission. Norland 61 can be used to repair cracked phone screens.
Thanks jonwkng,
For a crack or two, sure. My phone was just slightly beyond some Norland this time
@Guy
You're not a flip phone person?
Most definitely
I use a flip-style wallet case for my phone.
My first one lasted about 2 months with a standard case.
The flip-case has definitely saved my phone from definite screen cracks more than a few times
Now that wins the joke of the day award!
Alex... help me out, I couldn't get the funny part?
Has anyone ever tested the runtime with either 10250 or 10440 with the HF-R?
Sorry rjking, I've not yet tested on the 5modes.
On high (M5), will still be 5minutes or so in total.
A guess of 15-20min on M4, perhaps 20-30hrs on M1.
I still have to test the lower modes.
Wow... thats quite a story!
it definitely is something unique... things get lost, and you have a big chance you`ll get it back
that tracking system is definitely pretty cool!!!!!!
Thanks ChibiM,
Works as advertised and in lost mode, it shows the full trail/path of where it started moving along with timestamps.
I heard flip phone is still popular in Japan. Japan has some really nice flip-phones. It doesn't look flip-phone will go away. Samsung recently announced a high-end smart flip-phone($800+).
I saw some cool miniature flips on my recent travels, keychain sized!
I love Guy's products - this is my third of his lights. I just got my charger and copper HF-R today.
The light is stunning - the new 5-level controls work perfectly and feel microscope-grade, and the High beam is amazing - even brighter than the alum. HF-R it is replacing on my keychain. The single-trit installation is perfect. It's not light-weight, but feels very sturdy - almost mil-spec, and looks amazing, and I'm sure the copper will oxidize in interesting ways.
The charger is a huge improvement over the cottontail chargers with the magnets on wires. One minor cavil is that is not easy to remove a battery from the charger after charging - it goes so deeply into the USB-end that there is no way to pull it back far enough to tilt it out head-first, and no good way to get a grip on the cell to pull it back out tail-first (the way it went in). I'm thinking that if the open cutout in the cylinder was a bit longer and wider, it would be a good deal easier to remove the charged cell.
Keep up the fantastic work, Guy!
Thanks FsTop :thumbsup:
Very much appreciate the feedback :bow:
The Charger........
It's been covered below but my original intention was to enable removal of the battery from the open cut-out window.
In my prototype, it all actually worked just fine.
So what changed in production?
I was designing a modular charger so all the parts would be swappable (eg. open body, closed body, extending body).
Due to a machining miscalcuation (I'll just accept it was a misunderstanding - gulp) the extending body needed a short contact pin (the brass pin that contacts the (+) part of the battery. The open body (with window) needed a long contact pin (and shorter spring) to allow easy/safe removal of the battery. Unfortunately, I didn't notice the difference of the pin length between the pre-production prototypes as they looked identical at first glance and only became noticeable when I tried interchanging the parts (Ti to Al and vice versa).
By that time, production was already underway.
So, I had to choose between a longer pin on the Al version (with no future support for different body types) OR a shorter pin & longer spring which would also prevent removal from the window.
I am still planning on making a closed body version (perhaps body only as an option) for the Al version and the shorter contact pin may allow for a shorter body and 10440 body also.
Fortunately, the USB part does unscrew quite easily and I do like the fact that I can "see" if there's a battery inside or not without having to open it to double check.
Retrospectively, not sure if I should have opted for the shorter pin though there would still be a minor risk of shorting the battery on the edges.
In addition to all that, there was also a
very critical event which caused some serious urgency on my end...
CottonPickers who was truly fantastic about supplying chargers (and such a great guy to boot) had told me he would not be making them anymore.
Now I
really needed to be able to offer at the very least, a safe alternative for charging (as I was quickly running out of stock of CottonPickers chargers).
And... so it came to be.
The Version 1 MBI Nuke Charger, you can safely charge batteries and admire them from the open window but...
please do insert and remove the batteries by opening the USB Charger Core.
I do place a big warning/notice sticker on every Al charger to explain "how to insert/remove" batteries as I realise in all the excitement of unwrapping things, some folks read the manual "after" using the product
Fortunately, I can say the Ti Extendable Charger is perfect, exactly (almost) as planned.
It has a separate challenge of being rather tricky to assemble perfectly due to machining tolerances but that seems to be getting smoother now.
I do still have a batch in a box that I have not even had a chance to look at. Perhaps this week!!
Then, I have some additional charger designs I've worked on but I'm planning to focus on Zeus,Torpedo,Apollo and some new HF-R parts for the moment.
Just so you know: The charger tube unscrews so you can just slide the battery out.
Thanks Puppet
Is that how he intend people to take out their battery?
See above :bow:
So it does - it was so well-machined that I hadn't spotted the crack.
However, it makes no sense to have to unscrew a half-dozen threads to remove the battery, after slipping it into the charger so easily - that would be poor design, and Guy doesn't do poor design.
Thanks FsTop,
All explained above
His design was indeed intending to install/remove the battery through the opening. However, upon receiving the finished product, he became concerned about the possibility of shorting the battery during removal, and suggests unscrewing it for removal.
Thanks th8tredude,
That's how it worked out :thumbsup:
I just read the User manual. It's like what the8tredude said...
Doesn't he include a user manual with the charger? Anyways it's on his website.
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0...Manual_20150408.2.web.pdf?8251859363167893978
Thanks for posting the manual Newguy :thumbsup:
Tgwnn