Fyrstormer's Evil Labs presents: McGizmo Makai, Pointless Edition

[tab665]

this is the most pointless and amazing mod i have ever seen. this is the el camino of mods!

 

[fyrstormer]

LOL, I never thought anything I'd ever do would be compared to the El Camino.

 

[tab665]

my daily driver is a '83 El Camino! now that you have done this mod, do you have any idea what the lumen output is? is there anything you would have done differently?

 

[fyrstormer]

I'm guessing the output is somewhere in the 250-300lm range, based on ceiling-bounce comparisons with other lights I own that are rated at that brightness, but I don't have the equipment to measure its brightness objectively.

If I had it to do again, I'd try to come up with a more elegant way to connect the driver to the LED assembly. I may yet go back and modify the connection to use a barrel plug and socket, so when I screw the driver pill into place, the plug and socket line-up and automatically make a connection. But it's not like I'm going to be disassembling this light on a regular basis, so I may also decide to leave it as-is because it's not a big deal.

 

[Grijon]

Great original post, great following thread!

 

[luxlunatic]

Nothing short of awesome!!!
Like you, I don't have much need for a thrower in my environment so I am all about flood with my lights but this is the only 5mm "array" light that I have ever had any interest in! I actually dig the clash between the "cheesy tech" of the array packed into the "classy coolness" that is the Makai.
Congrats on a very unique and very well executed build, and great photos as always!

 

[Icarus]

Unusual mod for a Makai but nice work! :thumbsup:

 

[fyrstormer]

Thanks! I wasn't really interested in doing a "usual" mod anyway. I wanted to do something different and interesting.