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Aspheric TinyDC

mcbrat

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completed an Aspheric Tiny DC. Has a beam similar to a McGizmo Sundrop, but bigger...
Used a Qlite 3.04A driver, and an XM-L2 from Mountain Electronics. drilled a blank pill for wires coming through away from center so the led had a place to set...
got an Aspheric Lens from ThorLabs, and used a blue o-ring I had laying around as the gasket.
For the spacer between the pill and the lens, I used a small rubber leg/cane tip trimmed to be slightly taller than the LED.

Sundrop left, TinyDC Right.

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Espionage Studio

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Wow, look at that lil guy...he's all growed up! (very nice McBrat, I'm glad you made something cool with that!)
 

okluma

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Awesome! I love it when guys modify stuff. If you're tempted to give something like this a try yourself, I'll help in anyway I can.
 

wimmer21

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So cool! I'm impressed with outcome but even more so with what it took to accomplish it... from idea to completion. Well played.
 

mcbrat

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Put that light in the WTS and watch me elbow my way to the front. I'll step on a kid

Build #2 coming up. This time with a tumbled finish Aluminum DC1. need to look into some things yet. the first one wouldn't really head stand as the lens protruded a bit from the front.
 
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