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potholer wrote:An nice light (saw the pictures over on candlepowerforums).
What were you planning on doing regarding beam control for someone with flood and spot LEDs?
If power/switch is common to the two LED drivers, I'd be interested to see how you approach that - I guess you could have an upstream controller that controlled the P60 through power supply control, though I suppose it might need to be aware of what mode the P60 was actually in.
Extremeophile wrote:Oh, and reserve one for me once you have the dual-LED flood module.
Derek
caverdan wrote:I'd call it......Cup-O-Soup!!!.....because Rick used his to heat up his lunch the other day in Narrows. :)
kevinm wrote:I can program Atmel based drop-ins (which is about half of them), so my plan for the flood/spot combo was to set them so that when the switch is on you have (flood/spot)
low, off [...etc...]
high, low
or any combination that one wants. That way, we don't have to add any additional components for control. Alternately, one could just choose drop-ins that have relatively prime numbers of modes.
kevinm wrote:caverdan wrote:I'd call it......Cup-O-Soup!!!.....because Rick used his to heat up his lunch the other day in Narrows. :)
So that's what they learn in NCRC level 2!
potholer wrote:Ah - so they'd be memory-free, and leaving the light off for a few seconds would reset both dropins to the start of their sequence, so if they ever did manage to get out of sync one unit seeing one more pulse than the other, they could be resynchronised just by turning the light off and on again?
potholer wrote:If it wasn't for the huge battery, I'd have suggested trying mixing a very small amount of spot in even in the 'flood' modes, since if done subtly, that can make a flood go much further without ruining the 'feel', or meaningfully increasing power consumption, though I guess power consumption isn't much of an issue for you.
Though unless you really need a pure flood, I'd be tempted to try it out on at least your highest flood setting, since that could give more reach for little extra power/heat.
potholer wrote:What are you planning on doing for the flood LED - having it fully naked, or having some tiny nonfocussing reflector/surround around it?
The latter can make a heck of a difference - homemaking tiny reflectors from silvered plastic, I can give a flood a central boost of 2-3x without losing the basic floody character, and just by using light that would otherwise have been effectively wasted.
Caver John wrote:What happened to the Cpf link?
Btw: this light with a flood/spot combo at a simiar price would be a winner
caverdan wrote:kevinm wrote:caverdan wrote:I'd call it......Cup-O-Soup!!!.....because Rick used his to heat up his lunch the other day in Narrows. :)
So that's what they learn in NCRC level 2!
You could call it the "Too Bright to Cave With Light"...."Brighty"....for short.
How about the obvious.....The Manley Light.
It truely is a Manly light. Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor would be very proud of your accomplishments with his famous two grunt's.
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