I think I got this light several years ago. I liked it because of the simple design, inherent heatsinking and serviceability. At that point I thought it was a solid core of aluminium with the wiring running down a hole between the top and base. It turns out I was very wrong, but in an interesting way.
In its existing form you can swap the colour and power of the LED, change the beam angle with a new lens or convert the light to run on a USB power supply, or even on an internal 18650 cell. (With vent holes in the base!)
With a lathe you could use this light as inspiration to create similarly styled custom units with all manner of stylish turned fins on the outside.
I'm not sure what could be done with 3D printing. I guess a suitable heatsink system could be added to the LED in a plastic housing with ventilation.
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In its existing form you can swap the colour and power of the LED, change the beam angle with a new lens or convert the light to run on a USB power supply, or even on an internal 18650 cell. (With vent holes in the base!)
With a lathe you could use this light as inspiration to create similarly styled custom units with all manner of stylish turned fins on the outside.
I'm not sure what could be done with 3D printing. I guess a suitable heatsink system could be added to the LED in a plastic housing with ventilation.
If you enjoy these videos you can help support the channel with a dollar for coffee, cookies and random gadgets for disassembly at:-
http://www.bigclive.com/coffee.htm
This also keeps the channel independent of YouTube's advertising algorithms allowing it to be a bit more dangerous and naughty.
2x machined Aluminum pucks, with threads cut.
Front puck serves as base & heat-sink for LED, and small holes drilled for supply wires & thermal compound glue to hold LED in place—-plastic lens holds LED in place at the other end.
Rear puck serves as heat-sink for resistor / caps / transistor chips & power input wire clamp.
Only problem: steel tube & aluminum pucks won't be good friends; corrosion will set in, of particular concern would be the metals used in the chips as they will end up functioning as sacrificial anode metals—IF there's no isolating compounds between metal heat dissipation surfaces of the chips & pucks.
All else, Bob's your uncle.
ahh a project for Ave's town pump cnc a flashlight made from a solid chunk of aluminimum with cheap pink chineasium grade lithium batteries inserted into the battery hole machined into the end for 18650's
a healthy mix of cheapness and skookumness
Wat happens if you put a Uplight and a downlight together? Perpetual motion? No.. it just grows itsselve a Middlefinger..😂😂😂
you sound like my uncle
I like the Flame of Freedom!
Plastic drain tube, plus an Aluminium block at each end, or maybe even only one end, with components, and suitable attaching screws, would be simpler and cheaper, but just as effective. Pop a suitable rechargeable cell or battery inside it, and add a USB port plus switch. No need for lots of machining, apart from the two cylindrical blocks. In a nutshell, you've made a rechargeable torch. Thanks BC.
So grant stott is doing electrical videos on you tube now! Pmsl ( the scots among you will get that one!)😂
Cool. A flashlight made of window draping fixtures.
The threaded disk you mount to a wall using the two holes. Screw fixture on disk and that is basically it.
Great stuff as always. Use thick wall Al tubing. Thread outer ends. Rebates with a boring bar to hold each terminal plate. Add an 18650 w/ control module. Done.
You could add slugs of lead, copper, steel, whatever to give it mass. A cleaver lad may add a small stack of Neo magnets at the far end. I may well do this. I'm thinking 2" tubing and a pair of lipos. Any more ideas?
Great shop craft Clive. Thank you.
ave had a go at doing a schematic video in your style a while ago. so now you have had your turn eh?
Good thing you are not dyslexic. The opening would have read, "I think I got this several light years ago…". Clive, you are AWESOME!! Love your videos and your "Scot". (Jealous). Thanks.
This is crying out for one of the colour changing LEDs
Clive if you went to all this effort would you not just build a flashlight?..