Ie. he'd press it lightly and it'd turn off. You know.

>not being a covert operative with chinkshit equipment

Actually, the first one I bought as a trial was a knockoff.

Warmer colour LED than the others.

p sure most of them are knockoffs at this point

i still use them though

"Mixxar" rather than "Hugsby" print. I like it better though.

@Windatica Wouldn't surprise me, actually.

Convoy has an AAA one as well, but I don't like the back end of that.

I searched for that "BLF-314" but only got a lawnchair and a picture of an airliner.

kek This is the one. http://budgetlightforum.com/node/50034

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314... 348. You fucking rascal!

Hey I didn't remember

Looks good though.

I prefer the understated look.

Feckin going around with something that looks like a cyborg dildo... no thanks.

The manufacturer makes something with the same numbers that's always available

I also have access to both CNC lathe and mill, could I make my own housing and put Hugsby internals inside without knowing any electrical engineering or soldering?

You could just mill the tube bit and steal the lighty end and the switchy end.

That was kind of the plan. Make it sleeker yet grippy.

👍

I have no idea how much effort it would take to extract the guts from the switch.

The LED end is a lot easier to disassemble though, it's just all jammed in there without any adhesives.

At most I'd do patterns with knurling

welp

Wait, I lie.

I was thinking of just the glass and the reflector.

The LED assembly is stuck in some other bit of kit.

On the other hand I guess I could go the other route and make the entire flashlight myself with a 50W LED and the entire housing acting as passive cooler?

50w is a lot. 😄

hello

http://www.instructables.com/id/homemade-100W-LED-flashlight/ this is 80% chink materials

Just looked up CPU numbers. They're old, but I reckon fairly representative still. Some guy said his CPU idled at 25w, give or take, and went up to 145w at full blast.

And at that point they require some pretty beefy cooling.

I suppose a big honking heat sink like that would do the trick. 😄

Could a 20w one be passively cooled with a hugenormous aluminium heatsink?

I couldn't say.

Guess I'll look into it before spending $2 on an LED module I won't be able to use

>Lol how are you guys measuring this? An i7 at 4.0Ghz is going to be around 200w under a full load.

That's... fuck. 200w?