In order to give everyone some idea of just what goes into the making of a custom fully self designed Dive Light, I will over the coming days be posting up a series of articles describing what was involved. I will show you the stages involved, some of the difficulties encountered right up until the present day when the project is nearing completion.
Previous posts have explained more or less the rationale behind this particular project, suffice to say this is my third build (the other two having utilised the maglite torch as a base for the light head). Elsewhere on this blog is a downloadable pdf image of the actual light head design (fully dimensioned) and for those interested, I will be making available (for a small nominal fee) a downloadable eBook with video, drawings and source code providing all the detail you will need to build your own.
I will also be offering pre-coded PIC micros – ready to go.
So this forward to describing the project begins first with the light head, then onto the cannister and on through the electronics and PIC based design (which has been in use for a while now).
So we started out with a rod of E30 grade Aluminium (this is the offcut).
After some mid-machining decisions and a lot of time spent we arrive at the light head itself.
From one to the other in many,many,many steps 
