Posted by corvettejoe So there's this... bright and can keep the crackheads at bay... http://www.dytorch...display.asp?id=946 LOL |
Posted by corvettejoe So there's this... bright and can keep the crackheads at bay... http://www.dytorch...display.asp?id=946 LOL |
Posted by Evilbunny I have decided I am going to build my own lights as I can't find any with a reasonable price with the specs I want. One with a large throw and one with a huge flood and maybe one soft one for a portable photography soft box sort of thing. |
Posted by Therrin Have you looked at SolarForce light platforms? You get the "body" and then you can add to it the dropins, batteries, etc that you want. Check out: http://www.sbflash...n-Package-p62.html You can add the dropin you want, and other feature you want in a light. The cool part is, when technology upgrades, and dropins get better, you just switch out the dropin and keep the same lightbody/battery/switch/head. I've been using one for almost 4 years now, and I've set up about 8 friends with the same type of light. They're pretty awesome. |
Posted by Evilbunny Yeah not what I had in mind I am going to build it up by it self with an rc car battery pack http://dx.com/p/ss...ht-bulb-4-2v-47961 that as the base. |
Posted by Therrin Alright well have fun with that, be sure to show us pictures as you go. SST-90's are pretty fun. Extremely inefficient, but still fun! I've got an SST-50 that I'm pretty fond of, so I get what you're looking for. You could still use Lithium-type battery packs to get a much extended run time over they other typical kind of packs. Also... Keep in mind that with an SST-90, something like 80% of your energy is being bled off as HEAT..... and the other 20% make light. So make sure whatever light you design has the capability to dissipate that heat accordingly, otherwise you're just gonna fry that LED pill and then you'll be starting over from square one again. It needs some major heatsinking and heat-dissipation fins on it if you plan on running it more than just a couple minutes at a time. My SST-50 has some pretty sick heat-dissipation fins on it. **EDIT** You realize that pill draws NINE AMPS....right??? I just realized after looking at the specs on it. Can your RC car battery pack even deliver 9A?? That's a pretty heavy load. What kind of driver are you looking at using with it? |
Posted by Therrin You bought two 235lm lights, and a 180lm light? Do you just really like that range of light output? The built-in color LED's is kinda cool though!!! |
Posted by Cryptix Moar light isnt bad! I have a 500 lumen light but it's 3 or 4 C cells so it usually ends up staying home. I should pick up a decent high output at some point, I'll look into solarforce. 100A !?!?! wow... nice for 33$ What do you do for the headlamp? modify an existing body and harness or come up with your own? What LED are you planning on using? |
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