things have progressed bike lights

[THWANG-666]

hi chaps
just finishing off a couple of lights (building up) and was thinking back about my first diy lights mk1s

mk2s

mk3s

mk4s

all polished now on to the mk 5s

mk5s are fully upgradable from 400 lumens xr-es to triple xp-gs or xmls
regards thwang

 

[cyfa2809]

Sweeeeeet looking lights.

Now i cant remember, but, because you can or a cost saving exercise?

 

[Chute55uk]

want to sell me a set?
btw are those cree lights from china on ebay any good?

 

[argonsixar]

Nice stuff. When I think back to the dangerous crap I used to commute with in the 80s I wonder how I am still alive. Never Ready in particular were horrendous.

 

[Raging_Bulls]

Really like the look of those polished dual Mk4s.

 

[02gf74]

very nice. I don't have the toooling to make anything as spectacular but is the heatsinking necessary? I ask as I made my own lights from copper tube soldered together - I am using seoul p4 emitter driven at 5 W and the tube gets slihlty warm. I've used them for over 2 (or maybe 3) winters with nothing going wring with them so my heatsinking appears to be adequate.

Must get round to making my mk2 version using more up to date LEDs.

 

[retrocomeback]

.....are those cree lights from china on ebay any good?

Bought this from this seller six months ago http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CREE-XML-...Bike_Lights&hash=item20c5013dc9#ht_2822wt_794, performance is fantastic and battery life on full power around 3hrs (still is today). Really can't fault it for under £30!

That being said, love the custom lights Thwang!

 

[02gf74]

blinkin flip .... checked the spec. of my lamps and they are 100 lm, which i thought were pretty bright when used as a pair.

it is hardly worth my while in making new ones if i can get 1800 lm :shock: for £ 21

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CREE-XM-L-XML ... 2a21ff4128

oh, ... and i just bought one.

 

[JamesM]

The chinese cree lights are very bright but are not 1800lumens, more like 900. Reliability is questionable. Get two, that way you have a proper 1800 lumens and the odds of both failing at the same time is very low, so you won't be plunged into darkness mid descent.

 

[NeilM]

This guy is an ebay trader.

The lighting tests are pretty interesting.

http://www.torchythebatteryboy.com/p/bi ... abase.html