StevelKnievel
Newly Enlightened
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- Oct 13, 2007
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Here's a little something for those 4-5 hour epic backcountry rides with 40mph downhill sections. My goal with this light was to develop a light that's very efficient with long runtime at ~700 lumen and also provide 1500+ lumen when needed.
This light has 10 Q5 WG emitters and I included 3 red emitters to improve color rendering. Next time I think I'll use 3 amber emmiters instead, this one is a little too rosy for my taste. Driving everything at 600mA it should be putting out ~1800 lumen and consuming around 25W. The housing is 2.5" OD and 2" long and weighs about 250g complete. I made the wall thickness pretty thick on the housing and the optics are behind 1/4" Lexan, so this light should be indestructable!
Beamshots will be coming soon. The light is with a friend of mine at the Icycle race (link: http://jandwevents.com/info.html ) in Fontana, NC right now for some night DH racing action. When he comes back I'll do some shots comparing the effects of the red emmiters with amber ones.
This light has 10 Q5 WG emitters and I included 3 red emitters to improve color rendering. Next time I think I'll use 3 amber emmiters instead, this one is a little too rosy for my taste. Driving everything at 600mA it should be putting out ~1800 lumen and consuming around 25W. The housing is 2.5" OD and 2" long and weighs about 250g complete. I made the wall thickness pretty thick on the housing and the optics are behind 1/4" Lexan, so this light should be indestructable!
Beamshots will be coming soon. The light is with a friend of mine at the Icycle race (link: http://jandwevents.com/info.html ) in Fontana, NC right now for some night DH racing action. When he comes back I'll do some shots comparing the effects of the red emmiters with amber ones.
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