Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Charged


Feel the wrath of CREE led conversions, lithium, and caffinated candy.


DIYLED Triple CREE XR-E Q5 Copperhead light.


Crazy bright and crazy cheap, I'm still seeing spots.

DG

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Looks good. Judging from the pic the light base must be pretty solid. Are all the lights aligned forward or the outer ones angled out a bit?

LWR

Paul said...

Sweet. Did you build it yourself or did you buy it from the site?

Neve_r_est said...

They're aligned, but there are three different optics in it 5deg, 15deg, and a 25deg diffuser.

Still waiting on the battery packs for the bike light.

Yep, homebuilt.

DG

Paul said...

I went looking for those Snickers last night and couldn't find them. Where did you get them?

Paul

Neve_r_est said...

Utah/Colorado. But you can get them on Amazon.com.

If you want I can bring a you a few. I'm not normally a candy consumer, and I bought a case of these.

Did ya know Twix made a Java flavored candy bar? Seems I stumbled into another subculture, limited edition candy.

DG

Paul said...

Awesome! I need to check out your light as well. That is certainly something that would be a fun summer weekend project for me! See you next weekend.

Steve Fuller said...

What made you decide on this instead of the Lumotecs you were using? Better beam pattern?

Neve_r_est said...

Steve,

I should note that this led setup is powered by a 14.8v Li-Ion battery pack.
The dyno light works great for training, touring, and general all around lighting, I don't regret investing in that setup.
It was a tough decision, but knowing the stresses the body goes through after ther 20th hour of riding made me lean towards setting the world on fire. My triple cree puts out a light amount akin to my HID. Only the led head is lighter weight, has less thermal loss, a wider beam pattern, and hopefully better efficiency and reliability.

DG