Lights (yes, again but with a slight twist)

[KirstinS]

I'm looking for a decent cheap Chinese light that will frankly light up the sun

Something for me, cycling offroad on the south downs in November . Never to be used on the road. Ever.

I have every permutation of battery pack so no worries about power. Lots of cases, excellent cells and so forth

(I'd prefer NOT main bike battery to power it)

Cheers all
K

 

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[KirstinS]

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I'm not looking for Gotham's batman projector !

 

[LeighPing]

3 years old now. Still strong enough to catch a jumping carp.

 

[Fat Rat]

3 years old now. Still strong enough to catch a jumping carp.

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How many leds is that running for 6600 lm

 

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How many leds is that running for 6600 lm

no where near enough for 6600 lm

this has the best spec for the money and real lm output

Magicshine Mj-908 8000 Lumens Bike Light Model

The Most power light from magicshine boasting a whopping 8000 Lumens from the front MJ-908 Bike Light. This is definitely one of the brightest bike lights on the market! Perfect for the serious mountain bikers. Just £169.99!

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[LeighPing]

How many leds is that running for 6600 lm

3

 

[Wicky]

Pardon our interruption...

 

[jarob10]

I’ve had good experience with this one, very bright, directly wired to the battery though

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[artspeck]

Rain, Sleet and Snow, no problem, they've been through it all.
Burn Time...
2hrs on full 960 Lumens with the 2200mAh Battery
4hrs for the 4400mAh Battery on full 960 Lumens
From £39 https://chilli-tech.com/content/960-lumens-cree-bike-light-also-450-lumens-100-lumens-mode-dip/

 

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XHP Family of LEDs

Cree LED delivers the industry's widest portfolio of high-performance LED components: discrete LEDs, LED arrays and LED modules for lighting and displays.

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you get what you pay for 29w 6v 4.8a 4000lm only problem is you need a cpu heat sink and fan to cool it down at that wattage.

 

[Flumpet]

I’ve had good experience with this one, very bright, directly wired to the battery though

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How do you wire it to the battery? I'm looking for something that uses the battery, but don't know how to connect? there's a usb socket on the battery...

 

[Deleted member 25121]

One thing to watch is that you don't have the light shining directly into driver's eyes, if you do they'll put their lights onto main beam to help see the road and you'll be in big trouble.

 

[Fat Rat]

One thing to watch is that you don't have the light shining directly into driver's eyes, if you do they'll put their lights onto main beam to help see the road and you'll be in big trouble.

And that's exactly where stvzo comes in and is a no brainer in my opinion

 

[Deleted member 25121]

And that's exactly where stvzo comes in and is a no brainer in my opinion

Indeed, the light still needs to be setup correctly though. It can still blind people coming the other way if its pointing up too high.

 

[jarob10]

How do you wire it to the battery? I'm looking for something that uses the battery, but don't know how to connect? there's a usb socket on the battery...

My front lights are wired direct to the battery. I use spare 9 core motor wiring I had lying around : 3 (thin) hall wires for the throttle, and 2 (fat) phase wires for the lights.

I use 2 front lights, one via a handlebar (wuxing) switch which is used on country lanes & selectively in the day to ‘dazzle’ dumb a$$ car drivers, the other which is dipped but on all the time.

Anything plugged into the usb socket will suffer water ingress, best bet is to Piggy back onto the high current battery wires

 

[EddiePJ]

XHP Family of LEDs

Cree LED delivers the industry's widest portfolio of high-performance LED components: discrete LEDs, LED arrays and LED modules for lighting and displays.

www.cree.com

you get what you pay for 29w 6v 4.8a 4000lm only problem is you need a cpu heat sink and fan to cool it down at that wattage.

And why would anyone pay nearly £40.00 for it, when they can be had for under £14.00

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because there fake copy's and no where near the output of a real xhp70 chip but for the led on its own is about 10 quid from china.

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[Deleted member 25121]

I bought a high intensity hand torch from China last year, it was very cheap, arrived quickly and was junk. The 18650 battery had 1/3rd of its claimed capacity and gave up after a week. The mains charger was flimsy and totally unsafe rubbish, the plastic hinge on the box split soon after and the torch was badly made tacky tat.

It was cheap but it was certainly no bargain, I'll never again buy things like that from a Chinese company. Bosch, Apple etc etc make stuff in China but they have the proper design and quality procedures in place.

 

[EddiePJ]

Thanks SW, I'll just stick with my Magicshine Eagle f3.