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somehow my account got screwed up over there so no pics until they can either fix it or I move the photos locally to blogger

Sorry

AHHHHHHHHH

Do you hear that

It's angels singing because

I GOT A NEW MILL

Where is the dancing Banana smiley when you need it





Either my wife hates me or loves me because this is going to keep me really busy out in the garage. I am going with the first, but you never know :)

Bar mount pics

I have had a few requests for how you mount these on your bars. Here you go





It is a cateye bar mount modified of course. Velcro loops through, then doubles under so the light is locked down good and tight. It can mount either over or under the bars. really doesn't matter

Donate to a good cause

SHolmes over on the DORBA forum http://www.dorba.org/ participated in a cause that hits close to home for me. My Mother in-law has MS and Scott is/has participated in the MS 150 bike ride this year. Click here for the link to his donation page SHolmes

This is one event that is on my list of things to accomplish in the near future, but honestly it snuck up on me this year.

In an effort to help both my Mother in-law and Scott out, I am donating the Bling Light to be auctioned off here Auction.

So if you could go over and bid on the light and or donate directly to the cause I would appreciate it.

Thanks

XPE has landed

A new model of LED's came out probably about 6 months ago now, and I was slow to make the move as I was so happy with my current versions. Well ODTexas showed me the light literally with his set up so I made the plunge. These suckers are small. I can fit 4 in the same housing size as the old LED's. AND I just found out yesterday that they have a new version coming out Q3 that is 55% more efficient and something like 3 times as bright so we are talking in the neighbor hood of 1300 lumens from something this size with about the same run time once they are available.



Another bonus to these is that you can have individual optics for each LED. This particular one has two elliptical and two spots. Makes it pretty cool! Here is the prototype model.

This is designed to be a bar mount so I made it with a lot of spread. If you wanted a spot though this baby can have it in spades.

4XPE by it's lonesome on high

Here is what it looks like on high with a 500l spot

And for crazy bright with the Darkstar and the 4XPE both on high

* the wall is about a 135 - 140 feet away and the trees in the back are about 200 or so feet away.

Who wants some BLING

Chrome is always a good thing right. I don't anodise my lights yet so no gold, but silver is the next best thing








Maybe a little over the top, but I am a sucker for a good piece of crome

Never satisfried

As I have started to make more of these for people I have been playing around with ways to maximize production, and incorporate a few design suggestions, but of course that always leads to slight variations So on with the pictures





Notice the nifty new slots on the bottom, as I said before I will be adding this to all new lights. I even managaed to retrofit an older one.

I need to get a better shot of this, but I got a new piece of tooling that allows me to easily cut a radius on a corner. Makes for a nice round corner instead of a cutting edge.

I also moved everything back to the back for a couple reasons.

1. I got a complaint on this version about turning it off with a tree branch. oops

2. It is quicker as far as machining goes

3. More surface area for cooling.