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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.

It has been way too long since an update, but the real job has been getting in the way again...


So I sent my first light out by mail the other day to Oregon. So that was exciting. The initial report was good and the Darkstar was reported as the brightest light on the trail. Yess! I made a slight adjustment at the owners request on this light and think I will incorporate it into all my new designs


Nifty Huh. No more worries about losing it no matter what.

I also recently completed the Bullit as a swap for a SS bike.

I think it turned out well.

I wanted this one to turn out really well and be really reliable as the guy is a fireman, and wanted to use it for both biking and at work

I think I succeeded as he reported back the the beam was great for looking for a dead body in the woods at night.

OK then! Guess we have a winner.

Beamshots from the darkstar.

This is actually from one that has one flood and one spot mounted in it.

High

Low

the low was photoshopped to correct for a crappy camera, high beam is accurate.

Both taken at about 130 feet from the wall. High beam is good well beyond 200 feet.

Thanks to those that received theirs. Let me know what you think about them once you use them.

To cold in the Garage today, and on Daddy duty, so I thought I would update a little. I have been working on a couple of new lights and here is the latest development. I have had a 1000 lumen light before, but there is always room for improvement. both with LED's and design. So I give you DarkStar(how do you do a tounge in cheek smiley?), 1200 + lumens of night luvin

Excuse the last shot, and this one will not be going out to anyone due to the imperfect machining, which is a whole 'nother story.