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Handle bar mounted recumbent lights.
I may have solved my problem of how to mount the handlebar lights to the recumbent. I have found a commercial bike bike mount that I should be able to adapt for this project. Its durable enough...
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Picked up parts for work light and low cost light.
Well today I stopped by a factory estate close to my Uni and picked up the pats for the sub $US20 bike light and work light project. XP-G, Ledil optics and a (damaged) XR-E I got 4 new MCPCB mounted...
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A few videos of the Recumbent Lights
Went for another ride with a friend tonight and got some video as he took the bike for a spin. It can be found here. I was only using my digital SLR camera to take the video, so its nothing wonderful....
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XP-G Worklight
Yesterday I found the time to finish off the triple LED (XP-G) work light. It went together fairly quickly with about an hours fiddling. The most difficult part was achieve a good thermal path for the...
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Low Cost Bike Light Construction
Found some time today to finally get started on a head lamp for my helmet. Its a fairly simple build this one with most of the parts being unmodified. Below you can see the 8xAA battery holder (4 on...
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Battery Powered Work Light V2
I finally got around to revising the tipple XP-G worklight by converting it to be battery powered. Worklight with battery pack attached. Only a few changers were made to the original. Most notable is...
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Low cost bike light – Finished.
Here is the finished ‘low cost’ helmet light for my bike. Estimated output on high is 270lumen. The finished bike light. The general overview. The LED, driver, optics and rotary switch assembly are...
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XP-G Keyring Light
Recently I have been watching my poor old keyring light slowly die on me and have begun to wonder what I could replace it with.. Well the obvious answer of course is a Lithium Polymer powered XP-G...
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Key chain XP-G… sort of.
I did end up making a mini XP-G keychain light. However, due to lack of time and interest I only got as far as coupling 2 100mAh LiPo cells in series too two current limiting IC’s for a total output...
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Workshop LED light – DIY Walk-through
Here is a quick walk through on how to make a variable brightness LED work light. Required Parts 1 x Portable Halogen Work light, New or second hand: $15 3x Cree XP-G R5 Mounted to a 20mm MCPCB Star...
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