Anyone converted Luxeon Star module?
V Garza
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Wonder if anyone has converted one of these to a hand flashlight or bike light? Would be nice to find at least an optics shell that one of these drops into to experiment with.
---Vic
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Steve Kurt
V Garza wrote:
> From http://store.yahoo.com/flashlight/arcls.html
> <http://store.yahoo.com/flashlight/arcls.html>
>
> LXHL-MW1Dpad$18.00
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> Wonder if anyone has converted one of these to a hand flashlight or bike
> light? Would be nice to find at least an optics shell that one of these
> drops into to experiment with.
>
> ---Vic
The 1 watt Luxeons are pretty neat critters! You can buy a version
that comes with the large plastic lens (shown at the bottom of the
page). I bought one, originally hoping it might make a good bike
light, but it turned out to have a wider beam than what is suitable
for a dynamo light. On the other hand, it does make a nice flashlight!
The full datasheet is at www.lumileds.com , I believe.
There are actually a number of kits available for installing one of
these in Maglites and such. www.inretech.com sells a reasonable kit
of this type.
There are also 5 watt Luxeons that are becoming available. With the
right optics, these have a lot of potential for bike lights!
Steve Kurt
Willie Hunt
That's the one watt Luxeon Star LED, and it's rather dim for bicycle use but it can be useful as a secondary light. You can buy these at Future Active:
for less.
The 5 watt Luxeon Star makes a nice headlight for lower speeds or a saftey light.
Willie
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From http://store.yahoo.com/flashlight/arcls.html
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Wonder if anyone has converted one of these to a hand flashlight or bike light? Would be nice to find at least an optics shell that one of these drops into to experiment with.
---Vic
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Ned Konz
On Sunday 02 March 2003 06:01 pm, Steve Kurt wrote:
> The 1 watt Luxeons are pretty neat critters! You can buy a version
> that comes with the large plastic lens (shown at the bottom of the
> page). I bought one, originally hoping it might make a good bike
> light, but it turned out to have a wider beam than what is suitable
> for a dynamo light. On the other hand, it does make a nice
> flashlight!
There are new, narrower-beam optics available. They produce a central
hot spot with some illumination around it. I think these will be
better for bike lighting.
Look at:
http://elektrolumens.com/BLASTER/Blaster_II_Optics.html
Wayne's selling these (for a hefty $8 each, but they're nice).
I think they may be from Lumidrives.
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