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[Closed] Hope Visions 2 LED MC-E upgrade

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Some-one asked about this before the site went down yesterday.. 🙄

It was Nixie's posting, he did a dual posting about it on [url= http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/showthread.php?t=215454 ]Candle power forums[/url]

[url= http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:M-D4IaPw3tMJ:www.singletrackworld.co.uk/forum/read.php%3Ff%3D2%26i%3D3843490%26t%3D3843490%26PHPSESSID%3Df2f666e370905b9ceee7e0a3a79bf14f+singletrackworld+hope+LED&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=uk ]Google cached stw page[/url] itís a slow loader.. hense the other link.


 
Posted : 30/12/2008 10:58 am
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anyone who wants the post - email me (have it as a word doc)

racing.ralph.08@googlemail.com


 
Posted : 30/12/2008 5:00 pm
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So light boffins. If I brought 2 of [url= http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.16145 ]these[/url] and simply fitted them to my vision 2s with the aid of some thermal epoxy and obviously a soldering iron I would have a much brighter light?

Its not that easy surely?

Am I missing something very important?


 
Posted : 30/12/2008 5:36 pm
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Ok also guessing I would need a multi meter so I dont bugger up the wiring.


 
Posted : 30/12/2008 5:38 pm
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thats the gist of it yes


 
Posted : 30/12/2008 6:40 pm
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Lovely. Hoping someone comes up with similarly good mod for the Vision 1..


 
Posted : 30/12/2008 7:34 pm
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Is there any fancy soldering I will need to do or are they virtually plug and play?


 
Posted : 30/12/2008 9:34 pm
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Thanks Zippy it was me who asked

All I need now is to get someone to do it for me 🙄

Can you same be done for a Vision 4? (if so it would be like the sun on your handlebars)


 
Posted : 31/12/2008 8:11 am
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The vision 4 uses different leds (crees of some kind I think). It might be possible to change these to mc-e's but I suspect the current draw would drain the battery very quickly, that or you wouldn't get a worthwhile improvement dues to how they would need to be wired.

I_Ache. I don't think you can buy mc-e's on 2S2P stars, so either you need to modify what you can get, or have 2 4S stars in parallel. Neither is a plug and play fit and would need some wiring changes (though the driver would not change). I think the simplest way would be to get 2 4S stars with pre mounted leds and run in parallel, this should mean the leds are central, the way I did it was a pain to get them centred on each star. Don't forget the spacing for the face plate or your new leds will get crushed!


 
Posted : 01/01/2009 3:22 pm