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Put your light in your backpack with the battery connected , It may switch on and the heat wont be able to escape .

Lowey from this parish did and this was the result

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It was so hot it hissed when splashed with water .

The Light does have some thermal throttling and would have switched to low when it hit 60c but even on low the heat can build up in a bag .

Remarkably it still works ๐Ÿ˜€


 
Posted : 22/08/2013 6:56 am
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Oops


 
Posted : 22/08/2013 6:59 am
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Funky colour now!


 
Posted : 22/08/2013 7:05 am
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Oh dear...! Chris, did you get any of my emails about the XML's you said you might have spare for my helmet light? Steve


 
Posted : 22/08/2013 8:10 am
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I can see an application for Red Arrows type smoke trails behind riders as they whizz in and out of the trees.


 
Posted : 22/08/2013 9:16 am
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I'd go further an recommend you only connect the battery to the light when you;re about to start riding. I once fitted the lights then put the bikes in the car ready to head off for a night ride - came back to the carhaving collected rucksacks (and Mrs NBT) to find it filled with a stench of burning plastic - the light (an old lumicycle halogen unit) had switched on, and being face down against the tarpaulin I use to line the boot was happily melting its way through two layers of material. Thank god I got back when I did, I reckon a few minutes more and it would have been into the boot liner itself


 
Posted : 22/08/2013 9:24 am
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Hi Chris, I've been meaning top email you but since your here I may as well ask now. I think I remember someone mentioning and 'upgrade' for the original Liberator, is that the case and if so how much.

I NEED MORE LUMENA ๐Ÿ™‚


 
Posted : 22/08/2013 10:06 am
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Another DON'T.
From back in the day - if you decide to make a lash up involving a Petzl headtorch, a halogen bulb and an over volting drill battery then always remember to put a fuse in the circuit. That when when you crash on snow and ice cracking your knee cap there won't be a small fire in your Camelbak which melts the bladder depositing water all over your arse. Which then freezes...
Don't ask how I know, ok?


 
Posted : 22/08/2013 10:50 am
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๐Ÿ˜†


 
Posted : 22/08/2013 10:55 am
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๐Ÿ™‚ for MrS
Commiserations for lowey, still a bit fresh, piss taking will ensue after some time ๐Ÿ™‚

I know Hopes seem to drain the battery if left connected, have left them on the bike hooked up and they've been flat a couple of days later.


 
Posted : 22/08/2013 10:58 am
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Steve
mail me your requirements Have at last got the garage tidied


 
Posted : 22/08/2013 6:41 pm
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Thanks for the public humiliation mate. In mitigation I was pissed and it was beer that hissed, not water.

The thing still works, and arguably has a more pleasing colour than the shocking white. Testament to trouties garage based quality control measures.


 
Posted : 22/08/2013 7:03 pm
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MrSparkle.

I actually chuckled out loud at that one!

It's bad enough being blinded by other people's lights at night, without following what looks like a Messerschmitt 109 that is going down with smoke trailing!

Mind you, I have ridden several times after a curry the previous evening and it felt like smoke ought to have been billowing out behind me!


 
Posted : 22/08/2013 7:50 pm
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Are upgraded available for the luminator Trout?


 
Posted : 23/08/2013 8:42 am
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hi Gary
yes can pop in xml 2 s and boost the power for about
2400 lupins


 
Posted : 23/08/2013 11:21 am
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Sounds good, ill drop you an email re price. Thanks.


 
Posted : 23/08/2013 11:38 am
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2400 lupins

ROFL
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Is this enough?


 
Posted : 23/08/2013 11:55 am
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Ha Ha ๐Ÿ˜†

not Xml. but XPG 2 leds ๐Ÿ˜ณ


 
Posted : 23/08/2013 12:28 pm
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Email sent anyway Trout, but please no lupines ๐Ÿ™‚


 
Posted : 23/08/2013 1:27 pm
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Posted : 23/08/2013 6:05 pm
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Hi Chris
Did you get the email I sent last week?
Cheers
Steve


 
Posted : 27/08/2013 12:37 pm