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it doenst tell you how much on his page though 🙁 or how long battery last 🙁
Depends what capacity (Ah) battery pack you have, or buy. Think it draws 1A on full so with the 2.6Ah battery pack I've got it will, in theory, run for 2.6 hours.
Trout, I've got to say that the light is fantastic, can't wait for my next night ride. Car drivers round London won't know what's coming this winter!
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Just received mine today, and just been comparing against a Lupine Betty in the field at the bottom of the garden.They throw out quite a different light (colour and spread)
Great review
Thanks for letting us know which is the best
Sorry John but i'm not able to give a decent review until have rode with both lights, I only received it this afternoon and not riding till tom.
My intial thoughts are though
The Betty is brighter in the centre area where the Trout has more light to the sides. The Trout light is a more bluey white light whereas the Betty is more natual. When shining both lights at some trees in the distance i could pick out the colours more with the Betty.
When using both lights on full power together you can notice the centre of the Lupine and the side flood of the Trout....does that make sense??
Anyone running a baby trout? Got any beam shots? Too much for a road light?
Is that right John Walker? i think we figured my Troutie DO was drawing 2.6A or something, so my battery is a 5.2Ah.
That'll be much nicer runtimes with the new LL.
Swift - From post No. 1:
"The Specs for the techy folks of the Lumen Liberator
6 XPG R4 leds if driven at 1000ma will push out 345 lumens each
6 carclo 10 mm square optics wide / medium / narrow / eliptical to mix and match to make a nice beam.
1 Maxflex driver to take the 14.8 volts from the battery and magic it up to 18 volts ish for the leds .
waterproof switch .
cable and connector to suit battery pack minimum requirement is a 14.8 volt li ion pack
the bar mount is in development at the moment and can only get better.
it will also be helmet mountable using some yet to be sourced velcro straps
No idea on the real price just yet but it wont be £50 but it will be the cheapest 2000 lumen light out there ( and it can be turned down so no whingeing about too much light).
If it turns out there are some folks interested in having one of these lights then mail me and we can go from there."
go on then.who,s going to be no 1000.
troutie. it,s got to be you surly.
Cheers for the light Chris, can't believe the size and quality. Tomorrow will be out in deepest Brechfa, though there's a full moon out there!
1000... lumens are not enough 😉
Like it duggie
Yeah, nice one duggie. 😀
Wow I leave for a couple of hours and it goes over 😀
Taylorplayer
There is one Baby in Dubai somewhere one out on loan somewhere in lancs with Montylikesbeer and one in the post today to Richard off here
and 3 unbuilt in my garage so they are quite rare untill Paul makes me some more housings . will try and do a beam shot when I build the next one up .
Who would have thought 1000+ post on a light thread 😳
your fault chris.you shouldn,t make them sooooo bloody good.. 😉
Trout well done About time you had them made and put in the shops 😉
There is one Baby in Dubai somewhere one out on loan somewhere in lancs with Montylikesbeer .......
Well if there's a demo doing the rounds can I get my name down? More than willing to take it over a weekend !(cheeky I know, but worth a try and we might get to 2000 !)
Well if there's a demo doing the rounds can I get my name down? More than willing to take it over a weekend !(cheeky I know, but worth a try and we might get to 2000 !)
Not really a demo I think it has been kidnapped and I am just waiting by the phone for the ransome demand
Just received my light, it's bloody fantastic. Can't wait to get out on those moors tonight.
Already blinded several colleagues.
Pleaseure doing business with you Chris.
got card in postbox cant collect baby for another 2 hours the suspense is killing me cheers Chris will report back l;ater
Just been out to the bike shed to try it out again. My god I'd forgotten about the green glow - how cool is that.
Chris,dont know if you got my email regarding a connector for the proto i had as the lead was popping out, can you let me know if you have one spare and price, really pleased with the light 😀
It survived the worst Brechfa could throw at it (it was very wet out there tonight), couldn't fault it. Used the DX light up top and helped on the tight switchbacks. It made the tabletops a lot safer. at two hours back at the car was when the red light came on.
Mine turned up today cheers Trout.
Very nice, the logo and label looks very professional, and its a big improvement over the Proto (which was very nice in its own right).
The female port rather than a flying lead is good. I'm guessing the light is a battery low warning type thing that i didn't know it had (a nice surprise), and the green glow is a lovely gimmick, which if the mount ever does break will be handy. (must be worth a couple of lumens on the final count too 😉 )
All in all, fantastic achievement for one man in his spare time (not forgetting the contribution of others). Easily a match quality and value wise for any of the big guns (to be fair, if it last a couple of years problem free, it will blow them out of the water)
Woot! Just got mine!
So much smaller and neater than the pictures do justice.
Well done, and many thanks!
Was riding with Andy in Dubai last night, first time seeing his new Baby Trout in action, and I'm impressed.
Andy is chuffed to bits, fantastic beam with no bright spots, just an even spread illuminating everything you could want.
I'd say it's only a matter of time before you have a few more orders from the UAE 🙂
Cheers, Rich
Chris - any 'baby trouts' left or is it a case of joining the queue for the next batch?
Cheers
(another) Chris
troutie.is the battery connector waterproof.or do i ned to get a small cover for it.
cheers chris..
Great Rich
I was wondering when you were going back out there .
Dead happy Andy likes it 😀
It is as waterproof as possible but dont go scuba diveing with it
marsden man Couple left at the moment
Hi Chris,
whats the latest on the last lights...one of which is mine 😛
I don't think the connector is actually waterproof. Waterproof is, err, [i]waterproof[/i], and anything else, isn't.
If I were you I'd cover it if you are anticipating using the light during a downpoor. Just to be safe.
🙂
L.
mine arrived yesterday thanks Chris
Damn it's small. I wasn't expecting it to be quite that tiny & light.
(oh yeah - the illumination is pretty awesome too :-))
Power connectors are essentially the same as have been used on Lumicycle lights for years without any problems I'm aware of.
I've had the same on my LEDs over 2 years and water has never got in.
Troutie likes his silicone so they are pretty well sealed!
Fantastic,awesome etc etc. And purple.
luminous , Hows your light going you must have it sorted by now .
have a look at the IP ratings and it would appear that there are variing degrees of waterproofness
I used the 2.5 connector so with a quick change of the polarity it could be used on the thousands of Lumi batteries out there but finding an ip67 rated one seems like rocking horse do da .
so used the one on the left in an unorthodox way as it is an inline connector the one on the right is a standard 2.5 as used in the lumi stuff but probably not the new led stuff as no way is it anything proof .
the one I have used is not 100 % sealed but I do add some silicon after soldering where water could get in so I would say it is pretty well sealed .
Stoney been working away the last couple of days so will be doing the last few this weekend .
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Thats cool! I`m away at the outlaws til sunday.... 😥
Cheers.
Trout do you have any left from the current batch?
I got my light the other day, I haven't had a chance to get out on the bike with it yet, but I've done the mandatory garden testing! 🙂
The light is very very impressive, the size of it is amazing, much smaller than I was expecting! And very light weight too. And also very very bright!!! I drive home through the new forest, and stopped at the side of the road to compare my car headlights to the trout light. I only had the car lights on low beam, but the pics give you a good idea of just how chuffing bright this thing is!
The pics are only off my phone (sony c905), so not that great, but they are all at the same exposure etc. As usual the pics dont do it justice for broadness of beam etc etc.
Car headlights:
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Trout on low:
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Trout on '**** me thats bright':
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Trout.
Hi ya 😀
Hope you didn't mind my post, its just that I didn't want Rob to damage his light. 🙂
But as we know, you've no reported issues with water anyway.
Progess ?.
Its been a long haul, but late-ish last night I was standing on the shop floor of a company which machines parts for the offshore and Aero industries, amongst others, watching a 9 axis machine centre do its stuff.
Hyper accurate !, amazing machines, and the guys are asking "how many microns clearance do you want".
MICRONS !.
Then we're looking at stuff on the shadow-graph for gaps and clearances.
Fantastic.
Anyway, housings will be finished tonight, for collection tomorrow.
Yes, you've made a nice little job of that connector, and yes finding an appropriate connector is very difficult, took me months !, and even when you do find what you think you can use.
Not all the companies that I, and possibly you, have dealt with, make things as easy as they could be 😉
Good thinking on the Lumi compatability front, must admit, I hadn't thunk of that. 🙂
Cheers
🙂
L.
cheers Luminous.
I think iv,e come up with a solution but tell me if i,m wrong.
slip a small neoprene O ring or even 2 over the plug so when it sits against the socket it makes a seal without shortening it too much and still makes a good contact.the plug goes on prety tight so it doesn,t slack back.i.ll get a few in the morning as i,m riding late on sunday and well you know what the weathers like...
Rob save your money and dont worry about a bit of rain
maybe just a blob of silicon grease or vasaline to keep the salt water at bay on the roads to stop the contacts corroding but having seem some very old lumi stuff and the connectors were still in good nick
it has been sat in there since you posted not hot enough for tea yet
and dont try this with a bastid
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Is that picture real trout?
Hmm....ideal for boiling water for a cuppa if your leccy goes off?? 😉
He's showing off now
Mind you, I think he's allowed to
ok troutie.i believe you.
it was just that it (looks)like there,s a gap betweew the wall of the socket and the male but obviusly not 😳
ta bud