900 lumen bike light for £50 anyone?

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900 lumen bike light for £50 anyone?
ruminant
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http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.25149

Posted 15 years ago

ruminant
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Posted 15 years ago

richc
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isn’t there a new all singing all dancing uber LED due out soon?

Posted 15 years ago

will
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Oooo nice!

Posted 15 years ago

ruminant
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Yep there is

Troutie is in the process of building a light for me and is holding off finishing for the new leds

Posted 15 years ago

FuzzyWuzzy
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Was wondering when they’d get around to a proper bike version

Posted 15 years ago

will
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Worth buying? How long for it to you think?

Posted 15 years ago

gavtheoldskater
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is that the same as the p7 torch jobbie that was all the rage last winter?

Posted 15 years ago

ruminant
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think it might well be

Posted 15 years ago

richc
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No don’t think so as the torch only has a run time of 60 to 90 minutes. Regardless it must be worth hanging on until it gets dark again so they have a chance to put the newer brighter LED in the chassis, so you can get longer run times

Posted 15 years ago

cchris2lou
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if ordered now , would I get it before MM ?

Posted 15 years ago

shinsplints
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****presses order button****

Posted 15 years ago

thisisnotaspoon
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I’ll stick with my 1000lumen for £40 i got last year, 4 Q5 torches, shortened, weigh 58 each with soldered wires and battery clips.

2aa = 2 hours per “torch”, 2 torches = whiteout in all but very dense woodland.

found i could tilt them further back, so the center of my vision was away from the central spot, which was then diluted by the distance. Frankly though I prefer just one (250lumen) and 8 hour run times 🙂 as theres no need to pick out details as far ahead as a 1000 lumen spot lets you!

Posted 15 years ago

takisawa2
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Still using P7’s here.
(Young children = v-late / v-early rides!!!)
Looks good.

Posted 15 years ago

gavtheoldskater
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i bought a p7 for my father-in-law for xmas and was very impressed, but never managed to order one myself. now waiting for the fist of the ‘must buy super torch’ threads that’ll signal the coming of winter! : )

Posted 15 years ago

flowmtbguy
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Forgive my ignorance, but 900lumens = how many watts of the old style non HID lights?

Posted 15 years ago

JxL
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I bought a P7 off this forum for £40, works brilliant! Usually run it in low power and its plenty.

Posted 15 years ago

RooleyMoor
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I think they’d be the equivalent of a 40w halogen or a 20w HID? 900Lumens is very bright, but it’ll be interesting to see what the throw is like.

I’m going to get one if the dollar weakens against the pound..

Posted 15 years ago

trout
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for sale !redundant soldering iron 🙄

Posted 15 years ago

shinsplints
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This is probably a numpty question but what about the converter for usa to uk plugs ? is it ok to just use a regular one for the charger ?

Posted 15 years ago

trout
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Hi Mark
Funnily I was just shoe horning the Maxflex into the Hope last weekend .
do you def want to wait for the new leds . could be july august when they are available.

Posted 15 years ago

midlifecrashes
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Just looked at the close up of the charger, it’s rated 100-240V 50/60Hz, so just a travel plug adapter will do, plus you can use it worldwide.

Posted 15 years ago

shinsplints
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nice one midlifecrashes.

Posted 15 years ago

Northwind
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“No don’t think so as the torch only has a run time of 60 to 90 minutes.”

This light uses the same battery, but the torch uses one while this light has 4- hence longer burn times.

I’ve got a pair of the torches, and they’re as good as the hype- better than 9/10s of “proper” bike lights. Need to see exactly what the optics are like in this to see if it works as well as they do though but there’s no reason it shouldn’t.

Posted 15 years ago

RooleyMoor
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I think they usually ship an adapter with them.

Posted 15 years ago

z1ppy
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no you need to order an adapte off them, or just cut off the plug and wire on a UK one…

Loosk good, but i actually like my P7 torch rather than a ‘proper’ (limited) bike light, as it lives in my coat packet when not on the bike….

Posted 15 years ago

macmclaren
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yea i tried my p7 for the first time this week. Fantastic light.

tho the 5 mode gets on my nerves.

Posted 15 years ago

gavtheoldskater
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wonder what tesco have planned for next winter!! : )

Posted 15 years ago

singlespeedstu
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How long do orders from these guys take to arrive?

Am I going to get stung for import and VAT?

Posted 15 years ago

z1ppy
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SSS, can take 10 days to 3 week depending on how busy they are.
Not one of us got stung for VAT … 8 odd orders, with one being for 5 torches & associated kit (so quite big and expensive an order), though they tend to come through in two lots…. batteries and chargers first and then the torch (for the clasic P7 obviously).

Posted 15 years ago

takisawa2
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I’ve bought a fair bit of stuff from DealExtreme. If its in stock takes about 7 days, otherwise can be up to 2 weeks. In my experience if its saying despatch in 2-5 days on the website, then it’ll be about 10 days.
No import tax to pay, at least I’ve never had any problems ordering up to £45 or so anyway.
An 18650 cell will give you about 1hr 5 mins on max all the time, if your flicking between max / med I’ve had 2hrs before now.
They’re not quite 900 lumens, more like about 750. I had a Hope HID (10w) before & the P7 just had the edge. As for a comparison with halogens, I reckon your closer to 50-60 watts.
The one to go for is the SKU12060. I tried a 2 mode one but both had to go back so changed to the 5-mode (SKU12060). Have been in use since Nov last year with no problems.
Using them is a compromise, make no mistake, & if I could afford a Hope 4 LED thats what I’d have.
Mounting them is just as effective with zip ties & a bit if innertube as it is with the Fenix Lock-Block mounts costing £8 or so.

Posted 15 years ago

singlespeedstu
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Thanks for that.

Posted 15 years ago

trout
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There is a bit of a review on one over here
http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?p=5721023&posted=1#post5721023
The guy has had it in bits and is not too impressed

Posted 15 years ago

aracer
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Are these new LEDs being mentioned the XP-G or something else? Went and had a look on CPF seeing them mentioned here, and whilst they’re brighter, I’m not convinced they’re that huge a leap forwards.

Posted 15 years ago

ruminant
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Hi Trout

Not sure about the leds, roughly what output are we looking at for the existing leds compared to the new ones?

How much is too much light?

Posted 15 years ago

longweight
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900 lumens is the equivalent of a 50W MR16 downlight. All depends on the beam angle though….

Posted 15 years ago

aracer
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Also depends whether you really get 900 lumens from a “900 lumen light”!

Posted 15 years ago

epicyclo
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I’ve ordered one. It’ll be interesting to compare to my other lights.

Should really do some eBaying before they’re worthless 🙂

Posted 15 years ago

Epic
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Just ordered too 🙂 Can’t be any worse than my old lumicycle lights anyway!

I’ve got a helmet mounted Light & Motion Stella 200 which it pretty handy, and an old set of Lumicycle 10w/12w halogens set up on the bars at the moment.

Hang on, it’s summer! Why am I blowing my hard earned on lights?!

Posted 15 years ago

Northwind
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“Also depends whether you really get 900 lumens from a “900 lumen light”! “

You probably don’t, the emitter is capable of it but chances are you don’t actually get it. The SSC P7 torches have been put at 600-700 by people who know how to work this stuff out, which is still a lot of light.

Or alternatively, if that’s not enough, you can buy about 8 for the price of a Lupine Betty or Light and Vision Seca 😯 But you might set fire to the trees.

Posted 15 years ago