Footflaps
It will never overheat cos the driver keeps tabs on the temp and when it hits 60c it dims until it cools down a bit

this happens in about 3 minutes on the desk on full not yet tried it on the bike

Its a pretty nice beamshape for the bars but full is a bit overkill 😈

Cant windows movie maker do all that

Chapaking
Dalby parking join Singletraction and do a handfull of dig days
and get a years pass to Dalby

Dirk you wont they are a nice little package and can be tweaked for a bit more if needed in the future

I would go with a portable wood burner like stoners
portable woodburner

I dont know what they were thinking when the updated the range

look at the similarities of the vision 2 to the Smudge luminator and glow worm , the vision 2 with a couple of xmls is a great little unit

I think they maybe over complicated the R8 and the march of the chinese cheapies has taken its toll and probably hit them quite hard.

Shredder I have an exposure in the queue to be looked at so not sure yet

MuppetWrangler Not been inside a Vision 1 so cant say what can be done.

Jonny Yours is on the bench waiting for some glue to dry should be in the post tomorrow all being well

It’s worth it though 😉

Glad you like it Dan. bet yo did click it to hi at least once 😯

Thanks foureyes I seem to have it working on the imap now and binned the pop3

Probably so explain this IMAP thingy and should I be doing this instead of PoP3 ing

Spare a thought for us color defective folks red and orange appear the same to me .

same with status lights on stuff red green orange cant tell the difference so have to ask if if my batteries are charged .

why cant it be red and blue now thats easy for me

DO NOT USE SILICON it reacts badly with the bitumen in the felt and will fail .

B&Q have small tins of bitumen felt adhesive for jobs like this so why not use the right stuff for the job

Smudge is now doing replacement batteries in Exposures
http://www.mtbbatteries.co.uk

Thanks
I am with 3 at the moment contract up in march 2013 and was thinking of changing then
yes it was the win 7.5 so I guess I will leave it

Progress is going well on what should be a cracking trail
heres a bit of a walk through of the trail so far .

Put this on your other thread

You need this

Mounting is its weak point but with a standard tripod screw mount on the base its easy to bodge up a solution

the night shots were with a converted Gopro chesty and todays I cobbled up this frame mount from some delrin I had kicking about in the garage.

it works well if I lower it on the frame so as to see the wheel and forks working

Been out today to try and get some impression on the cameras performance
got 3 little vids and am pretty impressed.

straight from camera to Youtube no messing about and light levels a large selection .

first vid is just a panorama in weak sunshine .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nmerpeoddc

second is a ride through the forest and here it is good what you dont see here is the dark bits were very dark but the camera coped well
and quite fast to change from dark to sunshine better I think than the Gopro 1 and 2 for low light stuff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCxaep39ong

third video is on the road in fairly bright sunshine and again pretty good quality .
another impressive thing imho is the steady shot stabilization

Useless carpet fitters
I do all doors that need it when I fit flooring .
it’s a nice little earner and when you have taken it off already
what would have happened if it was the front door you can’t just leave it off
for the night .

Well can say that it does beat the gopro 1 and 2 in the low light stakes
Nothing exciting just on the back road for a trial

Yes just unpacked it and not easy to mount but the standard tripod screw means it should be easy to make up various mounting solutions .

I wanted it for its supposedly better low light performance as the gopros were dreadful

Problem with these GU type led fittings is getting rid of the heat before it kills the leds . and as they are in ceilings dont get a good air flow

so they use low power leds underdriven

The light itself is this extrusion and cover
http://www.led-tech.de/en/Aluminium-Profiles/CoverLine-LED-Profile-c_188_151.html

I have a Maxflex driver and 16 volt wall wart to power it but looking on the ledtech site there may be better driving solutions available .

Chuck 6 XMLs in that extrusion and power it with one of these

http://www.led-tech.de/en/Aluminium-Profiles/CoverLine-LED-Profile-c_188_151.html

will be around 4200 lumens and about 40 watts power consumption

Talk to smudge he is branching out into Ebike replacement battery packs

outside light 6 XPG leds while it does not light up the garden like daylight its plenty bright enough in the half that matters

2 of em would do the whole garden or use 6 XMLs

power consumption is about 18 watts

Ha ha Jase. be a while before I am fit enough to ride in front

Pretty easy. to build one when I get home I will post up a pic of my outside light. hastily knocked up when the halogen blew

Smudge = http://www.mtbbatteries.co.uk

I use one of these

It is very easy to patch up a Karndean floor assuming you can still get matching tiles .

I am a Flooring fitter BTW

Hot air gun / paint stripper to get the old tiles up without damaging the floor underneath .

Yes this lot http://www.singletraction.co.uk

and
This lot

Dig this sunday

Been shown around in the dark so have no idea where I was but some good riding

Mmm never seen that review before good stuff
and I even see a Lib in there 😀 not too shabby either .

I would not recommend the Dominator for road commute it is a bit too wide and would dazzle oncoming traffic as I fear would the Fluxient .

From my stuff I would use a spider either on the bars or the helmet
though the helmet would be better so as to turn it slightly when faced with oncoming traffic

WMB review Price and weight are wrong though

and beamshot

Yes I could rustle up a demo no problem had the original floating around all last year

JP-t853
Sorry to hear about your Bessie .
and good luck to the ikkle pups

my garage is led lit granted from 16 volt mains adapters. but will work from a li ion battery too
though a good battery would be an 18 volt power tool battery .

6 LEDs on a strip of aluminium with a defuser and it works a treat

also done the same for an outside light above the kitchen window

if you are interested I will post some pics tomorrow

Lemonysam
If you cant make the dig days then just join Singletraction and at least your subs will help buy tools and Aggregate and also get you discounts in a fair few shops

I have done over 250 hope vision upgrades to XML since starting and have found that the cable fatigues where it leaves the strain relief
so have to chop off about an inch to get back to good wire .

and in a few cases water has got into the cable and corroded the wire core pretty badly this needs a new cable

another issue is muck or corrosion in the connectors a squirt of wd40 or silicon spray or similar helps here

Theendisnigh

for some strange reason its only the chinese who seem to get the really good leds one led = 1800 lupins

us normal folks can only get the lower powered leds

by the ebay and chinese lumens my light is 5400 lumens

but its only about 2500 normal lumens

can`t blame WMB for the price as it did say that on my site when it was tested daft thing was there were not going to be any more spiders or lights of any kind but I had lent a spider to Guy the WMB stuff tester but not with any intention of a mag review at the time .
It was only when I found out it was going in the mag that I ordered a batch of housings from my machine shop . so its been a bit of a panic getting some built up as only got them back from the anodisers on friday

it was only because the chinese have no light like it that I wanted to give it another shot .

weight of the light head and mount is 160 grams small battery which of course does not go on the helmet is 200 grams

I have not yet had a chance to do a runtime test but the on paper runtimes are
small battery 2.6 amp hour 14.8 volt
low 9 hours
med 3.75 hours
hi 1.5 hours
large battery 4.4 amp hour 14.8 volt
low 15.7 hours
med 6 hours
hi 2.5 hours

low is plenty of light to ride most trails hi is lunatic bright but good fun

up to date prices are on my website .