Well as there has been a bit of interest on the Lees Valley trip regarding LED lights for adventure riding I thought it best to post up some more info for others if they are interest. My lights are designed at the moment for mountain biking but with the change of lenses and upgrade of the LED they could be ok for adventure riding in the dark.
I have uploaded some pics of the lights I have made. This is Version I. Version II has better LEDs and optics and also no dimmer (as never us this one anyway).
The lights are based roughly around some of the designs on: http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/....php?p=1755372
I use a 1000ma driver with 8 AA batteries and 2 P4 (vII has Q5) LEDs. Housing is 25mm aluminium box section.
Downside to my light is casing looks very agricultural and as designed originally as MTB light has flood and spot light. Can easily be changed to spot and spot with lense change. I have experiemented with about 4 different types of lenses and reflectors.
Version III will be made in next few weeks I think - will have 2 (maybe 3) R2 LEDs using same Buckpuck driver and battery pack. I also want to make better housing so on the look out for things to make it out of. Anybody out there good with a lathe (and have one??)
Will post up somore details as I think of them - I have a menu of parts made up if anyone wants it as have a few people interested in making one.
May even pay to get together and have a group buy. I get all my parts from the states (www.dealextreme.com) but dont keep too many spares on hand.
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