Each LED in the Sunspot 46 draws 8Amps at 32Watts of power per LED... flashlights use tiny 1W or 3W LEDs....
Tom,
I bet your flasher produced those crazy flashes.Brian after reading your last post I went back and rewired the HID to a single S/P switch and then warmed it up. Manually flashing the light using the switch worked fine. Looking forward to your report on the "Brantel Flasher" to go along with my "DonPro" lights.
Isn't this site great?
Does any one know if these inexpensive HID are available in the MR16 type light? The cheapest I have found is around $200 and wondering if the light portion of it is expensive or the blast made different then these cheaper ones?
thoughts?
Regards
your webpage says the
SunSpot 36HX puts out:
Power: 45 Watts
Voltage: 9-36 VDC
Lumens: 3,600
now i might just be a dumb country boy, but it looks like there are 16 LEDs in each sunspot. Thats about 225 lumen per led. I can find several 200-250 lumen flashlights for $100 or less, and for a little more money several flashlight with 800 lumens. i suppose the lumen measurement is different from a flashlight to a landing light?
Does any one know if these inexpensive HID are available in the MR16 type light? The cheapest I have found is around $200 and wondering if the light portion of it is expensive or the blast made different then these cheaper ones?
thoughts?
Regards
I got a set of these reflectors and with about 30 minutes of lathe work last night made them work quite nicely with a set of H3 HID bulbs purchased on ebay.
http://www.dealextreme.com/p/52-8mm...ith-copper-base-for-ssc-p7-led-emitters-13803
The problem, and this is a general problem with HID conversions, is the bulbs are long and the light-producing center is in the wrong place to be at the correct focal point for a narrow beam. So for right now I'm going to mount them and go with what I have but they are a really wide flood beam. All I need to do to fix this is turn a new brass piece to set the bulb in the right position.
I'm not for sure if the kit comes with the bulbs. Any thoughts on this kit?
http://www.hidcountry.com/Products/g4mini.php
Here is an iPhone Video of my new inexpensive HID's wig-wagging with the new flashed I installed. Works better than great!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY7UcK6XD2s
I used the single three position switch from Bob Knuckles inexpensive wig-wag circuit but it is wired different of course with this flasher.
Off/ON/Wig-Wag
With the flasher I used, you could just about use any of the common switch setups for it.
Awesome, I'm thinking about redoing our switch panel and looks like the first thing will be to buy a 3 pos switch..
I used a 2-10 switch from B&C. These really make it easy to wire.
Jeff what is the diameter of the reflector, will it fit into the wingtip of an RV9A
I used non-shielded wire and grounded at the end rib.I'm installing the setup, but just wondering should I run shielded cable through the wing? Also should I ground at the wing rib