so far my bracket layered up with some FG cloth has been holding strong, might be the new solution
anyone got any interesting pics/recommendations for a flash light either mounted to the remote or your front hand/wrist area thats ergonomic?
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I have been wanting this for so long. I made an epoxy 3d print clip for shredlights.
It was excellent being able to point it around.
Then I decided to bring it to the indoor bmx park and it didn’t survive 
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I’d be scared. Looks like you’re holding a trampa wand while cops are passing by
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I don’t live in a ghetto but it undoubtedly could cause issues in bad areas
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Is it a crime now to buy poorly designed tech I can’t keep up…
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Not really but cops here don’t play nicely with random objects that look like guns at night. When I started out I had a maverix cruiser. The remote got me pulled over twice
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That sucks…I wish we didn’t live in a world where that’s a thing mistrust preconceptions. But as my pop used to say “if wishes were fishes”’…
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Not gonna like, the wand with the grip attachment looks pretty awesome, however, it also looks almost exactly like a glock so…
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Paint it pink and stick hello kitty stickers on it and you won’t have trouble from the police.
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i dont need a headlight but def intereted to see what the throw is for this light. I got one wired up on my new build for a tail light set to super techno flash mode lol… def bright AF but for a rear you dont need as much projection or focused light direction
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Sweet setup…
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I mean it looks cool, however, it also kind of looks like “time to blind everyone,” I’d think you’d want it pointed down more no?
I guess it works if you’re going for purely visibility though
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So far I put more time than I would like to admit on this light, cutting the heat sinks without the proper tools was a fun experience
It’s made from 6 Cree T2 U2 bin leds from Lacroix lights, all wires in series, if I manage to keep them cool and drive at the full 3 A current and will produce a total of 7700 lm
I sized the heat sink to handle that, shame I screwed up on the calculations and it’s nowhere near enough with the board standing still
These drivers I’m using are barely being able to handle, there are one LM2596HV steeping down the battery voltage to 25 V and one regular LM2596 acting as a constant current source, this bottom one is cooled by the truck baseplate with help of thermal pads
From my tests so far I can drive It only up to 1200 mA for a 60°C heat sink temperature, and at 2500 mA the driver starts to cut and the light blink randomly, probably hitting the 125°C limit
So now the plan is to ride at the 1200 mA, if it’s enough light, all done, if not, I think I will enter the rabbit hole of designing a custom driver that can take the battery voltage directly and also can adjust the current based on the LED temperature, this way I can have the full brightness at 3000 mA when there is airflow without everything melting when stopped
The previous light I was running had 1000 lm and was nowhere near enough , this running at 1200 mA has 2800 lm
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need to get dat bish on the road to really tell how good it works!
@ShutterShock
were u asking me or someone else?
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I did respond to you but it didn’t say it for some reason, so yes I was lol
For a rear tail yes? Yes! Back the fuck up of my ass! Lol
I dunno if you’ve noticed tho the newer ambulances and fire trucks in some states have super bright rear flashers meant to keep people back cuz theyre so bright and from trailing them thru traffic… I can feel that 
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Ohh I thought it was the front lmao woops
No…homie before me who inspired.my post is using a similar one for front tho…but his is more level 
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