2manybikes

Or, Death Star #2.

Jarery

Awesome

GTcommuter

Now you can change your handle to "2manylights"...(not that anyone could have too many lights)

slvoid

You need help dude! Let me talk to your mother. Where's your wife? It's ok man, it's OK!

jayroc

man, that's better than some cars!

Blue Order

That is awsome. Me want.

Patriot

Looks like warp drive. You'll get to work before you left.

slvoid

I want you to take a video of them on flash mode desyncronized...

vrkelley

So... are all those lights flashing at once? Sounds like seizure waiting to happen

literocola

Inst the object to get drivers too see you?
Not blind them?
lol

kb0tnv

That rocks!

It looks like 4 of the flares which =s about a total of $60 bucks for the whole mess. Perhaps A project for my TLD-1000 ever goes out. What type of mounting system did you use?

Keep Cycling!

Jeff

scottmorrison99

Where can I get them? I love overkill.

Toasted

Is that even legal? Too awesome! Though, I'm afraid to see your headlights.

EricDJ

More than one solid light is legal. Multiple blinking ones isn't alays legal.

2manybikes

HELP me.........


I have not yet been able to get a host for the mpeg format movies my camera makes. I tired a couple of places but I would have had to pay for it. They all flash at a slightly different speed, so the pattern changes and goes in and out of sinc by itself. It's great!



why does my monitor have all these red spots on it? my keyboard does too.........

Guest

I must know immediately where you got those lights, and what brand they are!

Tell me now! NOW!

Koffee

wonkemtel

please explain your mounting set up and costs for lights...very nice

Patriot

The 2nd pic definitely belongs in a UFO forum. A red glowing ball of light, hovering over the roadway.

MacG

That, sir, is fantastical. Now you need to build up a dual-beam geeklight system with a 50 watt floodlamp for the high beam so you can douse oncoming traffic with excessive quantities of photons as well. Here is what mine looks like with the different beams on:

https://www.basementfreaks.com/galler...d57935f4c10ca3

2manybikes, how big is your video file? I could host it for a while if it's not huge.

Gojohnnygo.

This might be it https://www.blt-lights.com/rearsuperdopplerdx.htm

edtrek

+1. OP, please describe the way you've mounted them as a cluster - it looks elegant and very clean, usually my efforts at a homemade solution look very homemade. It looks like a DLT logo on the side, but would you please identify the lights?

huhenio

Space .... the final frontier

2manybikes

QUOTE=koffee brown]I must know immediately where you got those lights, and what brand they are!

Tell me now! NOW!

Koffee[/QUOTE]

Sorry Koffee I went for a ride all day today !

You have to fiddle with them to keep them working. Even when new they can shut off when going over a good bump. The springs that hold the batteries in place let the batteries move away from the contacts and they open the circuit. No amount of stretching the springs works. I did manage to get them to work by filling the area around and inside the springs with some foam insulation that stretches very slowly. If you don't want to mess with them get a cat eye TL-LD 1000. If you still want them....

I have some from five different places and they are all just a little bit different, even though they are all made by S-Sun, you can't buy small quantities form S-Sun, however if anyone wants to just look.....

https://www.s-sun.com.tw/main-p1.htm

The best one is from BLT and it is the Super Doppler in the link from Gojohnnygo. The BLT's have a slightly wider beam pattern which is a big help, they do have a pretty narrow beam. And the BLT is a little brighter, I think they are different LED's. I think I googled "BLT Super Doppler". One came from Canada and one from England. If you can't find them with Google I'll hunt for them, just ask. I might have gone to a dealer locator on the BLT sight. My Alzheimer’s is kicking in I guess !?

I'll take a picture as soon as the touch up paint on the steel is dry, probably tomorrow. I have a standard plastic reflector bracket that fits a seat post, many new bikes come with them. Your LBS probably has a huge pile of them, mine does. When you take off the reflector now you have a plate with two holes in it. I took a steel flat bar with a slot in it and just bolted the middle of it to that. It was a rack mounting arm from an old bike rack. Most of the new bike racks have stainless slotted mounting arms that would work, the LBS probably has some of these too, or just get a bar and drill some holes in it. I took apart the brackets for the lights and was left with the slide on track plate for the light with a bolt hole in it. I had to counter sink the plate for bigger flat head bolts and just bolted them to the flat bar. To keep the plates aiming the same way all the time I put some double sided carpet tape between the light bracket and the flat bar, and tightened the bolts.
The link posted for the BLT super Doppler is correct.

I don't use my single beam, home made 50 watt halogen mr16 bulb bike light any more. I use my HID that is equal to 65 watts halogen, it's brighter and runs for 5 hours on 16 watts HID or 8 hours on low. .
Yes, I tested it against my 55 watt car headlights and my 50 watt bike light, it's brighter. It's really equal to 65 watts halogen. And it has a slightly better beam pattern than the 50 watt mr16 flood bulb.

I have not taken a video of the tail lights due to problems getting other videos hosted. If there is a size limit or something else I need to know I can make a video of the lights that should be the right size I think?

The original "Death Star" was not deployed it was not practical.
It was much brighter that this set of lights however........ here it is. It is compared to my car taillights in the photo.

MacG

Less than a megabyte would be ideal, but I could host a file several megabytes in size for a while with no worries. If you get around to it, shoot me a PM and we'll set it up.

Guest

Thanks- I don't see anything there for buying the lights, though. Or is it just that they are distributors?

Koffee