Originally Posted by
PlanoFuji
It is a cool hack, but simply not cost effective or practical. Further, you are likely going to have near bright spots that reduce your night vision and reduce the ability to see at night--a common problem with the lighting systems with simple conical optics.
For practicality, I made this 4 years ago, there wasn't any 600 lumen lights for dynamos that readily available 4 years ago, and I agree with you that near bright spots are very undesirable, and my setup does not have that, the optics can be changed. Riding besides a Edelux or any of the commercially available light in the 200 lumen range, this puts out more light.
Originally Posted by
A10K
Also, good job, MrBubbles. What color temperature are the XP-G R2s? Since you can get 4000K warm white XP-G2s (2nd gen) in the R4 bin nowadays, you could get a significant boost in output no matter what your color preference.
I believe they were 6000k, I find the cool white tints ideal for road conditions (ymmv), and warm white tints ideal for forest terrain. There isn't much gain to be had by upgrading now, plus I leave this bike outside, I'm not dumping more money into it than I need to.
Here's my other setup I just recently finished.
Triple cree xp-e r2 with medium spot 16°, and triple cree xp-g r5 with medium 22°. Both gen 2. Both using carclo triple cree "spot" optics (which isn't really spot at all).
Unfortunately my carbon fork didn't have a hole in the steerer tube to stick the circuitry (martin's
#10 ) in, so it's ziptied beside the front brake cable (the zipties are taped over because the zipties were clear in colour).
Forgive the blue heatsinks, I didn't have any black ones lying around.
2 mode front switch.
The SP Dynamo PD-8.
For future upgrades, I have the mounts ready.
