Originally Posted by
dekindy
Is this just a matter of unscrewing the light to get the housing apart and unplugging and plugging the bulbs? What do you mean by a great light?
I just saw the later posts. Is the housing all you can use? Can't you use the niterider battery pack? Runtime using the Niterider pack?
The housing is held together with 4 allen screws on the face of the lamp. The lamps themselves have integral switches so you can turn them on and off. I rewire them to have the kind of plug I use for the battery but use the Niterider plugs to the lamp.
I don't use the Niterider battery because those are either 6V or 12V, depending on the system. I overvolt halogens to double the light output. A Trailrat, running a 6V battery and a 10W bulb, puts out around 200 lumens. Overvolting it to 7.2V puts out close to 400 lumens. It's noticeably brighter!
If you run an MR11 20W bulb at 12 volts, you get 400 lumen. Bump it up to 14.4V and the light output goes to over 700 lumen. A good light just became a great light!
I've been monkeying around with MR16 lamps lately and those are even better! You have to make your own housing or at least adapt other lights to the purpose but the results blow the doors off just about anything. A single 12V 20W MR16 running at 14.4V puts out nearly half of what my whole MR11 system puts out! Worth playing with.
