My Lightforce blitz 240 to HID - With beamshots

s13tsilvia

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Well after my intial attempt on the first spotlight to hid was a success, but not being able to focus the beam was annoying me so i purchased a 240 blitz and got to work with changing it to a 50W HID.

After doing a lot of searching and finding some good pictures on how to pull the heatsink out etc i went to work, not having a dremel sucks so it was lots of drilling and lots of filing :)
Then trying to find some screws small enough to hold the globe in was another issue.
After doing some brainstorming for a suitable type "Washer" to hold the light down i came up with the idea of cutting up a jam lid Bingo :twothumbs
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Then it was a simple matter of drilling a hole in the back of the light and threading the wires through.
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I need to tidy this up a bit and also work out where im going to mount the ballast, either directly on the light itself or attached to the bottom. So far im brainstorming and have a few little ideas.
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I took it for a test run last night and HOLYCOW!! Google map distance calculater advised me that where i was shining i could clearly see the house from 470 odd meters away! It looks like a lightsabre! I shall take some photos tonight with my new cam and see how they turn out!
 
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BlueBeam22

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Re: My Lightforce blitz 240 to HID

WOW s13tsilvia, amazing work!:thumbsup:

I know the LightForce Blitz is an amazing light for its giant high quality reflector, and with your 50W HID upgrade it must throw like a laser and be unbelievably powerful.

Thank you for sharing, and if you get the chance, please post beamshots of your awesome light as I am very interested to see its beam.


Just a heads up, you need to resize your pictures as the maximum permitted size is 800x800 pixels.:)
 

s13tsilvia

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Re: My Lightforce blitz 240 to HID

Some more build pics, beamshots will be done in about another 2 hours :)
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s13tsilvia

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Re: My Lightforce blitz 240 to HID

OK Beamshots as requested, sorry for the crappy quality but i did my best with what i have.

Trees that are being lit up are around 250 meters away,
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cropped shot
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this took the photo when i was waving the light around.
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random photo
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tried for a skyshot but had to hang onto the cam an thus was blurry.
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side on shot bit better job. :)
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BlueBeam22

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Very nice beamshots, thank you for all of your effort in taking and posting them.:thumbsup: I really like the one of your HID Blitz lighting up the grassy field, and it is definitely much brighter than anything I own.
 

s13tsilvia

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Some more beam shots last night, actually used a tripod to take photos, so much easieR!!
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SafetyBob

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Now we just need to be able to find these in the states......anybody seen them?

I have to agree with everyone else, that is one very, very nice modded light!!

Bob E.
 
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