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I bought one of these headlights for my bike and it was fine for a few months and bought another one that I eventually realized from the blinky switch that was showing red that it needed 8.4V. As I got it for less than £5 I decided to test if the first light I bought wanted 8.4V too.. and it died! So, I bought a couple of XM-L T6 LEDs for it and soldered one on, tested it with 4.2V, it worked fine, then I screwed the lens cover back on and tested it again... and it was dead! I couldn't see why.. but continued to just solder another T6 to it and that one seemed fine.
I went out and used the light on the bike today and noticed it was occasionally just turning itself off. Eventually, it just wouldn't turn back on via the switch and I had to disconnect the power from it to get it to turn back on. A short while later the LED was extremely dim - barely even visible and has since stayed like that. The rear little switch LED was also blinking when on blink mode which was odd. Maybe there's a short? I tried powering the LED directly with 4V but it doesn't shine bright at all anymore.. barely even visible.
Any idea what happened?
Should I just replace both driver and LED? If so, what type of driver should I use for a X-ML T6? I would prefer to use a 2x 26650 battery pack I made too so a 7.2+V driver.
Image tags removed see Rule #3 Do not Hot Link images. Please host on an image site, Imageshack or similar and repost – Thanks Norm
I bought one of these headlights for my bike and it was fine for a few months and bought another one that I eventually realized from the blinky switch that was showing red that it needed 8.4V. As I got it for less than £5 I decided to test if the first light I bought wanted 8.4V too.. and it died! So, I bought a couple of XM-L T6 LEDs for it and soldered one on, tested it with 4.2V, it worked fine, then I screwed the lens cover back on and tested it again... and it was dead! I couldn't see why.. but continued to just solder another T6 to it and that one seemed fine.
I went out and used the light on the bike today and noticed it was occasionally just turning itself off. Eventually, it just wouldn't turn back on via the switch and I had to disconnect the power from it to get it to turn back on. A short while later the LED was extremely dim - barely even visible and has since stayed like that. The rear little switch LED was also blinking when on blink mode which was odd. Maybe there's a short? I tried powering the LED directly with 4V but it doesn't shine bright at all anymore.. barely even visible.
Any idea what happened?
Should I just replace both driver and LED? If so, what type of driver should I use for a X-ML T6? I would prefer to use a 2x 26650 battery pack I made too so a 7.2+V driver.
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