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    Quark turbo x: something loose in the head

    Well thank you very much for the advice. I'll have a go at tightening the pill. Are you saying that the thread for the pill is further inside than the thread for the battery tube? Its certainly not a throw away, seeing that it still works perfectly on one mode, but I might consider pulling it...
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    Quark turbo x: something loose in the head

    Hello, I have been a bit of a 4sevens fan for a while now, and among many other lights I have bought, I have quark turbo x which is a few years old. Something - the pill I guess - is loose inside, and although the light still works, I cannot change modes. I have contacted the company, and they...
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    Has anyone here at CPF ever actually used STROBE MODE?

    I was at a kids party once, and made the dance floor much more exciting with the strobe. Those kids really got down and boogied!
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    Quark 123 Turbo X

    Well I pulled the trigger, yay! And an extra yay for the aussie dollar - $76.58 with the cpf discount, even with paypal's terrible exchange rate. Can't wait.
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    Quark 123 Turbo X

    I'm really keen to get this light, its the one i've been waiting for. Looking forward to your opinions. Also, I would assume that it gets less hot than the xp-g version, because at the same current, it should be converting more of the power to current, and less to heat.
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    motorized bicycle LED lighting.. need ideas.

    Hey I'm a little green in this area, so take everything I say with a grain of salt, but I have some knowledge that might be useful. Hopefully someone will correct any mistakes I makee. There are four areas that I had to learn about: LEDs, Drivers, Optics, thermal management. I have only used...
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    My third ground-up build.

    Man, those are beautiful. You're an artist. I wish I cold do that. Do You sell your work?
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    Alas. Not as bright as it should be

    Cool, I was worried about sticking it to alu like that because I thought that would short circuit the power-in contacts. I'm just using the thermal silicon from dx, I don't know how good an electrical insulator it is. The other problem is that i've been soldering the leads to the bottom, so it...
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    Alas. Not as bright as it should be

    Hey, I'm using plastic dx lenses with the leds, they are still not stuck on though, just sitting on top because the first ones i got were no good for crees (apparently). On my first try I tested the light a bit with no heat sink I have the new driver attached to the end of a piece of...
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    Alas. Not as bright as it should be

    finally worked out the multimeter! Thanks for link to the info on the drivers. The Taskleds are still my preferred, particularly the maxflex, but they're just so expensive in Australia, especially because I want to get the leads soldered on for me. I'm pretty clumsy with the soldering iron. I...
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    Alas. Not as bright as it should be

    Link didn't work. The pic of the multimeter is here...
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    Alas. Not as bright as it should be

    Hi, I do have a multimetre, but I'm afraid to use it to test current because the driver started smoking last time I did that. I really can't figure out which settings to use. I found a photo of the one I have here: I should measure the current, because I'm convinced that the reduced brightness...
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    Alas. Not as bright as it should be

    Response* Thanks so much for the responses, I really appreciate it. The driver I'm using has a max output of .8amps, which works out to about 12 watts with 5 LEDs. I know this is far from the 'full' power of the xpgs, but it's still insanely bright, and I thought it would be thermally...
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    Alas. Not as bright as it should be

    Hey, I'm in the process of building a 5up xpg bike light, and I'm just not getting the brightness I was when I first hooked it up. I'm using this driver from dealextreme: http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.26106 When I first connected it, it lit up a whole room, and got really hot. I...
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    DIY XP-G LIGHT - Need help!

    Leds don't work on high Hey, thanks for the responses. I know that I am jumping in the deep end with this one, but I moved ahead stubbornly with the project. Frankly 'enough light' is just not interesting to me - way too much light is what I'm after. The tubing was easy enough to find, and in...
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