10xMC-E 5C 4000K HyperBoost 6000+lumen bike light with high and low beam for road ...

[pepko]

This is the best light for bike in the world - 6000+ lumen from 10x Cree MC-E 5C in neutral/warm white color about 4000K ...

I wanted to design perfect bike light with low beam for using in road traffic and with powerful high beam for off road drive.

I used housing from HDD cooler box Scynthe Himuro, LEDs from Cutter (with new price and free shipping it costs only 8.5eur), new powerfull driver Hyperboost from Taskled and small reflectors from DX.

I have 3 switches. Left - low and high mode, middle - switch on/off and right - low/high beam.

Low beam is produced with 5x Cree MCE on bottom of the light. High beam is done with all 10x MC-E switched on.

Some pictures here:

 

[pepko]

 

[pepko]

Some wall beamshots ...

Low beam 5x MC-E

Low + High beam 10x MC-E

Outdoor beamshots ... ISO1600, F1.8, 1/20, WB 5000K ...
My previous bike light - 2x Ultrafire C2@SSC P7 DSVMI high mode + Sekonix Col#1

Low beam 5x MC-E

Low + High beam 10x MC-E

 

[csshih]

beautiful work!!

 

[1 what]

Hi Pepko,
I've made 1 or 2 bike lights over the last few years but yours is really impressive.:twothumbs
I like the low vertical dimension from using the small reflectors. How far ahead do they throw on high beam?

 

[cytoe]

Interesting light. But, how long does it run on only 8 cells?

 

[poormanq45]

Beautiful work!

And I thought my Mag85 taped to the handlebars was bright...

 

[pepko]

Interesting light. But, how long does it run on only 8 cells?

... from 8x18650 it takes 2.85A on high mode and all 10xMCE turned on. So runtime is less than 1 hour. But on low mode it takes only 1.23A and I think I can go still lower - I think 100mA per die could by enough, because I don't see any difference between high mode and low mode now ...

Here are my new beamshots ...

Camera settings: F3.5, 1/15, ISO2500, WB 5000K
1x Ultrafire C2@P7 DSVMI high mode Sekonix Col#1

2x Ultrafire C2@P7 DSVMI high mode Sekonix Col#1

Low beam 5xMCE - low mode - 0.9A from 8x18650

Low beam 5xMCE - high mode - 1.41A from 8x18650

Low+High beam 10xMCE - low mode - 1.23A from 8x18650

Low+High beam 10xMCE - high mode - 2.85A from 8x18650 (that is 2.85A*29.6V=84.3W !!!)

 

[jcvjcvjcvjcv]

That's more light then any normal car has :twothumbs

 

[es2qy]

Low + High beam 10x MC-E

WOW!!!!

 

[BrianMc]

Saw this on first post but no time to respond.

Wow on DIY concept, execution, and the "let there be light" aspect.
Nice use of an interesting case. Makes me almost wish I had gone with 2 x 7-up XP-G's!

Clever integrated billed low beam. from the design a road beam thread?

http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/showthread.php?t=214561postcount=6

I am building lights using that idea, but not with a recessed second tier.

Have you had a chance to ride it on the street and any impressions of high/low beam at the two power levels? If so, what do you think?

Have you tried to drive against it with someone holding/riding the bike to check the motorist's view? If so, what do you think?

If you took pictures from an oncoming motorist's view, maybe you could post those on the 'Let's design a road beam thread'? It looks like you have demonstrated effectiveness of a proposed design concept in that thread. Visual proof there would be nice.

 

[Zero_Enigma]

Nice looking but I'm a bit used to the WC tint. Now I'd love to see that in a 10 x WC tint. Mmmmm... probably end up with 7-8K lumens there 🙂

DO WANT!!!

Quick reply. I'll check back later as I want to make something like this but with more long range for speeidn down hills on roads.

 

[Zero_Enigma]

This is the best light for bike in the world - 6000+ lumen from 10x Cree MC-E 5C in neutral/warm white color about 4000K ...

I've always been lost at the reflector stage. Woudl the metal of the reflector not short out the LED because you've got metal to metal contact? I've always been lost at how relfectors are mounted to the LED's seeing as you have the exposed LED +/- there and when working with li-ions it scared the hell out of me to have a bomb go off if the reflector shorted out the li-ions. Not to say NIMH isn't completely safe. Can you post some extra photos and steps there? I learn by pics. Thanks.

 

[pepko]

some new beam shots ...

10xMCE Hyperboost bike light low beam (5xMCE) high mode

10xMCE Hyperboost bike light low+high beam (10xMCE) high mode

another beamshots with same camera settings (F4.0, ISO100, 6sec, WB=daylight) here

 

[BrianMc]

WOW. You are abovethe lumens for the classic camera settings and so you get burn out. The MTBR forum had a therad discussing that issue and I think (don't quots me), they agreed on 1 second and post as such.

Beamshots cans be such a PITA. Thanks for the efforts.

 

[gblast123]

I just noticed this thread and I am interested if this has been updated with some of
the more powerful SSC p7 or the newer sst 90 LEDs.

 

[alpo]

Very cool light! I just found this thread and I'm interested in either buying one or building one. My interest is off-road motorcycle riding so I don't have the power concerns that bicycle riders have. Any updates to this light, as the previous poster asked? Thanks

 

[darkmilk]

I just noticed this thread and I am interested if this has been updated with some of
the more powerful SSC p7 or the newer sst 90 LEDs.

No reply from the OP yet ... but p7 or sst90 wouldn't make any sense.

Building the same thing with XM-Ls would make sense, that would be more efficient (more light) than anything else at the time of writing this. But would need to be a different combination of driver, current, battery config, or number of LEDs.

alpo, to turn this into a motorbike light just do the same thing but crank the current up as high as the LEDs and heatsinking can handle... with 10 XM-Ls that would be a lot. At 3A that's 110W high+low instead of 85W above, which would be getting over 10,000 lumens! (more than three HID spotlights... assuming you're moving and the heatsink keeps up!)

 

[Trek-ts]

Insane light, maybe a bit overkill.
But a nice build.

 

[gamezawy]

cool thats a monster bike lights 😀 now i want one i will build something like that but with 6x cree xml but i have one question how did you fasten the reflector to the leds and the body ?