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so my thor is at a friends house charging
he is gone untill saturday-I can not get into his house
it has a 1.5 amp 12 volt wall wart charger.
will the battery survive ?
will the spot light be a mass of melted plastic ?
 
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Hard to say, but from what I've seen, as the battery charges up, there is not much voltage potential, so very little current flows. I'd assume the battey could get warm, but in a similar case of two days, it was cold to the touch.
 
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Still not a good thing to do, though. Over charging the battery will eventually shorten its life in my experience.
 
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What about bulb life? This was a reply to an inquery for an off the shelf DC-DC converter,
"... did anyone get around to mentioning that
for every 2 x in brightness you get 1/20 of the bulb life? I used to be an optical engineer, and don't have time to look up the real numbers, but it is stunning.
 
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Is there a simple DC/DC converter you can buy online to up the voltage to 15v or 16v? Is this boost board you made the same thing? I'm just trying to learn.
 
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I looked at a few sites. They exist but no prices are given.
The one site I contacted said they had nothing this small and the response also included the vastly shortened bulb life comment.
 
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Newbie /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink2.gif

I'm interested in buying into your project.

Any news on price/availability?

Cheers.
 
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Hey newbie are you going to build the boards or say forget it?
 
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I had a friend swap out his standard halogen lamps for the brighter ones. He did not see any brightness, although his housings were melted the next day.

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NewBie said:
Well, I went down to the autostore and picked up a CEC 100W H4 offroad bulb, stuck it in the modded Thor, and saw a 25% drop in light output, so these Philips 12569 bulbs are definitely brighter.


Added a bit later:

I also just finished testing a CEC 130W/100W bulb, and I don't see any difference in the lux reading in the hotspot, as compared to their 100W/80W or 100W/55W. Go Figure!

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Darn... and I was thinking about getting one of those 130/100 bulbs to see if there was a difference. Thanks for reposting that quote... I thought it was in here somewhere!
 
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FYI, he did buy thejc whitney tail light halogen bulbs and man, those were brighter than stock, but the halogen ones for his lamps did not work out. I had asked too about the 85watt lamps as they look like a good fit. He told me if i wanted to melt my lamp houses they would work great. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
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Newbie,

Are you going to go ahead with the modifications, or is there not enough interest?
 
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yea, /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Ive been sitting here patiently waiting to drop birds out of the sky,

Lets boost these babies ! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
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I saw the Thor finally at our local Costco for 24.95, in the all black variant.

There is one more event I am waiting for (maybe it will generate more interest), and then I'd like to do a new interest thread, so I can see about how many are interested.

Once that is done, I do plan on turning a board, and building them. The cost is very significantly tied to how much interest we get.
 
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Last time I was at walmart they had a range of spot lights. Both portable and those you plugged in. I did not see the name Thor on any of them. If i worked as a stock boy I would need one to see the products ina store on the shelf, but that would be a bit big and bright to use as a reading light.
 
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