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Hello everyone - I am looking to get my first real light in the next month or two. I would live to have a 35W or 50W flashlight style HID with a bulb color between 4200 and 5000k. Can you recommend some reliable brands with a good cost/performance ratio? Thanks for your help
 
I got one of these:


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The Titanium innovations N30 and L35 have been the performance to dollar ratio benchmarks here at CPF for several years. With proper respect to mknewman, that light is very long and it doesn't have the throw, run-time performance, or ease of ergonomics of the other two lights mentioned. Additionally, the advertisement for the HID Country product is incredibly generic in it's language and doesn't even list the bulb color temperature. The N30 and L35 were designed by enthusiast for enthusiast who know what to look for in a high performing, reasonably priced HID spotlight. Having owned the less expensive N30 for several years, since passed down to my brother, I can tell you that they over deliver beyond their price point. The new renditions of N30 and L35 are even better and more capable than the early version that I owned.
 
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will be picking up the Mozo this week to convert to Higher Hid. The 4" reflector on that light looks pretty nice. You thin 500 yard bright hot spot can be had using the Mozo converted to 55W HID or better off going to 75W?


Joe
 
Throwjunkie said:
will be picking up the Mozo this week to convert to Higher Hid. The 4" reflector on that light looks pretty nice. You thin 500 yard bright hot spot can be had using the Mozo converted to 55W HID or better off going to 75W?


Joe
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I would go with 50/55W ballast upgrade. The 75W upgrade I did had short Run time, putting too much Amp draw
on the Li-ion pack. I am thinking it's possible to put 55W ballast under the body & keep the internal ballast,
Run the two ballast separately using the built in DPDT switch, basically make it into a 35W/55W dual level HID.
If you still want the built in led light. then wire a separate switch for that.
 
Icarus1 said:
Any idea what the difference is between this light and the other 50w lights on ebay that run around $175?
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While there are many mfg. for square ballast, There might only be one real mfg. on the round 50W (50W/38W) ballast in China, so all these brands are most likely selling the same ballast based lights.

Some vendor may have better reputation, do better service or do better marketing job on Forums, but the components are unlikely to be different. The ballast (With integrated lamp) looks identical in all case I've seen. They all have 3 contact rings on bottom, one for neg. & two for 38 or 50W hook up. If the light is 50W only, it'll skip the 38W hook-up but it's still there.

I found the ballast on Ali express, ordered one for testing.
 
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ma_sha1 said:
While there are many mfg. for square ballast, There might only be one real mfg. on the round 50W (50W/38W) ballast in China, so all these brands are most likely selling the same ballast based lights.

Some vendor may have better reputation, do better service or do better marketing job on Forums, but the components are unlikely to be different. The ballast (With integrated lamp) looks identical in all case I've seen. They all have 3 contact rings on bottom, one for neg. & two for 38 or 50W hook up. If the light is 50W only, it'll skip the 38W hook-up but it's still there.

I found the ballast on Ali express, ordered one for testing.
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Can you recommend a reputable overseas seller or do you take a chance with any of them?
 
I just took a chance. I looked at selling history on Ali express & picked the seller with most sold history
 
Any idea if they have any with bulbs that are 4200 - 5000K? All of the ones I see on AliExpress are 6000k unless I am overlooking them.
ma_sha1 said:
I just took a chance. I looked at selling history on Ali express & picked the seller with most sold history
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Icarus1 said:
Can you recommend a reputable overseas seller or do you take a chance with any of them?
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Email them first, if they reply then do you go ahead with the transaction, ie they are hungry even with a USD52 transaction. And of course try not to buy anything that is really expensive relative to your wallet's size. :) Usually most are more interested to swipe your credit card (one tried to link to my paypal and tried the transaction without me even checking out, but failed of course) than are some con job fleecing you.

But then again I tried buying loudspeaker drivers before from a US web store, my transaction was like over 4k so the single transaction failed and prior to that I was emailing him thus in contact. The vendor was monitoring everything online and broke the transaction into 2 parts and everything went through, something which I did not initiate. Funny, never knew this could be done as I did not CHECKOUT, WOW! Citibank (VISA) called me to verify. This was quite long ago, I think 2005 or something, before the "Verifed by VISA online authentication" through mobile phone SMS which is in place now to check with the card holder before approving the transaction.

So yeah, doing a history check on the transactions is good, what I see is most are pretty recent in February/March from various countries like Brazil, Aus, etc.
 
My wife bought me HID country's 3500 lumen HID light. Looks just like the one pictured above. She probably paid too much for it, but what the heck.. it sparked my interest in flashlights and brought me here!

In all honesty, I have not used it a ton... but it is one kickazz light. SERIOUS throw...
 
Does anyone know if Oracle makes a 50w and if Oracle lights are worth the extra price they ask?
 
netprince said:
Is the mozo still available anywhere?? I dont see it on ebay...
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The seller put up one light at a time, with some time in between.
Hope he has more later, not like POB, eventually all gone.

There's a second seller on ebay but sells over $180
 
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