First off, yes its legal where I do it :)
secondly- I would like to pick yalls brains on how to get a light together that fully rocks.
I had a Qbeam that was about 7 years old, and had a HUGE landing light style element in there. it said it was 800,000 candle power..... super awesome for an incandescent bulb.... but not the best.
I had to replace it when the element broke. I decided to buy another Qbeam but it has a cheesy H3 bulb.... it says 3 million candle power. obviously lumens needs to be compared, not candle power, because this new Qbeam SUCKS.
so being so disappointed, i have tried to get a better situation going here.
basically, my light is being used in a jeep, and we are scanning huge pieces of land- so power supply is technically unlimited..... with voltage basically around 13.5ish volts with the engine running.
I have purchased a Ryobi HID 18volt hand held light, and it is very nice for its 50 dollars, but the issues are:
-It is only an hour run time per 18v Li ion battery. We hunt for hours at a time, and why not use the vehicle's voltage and power supply? seems a no brainer.
-it is too "blue".... across a field its hard to see whats going on with it.... it needs to be more white.
-we need the beam pattern to be as pencil beam as possible. the Ryobi works much better than that junk H3 Qbeam, but the beam pattern is just too "general". it has some flood/some pencil style to it.... but its basically blinding us from the splash of light into the jeep. so we have been taping a cardboard shield under the light to keep it out of the jeep and we can retain our natural night vision.
I wish i could put a lens of some sort in the front of the HID bulb to focus it into a tight pencil, but dont know where to find one of those. I have no issues modding the ryobi, but its not going to be my main light.
so basically, I need a vehicle powered spot light to throw a beam literally far as possible without washing out around the actual light. 300 yards MINIMUM. we can see for 1/2 mile easy where i hunt..... and i want to be able to SEE these dang pigs before they figure out to run :devil:
I dont mind modifying stuff.
i dont mind building stuff.
i dont mind breaking stuff :)
I was thinking of using something like a LedEngin 90W LZP with a hyperbuck 3200mA or something. Remember, I can gut my old Qbeam and use it's housing, so size honestly isnt an issue. a big monster lens will work if needed.....
I honestly dont know *what* im doing with LED's, since im new to this and have never missed with them...... but as long as someone says "this will work" i can buy/build/blind accordingly :) I'm a BMW master tech, so wiring is no big deal..... just need someone to hold my hand on the first LED adventure lol
I want to melt the hair off these freaking pigs from 500 yards away basically :devil:
sorry for the long post, but i was 10 pages into this forum looking for a similar post but couldnt find an similar post.
~Dutch Rudder
secondly- I would like to pick yalls brains on how to get a light together that fully rocks.
I had a Qbeam that was about 7 years old, and had a HUGE landing light style element in there. it said it was 800,000 candle power..... super awesome for an incandescent bulb.... but not the best.
I had to replace it when the element broke. I decided to buy another Qbeam but it has a cheesy H3 bulb.... it says 3 million candle power. obviously lumens needs to be compared, not candle power, because this new Qbeam SUCKS.
so being so disappointed, i have tried to get a better situation going here.
basically, my light is being used in a jeep, and we are scanning huge pieces of land- so power supply is technically unlimited..... with voltage basically around 13.5ish volts with the engine running.
I have purchased a Ryobi HID 18volt hand held light, and it is very nice for its 50 dollars, but the issues are:
-It is only an hour run time per 18v Li ion battery. We hunt for hours at a time, and why not use the vehicle's voltage and power supply? seems a no brainer.
-it is too "blue".... across a field its hard to see whats going on with it.... it needs to be more white.
-we need the beam pattern to be as pencil beam as possible. the Ryobi works much better than that junk H3 Qbeam, but the beam pattern is just too "general". it has some flood/some pencil style to it.... but its basically blinding us from the splash of light into the jeep. so we have been taping a cardboard shield under the light to keep it out of the jeep and we can retain our natural night vision.
I wish i could put a lens of some sort in the front of the HID bulb to focus it into a tight pencil, but dont know where to find one of those. I have no issues modding the ryobi, but its not going to be my main light.
so basically, I need a vehicle powered spot light to throw a beam literally far as possible without washing out around the actual light. 300 yards MINIMUM. we can see for 1/2 mile easy where i hunt..... and i want to be able to SEE these dang pigs before they figure out to run :devil:
I dont mind modifying stuff.
i dont mind building stuff.
i dont mind breaking stuff :)
I was thinking of using something like a LedEngin 90W LZP with a hyperbuck 3200mA or something. Remember, I can gut my old Qbeam and use it's housing, so size honestly isnt an issue. a big monster lens will work if needed.....
I honestly dont know *what* im doing with LED's, since im new to this and have never missed with them...... but as long as someone says "this will work" i can buy/build/blind accordingly :) I'm a BMW master tech, so wiring is no big deal..... just need someone to hold my hand on the first LED adventure lol
I want to melt the hair off these freaking pigs from 500 yards away basically :devil:
sorry for the long post, but i was 10 pages into this forum looking for a similar post but couldnt find an similar post.
~Dutch Rudder
