New product ** Tank Light **
Update 4SEP07.
Started Part 2 thread here.
Update:16MAY07
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You can BUY the products on the shoppe at:
Tank Lights
A few notes:
We have tassled the pricing and implementation given the current ecommerce package we are using and have come up with a short term solution and a longer term solution.
Short term. Each Tank light will be listed twice. A single qty item and two qty item. There will be a single 4AA, Two 4AA item, Single 123 version, two 123 version. The two item ones will be discounted relative to the single item listing.
Long term:
We are migrating to a new ecoommerce package that will hopefully fix many of the nagging existiing issues we are having and offer new capabilities that we currently don't have. It might be possible to have a single listing called Tank Light and have the capability to select sub product 4AA or 123 quantiies under the main Tank Light product. I know this might be true as many products like Jeans can come in different colors/sizes. I can only imagine this is a desired feature that many others need and I hope this feature is part of the new subset with the new site and will allow us to streamline the product offering and simplify it for customers.
Those of you who have a Tank Light and would like to add any comments, suggestions or provide any of your personal views can feel free to add or post here.
Last, the final color configuration will look like
The top is transparent blue and the frame under it is clear. The picture above is for the 123 version. The shoppe image for the 4AA shows a black frame instead of the clear frame. The 4AA version will also be a transparent blue top and clear frame. (not what is shown on the shoppe).
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I'm thinking of taking the Night Light that is nearing completion and possibly offering them to the general public.
Introducing the Tank Light
Features:
With a set of standard Alkaline batteries and using 1500mA/HR as the battery capacity the approximate run times for the three levels are:
Low: ~4,000 Hours
Med: ~1,000 Hours
High: ~200 Hours
If the photo sensor is enabled and you assume 12 Hours on and 12 hours asleep then divide the number of hours by 12 to get the approximate number of days.
Low: 4,000 / 12 = 333 Days
Med: 1,000 / 12 = 83.3 Days
High: 200 / 12 = 16.6 Days
Currently the board has a Luxeon Emitter style footprint for the primary LED and I'm loading a U bin Seoul emitter as the primary LED. This makes the light even on Low brighter than if a standard 5mm or Luxeon Lux3 T/U bin is used.
The button is recessed and currently when the light is on or when the photo sensor is fully covered to turn the light on the button toggles from low, med, high. To access the special function menu requires holding the button down for 5 seconds.
The UI tentatively might look like the following.
-Wayne
Update 4SEP07.
Started Part 2 thread here.
Update:16MAY07
=================================
You can BUY the products on the shoppe at:
Tank Lights
A few notes:
We have tassled the pricing and implementation given the current ecommerce package we are using and have come up with a short term solution and a longer term solution.
Short term. Each Tank light will be listed twice. A single qty item and two qty item. There will be a single 4AA, Two 4AA item, Single 123 version, two 123 version. The two item ones will be discounted relative to the single item listing.
Long term:
We are migrating to a new ecoommerce package that will hopefully fix many of the nagging existiing issues we are having and offer new capabilities that we currently don't have. It might be possible to have a single listing called Tank Light and have the capability to select sub product 4AA or 123 quantiies under the main Tank Light product. I know this might be true as many products like Jeans can come in different colors/sizes. I can only imagine this is a desired feature that many others need and I hope this feature is part of the new subset with the new site and will allow us to streamline the product offering and simplify it for customers.
Those of you who have a Tank Light and would like to add any comments, suggestions or provide any of your personal views can feel free to add or post here.
Last, the final color configuration will look like
The top is transparent blue and the frame under it is clear. The picture above is for the 123 version. The shoppe image for the 4AA shows a black frame instead of the clear frame. The 4AA version will also be a transparent blue top and clear frame. (not what is shown on the shoppe).
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I'm thinking of taking the Night Light that is nearing completion and possibly offering them to the general public.
Introducing the Tank Light
Features:
- Runs off 3 or 4 AA batteries.
- Three levels of brightness (Low, Med, High)
- Photo Sensor turns light off during daytime
- Photo Sensor sensitivity configurable for different ambient conditions
- Turret can be flat top or clear dome top
- Cannon can be 20mm or 25mm in length
- Secondary LED blinks when low battery is detected
- LED is regulated in all three levels (not pulsed)
- "I'm alive" feature. Blinks once every 15 seconds when off (daytime)
- The board can report the battery voltage
- The board can report the firmware revision
- In the special functions mode you can set one of three photo sensitivities
- Photo sensor can be disabled for constant on
- Firmware upgrades available through a programming interface (factory)
- If the button is accidentally held down and the special function mode is entered the light will be automatically time out and go back to normal mode after 15 seconds of no switch activity.
With a set of standard Alkaline batteries and using 1500mA/HR as the battery capacity the approximate run times for the three levels are:
Low: ~4,000 Hours
Med: ~1,000 Hours
High: ~200 Hours
If the photo sensor is enabled and you assume 12 Hours on and 12 hours asleep then divide the number of hours by 12 to get the approximate number of days.
Low: 4,000 / 12 = 333 Days
Med: 1,000 / 12 = 83.3 Days
High: 200 / 12 = 16.6 Days
Currently the board has a Luxeon Emitter style footprint for the primary LED and I'm loading a U bin Seoul emitter as the primary LED. This makes the light even on Low brighter than if a standard 5mm or Luxeon Lux3 T/U bin is used.
The button is recessed and currently when the light is on or when the photo sensor is fully covered to turn the light on the button toggles from low, med, high. To access the special function menu requires holding the button down for 5 seconds.
The UI tentatively might look like the following.
-Wayne
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.....as long as the price is right 
Can you give us a ball park figure on the price?
I have a collection totaling 5 so far! (1kW and up!) This will offer orders of magnitude runtime improvement! :bow: 
