WadeF
Flashlight Enthusiast
I'm probably not the first to do this, but for awhile I've been thinking about trying to mount a Cree LED in my kids' John Deere Gator power wheels vehicle. So today I decided to give it a go. I had a spare cree P4 from my Ultrafire C2 that I removed to replace with a Q5. I have some of those P60 style reflector modules from DX, and some various driver circuits from DX. I went with a 800mA driver. I took a 3xAAA battery holder from a broken DX multi-LED light (those cheap ones where you get like 7 of them for $9-10, multicolored), and the tail switch from the same light. I wired everything up, and installed it into the Gator. Just had to drill a 1 inch hole behind the Gator's headlight cover (they just have headlight diffusion lenses with a reflective paper behind them that just falls out when the lens is removed.
The result was better than I had expected. Hopefully at 500mA the P4 won't get too hot and the aluminum P60 style reflector it is installed into will be enough to heat sink it, but I'm not to worried about it failing. I mounted the clicky switch under the dash of the Gator so the kids can turn it off and on. At the moment everything is held in place with electrical tape.
I maybe mount things better at a later time, this was more of a test. Now I need to install one in the 2nd head light so it doesn't look funny. Here are some pics:
BTW, the kids had a lot of fun driving around in the dark with their new headlight. Although our back yard isn't all that dark to begin with. The pics were 5 second exposures, f2.8, ISO100, so things are a little brighter than they look in reality.
The result was better than I had expected. Hopefully at 500mA the P4 won't get too hot and the aluminum P60 style reflector it is installed into will be enough to heat sink it, but I'm not to worried about it failing. I mounted the clicky switch under the dash of the Gator so the kids can turn it off and on. At the moment everything is held in place with electrical tape.
I maybe mount things better at a later time, this was more of a test. Now I need to install one in the 2nd head light so it doesn't look funny. Here are some pics:BTW, the kids had a lot of fun driving around in the dark with their new headlight.
Although our back yard isn't all that dark to begin with. The pics were 5 second exposures, f2.8, ISO100, so things are a little brighter than they look in reality.
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