Actually Wayne first made it as a bike light. He and I had been emailing back and forth after I purchased my quad from him. The ELX series was originally going to be a bike light series. When he posted this, the handheld purists kept asking for a handheld and won out in the short term. All of this info. can be found in the different ELX threads. Wayne also mentioned recently he does have some ELX 6 heads that can be bike lights, but the ElX-6's and 3's need to be finished first.
The lupine, right down to the orientation of the LED's, seems like a nice copy of my quad. Of course with the addition of beautiful German engineered optics and body.
My original Quad came with the 4 LED's in a square pattern in relation to the ground.
Wayne re-made it for me, at my request, with the LED's in a diamond pattern in relation to the ground. All of this, including detailed pics of my quad and beam shots, was posted months ago. Certainly long enough ago for Lupine to take a look and make their own product.
http://candlepowerforums.com/vb/showthread.php?t=79524
The pics need to be viewed with a monitor on bright.
Notice my post date 3/28/05
Don't get me wrong, the Lupine looks like a fine light.
It is just neither the brightest LED bike like or original, for that matter. One person testing an ELX 6 handheld said it lit up a flag on a golf course 100's of yards in the distance and can turn off street lights.
Take Care,
mtbkndad :wave:
Note: The Tesla 6 is the modded 6 cell light. (6 - 17mm reflectors clustered together very tight in a host body.)
The ELX-6 is a 10 cell AA rechargeable made by Wayne himself.
(6 - 20 mm reflectors in a hexagon pattern in a custom made head and body)
