My Latest Creation

[Morepower]

I had to do it.  I bought the 55W 4300K HID(High Intensity Discharge) kit from HIDworld and I have to say their service is very good, and fast.  And fitted it to an existing light I had which just had a H4 Halogen globe in it.  I also managed to come up with an easy way to focus the beam externally by mutilating a child plastic telescope.  See pics:

THE FINISHED PRODUCT

 

[Things]

Wow nice, got any pics of it at night/working??

 

[VillageIdiot]

Looks like a freakin' beast!

 

[pseudolobster]

I love the "launch the missiles" switch you added... makes the whole thing look a lot more badass.

 

[Morepower]

Wow nice, got any pics of it at night/working??  

Yep, sure have.  Man this thing is just blows me away.  The beam shots aren't exactly as the eye sees them, though they are pretty close.


Focused Shots

Flood, focused both ways

 

[diachi]

Wow thats pretty neat, should put a batman sign on the front of it so it projects onto the clouds ;D

Diachi

 

[GooeyGus]

THATS AWESOME!!!! HOW much is the HID kit??

 

[Things]

wow. Try getting a big lens on that thing and focusing it down, i'm sure there is alot of heat behind that beam !

 

[Morepower]

wow. Try getting a big lens on that thing and focusing it down, i'm sure there is alot of heat behind that beam !

Yeah if I hold my hand 2-3 feet away from it and focus it down I can't leave my hand there. HID's put out more visible light than the larger filament type Halogen globes. I thought I read somewhere the Halogen globes put out as much, if not more, IR/heat than they do light. Don't qoute me on that though as i'm not totally sure.

GooeyGus this is the kit I bought here: http://www.hidworld.com/cart.php?target=product&product_id=16207&category_id=249 And it looks like they are still on special. You get 2 globes and 2 ballasts and wiring, everything you need to Mod 2 torches !! Which is what I did but I f@#ked up the reflector in the other one, I dropped it and put a huge dent in it and the reflective coating is now starting to peel off. Oh well, I guess it's time to look aroung for another host.

 

[Switch]

Wow, awesome! It must be able to iluminate stuff miles away with the focused beam. Have you taken any cd/lux/lumen measurements?

 

[Morepower]

Wow, awesome! It must be able to iluminate stuff miles away with the focused beam. Have you taken any cd/lux/lumen measurements?

Just for laughs I put the Lux meter on it, the best reading I got was  1,527,000 Lux  @ 2.8 meters. I really don't think it means that much but I can tell you, you know when you are standing right next to the focal point on a white wall.  I took some pics of the HID bulb and gas capsule on Macro for something to do.  Some of them came out ok.

Check out the gas capsule

I think I might have found a crack ?

 

[rkcstr]

Wowza

 

[nikokapo]

that light is freaking awesome!!

TAKE THAT, WL T0RCH

 

[GooeyGus]

totally buying that kit and doing this.