I thought I'd give people a heads up in case anyone wanted to spend $175 and up on a P60 drop-in. It has 4 xpg emitters and you can specify tint. I figure it's better to get this than spend $150 on several lights that may not do the job. There are links to info & beamshots. Solarforce has a great sale on L2 hosts. This needs a 1x18650 or 1x26650. There can only be one.
I can safely say that one of those will not be in my future. I've spent less on complete and working cars!
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I've spent less on complete and working cars!
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That's hilarious. My first venture into vehicles was at age 15, buying an old motorcyle from a neighbor for the princely sum of $90. I had to push it home, but after a quick brake job and cleaning years of varnish out of the carbs it served me well till graduation.
Harborseal,
I've been looking at that drop in for a few weeks now. I share Don's sentiments on this one, although I don't see why a triple couldn't be built for ~ $27, which coincidently I just ordered. Emitter - $20, Optics - $2, driver - $5...sort of what Old4570 did in this post. I'm all for excess, but I think 3xXPG's @ 1.1A each is probably pushing the limit on heatsinking of the P60 host.
Most of the motorcycles I've owned were more or less free - apart from the XL185 that cost me more than a year's pay. At today's exchange rate that works out at about 53 cents (A year!!!). But that's another story. The most I've ever spent on a motorcycle was $800 at the exchange rate of the time. About $400 at what passes for the exchange rate today.
The P60 format really isn't suited to high output LEDs. Better they'd built a body to stick the light engine in with good heat-sinking - the P60 was designed with no thought of needing to lose heat. Incans don't want to cool off. LEDs do.
You can get a sizable chunk of that output from a nice p60 XM-L at a fraction of the cost. Its lumen rating also seems to calculated without taking thermal sag into account. While it is probably a nice drop-in, it is certainly overpriced. Decisions, decisions...
Way overpriced IMO. I wonder why the Chinese don't make these yet for $30 ea.
One thing I've noticed while lurking over at that other site is that damn near anything will sell if the price is high enough. Every time I see someone post a homebuilt mod that's even remotely unique, one of the first comments someone posts is "Nice! How Much? In for Pre-Order!".
Thumbs ups for that guy, his is doing a very fine work ,with the dropin which i don't like and more importantly selling ilusions...nice mosfet switch, many years ago i modded with a Triac the switch of a 100W pistol soldering iron which was a pain in the a!&s because failed once a month,never again.
MY great great grandpapy used to say ..." there's a sucker born every minute " P.T.B.