mrsdnf's machine made 7th Annual BLF/OL contest entry. Updated and finished from post 6.

Night shots. Did we get close to what we set out to achieve?
Camera settings for the night shot was aperture 2.8, shutter speed .5 second and ISO set to 400. What the pictures show is pretty close to what you see.
These driving lights were compared to the driving lights below.
Firstly a cheap set of lights from China. I have no idea what these cost as lostheplot gave them to me.

The Jaycar lights with MTG2 leds.

Firstly the standard bikes low beam. It really is this bad.

My bike came fitted with small day time running lights (DTRL) which can be seen in the last picture in the above post. These work really well in assisting low beam at night which makes low acceptable.

Standard high beam. Its criminally bad.

High Beam DTRL.

High Beam DTRL Chinese DL.

High Beam DTRL Jaycar DL. These are not a bad driving light.

High Beam DTRL XHP70 DL.

I’m more than happy with the performance. Riding at night is now a lot safer than using just the standard headlight.
Heat is not an issue so I wonder if the Russian could make a 6 amp version of this driver. :laughing:

Thanks for the enjoyable write-up :slight_smile:

Super-cool lamps for your bike! I bet you will get many questions and compliments when you are on the road! Do the beams have the profile that you expected? Edit: ignore the last question, you just posted the nice beamshots.

Nice bike lights! It is always so nice to see where one is going. How did we ever manage back in the 60’s? Thinking of all the lousy lights on the old British bikes. Of course I also think my eyes saw better back then.

I agree Don. In the early eighties I replaced the standard insert in my RD headlight with a Cibie insert. The headlight went from mediocre to wow. If Cibie could build decent headlights back then there is no excuse for building crappy headlights today.

No one knows any difference djozz. No questions or otherwise though I have not had them on that long.

The first thing that impressed me about the first Honda 50’s was their headlight. Made the Ariel look anemic.

Great build! Congrats!

Not only are they amazing performers but the machining is gorgeous!

Nicely made custom lights and practical too, great to see how they will be used, the comparison and knowing they will improve your ride :+1:

Outstanding to see what you are capable of these days Steve! Brilliant!

Orsm custom bike lights Steve :+1: . Very nice upgrade, you have a eye for functioning detail.
Alot of time when into building this, I applaud your effort and skills, well done :wink: .
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The driver looks like it has 2 current limiting resistors marked R240 and R160, assuming low and high beam.
Lowering each to about half should about double the current on each, estimated guess.

What can I say that has not been said :beer:

Cheers David

These are the drivers here moderator007. No modes on this driver, just different outputs.
I forgot this driver put out 4.8 amps. Had it in my simple mind it was 4 amps.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/LED-driver-LDRADJ29-4-8A-4-8A-DC-6-5V-28V-Multi-Mode-for-XHP70-6V/113691430379?hash=item1a78898deb:g:oe8AAOSwm6JaUyMC

That’s a interesting buck driver. Output current settable by jumper pads. Those 2 resistors are for setting the other 2 output currents apparently. Even has infinite variable output using a 250k pot. Very nice driver with good effeciency. Nice find Steve.
I don’t see anything that limits the max output, assuming the buck controller is maxed out. I’m no expert though.
I may order a couple just to check out. Thanks for the link.

Awesome work! :+1:

Is that Pinkpanda’s Roadhouse? :stuck_out_tongue:
That build is fantastic MRsDNF (and so is the bike! super jealous!) well planned, well made, look gorgeous and you certainly can’t argue with the end result - they do exactly what you wanted them to do!

Very Nice Work Machining, Design, and Implementation of your Bikes upgraded lights. :+1:
It is fun to have an idea and make adjustments on the fly as needed. :smiley:
Thank You for sharing that driver and led info, I have a zoomie that may use that one mode 4.8A driver.
:beer: :beer:

Cool :slight_smile:

MRsDNF, Just looking over all your posted pics. Such a nice job, I really like that Mastech HY3030e power supply.
Is it a switching or linear and will a switching Power supply do for checking driver setup on bench testing ? :+1:

Lol, they come in all shapes, sizes, flavours and colours dont’ they.

Looks like a mighty improvement for night riding. Safe riding Moose.

Not that either means anything to me it is a Switching PS. One of the best things I’ve bought and had it for along time now.

Really nice design and rock solid custom built lights. :+1: