- is from EU or Central Europe countries (because shipping issues) Iām in France, even if it doesnāt matter any more.
- became member of BLF before 13th August 2014 Check
- can do driver change and will do brief review of the stock and moded light Iām an electronics engineer so no problem for electronics but Iām not a mechanical engineerā¦ I have basic skills though and know people that have a lathe. I can do a quick review. I already did reviews you can check here and here
one post per member and notice if he is the MTB or any other type of cyclist I do practice Mountain Bike. Here are my two bikes: I only go MTB during the day but Iāve been thinking about riding at night for quite some time. As you can see my bikes lack some lumens for that though.
Overall I would be more than happy to get and review that light!
I am a regular Mountain Biker and I, together with my two sons, usually ride at night. Each of our bikes have SolarStorm X2 bike lights installed. Since Iām into modding, I replaced the emitters in my X2 with XM-L2 T6 3Bs because I like a warmer tint. I also modified the MCPCBs like this:
However the X2ās throw is limited and I canāt see far enough when riding in a highway at night so I added a SingFire SF90 beside it. The X2 now serves as my Low Beam and the SF90, which I modified with a dedomed XM-L2 T6 1B on modded MCPCB, is now my High Beam, and my bike now looks like this:
If I win that bike light I think I could have both high beam and low beam because Iām planning on dedoming the LEDs for throw (aside from the driver change that you wish). The 6 LED set-up would automatically cause a wide bright spill even with dedomed LEDs.
I ride a mountain bike occasionally. Don't have a lathe, but haven't met a light I couldn't modify with my drill press and imagination. Thank you for the opportunity ledoman and GearBest.
ImA4Wheelr, so you think you could mod it with drill press and I should count you in? You might be right.
There you'll have to drill two step ring. The outer to fit diameter of the new driver (ie. 28mm) and the second deeper with about 26mm dia so the elements from the circuit would take a place. Hope you understand what I mean.
I can. I've done stuff like that plenty of times. Just make a jig for the head so that it can be rotated against a high speed cutting and/or an end mill bit. There are other ways as well.
Sorry backpacker, the modification is mandatory as it becames a whole new light with much better user interface and efficiency. You are right it could be used unchanged, but we are strugling to have the best we can, don't we. That's why I'm giving away my own driver along with Gearbest light. Still if you can find someone who can do the mod for you then you can qualify. The review is your obligation, of course.
antoninodattola, it is nice to see such a BIG modification. Surely giveaway light would suits you better. You may need to rearange your battery pack to 2SxP or 3SxP. Found some minor issues with the driver when powering with 3S packs, but it was with 4 leds in series, so this one 6S leds could be different.