Don’t get me started! I quit driving American cars for a long time after I heard about what the “good old boys” and their cronies did to him! Still refuse to go to “the dealer”.
But :zipper_mouth_face: I stole the idea from Ol’ Preston…
And Cadillac, but they stole it from him too. (I actually saw an ancient Caddy (spoke wheels, flat glass, open lights & fenders) with extra headlights on the bumper with connections to the steering linkage visible behind the bumper, which the friend who restored it demonstrated, but that was many brain cells ago… Now Google isn’t helping either, so that may have just been magic mushrooms — except SWMBO saw them too… Maybe it was the car of a proto-BLF-member…)
Right now, 10:53PM, I am uploading video to YouTube. YouTube is working on the video right now, says it is taking longer than expected and that it is put in the que. My wife and I were out late tonight at the Eastern States Exposition, a State Fair. I knew I had to get this done and around 8PM while at the Fair I happened to exclaim “It’s getting dark!”. She looked at me kind of funny and said “So??” LOL
I just came in from shooting the video, you all must understand how hard it is to drive a zero turn with one hand while holding a camera in the other. You really need 2 hands to move each stick! Tomorrow night I will shoot some beam shots while off the mower!
Nice videos! More output than I expected too, although the beam seems a little narrow (or at least a little narrower than I'm working toward - still very useable though). Looks warm (actually like a neutral tint that's close to the warm side) and good for seeing detail. Do you feel the videos show the output correctly? Does what we see in the videos accurately represent what you saw with your own eyes? Seems your two housings could probably even be spread apart further to widen the hotspot. That or tilt them away from each other very slightly.
Now you have to get working on a set for the snowblower!
Now I’m thinking that in addition to installing the “bezels” to point the 2 outermost bulbs a little to the left and right, I have to install some kind of reflective “eyebrow” over each pair. Any ideas on that, anyone?
Next time you go to Lowes have them actually scan the item for price. I find that often times it will actually have gone thru multiple price reductions but the listed price will not change. Better yet get the Lowes app and be sure that it is set for the store you are in and use it to scan the barcode itself. I scored another deal today at Lowes with the app.
Well then, you did all the right things. The ones I got were on clearance for some time. I don’t remember the price, but it was not low enough for me to consider. One day I went in and they were moved to a clearance shelf with all kinds of other items, unmarked. It was only because I had the Lowes app I was able to scan for price myself and see that they would ring up at $1.25. Had they been marked, I know they wouldn’t have still been there. My point is, I was more than just extremely lucky, I was diligent.
There is another thread on BLF about the Home Depot Super Thrower. Original price was 22.97, and we all in the thread bought one at that price. A lot of us that got one and saw how good it was, suspected that one day it would go on clearance. We waited and waited and sure enough, months later it did. Some at $15, I got more at $12 and a couple of members in Canada got them for $6.16! Diligence.
Installed the fan and filters today. A simple job like that took much to long. I couldn’t find my tools, the shop is much too messy! I was going to mow the lawn today but instead I really must cleanup the shop.
It has been another season since I installed the lights and I have to say it has been a success. Not one breakdown or manufacturer recall during the year.
I have to admit that I am a little bit surprised because of the rough environment. Lots of heat, dust and vibration, but so far so good. The work in the fall, during the leaf collection process is especially grueling.
Here is a picture of my gasoline powered - self propelled - rolling flashlight, about to be cleaned and put to bed for the winter.
The 4 MR16’s with 8 Nichia 119’s each on top and 4 XM-L’s on the bottom. Notice the tint difference between the Nichia’s and the XM-L’s
The XM-L’s were added here: Light Bar Build 2.0
