I'm working on the ultimate sur-ron lighting for night riding in the woods and parks. This will be ridiculously bright and is totally not needed. You will blind everyone who dares to look at your bike. You will have diminishing returns as your eyes will adapt to the high brightness.
You will be able to pull up to people in the park or woods and they will think you are the police
, especially if you actually say you are as your lights will blind them.
You will see many huge spider webs and spiders in the woods and parks way before you are able to ride into them, and still get freaked out, for some reason the lights reflect off the spider webs and really highlights them.
You will draw attention from just about everyone at night.
The stock Sur-Ron light is garbage for night riding as you have to limit speeds to about 20 MPH, you can't see anything distant with the stock light. With an upgraded light system you can easily ride at almost full speed at night 40MPH in the woods.
I will be using 3 great LED lights that were all highly recommended in the mountain bike community. All very lightweight.
1) Yinding YD 2xL2 900 lumens -- modified with long throw optics for more distance lighting
https://www.gearbest.com/led-flashlights/pp_126086.html?wid=1433363#goodsDetail
2) BT40s - 1600 lumens
https://www.gearbest.com/bicycling-gear/pp_180805.html
3) Magic Shine Monteer 6500 - 6500 Lumens -- great for short and long distance lighting.
https://www.magicshine.us/product/monteer-6500-mtb-headlight/
The first 2 lights above I used together on my old bike and they were ridiculously bright and way overpowered at night. Adding the Monteer 6500 will be stupid ridiculous.
If anyone is wondering, how the heck will I power these things? The Monteer 6500 alone will draw about 6 amps at 12 volts.
While the Sur-Ron DC/DC 12volt converter isn't all that bad, it was able to power the Monteer 6500. While 12 volts will power these lights, and I've used that voltage on all 3, however it isn't recommended as these lights were designed for 2s lipo packs or 8 volts. It is also doubtful that the sur-ron DC/DC converter can power all 3 of these LED lights which may draw over 10 amps at max brightness.
I picked up a very high quality Vicor Micro series 12 volt rated at 150 watts. This is voltage adjustable so I can set it for 8 volts. Input voltage is rated at 43-110 volts. This thing is extremely small for the reliable power it can put out.
http://cdn.vicorpower.com/documents/datasheets/ds_72vin-micro-family.pdf
I still need to hook up the dc/dc converter and power it from the sur-ron battery. Will update when I finally get around to doing this.