DIY LED Headlite

nineball

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Similar things like this have been done allready, but I thought I'd share this one.

I got these driving lites: http://www.truckaddons.com/Catalog/subpages/EagleEyeFogDriving01.asp

The 1862BW Clear lens, which is a a m11 20w halogen.

Inspired from this article:
http://www.nordicgroup.us/s78/headlights.html

Then I got the Cree R2 drop in's:
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.11836

I cut off the M11 with a dremal cut off wheel right behind the lip of the front lens so the R2 would have a nice glass lens, (saftey glasses please, flying glass :lol: ).

Then solderd wires on the R2 and reassembled the driving lite, runs off my 12v booster pack and gives pleanty of lite.

I tried just the 20w m11, but it was too broad a beam, (blinded on coming traffic), and drew 20w, the Cree is a narrow beam and a softer lite, and I don't get high beams flashed at me any more.
 
Thanks for the great idea for a do-it-yourself LED headlight.

I found the graphics missing from the http://www.nordicgroup.us/s78/headlights.html link.

Doing an www.archive.org search for this page found most of the graphics!

http://web.archive.org/web/20080208151948/http://nordicgroup.us/s78/headlights.html

Ambrose
 
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