Alien Eye LED Mountain Bike
Light
Design History
| Introduction: It has been 1
year since I bought my first Edison Opto 5W LED in August of 2008. The only
thing that has not changed in the 1 year is the use of the Edison Opto MR16
lamp. I am still impressed with the light it puts out and how efficient it is
with the power.
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I find the Edison Opto Lamps fits in a 50 mm HT sewer
pipe! |
| Here is a cannibalized handle bar clamp from an old Aldi lamp.
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The biggest problem is the mounting.
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A handle bar clamp made from a handle bar bag clamp. Battery mounted external in water bottle.
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| He I used a quick disconnect cannibalized from a dead Cateye
Opticube HL
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![]() I found a low cost 12V Li Ion
battery on Ebay! 8 hour burn time?
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Possible housing designs for the tubelight torch. The "tubelight torch" idea is abandoned since the Li Ion battery was not reliable. |
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Eureka! The Cateye base for the H31/H32 is discovered on the
now defunk SK lights website. The "Tubelight" is now a practical solution!
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| The Tubelight gets better; the batteries are now under the handle bar stem.
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![]() I wanted to eliminate the HT
sewer pipe and integrate the base system in the lamp itself. I stumble
upon Fimo looking for molding clay to make silicon casting forms for liquid epoxy
castings. Fimo is brittle and so is epoxy without glass fibers so I added
glass fibers to the Fimo like I did with Epoxy. Success! Fimo "straight" prototype show here. The Alien Eye has more curves, less material to fill and looks better. A LED shop informs me that Edison Opto has a Ultra-cool light.
Still brighter and draws the same current. |
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August 2009: The Alien Eye! |




