My New LED Light Bar Specs

Cool project, Mex!

The other neat thing about LED's is watching the confusion in the bulb Dept at Home Depot. The rapid changeover to LED technology has left most consumers looking for help when purchasing new bulbs.

I too love LED lights. I used to be rather heavy into hobbyist side of design and engineering, not so much now. In the good old days, I had phone numbers for engineers at Lumileds and got to test some of their products before commercial release, they had an office only a few hours from here and would actually stop to say hi when passing through town ... then they got bought out by Philips, reorganized and well, I was told I could buy my samples like everyone else :)

I remember when LED's were dim little things you had to shade to see if they were lit.. Just now I have a 5 meter sliced and diced strip in one of the fixtures (Formerly Florcesent twin 15 watt) this thing runs on a 7 watt wall wart (or in my case on house power) and I do believe it's way more light than the 30 watts of florcesent's it replaced.

Keyboardist at Church sits in a kind of dark corner and complaned about the lighting.. So last week I took in a shorter strip and plugged it in and.. Lit up her life.. I think the strip is around 3 watts. The light around 60 (incandescent equivalent) Modern LEDs are IMPRESSIVE and they are improving them daily.

Phish Network No.

See those mounting ears?
Going to be replaced with 1/4" stainless feet
Torx security bolts.
Stainless 1/4" nutserts into the roof also using torx security dome head bolts.
Red locktite.
The Spandex cover is being custom sewn up as I type. I need to get some polyethylene cross-link wire to run up the door post. Tough insulation.

Push-push stainless button switch on dash. Push to enable Klingon Disruptor with high beams, push again to disable. Latching relay to control Bosch relay.

PROVEN. Lit up a yellow diagonal highway sign at 2.3 miles. Eduardo said he could see the sign at 3.1 miles but it was lost to my eyesight. I definitely can see any color cow at +1.0 mile, even those 50' off the pavement. Freakin' light is amazing.

The Spandex cover, plus a disconnected weatherproof socket and plug makes me immune to CHP tickets when I cross into revenue enhancement land. A hundred watt motion detector with 105db screamer will give the light-fingered light and music to dance by in my driveway.

But the Borg comes first the Disruptor can wait.

100lm/watt sounds about right for "new" chips. I wonder however is the rating in ANSI lumens or Peoples' Republic most-honorable lumens?

Is it built or, still in the planning stages?

No pics?