Should I buy this light?

Team Banana Spokesman

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/New-HID-Xenon-Spo ... 3f025328f5

2000 lumens apparently???

then it says max efficiency is 55 lumens/watt. 24 watts * 55 = 1320?

other option i'm looking in to is buying a standard 12 Volt 55 Watt car fog light. Can someone shed some light on* how I would make a power supply for that using some kind of rechargable lithium battery? is it hard to do?

*pun definately intended

carrock

These lights are cheap and of suspect quality. Bit of pain to send it halfway across the world for a refund. Go and support your LBS and buy one from them.

Team Banana Spokesman

3 LBSs and Halfords all stop at 900 lumens and told me to look online. 900 isnt enough. I asked here a year ago and someone told me to get a magicshine. worked well, but the battery died and im thinking of upgrading (if possible) before getting another one.

seems a lot of the chinese stuff works well but the advertising is all over the place. asked some of these 'companies' about details today and they say bad English is the culprit without actually answering my questions. :roll:

ThanksBye

Exposure 6 pack is 1800 lumens, played with one at work and its a nice bit off kit

willbevan

just a FYI, a 900 lumen light such as last yearsr Exposure MAX D (this years is over 1000 lumens), will make the magic shine look a little piddly. I expect you have seen this before but the Magicshine is not 900 lumens.

I have borrowed a Magicshine, compared it to:

Expsoure Max D (older 900 lumen model)
Lumiccyle LED4 (on 800 Lumen setting, rather than 1120)
Lumiccucle HID spot (700 lumens)

All of them kicked its arse, even the Lumiccyle on its 400 lumen setting was on par with it.

Dont get me wrong, its a great light for the money.

The reason I mention the above is that the 2000 lumen HId light, may be no where near 2000 lumen. Something like the Expsoure 6 Pack or the Lumicycle head units (LED4 double say) would give you as much or more light.

Okay the cost will be a lot more though.

You could get another battery for your magic shine, and another magic shine lamp ahd have two of them on your bar (I have a LED4 dobule set, had it for 18 months now, great piece of kit but NOT cheap)