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Claims 'projector' lensing as opposed to 'reflector' lensing.
I don't know http://www.herrmans.eu/start-english...?familyId=2209 -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org/ Open every day since 1 April, 1971 |
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On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 20:27:09 -0500, AMuzi wrote:
Claims 'projector' lensing as opposed to 'reflector' lensing. I don't know http://www.herrmans.eu/start-english...?familyId=2209 And according to the "specifications sheet" whicn can be downloaded, it only weighs XX.X kg. Which is, if I remember correctly, 20.10 kg. (Gee, my whole bike only weighs 9.9 kg. :-) -- Cheers, John B. |
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On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 20:27:09 -0500, AMuzi wrote:
Claims 'projector' lensing as opposed to 'reflector' lensing. I don't know http://www.herrmans.eu/start-english...?familyId=2209 More like a lens versus a reflector. There are benefits to both. I'll skip the basics and just mumble something about LED's becoming larger. If you look at the common white LED itself, you'll probably notice that the yellow front surface area has become bigger with improvements in light output. Most of the yellow is phosphor, which radiates primarily in the forward direction. That's ideal for a lens, which would "see" all of this light. The same big LED with a reflector would have most of the light missing the reflector. (Incidentally, this is why reflectors on LED flashlights tend to be narrow and quite deep and why most LED flashlights now use lenses). If you cover the reflector with some dark cardboard, you'll find that the light is almost as bright as with the reflector. However, since buyers expect a headlight to include a reflector, and a reflector does reduce heat transfer to the light housing, it is included. The down side of a lens is that it loses up to 15% of the light going through it, but does make the light go where it's needed and can be focused. The next generation of LED lights will no doubt include a photon torpedo launcher. -- Jeff Liebermann 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558 |
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On 15/03/17 02:27, AMuzi wrote:
Claims 'projector' lensing as opposed to 'reflector' lensing. I don't know http://www.herrmans.eu/start-english...?familyId=2209 It's a lens. That said, the beam pattern looks very similar to to the B+M IQ-X with the same lumens, but a lot cheaper. Also, no running light which annoys the hell out of me on my IQ-X because it powers the back light as well. I mean, why bother with an off switch!? |
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On Tuesday, March 14, 2017 at 6:27:10 PM UTC-7, AMuzi wrote:
Claims 'projector' lensing as opposed to 'reflector' lensing. I don't know http://www.herrmans.eu/start-english...?familyId=2209 -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org/ Open every day since 1 April, 1971 ~200 lumens seems to be the STVZO physical limit for 1 led with any other approach than mine, and that still doesn't say what the distribution is. I'm at 500+ so far filling out the whole STVZO beam target almost evenly, in a smaller space making the same or less heat. What's their price? |
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Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 20:27:09 -0500, AMuzi wrote: Claims 'projector' lensing as opposed to 'reflector' lensing. I don't know http://www.herrmans.eu/start-english...?familyId=2209 More like a lens versus a reflector. There are benefits to both. I'll skip the basics You shouldn't. https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...ry=h-black+pro Mid-field looks too bright and transitions don't look smooth. Not going to buy one. |
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On Wednesday, March 15, 2017 at 5:40:32 AM UTC-4, Sepp Ruf wrote:
Jeff Liebermann wrote: On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 20:27:09 -0500, AMuzi wrote: Claims 'projector' lensing as opposed to 'reflector' lensing. I don't know http://www.herrmans.eu/start-english...?familyId=2209 More like a lens versus a reflector. There are benefits to both. I'll skip the basics You shouldn't. https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...ry=h-black+pro Mid-field looks too bright and transitions don't look smooth. Not going to buy one. The light pattern omn the road looks a lot like a flashlight pattern and does not seem to be aimed very far ahead of the bicycle. Cheers |
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On Wednesday, March 15, 2017 at 1:27:10 AM UTC, AMuzi wrote:
Claims 'projector' lensing as opposed to 'reflector' lensing. I don't know http://www.herrmans.eu/start-english...?familyId=2209 -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org/ Open every day since 1 April, 1971 Herrmans is a Finnish component company with a really good name among the better German baukasten for well-priced good quality parts. You can see their good value grips, often uncredited, as the standard fitment on the sort of bikes where leather grips from Brooks might be an option. I have several pairs taken off my bikes to fit the Brooks edge-on leather-ring grips instead. http://thorncyclesforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=4723 Despite Jeff's explanation, and without having spent too much time looking into it (the Iditarod is still in the end-phases, see http://coolmainpress.com/ajwriting/ ), this Herrmans lamp's gubbins seems to me a variation on the BUMM LED shining backwards into some kind of a shaped reflector as in the CYO and FLY, of which I have several, which were the first decent consumer-type hub-drive lamps (i.e. not specialist lamps) -- still not fabulous, but adequate (which one couldn't say for the previous BUMM lamps the resident BUMMbuddies obsessed over, and abused me for when I pointed out their shortcomings). To answer Barry's question about how much, I don't know, but I would expect a Herrmans component to undercut the German equivalent, so cheaper than the BUMM and top Dutch lamps. They're not intended for your market at all, in fact, they're in a mass market, not the sort of niche you inhabit. In any event, I wonder if they have the marketing clout, or the interest, to distribute in the States. The reason you don't see a lot of European component makers in the States is not that they can't compete -- they're killer competitors when they want to be -- but because they don't grasp the point: see, their natural base market is OEM sales to European makers of fully equipped bikes, a class that hardly exists in the States. Their product managers would throw a conniption fit if they had to sell their gear, for their base bread and butter, one unit at a time to consumers, as happens too often in the States, a very wasteful process as Scharfie keeps pointing out (and not making headway because that wretchedly ignorant clown Frank Krygowski keeps running interference). Andre Jute By comparison with the Bentley, it is shameful how far short of adequacy a Mercedes falls. -- LJK Straight |
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On Wednesday, March 15, 2017 at 6:15:01 AM UTC-7, Andre Jute wrote:
On Wednesday, March 15, 2017 at 1:27:10 AM UTC, AMuzi wrote: Claims 'projector' lensing as opposed to 'reflector' lensing. I don't know http://www.herrmans.eu/start-english...?familyId=2209 -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org/ Open every day since 1 April, 1971 Herrmans is a Finnish component company with a really good name among the better German baukasten for well-priced good quality parts. You can see their good value grips, often uncredited, as the standard fitment on the sort of bikes where leather grips from Brooks might be an option. I have several pairs taken off my bikes to fit the Brooks edge-on leather-ring grips instead. http://thorncyclesforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=4723 Despite Jeff's explanation, and without having spent too much time looking into it (the Iditarod is still in the end-phases, see http://coolmainpress.com/ajwriting/ ), this Herrmans lamp's gubbins seems to me a variation on the BUMM LED shining backwards into some kind of a shaped reflector as in the CYO and FLY, of which I have several, which were the first decent consumer-type hub-drive lamps (i.e. not specialist lamps) -- still not fabulous, but adequate (which one couldn't say for the previous BUMM lamps the resident BUMMbuddies obsessed over, and abused me for when I pointed out their shortcomings). To answer Barry's question about how much, I don't know, but I would expect a Herrmans component to undercut the German equivalent, so cheaper than the BUMM and top Dutch lamps. They're not intended for your market at all, in fact, they're in a mass market, not the sort of niche you inhabit. In any event, I wonder if they have the marketing clout, or the interest, to distribute in the States. The reason you don't see a lot of European component makers in the States is not that they can't compete -- they're killer competitors when they want to be -- but because they don't grasp the point: see, their natural base market is OEM sales to European makers of fully equipped bikes, a class that hardly exists in the States. Their product managers would throw a conniption fit if they had to sell their gear, for their base bread and butter, one unit at a time to consumers, as happens too often in the States, a very wasteful process as Scharfie keeps pointing out (and not making headway because that wretchedly ignorant clown Frank Krygowski keeps running interference). Andre Jute By comparison with the Bentley, it is shameful how far short of adequacy a Mercedes falls. -- LJK Straight That's "LJK Setright" |
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On 15/03/17 07:33, Barry Beams wrote:
On Tuesday, March 14, 2017 at 6:27:10 PM UTC-7, AMuzi wrote: Claims 'projector' lensing as opposed to 'reflector' lensing. I don't know http://www.herrmans.eu/start-english...?familyId=2209 -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org/ Open every day since 1 April, 1971 ~200 lumens seems to be the STVZO physical limit for 1 led with any other approach than mine, and that still doesn't say what the distribution is. I'm at 500+ so far filling out the whole STVZO beam target almost evenly, in a smaller space making the same or less heat. What's their price? About 70 euros. |
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