> Brad William Wrote:
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> I am curious though. You say the mr16 is not compact enough for your
> extremely limited space. Is this for a headlight? It would be very
> very difficult to conceive of a more compactly engineered form, that
> alteady provides the beaming (spot) reflector ins so small a package as
> the, once again, already engineered mr16. All that it lacks, and its a
> serious lack, is the oblonged beam of a true road use headlamp. The
> newest automobile headlights are amazingly well engineered for this.
> You can stand in front of a well designed headlight today on a new model
> car and hardly notice the brightness. Bend your knees slowly lowering
> your gaze and at a very distinct point the beam is blinding. Theres a
> sharp horizontal demarcation that you dont get with a non
> street-designed bulb.
>
> The off the shelf "landscape" mr16s that im using from home depot for
> moped headlights put out 1240 lumens straight from the lighting coil of
> my e50. Thats considerable. I worry that its enough to bother oncoming
> traffic, but not once in the past three years have i been flashed in
> irritation.
>
> The 35 degree cone of my mr16 limits the amount of lumens i can pour
> down the roadway since the upper edge of the round beam can blind
> oncoming traffic, but its not that bad a limitation. Its easy to pull
> up to a big bright wall somewhere and adjust the beams optimally by
> hand.
>
> Drinking too much beer tonight. Probably a bit overzealous on all this.
> Apologies all around.
>
> Good night.
Here's a photo of the MR16 frame/heatsink on top of my existing headlight housing.
