On Friday, February 21, 2020 at 12:11:46 PM UTC, Sepp Ruf wrote:
Andre Jute wrote:
On Friday, February 14, 2020 at 7:35:46 PM UTC, Duane wrote:

Then you have people riding in the rain, pitch dark, pitch dark rain
down steep declines etc. etc. etc. I seriously doubt that there's a
one for all solution.

In rallying, I seem to remember that only two brands of lamps were chosen
by all the top competitors. The dominant one was the French Cibie, used
by Porsche despite the fact that the other one, less good, was from
Hella, a German firm.

I'd pay a lot if I could have the light output of that bank of big Cibie
lamps across the front of my rally Porsche on my bike...

Okay, you made me check my lamp dump drawer.

Don't blame me! I'm only the piano-player.

Does anyone know how to access
the electrics compartment part in these?

https://www.ebay.fr/itm/FEU-PROJECTE...F/173881934437

I can only detach the front lens and unscrew the E10 bulb.

The engenious one-part sculpture of aluminized plastic that is both the
reflector, and the base, will not move to the front one bit -- yes, even if
I bark at it in Old Prussian, threatening to shoot Namibian sand at the
lens, or to buy a new lamp from vontrotha.


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I've never seen the square lamp you link, which might have been good for bikes, though the batteries would be HEAVY. I was talking about the distant ancestor of the Super Oscar shown here with LED illumination:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWBAywpgJBQ

Apparently the huge Oscar Halogen lamps I used, shown in the video at c2:26, are still available for nostalgic endurance racers. The ones used in racing were heavy all-metal items (for heat dispersion and to survive brushes with the scenery) and not overly aerodynamic either.

Given under the usual caution that after half a century the details might have merged in the memory.

Andre Jute
Once we were men