Holy! I would have paid to witness this! Most epic almost death ever!
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All luck brother, all luck. 
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I wonder about the charges that would result in using one of these to get a cars attention?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Emergency-Escape-Window-Hammer-Safety/dp/B00K63TG9C/
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prolly not a good idea…
My visibility is great in day and night…when I carve it flickers in peoples eyes…I run my lights on day and night… no one misses me… the beams go for approximately 700ft on flat ground. So it’s very easy to tell I’m on the road with a long ass waving Red pair of beams.
Also this…
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That seems like a sweet visibility system!
Your own design I take it?
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Yerp, It’s XM-L T6 Zoomable flashlights, with the bodys removed and the 4 lights wired to a constant current 1Amp Meanwell LDD-1000H LED Driver
The fronts are zoomed so that i get good front visibility, while the rears are zoomed all the way out and pointed mostly at the ground to create a “Beam” almost like a laser…
https://www.electric-skateboard.builders/t/eskate-lights-thread/199/397?u=deckoz
I tried that but the bulbs kept burning out despite making sure the voltage was properly stepped down.
the rear facing intermittent blinking, is that something that came with the flashlight or did you install a relay or something?
how’d you make it red also?
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o wait, it doesn’t blink haha, nevermind
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So
Meanwell LDD-1000H drivers take upto 5-52V input and automatically scale the voltage for the voltageForward of the LED series. There is no step down regulator, the Driver will properly regulate voltage in a closed loop. The meanwell is conntected directly to the battery supply after the antispark.
There is no blinking…it is me carving left to right and the beams “Tracking across the ground”.
The Flashlights are Cree XM-L T6 White in front, and Cree XPG Red in rear… they are “Tactical Zoomable Flashlights”
These with the bodies removed… and the heads were shoved into these truck mounts
Here’s a better close up to see how the bodies are removed…all 4 (two front white and two rear red, are wired in series to the meanwell LDD, the built-in driver in the flashlights were removed, and I am wiring directly to the 20mm Star LED board)
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I was hit by a car on Channing and Telegraph at night like 4 weeks ago! Thankfully I was only side swiped and got by with only a scrape on my arm. Also a police officer saw the whole thing and gave the guy a ticket.
sadly the snowflakes of today and their parents get offended by everything. The only thing we can do is tell them to get off our lawns…politely and also empty handed because anger and guns also offend them.
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Yeah, I have a sprinkler system, I modifiedgrinning: 2 of the sprinkler heads so they use a rubber grommet to NOT spread the stream. It shoots a laser straight, mean as hell sword of water in an arc about 3 feet of the ground. Hurts like a bitch. When I get political people, sales people, pretty much any door to door types…turn it on and they run like hell
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I used to have a bicycle rear light that shot laser beams onto the street to give the appearance of a bike lane. Would look awesome shooting out of the front and rear of our boards.
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I actually tried those…the lasers aren’t that bright and due to the height of the board they are only about 6inches long…
XML and XPG are in the 1000+ lumen range and visible during day time and my rear beams are about 700ft long on flat ground
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I was thinking of buying that for my bike.
It could be used when riding a board too. It’s super loud when set to maximum (there’s a turning switch that allows to change the power of the horn). It’s not much for prevention though.
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Dudes glad board made it its a miracle and the best news after a accident–ja and that o and u ok hahaha just joking …yip this is the sport we chose EXTREME and the streets is our playground with no rules for us but against us WE IN OUR OWN CLASS totally …lights visibility .clothing ,padding what a slept and does help a bit but at the end of the day u have to be “psychic skate o dude like a ninja skater” ,a combination of using the road and side walk to its full ability meaning like a skater jaywalker , cyclist, jogger and car driver/bike predicting drivers every move in anticipating all… its so sad don’t they realize slowing down for them stupid driving just takes the fun out… thought thanks to power in my hand its is fun and challenging traffic drives and when done almost like a acid trip when getting off my board im so pump full of adrenalin weaving dodging ramping…yea the e-mountain boards do have a advantage here up and down kerbs crossing rough sections etc compare to Pu wheels eboards…but dogging cars its better not to says the wise old man …rather safe than sorry dude. And when u go -go full hearted no turning back even if u have to ride over that car or jump over it -says the crazy young blood peace out enjoy rolling
Well handled bru
Good Idea …looks mean too…
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did you design those 3d printed truck mounts? they are sweet.
I think I’m going to attach truck horn to the front of my board with a foot pedal on the deck 
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