lapwing Posted April 21, 2009 Report Share Posted April 21, 2009 Hi all I have just got a Lightforce 240 to closer acquaint myself with some foxes which have a taste for our lambs. While the lamp + red filter is brilliant, the cable would be better suited to a car boot sale toy. To save re-inventing the wheel, has anyone got a "standard" modification they do to such lamps to do away with the annoying curly wire (what diameter wire to replace it with?) and a sensible type of power plug/socket to use rather than the cigarette lighter one which pulls loose at inopportune moments? (ie capable of 9 amp loading) Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyefor Posted April 21, 2009 Report Share Posted April 21, 2009 Hi, I've left the cable as it it but changed the (useless cigarette style) connectors for 2 pin electric lawnmower / strimmer type connectors that you can get at BuyandQ or any decent electrical wholesaler. These do a much better job - but remember to create a male cigarette lighter to 2 pin mower type connector so the lamps can still be used from the car? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liamlumsden Posted April 23, 2009 Report Share Posted April 23, 2009 there is alot of problems with the wires on lightforce but there aint no better Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baldrick Posted April 23, 2009 Report Share Posted April 23, 2009 I cut out the curly cable and replace it with about 6-8' of straight 15amp (possibly 20amp, I can't recall exactly) speaker cable, available from Maplin. I'm going to re-wire my lamps with DIN connectors instead of the dismal cigar-plug fittings, and wire another lamp permanently into my Landy's electrics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapwing Posted April 25, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 25, 2009 Thanks for the suggestions. Got some 15 A cable and fitted a din socket to the defender. Occurs to me that I can now make up a magnetic base to screw into the bottom of the lamp, and pick up on those myriad of din points they hide all over combines nowadays....It'll be like daylight for nocturnal combine repairs this summer! Seems to be a great lamp; unfortunately the foxes are really unpredictable at the moment and seem to appear more during the day whenever no rifle to hand or no backstop! Having seen a few comments on a similar thread here about them in OSR it ties in with us having 25 acres of it not far from the sheep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baldrick Posted April 25, 2009 Report Share Posted April 25, 2009 Good point re DIN points on combines. It makes the conversion all the more logical. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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