Well Ill Start the Thread

[rox@ucf11]

have heard of people making their own can lights back in the old days lol out of a motorcycle light, coupled with batteris that someone has somhow water proofed anyoe have one or ever hear of this?

[Zyxistal]

Originally Posted by rox@ucf11

have heard of people making their own can lights back in the old days lol out of a motorcycle light, coupled with batteris that someone has somhow water proofed anyoe have one or ever hear of this?

You could check this out. Dive Light - Diy underwater canister scuba torch. Are you looking at doing this yourself? It looks like quite a bit of work to me.

[Chad]

Here is a place to get light head kits.
Home Page

Here is another link that has some instructions and pics.
Dive-Oz Discussion Forums - DIY Dive Torch Photo's

Personally for something as important as your primary I plan to buy rather than build one. Although, it does look like a fun project.

[rox@ucf11]

no am not planning on building one just wondering if any1 has see one

[mwhities]

I'll allow DiveRite or Salvo to do the DIY part and I'll just buy it from them.

[aggie99]

This is not a DIY canister light but I was at the Houston dive show last weekend and at the Dive Rite booth they had this light:
SCUBA Diving Equipment and gear for Technical, Wreck and Cave Diving: Dive Rite, Inc - Product Catalog - LED 500 Corded Flashlight
It is a standard light that you can buy a cable attachment for and turn it into a canister light. The new LED 500 is as bright as their 10W HID. I e-mailed Dive Rite and they do sell a Goodman handle for this unit. He also slammed the light against the desk to show it's imapct resistance compared to an HID. For the cost I am thinking of going this route. It does take AA batteries which could be a good and bad thing.

[rox@ucf11]

now this I would look into!!!!

[Zyxistal]

I don't know if I would trust anything I had built to work when i really needed it to. I'll leave that work to the pro's.

[marchand]

3W (9W) LED - Cave Diver's Forums

Here is a link to a thread that has pictures of a light that a guy made.

[BSea]

Here's a Yahoo group with some pretty talented people who have made all sorts of HID & LED can lights. But from everything I've read, it looks like you'll easily spend as much or more making a DIY can light.

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