Bugger it anyway!!!

fish slapped

Left the house tonight at 11:30 for a bit of lamping... grand , lovely ... Pat even offered to do lampman for me... great!!

first field no sign of anything... next field lamp goes on and off straight away ... "fox far corner!" ...

Then the stupid mother F**ker of a lamp packs in!!!!!!

not the bulb ... not the connection to the power... so head for home ... it's still early so we'll get it fixed and come back...

rejoined all the connections but still no joy :mad:... must be somewhere deep inside... think this means I'll have to drill out the pop rivet and split it, to have a rummage... 2 years and no hassle .. till now that is!!!!

Birdnuts

Don't be too hard on yourself - god knows its happened to me plenty of times over the years:rolleyes:

landkeeper

ah now fs your showing your novice status a long serving member of the lamping community would have 4 or 5 'old' lamps that have been retired due to the purchase of newer stronger lighter new fangled eletrickery standing by ready to pressed back into service
i have about 10 :cool:
tough break however they are very simple it'll be a loose wire off the switch i bet

fish slapped

I've four lamps in a tub in the attic somewhere but I just said f**k it!! I'll get this one fixed!!

I'll be out again Thursday night with this one working and one of me spare's.

I'd be stubborn like that...:rolleyes:

Now wheres me soldering iron????

clivej

It's 'cos you've got fingers like pork sausages

Spunk84

LOL I have several lamps ranging from 600,000 CP to 4.5mill had my good lamp out last week and my lamper lost my bloody red lens !!!!!! Going to kick him up and down the garage when we got home. So now I have one brought from the states with blue,Amber and red lens to use- it's abit heavy but it has a good beam, want to try out the blue lens on it this week.

Also have a 1 million CP nightsearcher but can't find the charger for it my first every lamp:D

No6

I had the saem problem a few weeks ago every night I went out the lamp blew a fuse, sapre fuses re wiring the socket nothing worked, eventually I opened the handle and lo and behold a broken wire in the handle was casuing the short, working perfectly since, we were out last night and got two!!!:D

homerhop

got rid of the fuse holder and use female spade connections to a standard 10amp fuse. Did the same with the lead going to the light and put on spade connections as the wires broke up tight to the bottom of the moulded connection that was on it.
Has to be said the wiring on the lightforce is pure ****e.

poulo6.5

I always have my letterman wave a role of insulating tape and most important my draper gas operated saldering iron. http://www.pixmania.ie/ie/uk/17214/21590/xx/2750/115/criteresn.html?s=17214&m=21590&t=xx&categorieid=115&cat=2750&display=12&startrow=37&orderBy=topsellers&sortBy=desc&articleId=0
It has saved the evening more than once. And all you need is to top it up every now and then with gas that you buy for refilling lighters. And if I remember correctly it was less than €20. Well worth it.

daithi55

fish mate what type lamp is it
if its a lightforce ya might not need to drill out rivets just unscerw the switch and the wires pull most of the way back out of the light enough that ya can join it with one of these did both connections on my light force with them and havent had any trouble since
http://cgi.ebay.ie/Wire-joiners-splices-pack-20-/250842310140?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item3a675de5fc

fish slapped

daithi55,

It is indeed a lightforce Blitz and yep I'm getting the drill out we'll see then who's the daddy!!!!! :D:D:D

Clive,

you know what they say short and thick does the trick!!! :D

daithi55

but ya might not need to
the rubber on the switch screws off abd the red stopper on handle comes out and the wires are long enough to pull down and fix i bet ya thats where there broke it from the cable been stretched

Tackleberrywho

The LF wiring is not great for such a great lamp.

See below, I opened the heat shrink and saw that the 2 wires Pos and Neg were different lengths so excess stress was on one causing it to give a bad connection.

I trimmed the excess, soldered it with me Gas powered Dremmel Iron, and then used a heat gun and heat shrink

It's been running like a dream ever since

fish slapped

daithi55 wrote: »

but ya might not need to
the rubber on the switch screws off abd the red stopper on handle comes out and the wires are long enough to pull down and fix i bet ya thats where there broke it from the cable been stretched

nope tried all that last night. at about 1am :rolleyes:

fish slapped

Tack when I get round to it I think I'll just gut the lot and wire it MY WAY!!! OOOOPS :eek:;):D:D

Tackleberrywho

fish slapped wrote: »

Tack when I get round to it I think I'll just gut the lot and wire it MY WAY!!! OOOOPS :eek:;):D:D

There only is too wires so it is fairly simple, and they are fairly heavy duty

Use high melting point solder and that will help it from opening due to heating from low battery etc.

All i did was trim 70mm and resolder, that was almost a year ago, and it is always in my car.

That a P4 and a P7 Led Lenser
Nothing worse than dropping kit in a field at night :eek:

The P4 led Lenser is Pencil thin but good enough to lamp at 50yards, or just spot eyes

ring 20

the wiring really is crap on lightforce when they get a bit of use, changed wires on my blitz and lance after a number of failures, socket first then inside handle. by far the nicest beam tho for foxing i recon. improves your soldering too!