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Urban Rail Lighting

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christo4
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Hi, I'm a product design student and one of our projects is to design a lamp... so naturally I chose to design a light for urban skiers.

I was wondering what you think is wrong with using yellow utility lights when you jib at night?

Just to give you guys an idea of what I'm thinking about making, I want to make a light that fits into ski bindings and uses your poles as the tripod thing. - So you wouldn't have to buy a light with a tripod and you could use the reuse old ski gear that you already have.

Here is my mood board to give an idea of my inspiration and where the project is heading.

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Thanks +++++++karma for people who help...
15 years ago
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titsLOL
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personally I'd way rather just have a tripod that is good at being a tripod, all my old poles are bent, broken, and mismatched. I want a light that doesn't need electricity... invent that!
15 years ago
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snowfreak14
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dude that sounds so sick, i think that something would be sick be almost impossible is something that isnt plugged in. maybe messing with light brightness and light types.  i dont know just thoughts
15 years ago
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Peter.
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i could've sworn this said urban rail lightNing, and i thought this was gonna be about how you got struck by lightning on an urban
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Pinguu
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that sounds like a great idea, maybe try and make it something you don't have to hook up to any power source.  Use a battery pack that can be charged by solar power maybe, if going green is too much work then just use a plug in battery pack.  Generators are a bitch to get around.
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christo4
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Oh yeah, the other thing is that our budget for the project is $20... so generally speaking no solar and no batteries.
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spqr
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Solar would be a bad idea from a practicality standpoint. To store enough energy for say 4 hours of lighting, 2kW, you would need to charge with a panel 1m x .5m for about 20 hours. Not to mention the panel alone would cost over $600.

I think just design a solid, portable light, without needing poles or skis to mount to. You might look into a bank of LEDs, but to get good enough output, this would be way over $20. To make the light urban specific, make the switches and adjustments usable while wearing gloves.


... just some ideas.
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snowisawesome
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Damn $20 that's it.  Well it would be dope to have more of a blue light similar to a xenon headlight instead of the warmer yellow lighting.  would make bright colors pop more i would think.
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Ski4frnt4445
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sounds super sick man.  post when done
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Stauble
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It would be nice if there was some kind of adjustable "shade" or "shutters" so you have the light hit what you want and have the light blocked from what you don't want it to hit. Sometimes its hard to get enough light on the rail without the snow being blown out, plus focusing the light using reflected services would help with output.
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add_on_skis
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 Definetly A huge mass of LED's, mabey a setup hooked up to a spare car battery or something. but i dont know mabey 1 or 2 hundred little LED's, there bright and super efficient.
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add_on_skis
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sorry, i forgot, i dont know how much LED's cost and you might be able to find a battery from a junk yard, or one of those spare car parts yards.
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jfletcher
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im sorry but what the fuck is the image linked to your post?
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The_Oakley_Kid
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sorry, but coming from an urban guru and professional cinematographer, that is the absolute worst idea i have ever heard. it would be absolutely hell. why would you want to fix something that is already perfect as it is???

trying making something. seriously.
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BlizzardMan
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what about something that is powered by the camera???
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ScubaSteveFather
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Ok so i built this pretty sick collapsible ramp thing its like 5.5 ft talll and it works great sometimes i set it up in my backyard now i want to use this to do some urbans in the city but i have a problem i can only use up to $80 to buy lighting and a powersystem i was thinking headlights but that wouldnt work all the time. Then i decided maybe floodlights but i looked into that the weakest one was 200watts and i need a dam powerful battery to power any more than 1 of those so thats out too cause that battery would cost over $80. Any of u have any ideas. Wat lights to use and how to power them.

+Karma for answers.

Sorry for jacking the thread but this seemed like a good place to post this.

15 years ago
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The_Oakley_Kid
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go to the home depot and buy a generator and lights. construction light are 30 buck for 1000 watts. you have to pay for the generator up front, but you can return it at the end of the season, used, for full refund.
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BlizzardMan
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like using a firewire to hook it up
15 years ago
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Fev4ng
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You won't get much of a light from 7 poor watts.
15 years ago
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Steeze-On-Toast
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and it would drain the fuck outta the battery. its a tough one man, def post it up when you sort something, be cool to see what the outcome looks like
15 years ago
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Maximumsushi
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Straight up, that's a really bad idea.

So you don't have to bring a tri-pod but you have to bring an extra ski, extra pair of poles just to get some sketchy broke-ass tri-pod? That's bogus. Proper lights are fairly cheap and work perfectly.

If you want to design something for skiing, why not design some sort of clip/elastic thing that holds your brakes down when you're waxing skis or dulling edges. Something with some sort of practical application.
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christo4
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So I finished my project this week. I ended up designing a light that can be thrown over tree branches or clipped to a chain link fence or something. It is pretty durable and waterproof.

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The enclosure surrounding the bulb has also been sand blasted so that the light is a little less intense and diffused. The way I look at it is why lug around a tripod if you can just use structures that already exist around the areas you jib.

Its called "The Urban Utility Light"

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Let me know what you think.
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zylstra
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dude nice finished product. looks legitimate.
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