Why Lupine HID?
I’m going to compare the Edison 5 with Lumicycle’s HID light for a good reason. They both use the same ‘Solarc’ bulb from Welch Allyn (in fact all MTB HID lights use this bulb). The key differentiator is that Lupine have developed their own ballast (the bit which generates the 6000 Volts necessary to get the bulb to start arcing), whereas most of the other manufacturers use a basic ballast from Welch Allyn. With the standard ballast the Welch bulb can produce 500 lumen whereas with the Lupine ballast the same bulb produces 900 lumen (equivalent to a 65 Watt Halogen bulb or a car headlight). So basically the Edison 5 produces 180% more light than the Lumicycle (& Hope etc) HID lights. To see what this means look at the picture below: Full Screen Another advantage of Lupine’s custom ballast design, is that their light is a lot more compact than Lumicycle’s (in fact they also use a modified bulb housing to keep the complete unit really small). Yet another technical advantage is the abilit
