Shoulder-mounting a light.

On some of my recent mine explorations my experiences have led me to think more deeply on the topic of lighting. Headlamps are for obvious reasons some of the more common options for lighting your way, whether you're caving or exploring an abandoned mine.
However, they're not always available, especially to someone like me, who's currently quite poor due to the wonderful state of the job market in the US.
Thus, the crafty among us - and I do like to consider myself somewhat crafty - often have to improvise.
I had recently figured out an easy way to attach my LumaPower IncenDio to the shoulder strap of my preferred backpack. It worked pretty well, but still wasn't quite what I was looking for. The runtime on the IncenDio is nice... But I would prefer something longer-running.
Then it struck me.
I have on my bike a Cygolite Hiflux-100 LED headlight that runs off 4 rechargeable NiMH C-cell batteries. This light has also been upgraded with a Seoul P4 LED and a better driver circuit by yours truly and is quite bright, while retaining the original two levels of light that it comes with from the factory. One low and one high.
Now, as standard, this light is rated to run in the high-mode for 25 hours!
That's what I'm talking about.
So, I got the old gears turning and quickly came up with a simple way of attaching the Cygolite to my shoulderstrap.

Et Voila!

Very straight forward. I made a titanium bracket out of some scrap stock I had lying around, bent it, drilled a few holes in it, rounded off the edges, then attached it to a Kydex clip that clips onto the shoulder strap. Then I used the standard attachment for the powerswitch and also attached that to my shoulder strap. Stick the battery pack inside my backpack and presto. Hours and hours of light at the touch of a finger.


It doesn't get in the way at all and the light's position can be easily adjusted back and forth on the strap to change the angle of light. I put a piece of textured foam rubber on the inside of the Kydex clip, so it keeps it's position on the strap and doesn't move around at all.
The Hiflux-100 head is so light that I just don't notice it on the strap.
Next, I need a real headlamp too!