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excellent idea sir!
edit: bonus points for the harbor freight calipers |
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Just when you think you know it all...something like this comes along. Good job! |
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need beam comparison of this vs the real thing.
AWESOME idea though. whats the battery and bulb life like? |
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Great post, can you put up a compairison of the beams of the Surefire and Maglite?
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I guess. |
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most 3 cell sufire type lights are 120 lumens or so. i have my doubts the maglight buld will even come remotely close to that.
need a beam comparison. |
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ok.
WORKING ON BEAMSHOTS RIGHT NOW. GIMMIE LIKE 10 MIN. BEAMSHOTS ARE FREAKING HARD TO DO. |
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Or the infamous "power shot" |
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beamshots are done, & posted in the first post... working on new ones.
trying to find a good target, & something that will give the beam shot some "scale" |
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CPF member are we?
That aint nothing. I wanna see you overdrive the Thor spotlight to like 20 million candlepower. |
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I'm just going to stick with my Cyclops 15M candlepower. Sure it's big, but it's really frickin bright.
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Thanks for A good idea, mainly because 123's have a much longer shelf life than C's.
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Or a $16 brinkman G2 clone at target. |
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Dude great idea!! I'm going to do that battery trick to the wife's vibrator!! Man is she going to be surprised!!
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Actually, battery life isn't that hard to figure out. 123a batteries have around 1300 mAh in them, and the 5 and 6 cell bulbs are designed to pull some where around 800mA-900mA, so I have between 1.4-1.6 hours of runtime. But I will say, conservatively, that I have around an hour. The above are approximations... as batteries vary, and so do temperatures, and bulb designs.
yes sir. and lithium batteries handle cold weather better, and are less likely to LEAK.
already have both. this was an inexpensive way to get THROW, while also beaing able to use the mag focus feature... to go from a gentle flood light... to a light sabre to see 200+ feet away. The G2 & brinkmann can't do that. have a good one |
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Why not get a $40 5 watt Luxeon LED conversion for the Mag Light?
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Taggaroo for when I'm back on campus and have free time to mess around.
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Years ago I upgraded the back plastic for my garmin vista to take a single 3V CR123 (at first I was going to use 2 in parallel). I also emailed garmin and told them to make a drop in back piece to sell, and/or make units that use the CR123....
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tag, looks like fun (and, I have a cheapo LED C cell flashlight to convert!)
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tag for home. It looks like a good idea. The beam shots look good, too. By doing this, I won't need to carry two different size batteries (i.e. CR123s for my Surfire e2o and Cs for the mag lite in the van).
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oh gods.... please... noes!!!!1 if you hit an LED flashight, designed to take 2.4 volts from 2 C cells... with NINE VOLTS from three 123a batteries.... it will be brighter..... for about .1 second. you might destroy the LED. just trying to warn ya. have a good one |
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tagged- been lookin' for info on this- i was sure it could be done.
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Somebody has been to candlepower foums.
I run an EverLED in a 2C Mag with 3 123's. I got a derlin insert for the battery tube though. |
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well, i like the idea so much that i'm heading out to sportsmans warehouse for another box of surefire batteries, and then off to home depot for a c cell mag light and tubing. i'll let y'all know how it turns out!
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Now mod it with a 35 watt HID, brighter and longer battery life between charges. Not instantly on though. |
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