Iāve still got a couple of old maglites I havenāt thrown away but the bigger ones 4D and 6D have both been reborn into LED tools. The size of them has been of benefit once (so far) but they are very intimidating having a big lump of metal and a very bright light to point at someone.
I also have a HID ātorchā that is somewhere in the house. I donāt like it but I paid too much for it so wont get rid of it.
I have a 6D Maglite with incandescent Osram 64623 fully regulated with driver at 18V to the bulb and power shuts off at 16V to preserve the cells. The bezel is a 2.5in throwmaster from Fivemega and while technology is outdated its still amazing and relevant.
My other is a 1960ās Flashlight that is fitted with xHP-70 and runs of 2 IMR 26650ās mule style.
Thatās it. Only 2 big lights but both different and opposite of each other.
YES, in the booth of our car are two lights, build in by Citroen so I am not talking about things I put in there.
and 1 of those can be taken out of its place, the light on the side of it goes off and a flashlight reveals itself, 1 mode wth an old fashioned incandescent bulb. The car is about 9 years old.
I have not taken it apart to check the cells lol.
I still have quite a few non-LED flashlights. They donāt get used anymore and are stored in a box. Iām not sure why I keep them, except that some of them bring back good memories.
Well i must say that after a decade (2008) using only LEDs i am converting back to incans. When i saw super and custom made bulbs, tint, intensity i finally figured it what i was looking for all this time. Now all of my Mag heavy LED mods are stored in a drawer and they have got from 1600lm bulbs up to Osram 64657 14000lm.
I even bought small E size custom made light that has 990lm output from 2x18350.
This is just a quick reply, no pictures.
I have a few wolf-eyes with lumens-factory incan upgrades I bought to use for work (these have the battery pos terminal towards tailswitch).
A 9-volt 3-cell (3 x CR123A) for which I use 2 x AW 18500 with a D26 sized head. Itās an emergency go-to light in a particular part of the house. Those AW 18500s are quite robust (had them since 2004-2005) as they still charge to max and have ultra low self discharge.
A 12-volt light w/ 13-volt conversion (Wolf-Eyes Rattlesnake M90-13V/EO-13 ) - 4 x CR123A with 12V lamp - 3x18650 for 13V lamp. This one is a storage box resident now since its batteries went to other lights (1 went to Solarforce L2 custom with Triple LED Drop-in and the other 2 sitting waiting for emergency back-up action in a Solarforce Masterpiece Pro 2 w/ Cree MC-E Quad die LEDā¦. and another to bind them to darkness and rule them allā¦ sorry got carried away). The lamp has a large bulge near the tip, kinda like a blister per-se, from running it too long and melted the bulb glassā¦ itās still works if powered upā¦
I also have couple of MagLite flashlights as well:
A well used MagCharger 85 (dead ni-cad battery back) that was given to me but is sitting in the same storage box as the wolf-eyes rattlesnake. I had plans for upgrading that has been on the back burner for agesā¦
A red Mag 2D with the following mods/conversion (It serves as emergency nightstand duty light on the wifeās bedside table):
Lens is a UCL tempered glass lens from Flashlightlens.com
Reflector is a FiveMega Aluminum LOP (light orange peel)
Bulb/lamp is a ROP Lo (Roar of The Pelican - low ouput bulb)
FiveMega 2D-6AA battery conversion pack filled with Eneloops from 2008-2009.
Last but not least, a solder wick spring bypass at the tail cap.
I just de-anoād and cleaned a dirty beaten up old 2C maglite, installed a new reflector and lens, and 7.2V krypton bulb.
Got it running off a couple IMR18490s which fit just perfectly. Normally I enjoy the beam artifacts from an incan, but in this case Iām wondering if I shouldnāt pick up an OP reflector instead?
Next in line is my 3C. I am thinking to bake that one to a nice deep russet/red. Awaiting a G4 socket for that, for some hotwire halogen goodness. A pair of protected 21700s ought to fit just perfectly.