Budget lights: RAY-O-VAC Industrial Grade LED Flashlights. Aluminum titanium bodies, heavy shock absorbing rubber shrouds on the head and tail. The larger, 3C battery 140 lumen, 2 mode version was purchased at Home Depot. The light is OK, (for a budget light) stock, quite a tight thrower, but not up to flashaholic lumen standards. Immediately after purchase a quick disassembly was in order. Head, emitter and reflector were all glued, but with a flexible rubber cement type glue that was possible to break. The the emitter, heat sink, and reflectors were pulled first. Next a standard (P-60 sized) SST-50 drop was wrapped in with several turns of copper foil and pressed (threaded) it into the head. Reassembed, and Voila! A multi purpose, heavy duty, budget flashlight with a mega-bright high and a useful low. Mod took 15 minutes. There are plans to replace the stock emitter with an SST-90 and re-install with the original aluminum heat sink. Easy, fun mod, these bodies come in 2 x AA and 3 x C battery configurations, and they are built like tanks. Specs from the package: 9 meter /30 foot drop test, 140 lumens,38 hours runtime (on high!) with 138m ~(a football field and a half) throw. On low these tanks put out 45 lumens for a whopping 85 hours at 85 meters of throw. They come with three "C" Ray-O-Vac batteries, which were immediately replaced. The light has a "Lifetime Warrantee" and Home Depot is good about returns. $24 for the 2 x C, $15 for the 2 x AA.
No photos were taken of the disassembly / mod. However, it was very easy. And for $25 for a tank like Titanium / aluminum flashlight, a fun, worthwhile mod.
i will get one too. but i dont see any need to mod it. i dont have 15mins.
if i want my 250lm P2A light to be as unbreakable, i could cut my own rubber boots (with holes ;) ) and put it over the head and the tail. will increase the drop impact resistance by 300%.
Nice info and mod think you for the information in the origional post!
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