Vintage German WW2 Daimon- Ze Germans did not have enough light...

Fantastic mod! Just my style. Thanks for sharing! :beer:

And yes, I would definitely like to see some outdoor pictures from that place!

Whoa, fantastic build! Nice work. :slight_smile:

Excellent refurbish of an historical light! Shame you couldn’t find a reflector that closely matched the original but still, now it’s a useable light making some 250 lumens, yes?

Nice job! Thanks for sharing.

Great job raceR86, and thanks for the additional photos of the gun battery, reminds me of my childhood holidays to the Normandy coastline :slight_smile:

What are the dimensions of the original reflector?

What a very nice build ! I hope this encourages more people to update some classic lights.

Good job there!

My dad had a similar light in the 80s that was issued from the german railways. It was grey and blue and had red and green filters to slide over the reflector.

I guess countless lights like these survived up to today in kitchen drawers.

Thanks for all the nice words everybody! :slight_smile:

Selling? Time will tell, I might sell it. But not sure if the price would be suited for international buyers…

At the moment, the Pill is not secured, it is perfectly “press fit”. It sits inside the hole at the bottom plate and while closed it presses slightly onto the lens. It wont go anywhere. Even when opened up it will not move easily out of place since its attached with the wires.
I will probably make a short aluminium rod and put it under the pill and fujick it all in place so that it wont move anywhere when you open the light. And to make heat transfer better. But since the pill I used had an emitter with thermal glue on it, I need to get the pill out of the light so that I can easily change the emitter if I desire (warm white XM-L2 on copper). So its not 100% done at the moment… But not far from! :wink:

I guess you are talking about OTF lumens… I would probably guesstimate a bit higher… The picture I took of the lit light is with flash directly towards it btw. Its pretty bright!
With a single li-ion the driver have input of about 2,1A. Output is 1,5A if not slightly below. I have done several measurements of the driver in another thread. 1,5A to the emitter is usually about 540 emitter lumens (according to graphs my match). Not sure if that was a T6?. This warm white is probably T3 BIN, but FT says T4… So I would guesstimate around 400 emitter lumens based on that? The glass lens is stock, but in pretty good shape.
No matter what it is, its probably 10x more light than people would expect! :smiley: And that is the fun part with this light! :slight_smile: And also, AA batteries. No li-ion. And alkaline compatible, although nimh are highly recommended. The Eneloop XX work quite hard judging by the heat after running it constantly on for some time… The driver pill also gets quite hot. So if building the light with absolute max output for nimh AA batteries and another driver better heat sinking would be highly recommended. Lets just say I have made some thoughts about that and also running two 18650s in it… 0:)
Its also quite fun that people who buy fairly expensive LED lights around here (Norway) gets less lumens in their CW lights than in my WW vintage light! :smiley:

Stock reflector is about 34mm wide… Roughly 17,5mm deep, stock. Once the the bulb threads are cut away like my last picture of it. Its only 9,65mm deep.

I did find a reflector that was 35mm wide (could be made slightly smaller). But it was too deep. Stock reflector is not really suitable for LEDs.
If anyone know of suitable reflector that is fairly wide and short please let me know. I also have two French Wonder lights from around the 70s, maybe up towards the 80s with that simular box design, but with a more modern side button. Reflectors on those are wider, and not that much deeper…
I do wonder if MT-G2 would make a nice flood monster in the stock reflectors though … But then heat sinking to the body would have to be on a higher level.

That is a great build with a lot of attention to detail! Thanks for the tour. I'm sure it inspired some to do a build on a classical light as well.

This is one that lives in a drawer somewhere at my place. The design and the 'made in Germany' makes it post-WWII, but it does have the red and the green filter (building a MC-E colour in it would make give it cool and senseless 'double colour-control' ):

Awesome build .

Thanks jacktheclipper.

Nice light you got there djozz!

Here are my three WWII period lights… I bought 4, but I have a friend who collects, so he bought one from me. I bought the lights off from ebay.
There are two french Wonder lights in the middle. They have been in the family. I believe they are from somewhere around the 70-80s. Also have at least one more with a longer straight tube barrel, but I dont find them to be that cool as the “boxy” lights…
The blue one in the front is probably a cheap no-name light from the early 90s or something… Its basically worthless…

Here are some snapshots inside the facility I mentioned. Not much need for a flashlight inside there, where there are guided tours… but some might enjoy watching some pics…

Green LEDs= Mine field!

The Germans knew how to build tunnels.

Lots of various goodies in this room:

Not so much inside this room: (lit up by a Led lenser X21R btw)

Now this is a “flashlight”… I think…

That is a mine!

Engines

Scale model. Lots of space below the huge cannon.

+1! Now I need to look for something like this. :wink:

That's some cool gear. Don't be shy posting more pictures.. Tongue Out

Fantastic! Thanks for sharing.

Great looking light.
Your work is Outstanding :slight_smile:

Love the History Pic’s and the Light. Cheers

Very beautiful light and great work!
I bought an Swiss flashlight just a few weeks ago because I love this formfactor (something like this picture)
But I have to admit, the Daimon is way more beautiful. :slight_smile:

fantastic build - I love old objects being repurposed like this, so much more interesting than something you can just buy out of a shop. Very interesting history tour too :slight_smile:

I don’t know about reflectors, but a Ledil Iris should fit. You’ll have to mount the star to the back of the housing or a small pedestal though, it’s pretty deep.

Love the look of it. great job!

what a brilliant thread, thanks for sharing, I really like the idea of updating old vintage lghts too, its definitely something on the “to do list”.

I am wondering about putting my spare mtg-2 in my classic bi alladin lantern as its currently non functional at the moment.