im trying to find a led bulb that i can use in my 18v ryobi flashlight to replace the halogen one. trying to get a longer run time on my battery with still usable light. anyone have any experience with this or know where to find? thanks, ted.
A quick google doesn’t show anything available… can you tell us what your budget is? Plus, are you comfortable soldering little parts?
1,000 lms LED POWER MODULE FOR RYOBI 12V~18V BARE for $31.35
or the 90lm for $14.49
you have options.
I nodded mine with bare LEDs and a cheap buck driver from DX. It’s fugly but works for me until I find something better. And time to work on it again.
As that 1,000 lumen one just uses 5mm LEDs, I seriously doubt it is even half their claim.
I tried one of 90lm those drop in LED bulbs… disappointing. Definitely not worth the money. I think mine was 40lm but it got very hot very fast and turned angry blue.
I cannot imagine what a 90lm one would do. Not recommended.
This is the same guy making the fusion 36 drop ins for magD lights. I have heard a lot of positive feedback about them. Maybe not 1000 lumens, but is probably a lot brighter than the stock halogen. I wouldn’t expect much in the way of throw, though.
tried one of the single led replacement bulbs that claimed 90-100 lumens output and it had tight greenish beam that seems less bright than the original bulb, the original bulb is floody. I am really wanting a bright led dropin too.
BUT not the 1000 lumen head.
Easier answer is to drop the light in the bin and buy a light
What about a Hotwire? The bulb looks like the type used in a mag Incan. I thought there was a 12v variant. Might be a insta-poof but it might be a cheap easy ryobi “ROP”
thanks everyone for the advice. i found these on ebay. has anyone ever tried them?
18v led
18v led
any opinions on them. i only use this light for night fishing. i get 3-4 hours runtime with the halogen bulb thats in there now. im guessing that bulb is probably 6-10 watts. i figured if 1 put a 1 watt or 2 watt led in there instead, i could get at least almost double run time with still enough useable light? thanks, ted.
the led’s in the 2 links i provided above in post 11 will not work. i ordered 1 to try it and they are huge, not the same size as original bulb. do you think that this one 18v led is any better or the same as the one rgjr linked in post 3? trying to keep it under $21 and didnt want to have to mod.
also found these ? 18v led does anyone know if any of these will be as bright or almost as bright as the original halogen? also found these “must scroll down” TN511 any thoughts on these 4 different single bulbs provided in links of this reply and link of reply#3, as to 1 better than other, or pretty much all same performance/quality? a couple have “glass domes?” over emitter and a couple do not. will that make any difference? thanks, ted.
There is alot of posts about fusion 36 in this forum. I personally havn’t tried the fusion.
Got the high beam emitting stuff at http://www.mrpositive.co.nz/ . Definitely worth the money. Never got overheated. 
We are providing all kind of LED bulb. We are providing many watts of LED lights. These watt sizes are 5 watt, 12 watt, 21 watt, 24 watt, 27 watt, 30 watt and many other sizes.
The LED bulb here will work in the Ryobi and is super bright as well! http://www.torchupgrades.com/gb/power-tool/24-power-tool-torch-flashlight-led-upgrade-conversion-bulb-bosch-dewalt-makita-hitachi-p135-6-30v-cree.html
its a bit late but here goes.
ignore the spammers that bumped the thread.the only thing a spammer is good for is to refresh the thread and get someone who knows to see it and help.
the cheap but good method to convert tool lights 12v on up is with an mr16 led unit.
but it MUST have a buck converter.
the way to tell is its current will drop with increasing voltage.
dont worry that they are rated for ac.they run fine on dc and are not polarity sensitive.
i have done a bunch here and they work fine.
even the cheap noname chinese stuff if the leds are in proper contact with the heatsink.all the dead ones i have seen had burned up leds that were not against the mcpcb.
not soldered and no compound under them.