Bought it 5 or so years ago when 5W Luxeon's were the brightest thing available in this size.
I put it in between an Ultrafire 501 and a Solarforce L2 just for comparison purposes, and 18650 batteries will not fit in it.
I can only remove the tailcap; I can't even see what you could unscrew at the top; must be glued in well. Maybe if I removed the clip it would unscrew?
Trying to find out if I can use a standard P60 drop in on the 2 CR123 light, once I figure out how to open it up.
Thanks
Bill
Actually, upon giving this light another look, it does not have a p60 sized reflector in it. It's somewhere between p60 my Trustfire F20 head. So I may have to leave it alone and just use it with the bluish Luxeon.
Just rip the head off it .. heat it freeze it get strapps and pop the head off it and it will be obvious what's in there ..I find the older lights are easy to mod and I ain't no modder ..give it hell what's the worst thing that 'll happen ?? what are you risking You can buiy another host for 8 $ .. so give it hell try rubber round it , the vise whatever it takes
Is that solarforce SS?
My guess is that it wont take drop-ins. Most LED lights of that time had the emitter fixed to the body or something of that sort.
Boaz, I like the way you think but since I don't know of a drop in that will fit it, I guess there is no sense in wrestling with it to get the head off.
Why do you need a drop in ?
there will be a threaded slug that unscrews out of the body and pull out the lexan and toss in a dumb driver and a r2 / xpg/xre /?? whatever you want ..Again if you mess it up what have you lost ?? a driver is 3 $ a emitter is 3~8$
+1
It looks like a Nuwai light to me - they were rebranded by just about everyone on the planet.
AFAIK they are a distributor rather than a manufacturer but I'm really not sure about that.
Watch out for heat - some only have edge contact with the star in which case I'd either keep the current down and use an XP-E or XP-G - which will blow any Luxeon V LED clean out of the water.
The reflector was probably designed round the Luxeon V so it'd be worthwhile looking for a good bin SSC P4 LED (Should be able to find U2 or U3) as these have the same beam pattern as the Luxeons did.
The Luxeon V was basically 4 Luxeon 1 dies on one chip. It was infamous for output loss in a relatively short time.
Rip the head off and then show us! A vise and some channel locks will do it. Wrap with lots of tape to keep a lot of scratches off, won’t keep them all off though.