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 The bezel is a 2.5in throwmaster from Fivemega and while technology is outdated its still amazing and relevant.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 1960’s Flashlight that is fitted with xHP-70 and runs of 2 IMR 26650’s mule style.
That’s 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 don’t get used anymore and are stored in a box. I’m 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. It’s 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 LED…. and another to bind them to darkness and rule them all… 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 glass… it’s still works if powered up…
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 ages…
A red Mag 2D with the following mods/conversion (It serves as emergency nightstand duty light on the wife’s 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-ano’d 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 I’m wondering if I shouldn’t 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.
It would be a shame to sputter that immaculately mirror polished alumiunium. I’d never get it that spotless again. I can just pick up a ready made OP one from Kai, keep the SMO for another project.