It was a green Mag 2D that I got when TKMaxx were selling them cheap modded as per the recipe above.
The head
KD metal reflector, DX glass lens
The parts
The cells have a recessed top, they are held together by magnets - you need to either buy a shortened tailspring or cut down the Mag one.
The beam
The light on the left is a just-received LED thrower which may be making 350 lumens, the ROP is a bit down on output, it is the back door light for dog spotting and it hasn't been charged for a couple of weeks.
You can see that the ROP has maxed out the sensor while the LED hasn't. And it is a very bright light.
Easy mod, pretty cheap, runs for an hour and heaps of light. I have a 6D one running on 6 LSD D cells which can be brighter than this but is not currently working - Mag switches have been cheapened I think and don't like 4-5A through them. They used to be good for 10A.
I can't find a UK source of supply for the 3854 bulbs though and stuff from the US may well end up hitting you for import duty and VAT. A pack of two bulbs, 1 high, and 1 low is $10 + $14 P&P. That is safely below the UK import duty limit and seems a bit steep when the flat rate envelope they use costs $5.25 (or did 2 years ago - no idea what US postage rates are). Pelican have a European base in Germany but their website doesn't show the bulbs. That works out at £15 for the two bulbs so is safe for import duty etc. Two packs of 2 comes to $34 £22 which means some VAT and the 8 quid clearance charge by the Post Office. Two packs in the same envelope will probably cost you more!
The high bulbs don't last a huge time - maybe 6-10 hours, they are being brutally overdriven. I'm actively looking for a European source since I'm on my last high bulb.
That TR-1200 looks interesting, but if it's unattainable.
I like the idea of the ROP, which I've wanted to build anyway. I'm also looking at these or something similar, I don't care if they're led, incandescent, or hid.
In the case of Maglite design, I'd have to say that the cloners beat Maglite in their own game. I really don't like the maglight switch, it's too small. I used to work outdoors at night in the cold and snow with a D-cell Maglite, and with gloves I just couldn't operate that switch. The chinese lights that have a big, bulging, tailcap clicky switch are far superior for access with a fat, gloved thumb.
The first one is a WiseLED clone at a fraction of the price. Here's a CPF link to it. I suspect it'll have a beam like the romisen RC-T6, not a thrower, but pumping out so much light you won't notice. It will have quite a fat body to accommodate the 3x18650s in it but it is short.
the second one to me offers nothing that a well-sorted ROP won't for less money - you pays your money and you takes your choice. Using C lithium cells and a 2C Mag will make it slimmer than the 2D, and possibly slimmer, though longer than this incan light.
I've always fancied an Ostar light, though those 6 die LEDs are a couple of years old now and need about 20V to light up - battery life is likely to be short.
the last one, Costco in the US periodically clear out HID lights for less than $80. Worth looking through CPF Marketplace for a look.
There's several of those I'd fancy myself if I didn't already have comparable stuff. If the KD Ostar one were half the price I'd probably get one. Looks like it'd run off a car battery too.
These things are fun - just not necessarily the most practical of lights. Got a new one yesterday which has a small problem, the battery needs to be pushed the best part of a centimetre down into the tube, the spring loaded tail post is about 4mm long. Doesn't work very well...
It's a Raidlight Spear clone. I ordered one with a Q5 emitter in it and got one with an MC-E in it. Multi-die emitters don't really make a lot of sense in a dedicated thrower. However, it was lighting up roofs brightly about 350m away last night as I took the dog round the local swamp park. Did a quick bodge with some magnets to push the cell deeper into the barrel.
Just been brazing some small coins together to add length to the contact post which should fix the flickering issues. Pity the torch ran out of gas. Plan was to braze the coins together then wrap heatshrink round the outside and use it as a spacer. Come to think of it I have some battery spacers for one of my chargers.
Where did you get that one for 19 bones.....those are not even at that price range.....I have a 55w BD light that my wife bought for me years ago and that only gets used once in awhile.
You could do a lot worse than the good old Ultrafire C3. Just the plain, poor quality aluminium one. When loaded with a 14500 they are crazy bright (and flaky but easy enough to sort out).
