Oof I was scared. 1.5mW is perfectly fine and legal to use.
In Quebec, that was the case until a few weeks ago when any kind of laser were banned if you are close to an airport.
Yeah Iām scared of the powerful lasers, thought about getting one many times but no.
These wee green fellas are plenty bright and pocketable, can actually see the dot outside during daylight 100m or so and the beam at night is great.
Sometimes when a project fails it opens a door to something that works pretty nicely. Thatās what happened hereā¦ I was going to build up a 4C Maglite with an XHP-35 but it just really didnāt want to handle the power. I even stepped up to a thicker heavier copper heat sink, in testing that one I burned a black pit in a 35. Ok, so, moving right alongā¦ Decided to do something else with the 4C Magā¦ chopped it this morning. 
Here is the Black 1C (26500) Maglite next to a 2D for size referenceā¦
Here is the 1C Mag next to my early purchased light, got this way back when I was first getting into lightsā¦ JayRob from CPF chopped the Red Maglite, ChicagoX from here finned a head, Elektrolumens made the triple insert, and of course, I tweaked it all somewhat.
The new threads and o-ring landing cut into the chopped off 4C tubeā¦
Ah, Maglite! Robust construction throughout, look how thick the tubes are!
Made the copper (Te/Cu Alloy) sink on the lathe with a bit of a column to allow for focus like Magās are known for, hand cut the opening of the tube to allow an LED style Mag reflector to fit into the mouthā¦ I like the head to be screwed almost all the way down
I inset the tail spring and bypassed it, while a full sized 26650 cell is fatter than a C and wonāt fit I may bore it some day for the higher capacity full sized cell, so itās already set up to accept it if/when I do thatā¦
A wall shot on low in my Limo Room, we have 5% tint on the windows as my wife used to have bad migraines. I used a Samsung LH351D 5000K 80 CRI on a hand carved 13mm BLF/ Alex Wells DTP copper MCPCB, reflow soldered together. Built a PZL driver with 12 of the 350mA 7135 chips, tail amperage shows 3.35A on a Red Efest 26500 at about 97% charged. (This is a 4 year old cell)
This light really fits my hand nicely, with Bistro as the UI itās pretty versatile and an automatic win for me, also have an AR coated lens in place. This is just one of those satisfying builds that gives one the feeling if a guy could only have one light, this one would definitely be a contenderā¦. 
WICKED hot today, my thermometer was showing 100Āŗ by 9:11AM. Same thermometer shows 116.8Āŗ on the porch, a different thermometer with a probe right outside my window shows 108Āŗ. We tied a record yesterday with an official 106. Blistering out there, and sultry boiling hot at the lathe. But I love it that way, lol.
How remiss of me! It pulls 3.35A at the tail with the old 26500 not quite holding a full charge. (shouldnāt matter with the regulation chips)
1. 0.6355 lumens
2. 9.35
3. 54.855
4. 170.43
5. 250.47
6. 472.305
7. 986.7
With an 18ga spring bypass in the heavy steel tail spring it makes 1045.35 lumens
For the noobs out thereā¦ Iāve built hundreds of lights, and yet when I built the PZL driver last night it was direct shorted. I gradually removed components until the board was bare and still, it was a direct short! So I started over and built a new one with the same components, this time fully successful. Sometimes things just go wrong, it is what it is. Donāt be discouraged, take the time and check it out, start over if/when you have to. All part of the game.
PZL is a puzzle of a driver, the componentās placement are listed on the mask under the MCU, you have to leave the MCU til last to see where everything goes! lol It has dual channel capability like our FET+1 drivers, but instead of using an FET itās got multiple 7135 chips. I stacked 4 extra for the little more power. This driver was done by Alex (Wight here ) in a jovial moment.
The other side is 6 of the 7135 regulation chips, the one to the right of āBLFā is the moon channel. (With BLF TDC)
Love the light Dale. Theres a few great names from the past in your build. :+1:
Old Lumens showed me how to stack chips.
And I have all his kit, so a lot of my Maglight mods are based on stuff from Justin.
Thereās been a LOT of people help me out along the way here, donāt ya know?! I think I about drove Comfychair crazy back when we were starting the FET craze. lol
Very nice.
Itās been 29Ā°C here sometimes lately and I can hardly move.
All the buzz these days about price point. Man, I bought that chopped Red 1D Maglight from JayRob making 1000 lumens from a de-domed XM-L! Price point? How about $165! And I LOVED IT! (Ok, I didnāt exactly love spending that much on a flashlight but I loved the light, for sure! It used a 32650 protected cell from NOVAE. Anyone heard of em? All that was available in that size back thenā¦
Edit: Come to think on it, the XM-L was domed, we started de-doming long after that.
ROFLMAO CRX!
Itās 42.2Āŗ C at the momentā¦. 47.2ĀŗC earlier on my front porch thermometer. Iāll take 29, all day every day! (whereās my sweater?ā¦)
I think that would turn me into a puddle
Nice work on the Maglite Dale, and those are some good old BLF members you mention! I have been here for 6 years only but the turnover of members has been so fast that it feels much longer.
Time fliesā¦ look at you Jos! 12,500 posts!
Says the man with 17500 posts. :person_facepalming:
To your 12,200, right? Between the three of us we have posted 42,200 times! OMG! 
(believe me, I know, yāall are contributing worthwhile studies and builds and Iām constantly hammering drivel into the forumā¦) 
If I sat here for a week and went back through my postās and randomly deleted stuff, would it change my post count. lol Who was it did stuff like that a while back? Why does a squirrel come to mind? Who was it that managed to keep his post count the same no matter what he said? WhereāsFoy?
Yeah itās quantity over quality with you guys :laughing:
Iām kiddin, youāre the mainstay of the forum :+1:
20 minutes to 6 in the evening, itāll likely still be in the 90ās at midnightā¦
We donāt advise going barefootā¦ 136.8ĀŗF on the asphalt! And this not even the hot point of the day!
Nice lasers CRX!!!
Are you sure those are just 1.5 MW? I thought with 1.5 MW lasers you couldnāt see the beam unless you put smoke or steam in front. The beams from your lasers are very visible in your pictures. That looks a heck of a light brighter than those little 5 MW cat-toy lasers you buy at the grocery store.
Smoke
So I calculated them at 400mA current draw * 4.1v cell voltage /1000 = 1.64mW
Does that sound about right?
I can imagine. I heard stories from someone who lived in Corpus Crispy.
@Firelight2, I donāt really think CRX has a 1.5MW laser. Not even a Samsung 30T could output that much power, even 1000 of them would just cut it close.
Also, I think he wouldāve left a whole in all of the houses in his neighboor hood, and the FBI and CIA would probably be at his heels.
@DBCustom, back on track, how can you actually survive in this kind of weather? Your energy bill must be ludicrously high, through the stratosphere.
Now, you should probably paint all of your house white, put solar panels everywhere you can, wear white clothes all the time during the summer, have a house isolated with aerogel, and everything possible to make it bearable.