Photos of the insides and Beam shots.
Plastic Reflector and Plastic Lens GLASS LENS (My bad), already scratched in the package. This is a killer for me. Not anything I want to mod.
XM-L definitely
Driver & Charger board. Another reason I wouldn't want to screw with it. I'm not smart enough to know how to separate the charging circuit and driver, to be able to do anything with it.
Regular clicky switch. Just like a tail switch.
Finned Aluminum heat sink, but it is very thin.
6xAA batteries, must be series parallel. 3 in series, two sets of 3 in parallel. Only way to get 4.5v @ 4000mah
Canadian batteries
Heat sink is thin
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There's probably room, to increase the thickness of the heat sink, behind the led. There's also probably room to put in something like 6 AA Eneloops, or 3 or 4 Sub C NiMH, but you would have to cut out the current walls of the battery compartment. They are just divider walls, not structural. Probably Not enough room for 18650's.
In the end, I will take it back to HD and get my money back, or just get the 2 pack of Maglite LED lights. I won't be doing anything with this light. If you could change out the Alkalines, for NiMHs and beef up the heat sink and change to a different driver, it would be one hell of a bright spotlight, that would throw a good long ways.
Just not my cup of tea. I don't like plastic lights. , lenses and reflectors. If it had a glass lens, I might consider it.
Justin