All SOLD - 2AA Maglites "Flag Light" Nichia 219, Carlco TIR -

Wow that is a nice looking light, great job!

Thanks for signing up, candor!

Added International Shipping

Now that it is international I will claim one for slewflash! :D I PMed him.

Thanks scaru :slight_smile:
Ill send the payment when I get to my computer.

EDIT: actually sorry i cant take it right now. I promised myself that the X6 and parts would be my last purchase for a while after i received it. I need the cash for a new phone… Anybody want to buy a samsung galaxy note1? Sorry justin and scaru.

looks like scaru owes Justin some $$.

Ok, the light is still up for sale.

Can’t. Resist. Any longer. I’ll take it.

Thank you,

It will ship tomorrow.

Nice, I actually came to the thread to say "I'll take it", and then saw your post. I'm really excited to get mine. :D

This one’s going to be a gift for a friend that just retired from the Marines… he likes flags.

That is a nice gesture, I am sure he will love it!

I got in the wonderful flag maglight. Justin outdid himself on this little jewel. I promptly put it through its paces on my LED analyzer Any interest in a LED/Battery analyzer device?).

I loaded it up with two cheap Fry’s AA cells and cranked it up. It starts out at around 70 lumens/250 mA and after 30 minutes is down to 30 lumens/100 mA. After two hours its down to 20 lumens/50 mA. At 8 hours it is at 10 lumens and around 20 mA. 24 hours later its at 5 lumens/15 mA and still shining, the power is at 40 milliwatts. It looks like that if one wants a lot of light from 2 AA’s driving a Nichia you should use lithium primaries or NiZn batteries. Alkalines discharge to below the LED Vf threshold rather quickly. A pair of NiZn cells should really crank.

The case temperature only rose around 2 degrees C.

The color temperature on the image is shown at 3500K, but this is because the 3000K room lights are on and affecting the sensor. Actual color temp was around 4600K. The color temperature only shifted around 1.2K throughout the test.

I would be curious to see what it did with a 14500 and the dummy cell. Also with a couple Duracell AA batts.

One Lithium primary would be only 3v ? and two would be way too much at 6v ?. I could see trying the NiZn, but are they still out there? I thought they were a flop?

I am surprised at how long there was any light output left at all. I would have figured much less time before it went dead completely.

I think by lithium primary he means those duracell ultra lithiums or whatever they are called. They have a voltage of around 1.8.

Fresh Energizer Lithium primary are 1.8V, but the voltage does drop under load (typically 1.5V). See http://data.energizer.com/PDFs/l91.pdf

NiZn batteries are still available. Lots are on Ebay. PowrGenix is the name supplier. Under load they start at around 1.7V and fall to around 1.5V at the end. See PowerGenix NiZn batteries | Candle Power Flashlight Forum

After 48 hours on the AA alkalines it is still putting out 3 lumens!

Coming up on 60 hours… down to 2.5 lumens… The AA cells are at 2.585V and the LED is drawing 16.5 mA

Pushing 72 hours… 1.6 lumens… batteries at 2.573V… LED is drawing 14-15mA

When will it ever die?

Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.'

Contest started to guess the run time (A Guess the Runtime Contest)… it’s still cooking along.