My $2.24 triple emitter Mag Mod

BTW, I made a second Mag conversion and this time I used a 2C Mag with a single 18650. My spacer mod is HERE This time I used 3 –3W cool white bridgelux that I got at FastTech. I reflowed them to the pad on the star as I don’t trust the physical contact that is stock. I really like the form factor and beam pattern of this light.
2C Mag Mod

Great thanks for that dchomak, being a newbee can you please explain reflowing The one I ordered was the 3 x 3w cree so looking forward to that coming
Also do you have any idea what tool you used to get the switch out as my 2C is not a allen key like my 2D … Cheers

http://www.aliexpress.com/compare/compare-maglite-bulb-replacement.html

:slight_smile:

They are the 3w type 3 x 1w and it says Min. Order: 30 pieces :frowning:

The newer Mags take a Torx 8 (T8). Did you notice Lennarts post? It seems those copycat Chinese are selling M16s as Maglite replacement bulbs!
What a riot!

I just remembered, you will probably have to grind the shaft of the T8 to allow it to fit into the switch.

Thanks for that will see if I can find a T8 on the bay now. cheers

Update:

My lamp turned up this morning so been modding my 2C maglite this afternoon and I must say I am pleased with how it turned out as I wanted a flood light as my other mags are throwers.

I went for the 3 x 3w bulb

I made a leather spacer tube as running it from a single 18650 cell.

A few pictures.

I made a battery spacer from a nylon rod and 2 old copper pennies. ran a heavy wire through the nylon rod and drilled the 2 pennies and soldered them. works a treat.

I them made a leather cell tube (it’s all I had to hand)
and modded the tail cap spring.

I then rewired the lamp and it all fitted well and works spot on.
Big thanks to the OP for the heads up on this.

Wires are abit over kill but again all I had.

And all working. :slight_smile:

Makes me want to grab my in laws mag lights and mod them for cheap!!! Thanks, one more mod i want to do!!! :bigsmile:

Go for it glad I done mine makes a great flood light. and dirt cheap to do too.

what driver would I need to get one of these to work with a 5D maglite using 5x nimh or 2x 18650/26650 lifepo4?

Might give this one a try, seems like a good price.

I like this idea, what would I have to do different to make it fit a 4d maglite, as that’s all I have laying around?

4 cells, would give approx 6V. That would be too much for this mod. You could add a dummy cell in the sleeve……
Here is one way to make a dummy. There are many other ways, but this should give you an idea
How to make a dummy cell in 9 pics

This board fits the top-most bore in the Mag head, and just a tiny bit of trimming will let it drop all the way down into the second step, a small enough amount that you don't get close to the outer trace on the PCB.

You know, Flomotion posted a link to that very same star in post #9. At the time I was thinking he meant it as a replacement for the 32mm star in the M16 i was using. Now I see a whole different way of going about this. If, like you say, start with this star and build around it, one could end up with a triple XR-E. Granted, it would be more work, but I think it would be quite a light.
BTW, after thinking about it, a 4D Mag probably would have room for a 3x18650 in parallel using a third section of this cell holder mod used in the Defiant “Super Thrower” 3C mod.

Running this light with 3x18650 in parallel would give some awesome run times. 3x26650 would be even better!

I got two of those XR-E boards last week - one's for a desk lamp, the other may go into either 2 or 3D Mag, with cut down/chopped up P60 reflectors... they'll fit, but it won't be a whole lotta fun.

lol - when I first saw the pic of that adapter I thought "hey that's from my TR-1200 thread... oh wait!" And I thought I'd come up with something original for a change!

3-18650 in series in a 4D mag means that you don’t have to cut the traces and rewire for parallel… it’s in series already and that’s close enough for direct drive…

For those stateside, use one hunk of schedule 40 white pvc pipe for the batteries, plus another couple of slices of the pipe to fill out the space. (I’ll post a pic if that’s not so obvious.)

Oh, but you do have to shorten the spring in the tail and make sure that it makes (-ve) contact with the body.

You are right! See how easy it is to get into a one track mind?

Or 32600s...

After posting, I started to think about some of the explosive possibilities of series cells. So be sure to match cell capacity and level of charge. (And there’s probably other stuff I’ve forgotten to mention.)

Anyway, here’s a pic of the battery carrier (65*3 mm long), the (-ve) that drops into the tail, and my very beaten up 4D.