I have to tell you all that this has been a real pleasure reading through a lot of your posts and subsequently experimenting for myself on a couple projects. I am an electrician with most of the toys ie. Fluke 87, Weller wes51 and moderate skill sets to go along with both. I have been in the trade for more years that I'd like to admit and worked on more things than I can remember. Since I've stumbled upon this whole flashlight thing I've become addicted like a crackhead with two pipes! And as I'm sure some of you guys can relate my wife thinks I'm completely nuts. Anyway up to this point I have build a jayrob maglite running on (2) 32600 li-ions and most recently have been playing around with Solarforce L2's after reading some of Foy's reviews (excellent reading by the way). Now I am in the process of putting together Match's 15min. mini-mag. I have the host, (2) 14500 li-ion and am about to order the pill and driver. Oh yeah I also already have a xml-t6 1d on a 16mm base. What I would like to do is drive this thing at 2.8a @ 8.4v and preferably have 3 modes. However as I'm sure most would agree finding that driver in a 17mm version that will fit in the base of a p60 pill is near impossible. If anyone has any references or alternatives to what I have in mind I would sure be interested in hearing from you. Sorry about rambling on like this but I just get so damn excited I can't help it. I didn't post this at match's original thread as I have this in mind for a couple of things and it seemed like descent fodder for a new thread. Sorry Admin.
Welcome gml8959! Like you, I looked for a long time to find a 17mm driver that could take 8.4v and put out 3a. I came up empty. When I built my second mini-match, it was either make my own driver or make my own pill. Turned out to be a heck of a lot easier to make a pill to take a 19mm driver.
Good luck on the mini-mag mod. When you're done, be sure to posts some picks here for us
Welcome to BLF, gml9858! When you find that driver please let me know. I am looking for the same one for my minimag conversion. If all else fails I'll either make my own pill that takes what I can get or I'll just shorten the body so the minimag runs on one 14500 instead of two. Would be a whole lot more pocketable that way now that I think about it. Good luck and let us see your results!
