Let's play "Guess That Lego'd Light!!!"

You guys are good. :smiley: :stuck_out_tongue:

I had an unfair advantage. You recommended that combo here. I remember because I purchased the SG-R13 on that recommendation. I have not performed the recombination yet though.

but what the hey a darn good calculated ‘guess’ is better than pulling it outta somewhere dark! I think you’ll like the setup.

This one should tweak a few frontal lobes. hehehe

Then again I’m dealing with some pros here.

Is that one of the solarforce L2 heads?

Tuffy is as tuffy does. :bigsmile:

It’s a Defiant 2 x AA head which has now been discontinued. They were clearanced out at just $4 in a two-pack for awhile there. Great all-time bargain deal indeed. The drivers alone are worth it. Old-Lumens did this thread on it……

Its boost driver is neat in that it’ll run off a single 1.2V, AA, or AAA eneloop, alkaline, on up to a 14500 and has three modes with an always turn back on to high and is quite efficient. The XTE emitter IMO is underrated (and often ignored) and yet performs deceptively bright out of this OP reflector. Strobe particularly is blinding as all get out. De-Doming gives it that little extra throw.

The tube and tail cap is from a cheapo Small Sun ZY-203. OAL is now just 4” including the crenalated bezel. Everything mates up nice and tight as if factory produced. Put a clip on it and you have an even cooler little lightweight setup.

I put two o-rings on the tube to give it an extra easy handling tail cap switch. O-rings used like this really transform many lights into being much more user friendlier. Try it and see for yourself. :wink:

close enough. :stuck_out_tongue:
its a Sipik SK68 head, threadded to work with the 2-AA Side-Switch body tube of a Pailide 3W.

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from Ebay.
simmilar to this one: >> Bright 3W LED 2x AA Camping Flashlight Torch Light Lamp Hand Strap #4 701466014401 | eBay

The body of this one will thread into the tail of a stock SK68, making it a 3-AA Sipik tail clicky. :slight_smile:
>> 3W White LED 2 AA Handy Camping Flashlight Torch SC | eBay

Wow that c8 head lego looks awesome. How tall does it stand? Any pictures of it next to a typical solarforce p60 hosts or other standard lights for size comparison?

It’s 5 1/2” overall length. It shocks peeps with its output let me tell you! It’s plenty throwy yet has enough usable spill to make it a little wonder. One aside, when I de-dome the XPG2’s on these I leave off the centering ring that comes with SG-R13.

I tend to just go direct drive on them with 22AWG but an occasional old-version 5-mode direct-drive on high Eastman-092 is sometimes in the repertoire. :bigsmile:

A standard C8’s overall length for comparison with a 1” tube is 5 3/4” and really isn’t too comfortable to hold due to its aggressive knurling. 1/4” doesn’t sound like much but it is here. The RG-13 tube on the other hand is just 13/16” and smooth. A pleasure to hold and pocket! The rubber grip grommet off the SG-R13 tube is perfect. This overall setup just rocks IMO.

Slick, that O-ring idea. I really like some of the combo's you put together in this thread.

Body Solarforce L2T + head TrustFire TR-650 (LED 4xP4) powered by two 18500

Nice lego!

This thread shows what I cry about so often: the manufacturers don´t really design their lights, they just use random shapes and patterns without any idea behing it : /

These lego´d lights don´t look worse designed than the “real” ones, and thats not a good thing.

That’s nicer than alot of non lego’d lights!

You can have a light which pleases your particular eyes but your eyes are different than somebody else’s, so with these budget lights it’s kinda hard to imagine Porsche or Ferrari design teams sitting around the table. lol

You can certainly do things to low cost lights which improves their original design but typically it requires some machinery and labors of love to get there. That’s one aspect of modding that’s fun which is to personalize a light to your aesthetic satisfaction.

I guess I don’t really expect things of ‘beauty’ out of these $15 gadgets so I can settle for something a lot better than a Ray-O-Vac plastic fantastic which most lights we deal with here are head and shoulders above in comparison. I think we’re getting pretty good looking stuff overall these days. :smiley:

Sry, but good design has nothing to do with personal taste.

Do you have an example of what you consider a well-designed light and why it’s well designed?

I agree that aesthetics does not necessarily equate with good design. But I have found that oft time aesthetically pleasing things tend to be also well designed. Sometimes it depends who makes it too. lol