12 XPG mag

love these mag mods , cant wait for the shots

where do you source you copper chunks from ??

Holy cow. I would love to see what 4k+ lumens actually looks like.

Great work! And it's also a "budget" light considering it's a 12 XML light made with $100

I'd be in for one of those heatsinks if you could make one for me. I'm one of the losers with no machining access.

Rich

Nice light. :)

I get the copper from speedymetals. I can make you a heatsink, but mags are inconsistent in dimensions a lot more than I realized. You almost have to make a custom sink for each one to fit perfect. I think the thickness of the anodizing has something to do with it. The depth on this heatsink is very critical because of the space from the optics to the lens. The diameter is not as hard to correct adding some copper tape, or a little sanding will take care of it. Worst case is the head wont screw on all the way or you will have a little gap between the optics and the lens. I just hate to make you something that the fit is less than perfect on, but it would prob work fine.

I would love to see the comparison shots between this build and the triple der wichtel xml.

Will get beamshots next week sometime. Even with the leds being driven at just over 1 amp the output is insane! May regulate it in the future at 1.4 amps per led. That should give me over 1200 more lumens at a minimum should be well over 5000 lumens total.

That'd be fine... I can always sand it down and I do have access to a bench grinder. Can you get in touch with me at: ?

Where are you in Jersey? Born and raised in Boonton in Morris County.

Thanks!

Rich

Ill get in touch soon. Been workin a lot and have not had much time.

Would you still be interested in one of the heatsinks? I will have some time in the next couple of weeks and could do one up for you out of either copper or aluminum. If you are using the same stars and optics, I can make it the same thickness as the one I used so it should fit. Lemme if you are still interested.

I'm new here but I've had a flashlight fetish for years. I am an anodizer in my other life and I am familiar with the anodize film on Maglites. The thickness of the anodize will typically be nearly a mil and will have to be more than half a mil to accept enough dye. Black will require at least 0.7-0.8 mil and other factors will limit the film to about a mil. But be aware that anodize is aluminum oxide and so it consumes some aluminum to make the anodize. The rule of thumb is that a mil of anodize will grow the dimension by 0.5 mil.

I am also familiar enough with Maglite (how do you like the %$#&*! snap rings?) to know that they make minor variations all the time.

And having cut many heads in half I know there is a lot of meat at the base of the head where you could machine groves to dissipate the heat. Also heat sink compound will help a great deal if you apply it to all metal to metal junctions including the threads.

Also, my I ask what you are doing to improve contact resistance?

So is it just my old eyes, or does the Maglite now have no reflector?

Welcome , beaker

This mod does not. It has individual optics on the emitters.

Yeah I have modded a ton of mags, and they all seem to be a little different in one way or another. There is a ton of meat to machine grooves if you wanted-it would help dissipate heat. As for improving resistance, I have ran a copper wire through the tailcap spring so the wire is the path to ground, cleaned everything with deoxit, and everything I could to the switch. All added up it made a pretty big difference, prob because it was n old well used mag with a dirty switch to begin with.

Wow, very cool U, thanks for the nice writeup! Impressive, tidy piece of work here. And 4000 lumens!!! I would also love to see a comparison with one of the 3 * XM-L beasts. Do you own one to compare it with?

Frontpage'd and Sticky'd.

I have a derwichtel triple XML that is driven at 2.8 amps per emitter to compare it with. I wanted to do a bunch of beamshots of lights thatI have, both modded and stock, but between work, all the rain we have had, and trying to prepare for the hurricane coming, I have not had time. I will be building a triple XML for a friend, and will take shots of that also. If all goes well I will be able to take at least some shots the end of next week and will post them asap. I can tell you that it looks much brighter than my triple xml, much more of a difference than I thought it would be.

I will be posting beamshots tonight after I take them. Will shoot my Derwichtel triple, and a P60 XML drop in for reference.

that is one wicked light! can't wait for some beamshots!