[pic heavy] mini maglite LED (AA) mod. my first maglite mod.

So i had this mini mag for a long time and i wanted to dedome it, not knowing rebbel leds dont really like to be dedomed. I soaked the led in gasoline and took of the dome with all its phosphor.
The light turned really blue and ugly so i took it appart with the idea op putting a XP-G2 R5 in it.

So i began and i think it turned out okay.

i decided to keep the stock reflector, this would make it a lot simpler. that way i did not have to place the LED higher in the body.
the driver used is a boost driver i got from FastTech.


i used the housing where the rebbel led and its driver was fitted and made a heatsink out of it.
being from europe, i used a 20cent coin as it is made out of 89% copper to make a base for the led and also to fill he inside with the scrap i had from cutting the coin.
Also copper braid was used to fill it up a little more and soldered it all together.
the copper wire is used as a ground wire for the driver.
i also had to cut a slit for the wires to pass through.


driver installed.


the 16mm led board had to be cut down to fit on the new heatsink.


the module installed in the host.


i centered the led as well as possible.


the driver is PWM but it is not really possible to see with the naked eye.

the nex thing i have to do now is buy a tailswitch, the only way to turn the light off now it by losening the tailcap.

i hope you enjoyed my mod. its not the best but its an upgrade and i had fun doing it.

Grtz

DenTilloZie

Nice upgrade! I like the internals a bit messy, and the outside looking good :-) You improved the stock light a lot!

I have dedomed a fair amount of different leds, most of them I get done, sometimes with a thin layer of silicon leftover on the die (Nichia's dedome like that). But no leds dedome as easy and clean as the Cree ones.

Nice…good mod!

Nice mod. I’ve never modded a maglite before, and your thread reminded me that I have an empty chopped down MiniMags somewhere. I better start looking for it.

Nice effort. You have built yourself a nice little modded light. Whats next on the hit list?

TR j19. 2 emitters dedomed 1 domed. this will be first multi emmitter light to mod :slight_smile:

I've got the pop corn ready.