I'm buying a flashlight for a friend that works as a security guard. I have decided that he prefers warm tinted lights and therefore the light needs to be easy to mod with a different emitter and different driver since I'm planing to use the NANJG 2800mA driver. The good thing with this driver is the group with 2 modes since they are well spaced for use as a security guard.
I'm thinking that a flashlight of UltraFire C8 size would be perfect both in size and beam profile but which of all the similar sized flashlights out there would be the best to mod? The TrustFire TE-R2 looks to be a good option with it using the P60 style drop-in and good sized reflector. A bit on the expensive side though since I'm only going to use the body of the flashlight.
c2 has a little wider spill and hotspot and i haven't found smo reflector for it, but it has very nice beam
also you would have to replace a spring on the driver with a blob of solder and make the spring in the tailcap little bit shorter to fit long protected acu
neither one will accept 20mm star i think though so you would have to make the star smaller or flatten the pill and drill new holes for the cables