3D alkaline led mod

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Dear all, is there some recomendations on a 17mm driver to use in a Maglite 3D flashlight? the idea is to mod it with a XPL-hi led on a heatsink but I wish to remain using the 3D alkaline batteries.

Thanks

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With 3D you could go DD ot a FET+AMC7135 driver

The question is how much current will be in DD when the batteries come directly from charger without resting

I build and sell TA drivers

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I would go with a proper buck driver like LD40, advantages of this are that you can run lithium too, or some 3AA to D adapters, disadvantages are that you may not get the full energy from the standard D cells.

Otherwise just a simple 7135 driver or FET driver (or both like TA) will work good.

kiriba-ru on here makes a nice maglite D Cell conversion kit.

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I have the conversion heatsink and the led flowed on the DTP board but I needed some advice on what kind of driver for 3 D alkalines in series. Thanks you all for the input.

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How about a simple 16xAMC7135 driver

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Is there this kind of driver in 17mm?

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Yes

choose “add 8 chips” to the 105E or QLITE REV.A drivers, or you can only add 7 to the Moonlight Special Driver. You get the idea.

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Thanks a lot for the advice