I saw this from various sellers on Ebay, and Buyincoins too.
I’m not keen on the battery cage but seems like there are no budget[^1] single emitter AA or AAA UV lights other than those using the 5mm LEDs. This one has 21!! It certainly looks capable, but is it any good?
[^1]: Excluding the 30 USD (!!!) Tank007 TK-566 from Manafont. No idea about the UniqueFire S10 from DX.
I had a different multiple 5mm UV LED flashlight in my hands a few times, it works, but the build quality is abysmal.
Can you do a driver swap? I put a boost driver in the popular manafont dropin and it works great with 2AA Batteries in a Solarforce L2 with an extension tube.
I think I could swap the driver but I don’t want it to be a big project so ideally if I can order all the parts at once?
Where did you get the driver? I haven’t got any Li-ion lights so this would be my first time using a host. I didn’t know there was an extension tube for the L2!
The L2 host is available as a package with the extension tube from solarforceflashlight-sales.com. The driver is from DX and the dropin from manafont.
If you want to reduce the shops to order from, I think manafont has an Ultrafire P60 host for 3xCR123, that would work as well. But personally I would take any excuse to order another Solarforce :bigsmile:
Yeah, that would work if you want to use 1xCR123. But you would still need a dropin with a boost driver, except if you used a rechargeable 16340 LiIon battery, but since you said don't have any LiIon lights you'd have to get a charger too.
Chloe, what are you using a UV light for? Cat spots on the carpet or to attract bugs for the cats to swat? I hope you get the UV protection glasses to use with it.
Hi B42, I already have these yellow UV glasses . It’s just for fun really. :bigsmile: My little 3xAG13 3-in-1 UV/laser light is really weak so I have to be using it up very close.
For use with 2AAs you need an 18650 host with one additional CR123 extension tube OR a 3xCR123 host. This is the one I bought:
http://solarforceflashlight-sales.com/product_detail.php?t=FB&s=8&id=409 (the addtional extension tube isn't in the picture)
I don't know if that's intended, but 3 CR123 batteries are equal to two AA cells in length. And one 18650 is as long as two CR123s :)
And if one day you should get tired of the UV dropin, you could always get a nice NW XP-G2 dropin for it ;)
LOL! My mom has that exact UV light! It's okay, on par with what you would expect from a cluster of 5mm UV leds... Nowhere near what the Manafont drop-in does. No throw at all or course. Makes you notice unusual things in the food pantry; look at olive oil...
Chloe, look for the Ultrafire 50xc hosts; those are the 3x CR123a hosts which should fit 2x AA cells.
Keltex, that’s what I expect really, but it was only £3 or so and it’s quite cute. :bigsmile: It’s funny you mention olive oil because I noticed some fluorescing of oil when I was using my little Preon P0 in the kitchen.
Thanks for the suggestion! Would I need to make a battery tube for a host that takes 3xCR123a? I thought they were quite wide cells compared to AA (I don’t have any).