I love it! Fantastic way to improve on a cheap light, Pipopopo. Although it looks like there's quite a bit of room around the drop-in which is leading to the reflector being off center on the lens. It might be worthwhile to visit the hardware store and see if there's a suitable piece of tubing that could help stiffen things up. Thick copper strips would be ideal and easy, but may be hard to find. Since you're sticking with an R5 heat shouldn't be an issue if you're @1A or so, so you may try soda can trick (Cut strips of aluminum from a soda can and wrap them around the drop-in). They should provide the stiffness with adequate heat sinking to center up the drop-in.
Again, good job and nice find on an inexpensive host!
Perhaps an 18500 would work a little better? Still a heckuva lot more capacity than three AAAs. Maybe even a 22600? Nice mod, BTW. Those 14 led lights are available here as well, but they'd be equivalent of 5 euros (I know, I know, terribly expensive)
What the heck is that lightsabre? I'm not into starwars but i might have a use for that aynway, can you tell me more? It is laser based i guess?
It is one of my Master Replica lightsabers (now produced by Hasbro) with led strips and motion sensitive humming/striking effects
I always fantasized of modding one into a flashlight.
Thick copper strips would be ideal and easy, but may be hard to find. Since you're sticking with an R5 heat shouldn't be an issue if you're @1A or so, so you may try soda can trick (Cut strips of aluminum from a soda can and wrap them around the drop-in). They should provide the stiffness with adequate heat sinking to center up the drop-in.
As a matter of fact I have some copperfoil left but I will use it to cool my XM-L/sst- projects, so allu foil will have to do.
Perhaps an 18500 would work a little better? Still a heckuva lot more capacity than three AAAs.
Although the Duraloops AAA run surprisingly well I think I might try a 18550
