jealousFoy
I was really hoping for more throw, but the color of the beam and the beam itself is gorgeous. Matches my HD2010 in distance even while producing much more light out to the sides and foreground. Even more impressively, it is better at filling the yard, and outthrows by an easy margin, the Triple XM-L2 drop-in I just put in my 3DMaglight with some 3000 lumens!! Doubt the numbers? What does 9+Amps delivered to 3 XM-L2 produce? Bunches of protons! lol I really like how it puts a lot of light downrange, and everywhere in between. Nice colored light.
So tell me Foy? Does the serial number A0009 mean it’s literally the 9th one?
Might just have to keep this one, if I can.
How’s this for a hand built AAA MiniMag Mod? RufusBDuck outdid himself with this one, from it’s totally custom made driver (12mm in diameter) putting out 1.11A on high to the copper fins he made from scratch, this little beauty performs! TexasPyro tested it in his Sphere and it measured out at 261 lumens on Hi, 84 in Med, and 15 in Lo. The XP-G2 emitter that I reflowed onto a copper SinkPAD and turned down to 11mm for RBD is tested at 5533K in Hi mode. Nice white light with a solid beam, no hotspot, courtesy of a Ledil Tina2-D Optic. Couldn’t be any prouder! Look at how it dares face off the Solarforce S2200! lol
This shot is 40 individual images at some 11MB ea stacked into the one you see above. 
Umm what?
@DBCstm, one hell of a nice light…superb look… :nerd_face:
wish maglite actually build something like that with affordable price (dreaming? :D)
BBC 261L by RufusBDuck
That looks lovely! 
RBD really did it up right, I’m quite proud of it!
I just finished this build for the Old-Lumens challenge. It’s made from a live round of .50 Calibre Browning Machine Gun ammo. Powered by a 14500 cell, the emitter is an XP-G2 R5 2B on a copper Nitro SinkPAD sitting on a 1/4” thick copper heat sink, with a copper pipe support for the 3.04A Q-Lite driver. Should be putting out some 650 lumens OTF with an IMR cell. Built using only a powered cordless drill and a dremel tool, with a soldering iron of course. Everything else was either filed or sanded by hand. I cut brass plumbing fittings for threads, isolated the male thread in the upper casing such that when the 2 pieces are screwed together contact is made for ON when the shell halves touch. 3 modes, with memory and low voltage cut-off at 2.8V.
Enjoy!
Beautiful
Very nice, both externally and internally.
Convoy M2 host, Cree XM-L2 5B1 80+CRI led, Qlite (revA) driver on moonlight mode.
Yes, I know, I said it comes on when the 2 casing halves touch. And it on in the picture with a rubber spacer separating the 2 casing halves. With a 3.04A driver and looking for every bit of that, it’s got to have an IMR14500 cell. These are not protected and are thus considerably shorter than protected cells. All I have on hand at the moment are protected cells. Not wanting to crush a cell, or do damage to the driver, I used the rubber spacer to make battery connection and avoid damage. The tools it’s laying on are making the contact, bridging the rubber spacer and turning the light on for the picture.
AW IMR14500 due in tomorrow, possibly even today. With an AW 14500 Protected cell, it draws 2.51A on Hi, an Intl-Outdoor Protected cell allows 2.15A on Hi, but an AW 18650 Protected cell allows 2.79A on Hi, so it is capable of making close to 3A just not with conventional AA sized Li-ion cells. Can’t wait to see how it does with an IMR, does anyone know if it’d be ok to run an amperage test with a 26650 that has 18A capability? I sure don’t want to fry it after all the work I put into it!
And yes, the copper inside transfers heat to the brass casing in a big hurry…it gets hot at the head very fast! One of the cool things about the bullet case though is that the brass is thickest up there where the heat is, and thins as it tapers down towards the bullet…where once again there’s a HUGE chunk of copper to take the heat. So far I’ve been able to see that upper portion get pretty hot with searing heat coming out the front, but the main body or battery tube hasn’t really heated up. We’ll see what it does with a HD cell in it…
Edit 6/24/13: The AW IMR14500 fit’s perfectly, I bypassed the spring on the driver with a copper wire and am getting 2.82A readings. Finally right up there where I was “shooting” for!
So here’s the final finished light, with an artistic stand I created and in “poster” form…
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Foy seriously digs your POP material. I can see that stuck on the side a case full of these lights.
hotcakesFoy
Something borrowed something blue.
Modified lights, gotta love em! The M3 on the left, the new K3 on the right
Mmmm, whole lotta sweetness going on here! S2200 and K3
Some customizations taste better with a lil BBQ sauce!
Home made custom Titanium reflector, for a very small Titanium light. Stock reflector on left.
Lovely photos! I really like this one, the reflector looks glittery! Is it orange peel?
Yes, it’s a nice OrangePeel reflector. That massive MT-G2 seems to glow in there all the time, any ambient light at all and that things in there screaming “Fire Me Up!”
So far I’ve got it pushing about 2500 lumens, will be going for 3000 when parts arrive. 
Here it is again, making it’s neighbors look bad!
Nice pic, but one of the batteries is installed wrong way!
