Giga-Fire G9 - HID to LED?

XXX-Man · 2019-10-14T19:50:32.000Z

Hi.

Friend has Giga-Fire G9 he loves but would like to change it to LED.

It uses 6V Xenon and 6V Ni-MH 5x2/3A battery. 3x16340 can be used with no modification as tube is 2 part. Also I could make it work with 2x17670 I have spare.

Drop in is 34mm diameter and 30mm long.

Any idea?

Duke · 2019-10-14T20:17:49.000Z

He should buy a Sofirn TK70.

Lexel · 2019-10-14T20:19:42.000Z

buy a proper LED flashlight

Reflectors are incompatible
Bulb lights are not build with enough heat sink for an LED

XXX-Man · 2019-10-14T20:24:48.000Z

That’s what I told him, but he still wanted me to ask…

staticx57 · 2019-10-14T20:54:05.000Z

Tell him HID is cool in a retro sort of way and to just buy an LED light

Photonica · 2019-10-25T13:20:16.000Z

It looks like the replacement bulb assembly is vaguely P60. It’s unlikely to be an exact match. Even if he could alter an LED P60 drop-in, the reflector shape would be different and the beam characteristics would change.

A replacement bulb is 35 € and 400 lumens. The same 35 € would go a long way towards a budget thrower of 1200-5500 lumens.