goofing off with a cheap rayovac lantern

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http://www.walmart.com/ip/Rayovac-4-x-AA-LED-Lantern/21106270

I had picked one of these up black friday at walmart. it was sitting at the checkout counter for something like $1.50, and it intrigued me. i could not resist it for so cheap. saw it and though "that could make a decent cheap thrower".

well turns out its a plastic reflector. should not have expected anything more for that price. so hotwire is out of the question. stashed the light away and forgot about it. i had recently found a two pack or rayovac krypton bulbs for 3 cell lights. thought "hmmm"

before the bulb swap i got 3920 lux at 1 meter, after the swap i got 11080 lux at 1 meter. thats on some cheap carbon zinc panasonic AAs

well there it is. in the mood to mess around with lights, and need some sinkpads and a qlite driver before i can do anything worth while... i ended up swapping the star and driver from my c108 to my copper c8 pill, but not a permanent swap. need a 20mm sinkpad and a qlite driver for it.

also have a c mag heat sink i need to tinker with, but need an emitter and not exactly sure what driver i want to do in it.

also have the small sun zy-t13 mod i killed the xre in i need to do something with, but still not exactly sure what i want to do for an emitter

well bored on a saturday night, thats what i got for now.

maybe a ROP in the little all plastic rayo?

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well tinker mode engaged… swapped the three bad caps in the 37” lcd my fiances mom gave me to try and fix. something like $15 and 45 min later, we got a 37” lcd for the bedroom

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RayoROP…has the power to melt itself.

So that worked? I remember reading your thread about capacitors and all that a while back. Cool, ’grats 8)

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yeah, one of the traces on the back side of the board looked damaged before the repair, but i was as careful as i could not to cause any more damage to it. two of the three caps had the tops leaking and the bottoms blown out, the third just had the top leaking. i should have taken pics of them to post…

edit: i bought the rayo pretty much in hopes it had a metal reflector, and the cells were in series. well the cells are in series, but no go on metal reflector.

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That's the same lantern I bought for my thread about using those stars with the 7135's mounted on them and an XM-L emitter. I'll run at either 700mA or maybe 350mA for more runtime. I just ordered the parts. Stock the output of this lantern sucks! Worst beam pattern ever!

-Garry

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I wonder how would it do with a SST90 swap and driven hard, with a 26650 mod. ?

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i think if youd spend the money for an sst90, youd want to spend more for a host thats not 95% plastic

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I was more kidding than serious. I do have a SST90 chip kicking around, not sure yet what im going to transplant it in.

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send it this way and ill see how it does in this quality host :wink: