Lowe's Lux Pro MAX 2D LXII flashlight Video tear down, + photos and Mod to MT-G2/6xAA NiMHs - Beam Shots are up!

Flashlight Modding and DIY Parts
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Here is a video tear down of the $12.97 at Lowe's right now, Lux Pro MAX 2D LXII flashlight.

Along with the video are some photos and then a quick mod.

Mod components are;

MT-G2 on 20mm Noctigon

Q-lite 3040mA driver with zener mod ( 3mode - L/M/H)

6xAA Battery holder

Tail Cap

Body

Switch from Bat end

From front end

led side of pill

Driver side of pill

Driver

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MOD

MT-G2 on Noctigon, Q-lite Driver

6xAA battery holder, series

Qlite with a 20mm blank board for the contact plate

Driver in place

LED in place - it's 22ga teflon coated wire

Reflector opened up. The reflector can't be opened up to go over the die substrate, because the led end of the reflector is smaller around than the die substrate square. Also, it would change the stack height too much. I also sanded down the back of the reflector, to make the seat thinner.

Finished. It was very simple to do and if you use two 26650, it's even easier, cause you only need the 26650 sleeve instead of making a holder.

One spring it for the Li-ions and the other is for the 6xAA holder. The shortened spring was a cut down out of a Maglite D.

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Beam Shots

The beam shots will be of the Stock light, the 1D mod and the MT-G2 mod. The stock light and the 1D light will be mouseover photos. Stock will be Mouse Out and 1D will be Mouse Over.

The photos above are at 1/125 of a second shutter speed, to show more of what the hot spot is.

These three were done at 1/25 of a second shutter speed.

The three photos above are at 1 second shutter speed

These last photos are at 2 seconds shutter speed.

The MT-G2 pulls a little less than 3 amps with 6xAA and it pulls 3020mA with my Sony 26650

I do not understand the 1D. I put one of the led4power drivers in it and it will barely do 3 amps on high. I have double checked everything and can't find a problem. I also cannot get any turbo. I thought it was supposed to have turbo, but maybe I just need to go read again. My Sony cell will do 10 amps flat out, so it's not the cell. I just don't get it, but it's not impressive like it should be.

The BLF Modding Links Thread. Looking for a mod that's been done at BLF? Try here for a link.
The Winner is Post #27 - International (Non US) Only - giveaway. - Lowe's Lux Pro MAX 2D
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Great mod! I like how these assembled lights targeted for the “average consumer” are easy to mod.

Does it handle the heat well at 3A?

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It does pretty good. Better than I thought. No matter what, with an MT-G2 it will get hot fast, but the pill and the section it screws into are fairly thick, so there is quite a bit of mass there.

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Very nice mod. Have you completed any run time tests with it? I gave up trying to run an MTG-2 with 8 Eneloops and the cheap five amp driver. It kept blowing drivers up.

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Nice tear down vid.
By now you just have in stock most any part to mod any light. :slight_smile:
How about some beam shots of the modded light compared to the unmodded one?

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Good news for modders. When I did my tear down, I noticed and forgot to check. The plastic reflector that comes with this light, shaped for an XP-G2 is the same width and height as the aluminum XM-L reflector in the C8’s.
The XM-L shape is optimized for the the larger XM-L and therefore should be a closer match for the MT-G2.

Also the glass lens for the C8 is a perfect fit.
It doesn’t look like it from this pic but the height is the same. This reflector and lens will drop right in.

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^ Very excellent discoveries and report dchomak. Thank you.

O-L,

As always, you make some of the best tear down and mod threads. All kinds of good info in your words and pictures. Love all the power options your light has. That 6AA holder you made here is already coming in handy.

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Yep, when I measured and found it was 41-42mm, I just about knew C8 would work. I just don’t have any C8 stuff as I hate those lights, LOL. I will do beam shots tonight. It has been raining, so I held off.

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That black thing on the driver (end of the video) is probably reverse polarity diode…

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I have been Banned from buying anything until after Christmas by my Wife.
She claims that I am to hard to buy for…………………
But I did get a call from her while she was at Lowe’s asking for the details on the light.
She did pick up 2 for me and they had the XP-G2 emitter.

So now the wait begins for Christmas, much like ordering a light from China :slight_smile:

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Cut down for one Li-ion 26650 or 18650. led4power driver with turbo. XP-G2 with the dome shaved off and on a Copper mcpcb.

Beam shots tonight of a stock light, the MT-G2 light and the 1D light.

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Justin,
Great job on the video and other information on this light :slight_smile:
I like the idea of the MT-G2 using the two 26650 batteries.

What is the story on the reducer tube to make the 26650 batteries fit

Thanks

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Keeney Mfg. Co. 12-in Plastic Straight Coupling just cut to fit and use an O ring or two around it, for less play.

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Thanks for the info and for some strange reason I think that I have something like that in stock.

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Oh my, that shorty looks great.

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Do yall think it’s possible to use blf20dd-z in this application?

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Beam shots are in the OP now. Stock light, 1D light, MT-G2 light

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I sometimes don’t know if it’s a good or bad thing that I live 75 miles from the nearest Big Box Store.

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I’m waiting for you to mod a Taco Bell burrito with an MTG2 … :party:

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Brrrrrrpppp!

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I am posting to say that I went to Lowes today, got the light. It is different. The driver is different, and the driver retaining ring does not unscrew; it is a press fit job (that I managed to mangle trying to “unscrew”)