Selling my Maxabeam Gen.1 searchlight. It has been upgraded with a Gen. 3 tube, and a new NiCad battery pack. Comes with a DC cord for battery pack or cigar lighter, strap, Pelican case, and a tripod with magnet that I used for stationary operation. I also have the old Nicad battery pack if you want to experiment with your LiIon homebrewed pack. $1300 shipped. Retail is about twice this cost.
It’s certainly not that nobody wants it, it’s just being able to justify the cost, I know I’m trying to convince myself but that’s a pricey toy if you don’t have a real use for it.
By that rationale anyone posting on any forum is potentially of questionable reputation. Only a handful of people own a $1K flashlight, much less understand what kind of upgrades he threw in there. If all else fails send him a PM at the other forum to cross reference the veracity of his post.
Just the electroformed precision reflector is worth hundreds of dollars. The ballast for the Xenon short-arc bulb is worth hundreds. In addition to this you have the bulb, the motorized focusing system with joystick control and a housing that is constructed to actually allow everything to work reliably.
Only a reflector as precise as this one can focus the small point of maximum intensity in the tiny arc of such a bulb.
We’re all human; I was thinking similarly. It’s always cool to realise that there is so much technology involved in a product that looks so discrete and simple.