Thanks everyone for your suggestions and info.
I’m leaning towards making this my first flashlight mod.
I will spend some time this weekend trying to figure out how to make a thermal path for the LED. Not that it’s really needed due to the low current, but just to see if I can. And I think I should be able to get the reflector to work with a shorter LED since the pill and reflector are press fit against the lens.
My only reservation so far is how well will the new Nichia 219C D280 on 16mm Noctigon - 80+ CRI 5000K work.
- Will the lumens be adequate? I don’t want to end up with a flashlight that’s always in moonlight mode.
- Will there be any issues with flickering? Here is a BLF posting where that happened with a LED swap: Anybody successfully opened a Zebralight before? .
Any assurances that the new LED should be fine would be appreciated.