Chicken Drumstick
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Episode 2 now up.
MagLite Vs The World - Round 2
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alpg88
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That little 3x xpg is a lot more useful on that trail.
Tempest UK
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Good stuff. Are there any other G4 bulbs you're planning to try out?
Chicken Drumstick
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I've got an Osram 64250 that I've never used. Will try that out in a modded D2 I think. Just waiting for some bits from Fivemega to arrive.
I used a stock, classic 168 lumen D cell Led Maglite on this rainy, foggy thanksgiving night to light the way for my hyperactive turkey infused Black Lab and it worked perfectly. It's always my choice for foggy nights.
Maglite=1 World=0
Maglite=1 World=0
The updated 2D classic is a bit over 200 lumens, has a several hours runtime and an optional low that appears nearly as bright but has like 10x the run time of high.
When it first came out in 019 Grainger hardware store was the only place to buy it and only available in black but now Maglite sells it at their site in several colors. Classic 2D only better.
When it first came out in 019 Grainger hardware store was the only place to buy it and only available in black but now Maglite sells it at their site in several colors. Classic 2D only better.
Wow, they got red ones.
Red or orange makes any flashlight at least twice as cool. At least.
I remember seeing a red ml50lx for sale at some point. Now that was a cool looking light.
I remember seeing a red ml50lx for sale at some point. Now that was a cool looking light.
I got mine at target when they first came out. At first I didn't see much of a point to the (20%/43 lumen) low mode because, inside at least, it was hard to tell it from full power. Take it outside and you can tell the difference at a distance and you also get the much increased runtime, but I would like it better if they changed it to 10%/21 lumens - even at this level it still would be a couple lumens brighter than the old 2D with a krypton bulb.
The LX's were crimson red type 3 ano'd, more of a blood red than the standard fire engine looking type 2 anodized red.
Of the standard colors, I always thought that blue ones looked the coolest when new (but not after they got scuffed up).
Blue is really pretty but scratches easy. Crimson LX is over the top. Just my opinion.
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Midnight blue!!! 👍 S/N 37,xxx,xxx that's 37 million
Looks good!
37 million? My 3C Mag that I got when Mag was clearing out the last of the xenon C cell lights, is only 2,860,xxx - that would suggest that the 3D out sold the 3C by almost 13 to 1.
alpg88
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That sounds about right, D is a lot more popular.
It's a 2D from Maglite's site earlier this year. They show is separate from the 'normal' colored 2D incans. [At some point I'm going to see if the updated classic LED light assembly (or the 168 lumen one) can directly swap with the midnight blue light assembly.]
I read 3D was even more popular than 2D back in the day.
It seems D cell lights were way more popular than C cell lights back then.
Back in 018 or 019 (iirc) I bought a 3D ML300 and 3C ML50 from Sprawl Mart. The C was 52,xxx. The D was 199,xxx. They both sit next to eeach other in my LED Maglite collection.
I like the 3C better myself but perhaps the masses go for the larger size.
I read 3D was even more popular than 2D back in the day.
It seems D cell lights were way more popular than C cell lights back then.
Back in 018 or 019 (iirc) I bought a 3D ML300 and 3C ML50 from Sprawl Mart. The C was 52,xxx. The D was 199,xxx. They both sit next to eeach other in my LED Maglite collection.
I like the 3C better myself but perhaps the masses go for the larger size.
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Interesting. My 3C is 32,7xx,xxx
Its a krypton from between 2003-09.
Its a krypton from between 2003-09.
I haven't tried it, but I think it would probably work. You would need to swap the switch with the LED module for the incan switch assembly.
Back in the incan dayz C cell Mags wern't all that popular combared to D's, but now that we have LED's the C cells are becoming more popular, but I guess the D cell models still out sell the C's.
The 3 indicates a 3 cell light, the rest of the numbers are the serial, so yours is 2.7 million, with in about 200,000 of mine purchased in 2020 (probably made a few years before that).
