Here's one I just did today and haven't seen before, it was really quite simple and with impressive results.
I did the normal 6v conversion and refitted it with a streamlight scorpion bulb.
Anyway the scorpion bulb is too narrow to fit into the bi pin sockets of the flashlight housing, but if you break the stock bulb, and remove the pins out of the white plastic base you will see that the stock bulb is the same pin size as the scorpion. They just have 4 pin holes in the white plastic base. 2 smaller ones for thier bulb, and 2 wider ones for the pins that go into the flashlight socket.
If you remove those larger pins, you will see they just put the bulb pins throught the bulb side of the white housing, then put thier larger pins on the wider slots on the flashlight side. Then they just use a little solder to connect them. So then you can cut off the narrow pins, put the scorpion bulb through the plastic base using the narrow pin holes, then put the wider pins back in their original holes on the other side and resolder them you end up with a scorpion 6 volt bulb in your DB 4AAA no modification of the lens or reflector has been needed. The bulb when flush in the plastic housning is shorter than the stock bulb, but it still goes from a spot to flood focus.
It's not as bright as a scorpion but it's way way brighter than stock. I'm thinking this might be because I'm using alkaline AAA's might do better with nimh's. However even with alkalines it's bright. Beam has a few rings in it, but not bad. It pales in comparison to my e2e, which is why I think the AAA's just are not putting out enough to really run it because my scorpion is noticeably brighter than my e2e.
For the $8 the light cost and $2 in batteries, and a $4 scorpion bulb I'd pretty impressive for $14 and 15 min of work.
Todd
I did the normal 6v conversion and refitted it with a streamlight scorpion bulb.
Anyway the scorpion bulb is too narrow to fit into the bi pin sockets of the flashlight housing, but if you break the stock bulb, and remove the pins out of the white plastic base you will see that the stock bulb is the same pin size as the scorpion. They just have 4 pin holes in the white plastic base. 2 smaller ones for thier bulb, and 2 wider ones for the pins that go into the flashlight socket.
If you remove those larger pins, you will see they just put the bulb pins throught the bulb side of the white housing, then put thier larger pins on the wider slots on the flashlight side. Then they just use a little solder to connect them. So then you can cut off the narrow pins, put the scorpion bulb through the plastic base using the narrow pin holes, then put the wider pins back in their original holes on the other side and resolder them you end up with a scorpion 6 volt bulb in your DB 4AAA no modification of the lens or reflector has been needed. The bulb when flush in the plastic housning is shorter than the stock bulb, but it still goes from a spot to flood focus.
It's not as bright as a scorpion but it's way way brighter than stock. I'm thinking this might be because I'm using alkaline AAA's might do better with nimh's. However even with alkalines it's bright. Beam has a few rings in it, but not bad. It pales in comparison to my e2e, which is why I think the AAA's just are not putting out enough to really run it because my scorpion is noticeably brighter than my e2e.
For the $8 the light cost and $2 in batteries, and a $4 scorpion bulb I'd pretty impressive for $14 and 15 min of work.
Todd