Re: DD red or red-orange Lux of 2AA?
Well Screw it, I decided to rig the broken MiniMag to light up when you screw it down, instead of lighting up when you unscew it (Because it was broken And I did not know how else to make it work)
I sanded down a red HD Lux Star untill it fit in the head.
I soldered 2 thin soldering wires (copper coated with tin) to the emmiter part of the star, wrapped the wires in electrical tape, and plugged them into the light bulb socket. Added an old NX-05 optic (not my favorite choice) but its that I had from blowing up the Star-O's on my ATV project a long time ago.
The result is a nice bright red flood beam.
It will hold me over untill Lambda makes some more sandwitaches for a good price. It is much brighter than a stock Mag AA.
* the way it is setup the thin wires flex when you tighten the light down (so I left plenty of extra length for a couple twists). Should they break eventually it would take me a good 5 minutes to solder new ones /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/icon3.gif. Needles to say this is a VERY ghetto mod, the light can no longer be used in candle mode either, due to the star being mounted in the head rather than the tube, and also because of the way I had to rig the light to turn on when tightened because I broke the switch (the whole reason I had to buy my roomate a replacement and try this mod)
From the outside it looks like any other Mag 2AA with NX-05 Optic, the inside is a bit sloppy, but the price of the mod $6 is quite nice. And you can't see anything unusualy from the outside.
if anyone would like pics I can post some tomarrow. Looks spiffy in a silver mini-mag from the outside, but "I" know what is inside. The light should not be turned opend more than 1/2 turn because of the way the wires are mounted inside. However there is no reason to turn it more than this since im using an optic instead of the reflector, and the star is mounted in the head instead of the tube. So turning the head ONLY turns it on and off, it does not change the distance from the optic to the star.
There is no heatsink but since its running on 2 AA's I figure the Star-board itself should be enough...Someone correct me if I am wrong. There is plenty of electrical tape around it too to isolate it (like that would help with heat)