chrisse242
Enlightened
As announced in the good cheap modding hosts-thread, I started to work on the wolflight. It's a three aaa, three led light with tailcap switch (non-momentary, light comes on after releasing switch) available on ebay. It's easy to remove all the parts in the head of the stock light.
It's now a luxIII sv1j direct driven of three nimh's.
I used a spare reflector I had from my first mod of the Walther tactical light and an endcap used for copper-tubes.
Here you can see the cap with luxeon star and reflector inserted:
I used zalman thermal epoxy (available on ebay germany and computer stores) this time. It's cheaper than the arctic products and time will tell if it's good enough.
I drilled two holes through the bottom of the copper cap to allow the led's wires to go through them. Soldered the positive wire to a nails head wich I taped to the cap, the other one makes contact with the lights head.
I'm using the three aaa holder I found in another light because I broke the one that came with this light. So probably it would better to use a different way to provide contact of the stock battery-holder and positive led-wire. This is not a professional work anyway and I bet there are better ways to do it but it works for me.
Here you can see my two mods side by side. I like the smaller wolflight most because it's
- smaller
- uses rechargeables instead of cr123's
Beam patterns of both lights are simmilar as they use the same reflector, so I won't do another beamshot, but it would look like this one:
And finally my selfmade kydex-holster with the light in it:
I have no clue about runtime because I'm a bit worried about heatsinking, so I don't dare using it much longer than five minutes.
I would to love hear about other (better) ideas for mods on this light.
Chrisse
It's now a luxIII sv1j direct driven of three nimh's.
I used a spare reflector I had from my first mod of the Walther tactical light and an endcap used for copper-tubes.
Here you can see the cap with luxeon star and reflector inserted:
I used zalman thermal epoxy (available on ebay germany and computer stores) this time. It's cheaper than the arctic products and time will tell if it's good enough.
I drilled two holes through the bottom of the copper cap to allow the led's wires to go through them. Soldered the positive wire to a nails head wich I taped to the cap, the other one makes contact with the lights head.
I'm using the three aaa holder I found in another light because I broke the one that came with this light. So probably it would better to use a different way to provide contact of the stock battery-holder and positive led-wire. This is not a professional work anyway and I bet there are better ways to do it but it works for me.
Here you can see my two mods side by side. I like the smaller wolflight most because it's
- smaller
- uses rechargeables instead of cr123's
Beam patterns of both lights are simmilar as they use the same reflector, so I won't do another beamshot, but it would look like this one:
And finally my selfmade kydex-holster with the light in it:
I have no clue about runtime because I'm a bit worried about heatsinking, so I don't dare using it much longer than five minutes.
I would to love hear about other (better) ideas for mods on this light.
Chrisse