Turning cheap lights into monsters

ThyerHazard

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I've always been interested in the idea of hotting up cheap dollar store lights to make them into something actually Impressive.

At the moment I'm working on turning a $14 3D 5watt led maglite style light into a 3X 26650, Cree 6v XHP70 monster. for a total of $39, Will be posting results in this thread, But I'm interested in what Lights you guys have hod rodded?
 

rayman

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I did that once with a incan thrower. It had a big reflector I wanted to use so I bought a HID-kit for a car headlight and turned the incan flashlight into a HID-thrower. Turned out pretty good ;-).

But when using high-power LEDs you have to watch out that they get enough heatsinking.
 
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