HarryN
Flashlight Enthusiast
Edit - Nov 29, 2004. I have been PM contacting others in the CPF who have needed and worked on adapters. One of them is fivemega, who is well ahead of my thinking and program for AA to D style adapters.
I have requested that he post some information about his AA to D adapter program in this post, and link it to a new thread he will likely start in the next 2 weeks. While his offering in this area is still slightly different than what I had in mind, he is very focused on the M-G style, D cell size lights, while I am not at all focusing on them.
This puts him in a much better position to support your adapter needs than I would be, at least in the next few months.
My plans are for more LED ground up designs, one which will be a 100 gram model Lux III, hopefully introduced this month, ready for shipment. With this and other LED related projects I have going, my latest estimate has been that it would take me several months to complete this, while fivemega will have an offering in December.
If for some reason your needs are not met with his offering, and he cannot help you, I will consider to look at this again on a custom build basis. In the meantime, please welcome fivemega's upcoming posts and thread connection with my blessing.
Edit Nov 27, 2004 - There seems to be two schools of thought out there on this adapter - a few have signed up to obtain this adapter with the thought that $ 30 is high but ok for the feature set.
A few have commented that they will buy if I do the work and give them some money along with the adapter, or prefer bailing wire approaches - which is not really my approach to life (not that I have not done this, I just haven't sold that sort of thing.
For what it will cost to build these, and the related design challenges, I am thinking that it would be just as easy and cost effective to just build a custom battery tube that replaces the existing tubes on a m@g or similar light.
These could be built 1, 2, 3, or 4 cells long, and fit any of the AA cells. For that matter, I could make one for 123 cells. Series and parallel versions could be made, and an adapter on the end could be made to screw on the desired light.
Price would be < $ 100 / each. Any comments ?
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I have been watching various interests in AA to D converters, and some of the challenges from the past attempts. Chief Wigwam made some great ones, which by his own admission were a PITA to make. They were so popular, that they are like precious jewels to obtain. I have decided to make an attempt as well since there seems to be a need by the community.
I am committing to work on this project, but not necessarily success or a timeline. We all know how this goes, and I tend to be a bit – detailed. I will keep the top post updated with questions and answers as they come up, and will request that anyone that is interested or curious please add to the knowledge base, as correcting mistakes takes time and money.
Please use this post for your communications on this project unless it REALLY needs to be private. I would like to focus on the project and not on answering PMs (I am not a fast typist)
When it comes to the final assembly, I might need some extra hands to help pull this off. When the time comes, I will post a sign up sheet if needed.
I have requested that he post some information about his AA to D adapter program in this post, and link it to a new thread he will likely start in the next 2 weeks. While his offering in this area is still slightly different than what I had in mind, he is very focused on the M-G style, D cell size lights, while I am not at all focusing on them.
This puts him in a much better position to support your adapter needs than I would be, at least in the next few months.
My plans are for more LED ground up designs, one which will be a 100 gram model Lux III, hopefully introduced this month, ready for shipment. With this and other LED related projects I have going, my latest estimate has been that it would take me several months to complete this, while fivemega will have an offering in December.
If for some reason your needs are not met with his offering, and he cannot help you, I will consider to look at this again on a custom build basis. In the meantime, please welcome fivemega's upcoming posts and thread connection with my blessing.
Edit Nov 27, 2004 - There seems to be two schools of thought out there on this adapter - a few have signed up to obtain this adapter with the thought that $ 30 is high but ok for the feature set.
A few have commented that they will buy if I do the work and give them some money along with the adapter, or prefer bailing wire approaches - which is not really my approach to life (not that I have not done this, I just haven't sold that sort of thing.
For what it will cost to build these, and the related design challenges, I am thinking that it would be just as easy and cost effective to just build a custom battery tube that replaces the existing tubes on a m@g or similar light.
These could be built 1, 2, 3, or 4 cells long, and fit any of the AA cells. For that matter, I could make one for 123 cells. Series and parallel versions could be made, and an adapter on the end could be made to screw on the desired light.
Price would be < $ 100 / each. Any comments ?
_______________________________
I have been watching various interests in AA to D converters, and some of the challenges from the past attempts. Chief Wigwam made some great ones, which by his own admission were a PITA to make. They were so popular, that they are like precious jewels to obtain. I have decided to make an attempt as well since there seems to be a need by the community.
I am committing to work on this project, but not necessarily success or a timeline. We all know how this goes, and I tend to be a bit – detailed. I will keep the top post updated with questions and answers as they come up, and will request that anyone that is interested or curious please add to the knowledge base, as correcting mistakes takes time and money.
Please use this post for your communications on this project unless it REALLY needs to be private. I would like to focus on the project and not on answering PMs (I am not a fast typist)
When it comes to the final assembly, I might need some extra hands to help pull this off. When the time comes, I will post a sign up sheet if needed.