4D Maglite Modding

[crashlander]

Hi,

i looked around the forum search for a while but didn´t found a tutorial regarding the modding of 4D´s with 5W Luxeons. Does anybody have a source for something like that ?

Thanks,
Stefan

 

[chrisse242]

Hi Crash, 4D IMHO, is a little uncommon for most of the mods but still it's not a big problem. You'll need a heatsink like the Hotlips or o-sink (search for them, lot's of infos here), a boost converter of your choice, and a decent lux5 emitter. Have a look on the binning charts that explain brightness-, colour tint-, and voltage- bin codes (perferably an x-bin for brightness and tell us when you've found them /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif).
Also look at some other threads about mag-modding to find out what to do with the switch. I think mrBulk's space needle tutorial will help a lot, although it doesn't explain exactly the same mod. It's still a d-sized mag and a 5watter.
You should also consider using a 3Watt lux as it will give you more throw (but less overall light) at reduced cost. You see, still a lot of reading to go through.

Chrisse

Edit: space needle tutorial
By the way, the "homemade and modifed ligths" forum would be more appropriate for your question than this one.

Chrisse

 

[crashlander]

Hi Chrisse,

thanks for the input. Man, looks like a lot of research to do here.
Sorry for using the wrong forum, will happen no more!