sween1911
Flashlight Enthusiast
I've alluded to this a few other places, but my friend at work inherited a 4D Maglite, mid-90's Panther Logo, D-serial number. He wanted to hook it up and knew I did flashlights.
I followed Matt's ( @Lumencraft (Matt) ) recipe and put (2) flat top 26650's behind an OG Adventure Sport 5000 lumen unit. Since Lumencraft doesn't stock the 5000 lumen unit anymore, I got it from a UK flashlight module supplier on ebay. Sourced the batts and a Nitecore charger from Illumination Supply. Also added a flashlightlens Borofloat V3 glass lens in front of it and a tailcap wire bypass. The spacer took me some time to figure out. I was originally going to use an aluminum rod, but since copper is a better conductor, I decided to cut a piece of wire out a length of Romex, and bend it around a dowel the right length to allow the batteries to get some spring pressure from the tailcap. Since they're in a PVC sleeve, I didn't worry about the potential shorting the wire on the body of the light. The particular Mag did not have the tiny spring on the positive end inside the tube so the wire on that end I bent up in a tiny point to make the connection.
(allow for some white balancing from my iphone, it wasn't quite that searing) Brutally bright indoors on high. Fortunately, that module comes loaded with guppydrv DUAL programming and can be ramped down with decent low and medium modes. Fantastic module!
I followed Matt's ( @Lumencraft (Matt) ) recipe and put (2) flat top 26650's behind an OG Adventure Sport 5000 lumen unit. Since Lumencraft doesn't stock the 5000 lumen unit anymore, I got it from a UK flashlight module supplier on ebay. Sourced the batts and a Nitecore charger from Illumination Supply. Also added a flashlightlens Borofloat V3 glass lens in front of it and a tailcap wire bypass. The spacer took me some time to figure out. I was originally going to use an aluminum rod, but since copper is a better conductor, I decided to cut a piece of wire out a length of Romex, and bend it around a dowel the right length to allow the batteries to get some spring pressure from the tailcap. Since they're in a PVC sleeve, I didn't worry about the potential shorting the wire on the body of the light. The particular Mag did not have the tiny spring on the positive end inside the tube so the wire on that end I bent up in a tiny point to make the connection.
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