I found it to be a bit tricky and certainly requires care.
Here is the luxeon micropro itself:
http://www.candlepowerforums.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=826574&page=3&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1
Here is an explanation of putting the micropill in a mag solitaire:
http://www.candlepowerforums.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB14&Number=819523&page=2&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=365&fpart=1
When I first got the micropro I thought it was really tiny. I could never assemble one of those myself. It takes careful work to sand it down to fit the solitaire, and you don't want to go too far or there won't be any contact area left on the bottom of the top circuit board. Boring the body of the solitaire is also difficult if you don't have a pretty well stocked workshop. I ended up clamping a drill bit in my vise, wrapping tape around the solitaire body, and putting the body in the chuck of a 1/2" drill. I also went real slowly. I whittled out the hole in the reflector with an Xacto knife. After boring the body I had to do a little filing of the body to clear some bumps in the epoxy of the micropro, and finally I made a temporary spacer our of a short piece of nail wrapped in tape. And lo and behold it works.
In case anybody wants to know HOW it works- it puts out a pretty good amount of light. It isn't a QIII for sure, but it is brighter than a Gerber Infinity and also it has a hotspot instead of being all flood.
I'm glad I got it done and for sure I'm glad that it works, but it was a bit suspenseful and hairraising for a little while. It would have been a lot easier to just buy the Brinkman from Lambda already completed.
Here is the luxeon micropro itself:
http://www.candlepowerforums.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=826574&page=3&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1
Here is an explanation of putting the micropill in a mag solitaire:
http://www.candlepowerforums.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB14&Number=819523&page=2&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=365&fpart=1
When I first got the micropro I thought it was really tiny. I could never assemble one of those myself. It takes careful work to sand it down to fit the solitaire, and you don't want to go too far or there won't be any contact area left on the bottom of the top circuit board. Boring the body of the solitaire is also difficult if you don't have a pretty well stocked workshop. I ended up clamping a drill bit in my vise, wrapping tape around the solitaire body, and putting the body in the chuck of a 1/2" drill. I also went real slowly. I whittled out the hole in the reflector with an Xacto knife. After boring the body I had to do a little filing of the body to clear some bumps in the epoxy of the micropro, and finally I made a temporary spacer our of a short piece of nail wrapped in tape. And lo and behold it works.
In case anybody wants to know HOW it works- it puts out a pretty good amount of light. It isn't a QIII for sure, but it is brighter than a Gerber Infinity and also it has a hotspot instead of being all flood.
I'm glad I got it done and for sure I'm glad that it works, but it was a bit suspenseful and hairraising for a little while. It would have been a lot easier to just buy the Brinkman from Lambda already completed.
