Converting an old military FL to LED

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Will the NiteIze give me compatible light with longer life? How significant of amount is the upgrade?

Let's just say that you will lose the ringy artifact filled beam and replace it with a nice round hotspot if you get the 1 Watt drop-in (not the cheaper one with the 10mm LED). In terms of brightness it's roughly twice as bright in the spill but slightly dimmer in the hotspot but the hotspot covers roughly twice the area. This is definitely not a thrower. You absolutely will gain in run time, probably on the order of two to four times. Conceivably, if you put a Nite Ize drop-in into the tail cap and run the stock bulb until the batteries die, you can then swap in the LED and get the same run time on dead batteries or more compared to the incan bulb on fresh batteries!

 

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Let's just say that you will lose the ringy artifact filled beam and replace it with a nice round hotspot if you get the 1 Watt drop-in (not the cheaper one with the 10mm LED). In terms of brightness it's roughly twice as bright in the spill but slightly dimmer in the hotspot but the hotspot covers roughly twice the area. This is definitely not a thrower. You absolutely will gain in run time, probably on the order of two to four times. Conceivably, if you put a Nite Ize drop-in into the tail cap and run the stock bulb until the batteries die, you can then swap in the LED and get the same run time on dead batteries or more compared to the incan bulb on fresh batteries!

I ended up getting a Nite Ize at walmart for all of $8 and been pretty happy with it.

 

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If you bought it at Walmart then you got the less bright 10mm version. It's a nice bulb and the batteries will last a really long time with it. The focus isn't all that great with it, though, so the hotspot is larger, making the beam seem even more dim than the better focused 1-Watt version. It's a perfect light with the 10mm bulb for close in work.