Dorcy Super 1 watt CR123 discoveries

[TMorita]

Disassembled a Dorcy Super 1 Watt CR123 tonight, and found a few things:

1) If you remove the head, then push a pen in from the bottom, you can pop out the converter board. You can then screw the head back in, and run the head direct drive from the CR123, which makes a nice dimmer flashlight.

2) The KL1 head almost fits on to the body. The thread is wrong, but it might be able to rethread it to fit.

Toshi

 

[yazkaz]

Do you have any pictures of the converter and other internals of the light?
Also, is the light compatible with other third-party driver boards?

 

[cratz2]

Interesting... I missed out on the Dorcy Super 1W craze, but what might be interesting for a small, cheap 'wow' light is to put in an SSC LED, remove the board and run it direct on a R123 cell. Should be closing in on 200 lumens from a darn small form factor. Might not last for 10,000 hours, but should do just fine for a couple hundred if used for a couple minutes at a time.

 

[Ty_Bower]

...put in an SSC LED, remove the board and run it direct on a R123 cell...

The Dorcy Super 1 Watt keeps the LED star in place with a plastic retainer. There is no good way to properly heatsink it to the body. I wouldn't recommened running an LED direct drive off a li-ion cell (in this light). It would get much too hot.