Chrontius
Flashlight Enthusiast
Some of you may have seen this, in which an Eveready is modified into a 3x123a host, and a Rat Shack high-output bulb is substituted. But I've discovered something: this thing is good enough already. Not quite what you think - but I've got a pair of Eneloops eagerly awaiting the throwaway super heavy duty cells' untimely death, and (the real secret) a MagnumStar 2 cell high-pressure xenon lamp in there. The stock bulb was the usual tripe - a tungsten curlicue draped over another post, and they put in a faceted reflector to clean it up. But the beam from the Magnum is already quite clean, and at distances of 8" or more, this is a white-wall hunter's dream. It has a perfectly defined hot spot with a gentle corona, and no filament shadows at all. It's in the same league, in terms of (only) evenness as a Malkoff with a TIR optic, save for where I scratched the lens.
Why aren't these more common? I know what I want in my ROP now.
Surprisingly nice little sleeper, I'll probably drop three 123a cells in there with a 6-cell MagnumStar bulb later. I wonder how the runtime will be (and if it'll explode)?
Why aren't these more common? I know what I want in my ROP now.
Surprisingly nice little sleeper, I'll probably drop three 123a cells in there with a 6-cell MagnumStar bulb later. I wonder how the runtime will be (and if it'll explode)?
