chrisse242
Enlightened
The longbow line of lights and among them the longbow micra where really good lights when tey came out. Super solid, with excellent anodizing and using the kroll switch they had a real momentary clicky. The only thing they lacked was - output. Shortly after they came out, other, brighter and cheaper lights appeared.
Soon many wanted to mod their longbow lights and as often, McGizmo had the solution. He offered the McCapsule - a longbow compatible heatsink that can be used with several different converter boards. Like others, I modded my micra with one those capsules, using a U-Bin Luxeon and a wizard2 converter board. Now everything was nice untill those cree Led's appeared. Suddenly, my light was out of date. Mounting a cree to this light, using an ims17 reflector didn't seem like a good idea. But then I read about the new seoul led and saw a chance.
I ordered everything I needed from the shoppe and when I got the parts, everything worked like a charm. The seoul led fits perfectly into the led board and using arctic alumina adhesive and the annodized heatsink, I didn't have to worry about isolating the slug.
I had to sand down the base of the reflector a little to get rid of some rings in the beam, but once that was done, I saw a nearly perfect beam.
Using a seoul P4, the longbow is a super simple, super reliable light that will take a beating better than many others while still being as bright as a single cr123 light can get. (at least for now)
By the way, I'm more than happy with the tint my seoul P4 puts out.
Some pics:
Beamshots, both modules using a wiz2/750 converter board, one with a u-bin Luxeon the other with a U-bin seoul p4. Guess which one is which?
All camera settings on manual.
The two modules side by side
So if you have a longbow light, hidden deep down in the back of a drawer, go for it and put new life into it.
Chrisse
Soon many wanted to mod their longbow lights and as often, McGizmo had the solution. He offered the McCapsule - a longbow compatible heatsink that can be used with several different converter boards. Like others, I modded my micra with one those capsules, using a U-Bin Luxeon and a wizard2 converter board. Now everything was nice untill those cree Led's appeared. Suddenly, my light was out of date. Mounting a cree to this light, using an ims17 reflector didn't seem like a good idea. But then I read about the new seoul led and saw a chance.
I ordered everything I needed from the shoppe and when I got the parts, everything worked like a charm. The seoul led fits perfectly into the led board and using arctic alumina adhesive and the annodized heatsink, I didn't have to worry about isolating the slug.
I had to sand down the base of the reflector a little to get rid of some rings in the beam, but once that was done, I saw a nearly perfect beam.
Using a seoul P4, the longbow is a super simple, super reliable light that will take a beating better than many others while still being as bright as a single cr123 light can get. (at least for now)
By the way, I'm more than happy with the tint my seoul P4 puts out.
Some pics:
Beamshots, both modules using a wiz2/750 converter board, one with a u-bin Luxeon the other with a U-bin seoul p4. Guess which one is which?
All camera settings on manual.
The two modules side by side
So if you have a longbow light, hidden deep down in the back of a drawer, go for it and put new life into it.
Chrisse
