knifebright
Enlightened
Hey all
for a while i've really wanted a luxeon mini 2xaaa mag, as i'm sure a lot of us do. Tonight i finished up one. To start off i used one of the lambda/arcmania,micro converters. On it sits a twoj lux3. I bored the body out similiar to the solitare mod only the dimentions were a bit different. Next i ground down a 17mm mineral glass ucl to fit the bezel. That problem taken care next up was the optic/reflector situation. I have a whole graveyard of parts and pieces of ims17mm reflectors from attempts to get one in my fire-fly 1. I ground one down to fit the mag. Put it all together and i had the battery spacer to deal with. For some reason i really wanted to go without a spacer in this one. So i streched out the spring and added a hugemungo solder blob to the converter. THe result is a nice twist on/twist off mini 2xaaa mag. THe beam pattern is that all too familiar star pattern of a high dome in a reflector thats a little too small. I may try to get a fran in there but i have a real aversion to optics. ANy way I've now got a 2xaaa blue mini mag with a lux3, ucl and reflector. its about the same brightness as my madmax+ mini mag2xaa.
thanks for looking
i have no pictures but i'll bring it to the bay area get together.... that and my lux5 drop in
jimmy
for a while i've really wanted a luxeon mini 2xaaa mag, as i'm sure a lot of us do. Tonight i finished up one. To start off i used one of the lambda/arcmania,micro converters. On it sits a twoj lux3. I bored the body out similiar to the solitare mod only the dimentions were a bit different. Next i ground down a 17mm mineral glass ucl to fit the bezel. That problem taken care next up was the optic/reflector situation. I have a whole graveyard of parts and pieces of ims17mm reflectors from attempts to get one in my fire-fly 1. I ground one down to fit the mag. Put it all together and i had the battery spacer to deal with. For some reason i really wanted to go without a spacer in this one. So i streched out the spring and added a hugemungo solder blob to the converter. THe result is a nice twist on/twist off mini 2xaaa mag. THe beam pattern is that all too familiar star pattern of a high dome in a reflector thats a little too small. I may try to get a fran in there but i have a real aversion to optics. ANy way I've now got a 2xaaa blue mini mag with a lux3, ucl and reflector. its about the same brightness as my madmax+ mini mag2xaa.
thanks for looking
i have no pictures but i'll bring it to the bay area get together.... that and my lux5 drop in
jimmy