Mod a Mag first time

[roadie]

okok started to mag a mod a few weeks ago, squeezing my last resources to mod.

jus got the eneloops today, connected to a standard black color battery holder with a few to form 10 x AA.

hotwire to my xenophoto osram 12v 100 w with reflector

Cool! really burns the paper!!!!!!! with the ceiling fan off .....

but smoke were coming out of the battery sets, oooops

the standard battery holders, melt........................

next challange : got to mod my own battery holder, arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

and when got another set of spare change shall then get the maglite
maybe from the "ang bao" / red packet during chinese new year ......

jobless cum super poor flasholic ....

shall be posting further updates .... mod a mag from singapore .....

cheers

 

[LEDcandle]

Re: First Mag Mod WOW

A mag mod without a mag? hahaha...
Keep it up roadie! You'll complete it eventually

 

[roadie]

Re: First Mag Mod WOW



yeah hor .... hehehheheheheeee

 

[roadie]

Re: First Mag Mod WOW

dop my cheap multi-meter die on me when i was testing the voltage while charging the batteries ..... arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

DONT buy cheap multimeter!!!!!!!!

Now, is really charging 'blindy' , got to be discreet on the charging time, human timer

 

[roadie]

Re: First Mag Mod WOW

Arrrrrrrrrrr Good News ..... bad news

i went to my local hardware shop and managed to find a 'fake' maglite and bought it abt only 12 us dollars, think i only need the housing.....

turn out to be almost same as a real maglite, where same methods to remove the switch.

Suddrnly realised it was actually a 2 D only!!!!!!!! arrrrrrrrrrr during the process of removal, switch broke(first time doing this). so cant return it .......

managed now to squeeze in 9 aa cells into in , in a very odd shape and shall be having a external switch BUT seems cant keep the batteries connected to each other , sigh ..

shall find more diy .....

arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr why!

 

[roadie]

Re: FAKE Mag Mod

YES YES my first mod a mag has finally taken its FORM, but with no tailcap .......

for me, as long it works can liao la, burning papers

shall try to post a pic via my webcam(the only type of camera i have)

YES!

 

[roadie]

Re: FAKE Mag Mod

Mag100R

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ignatiusnorman/album?.dir=8443&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph//my_photos

 

[roadie]

Re: FAKE Mag Mod

things start to touch up at abt 1 cm away of the bezel, blinding range at 2 to 3 metres than light all spread away as i am using the osram reflector light series, lots of flood, hmmmm, kinda of good when i can light up the whole forest floor when something is not right .....

might be making one more with good tight focus in future, see la ...... when got spare cash ..... this time shall get a real maglite torch instead ....

 

[roadie]

Went to remod my mod-a-mag when there was a short circuit, after disassemble found one bad cell ......

then spends countless hours, squeezing all 9 AA (3 x 3 ) into the 2 D cell maglite with a click- on/off tail .... and a charger plug where the orginal on/off hole is, to ease charging ....

Now, its time to play again .....

 

[roadie]

currently using 12 volt 50 watt flood osram lens ...., old bulb

Need to get a 50 watt or something similar, with narrow spot abt 10* .....

jus going shopping when got spare changes .....

As found that at 100 watts, the connections cant really take it well .

anyway, this will be my EDC. so a 50watt is ok la .....

 

[roadie]

Jus bought a no more in production (last one on the shelf) Osram 46880 12V 65W 10* Titan with glass ....

Nice ...... not as idea as a 100w xenophoto i have but, with a tighter spot, less amp at abt 5.5amps = more runtime ( EDC )

Somehow, at short range < 10 metres, my P91 D3 still is abit tighter and whiter than this setup, but its ok.

shall spend some burning than recharge than try again when the battery is 'fully' charged.

yea !



OH ... it only cost me S$6.00, which abt US$4 +/-, cheap right?

 

[roadie]

Jus taken off my webcam at abt 3 metres ....

 

[roadie]

one bad cell, one bad switch caused a sat day repairing.



but everything has gone to normal again, luckily mod by myself, else will have lots of problem of "sending" the battery pack back to US!

 

[roadie]

one more battery die over the weekend .... left with only 8 batteries left ....

shall be building a ROP ..... see can find a 6v 10/20w bulb around ...

yea!

 

[Cydonia]

Good project! I should try something like this one day...
The batteries die one by one from overcharge... sad

Could someone send this poor guy a real Maglite to work with? And maybe some parts, real battery adaptors etc.,? It's too painful to read his progress

 

[Nereus]

Good project! I should try something like this one day...
The batteries die one by one from overcharge... sad

Could someone send this poor guy a real Maglite to work with? And maybe some parts, real battery adaptors etc.,? It's too painful to read his progress

+1 to this - I think Roadie has a very good attitude!

Roadie, how are you exactly charging the batteries? Usually the batteries should not die so fast. Just thinking how I could help you to keep your batteries healthy longer.

-N

 

[roadie]

oh ... due to its a first time modding such a project, and first time owning a rechargeable batteries ... well had many trials and errors to had learn along the way.

short ciruit has toasted the pack a few times....

well, shall learn from mistakes ... i hope

Next time will be better ...

the only charger i have is a 300ma Minwa 'smart' charger, which usually charge abt 7 to 9 hrs, DMM measure before and after ...

after initial when the project got running, maybe also failure might have occur didnt know how to form a battery pack properly ....

now best is to get some job and save some cash for some real 'parts'

 

[roadie]

dop after a few more discharging and charging on the leftover batteries. Now only left with 6 .... , soldered to a pack and currently are in the pink of health .....

what can i do with 6 ....., get a 6 volt 20 watt MR16 or some leds .... sigh