mr.squatch
Enlightened
Been reading here for a long time, trying to figure out how I can upgrade my current gaggle of low-end surefire lights without upgrading to the next level of 300+/- dollar lights. I read about the dealextreme cree "dropins" and how people have had varying success with them, but none have seemed to work right with the g2. Well, I have four g2's, one for car, one nightstand, one computer desk/garage one and one for work, I'm a mechanic and I use my g2 every 10 minutes all day every day. I love it, nobody in the garage has a better light and most paid well over 2x what I did for mine. I figured for $12.50 it was worth the gamble. I also have a 9p which I was pretty sure it'd fit in. I liked that it was 3-9v so I could use it in either. I accidentally grabbed a brand new p61 and put it in the 9v and blammo, 25 bucks down the crapper 
So anyways, I ordered a set of four which apparently ships out of hongkong. Showed up within a week to my delight. Terrible packaging durability but they all survived. Put the first one in my g2, no luck. I was expecting the gap, I can fill that with an o-ring no problem, but no light. I tried em all, no luck. Put one in my 9p and found another spare battery and voila, omg this thing is bright. Pure white light too, I thought the surefire bulbs were pretty white til I saw this thing. It's like HID's on my car. Of course I had to flash myself to get the full effect. Broad daylight, 45 minutes later and I'm still seeing circles. Lol, dumbass.
So I started searching around to find the miracle cure online to make em fit the g2, with little success. One thing I read said the guy had to remove the outer spring to make it fit so I tried that. No light. I went to put it back on the bulb and noticed there's a big and a small end. Apparently it was shipped with the big end out, I tried it big end in (basically flipping the big spring end to end), and bingo, works like a charm. Tried em all 4 that way and they all work in all my g2's. Super bright too, just slightly more dim side by side compared to the 9p but again super white light.
Overall I'm impressed, if these things last as long as it sounds like they do on a set of batts they're worth 5x more than what I paid. I'm off to place another order to share with my g2 toting friends. One happy camper, woot. Now if I can just get my vision back before dark when the real fun begins. Thanks cpf doods, happy I found a new place to call home.
edit: this may all be common knowledge, haha, fng here. But I figured it was worth putting up incase somebody else wants to find it in the future, since I had such a hard time finding the info.
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So anyways, I ordered a set of four which apparently ships out of hongkong. Showed up within a week to my delight. Terrible packaging durability but they all survived. Put the first one in my g2, no luck. I was expecting the gap, I can fill that with an o-ring no problem, but no light. I tried em all, no luck. Put one in my 9p and found another spare battery and voila, omg this thing is bright. Pure white light too, I thought the surefire bulbs were pretty white til I saw this thing. It's like HID's on my car. Of course I had to flash myself to get the full effect. Broad daylight, 45 minutes later and I'm still seeing circles. Lol, dumbass.
So I started searching around to find the miracle cure online to make em fit the g2, with little success. One thing I read said the guy had to remove the outer spring to make it fit so I tried that. No light. I went to put it back on the bulb and noticed there's a big and a small end. Apparently it was shipped with the big end out, I tried it big end in (basically flipping the big spring end to end), and bingo, works like a charm. Tried em all 4 that way and they all work in all my g2's. Super bright too, just slightly more dim side by side compared to the 9p but again super white light.
Overall I'm impressed, if these things last as long as it sounds like they do on a set of batts they're worth 5x more than what I paid. I'm off to place another order to share with my g2 toting friends. One happy camper, woot. Now if I can just get my vision back before dark when the real fun begins.
Thanks cpf doods, happy I found a new place to call home. edit: this may all be common knowledge, haha, fng here. But I figured it was worth putting up incase somebody else wants to find it in the future, since I had such a hard time finding the info.
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