Oh man, the Lux III into a Mag mod was PAINFUL

[GarageBoy]

What appeared to be a 10 minute mod spawned into two hours. The Space Needle instructions didn't help too much. Where was I SUPPOSED to solder the two LED leads? I ended up with the neg on the side spring and the pos on the TINY little contact where the PR bulb was supposed to go. Then, during soldering, due to a break in the tip, solder wouldn't flow nicely. Point to point wiring is DIFFICULT when you haven't done it in a while. All worked out..beautiful spot, though the beam is ok

 

[modamag]

Congrats, it the results that counts.
Two hours is not that bad. It took me over 2.5 hrs for measely 10 lumens (guestimate) on my Solitaire. And I love every lumen of it.

 

[GarageBoy]

The stranded teflon jacketed silver core wire (only stuff in the house and my dad's an audio geek) was STIFF, so it was a b**** to stuff into the mag

 

[Turbo_E]

shoulda used the broken bulb trick. positive goes to the bottom of the bulb, neg is soldered to the sides of the bulb.

 

[GarageBoy]

Well the PR bulb base is completely removed, so I don't know how to use it