Petzl Megabelt Cree´d up!

[Scattergun]

I got really tired of my Petzl Megabelts narrow beam and short runtime yesterday....had to mod it
Ripped out the guts of the headlight, replaced the bulbholder with a simple AMC7135 circuit for 1050mA

Replaced the twisty-switch with a generic klicky from DX, set it with some hot glue to the back of the bezel.

Built a heatsink out of two rather big Swedish coins and fastened a Cree P4 with some thermal epoxy.
Total cost 1$ fifty cent excluding the P4 wich was laying around in a drawer after some ancient project.

Mounted the heatsink on top of the driver with some epoxy.

Endresult was a floody and pretty impressive 200 lumen headlamp! Heatsinking is working and the
coins aren´t getting all that hot after five minutes.

 

[half-watt]

very nice mod. i have an old, much used, MegaBelt myself and you have made the mod appear very easy to do. so much for all those spare bulbs/lamps i have !!


thanks for posting the pics of your fine mod.

 

[Scattergun]

Thanks!
The mod is really very easy to do, and the endresult, though floody to the max is very useful! I have only tested it on some AA´s in the holder, but I´m getting C-cells later.

 

[Valolammas]

Nice mod. I love that coin heatsink! :laughing:

 

[Scattergun]

I used it for some light work around the house today, and realized that I needed some more throw after all!! Added a Mini MagLed reflector and voila...a D-Mini on my head!!

 

[Scattergun]

Tried it with some C-cells last night and it works just fine, same output as AA-cells. Also filled up the void between the heatsink and edges of the bezel with some melting-glue. It left a white surface from wich the reflector is reslly just standing straight up... the blue lower part of the reflector is shining through the glue when lit. Makes a very nice blue glow to around the bezel....
Pictures later!