MacTech
Enlightened
I was bored this afternoon, and was reading over the thread on the Sears 3AAA Lux1 Worklight and decided to perform an experiment, i went to Sears and picked up their 3AAA Luxeon 1 "Worklight", then stopped off at Home Despot and picked up a silver 3 D-cell Mag
I got into the car, and pulled the Lux from the worklight, popped it into the Mag 3D, put it back together, and lit'er up...
Whoa!, that's one bright upgraded Modmag, got it home to test throw, and it easily illuminated a roadsign and a tree about 1/4 mile down the road, the best part is, the head on the Mag was prefocused to the tightest spot possible when it's tightened all the way down, defocusing the head causes the infamous Mag "Black Hole"
it actially throws a relatively clean beam with the Lux bulb, there are a few extremely minor artifacts in the spot when wall hunting, but they'd be unnoticable in normal use....
now i've got a nice, bright, and long running upgraded Mag with a nearly indestructible Luxeon 1 emitter that throws like a monster, and don't have to deal with the sickly yellow, blotchy Mag beam
this has to be one of the best-kept secrets out there, if you've got an old 3-D Mag gathering dust, go on down to Sears, pick up their 3 AAA Worklight and pop the bulb in the Mag, it'll give it a new lease on life...
maybe down the road i'll sputter the reflector to smooth out the beam, but it's actually not neccecary, the beam is decent enough as it is, and since this light will be my LED throwmonster, sputtering the reflector won't be neccecary....
here's some pics;
Mag 3D stock incan bulb, fesh batteries, flood and spot beams;
Sears Lux1 Worklight;
Mag 3D with Lux1 Worklight bulb
and now, some distance pics, the target is the flourescent index cards on the door, the door is about 10 feet away...
baseline shot for reference
Stock Minimag on spot focus;
Fenix L1 Lighthound Special;
SureFire G2 with BOG 3 Watt Luxeon LA;
SureFire 6P;
Inova X5;
Mag 3D with Sears Worklight Lux1 emitter;
I got into the car, and pulled the Lux from the worklight, popped it into the Mag 3D, put it back together, and lit'er up...
Whoa!, that's one bright upgraded Modmag, got it home to test throw, and it easily illuminated a roadsign and a tree about 1/4 mile down the road, the best part is, the head on the Mag was prefocused to the tightest spot possible when it's tightened all the way down, defocusing the head causes the infamous Mag "Black Hole"
it actially throws a relatively clean beam with the Lux bulb, there are a few extremely minor artifacts in the spot when wall hunting, but they'd be unnoticable in normal use....
now i've got a nice, bright, and long running upgraded Mag with a nearly indestructible Luxeon 1 emitter that throws like a monster, and don't have to deal with the sickly yellow, blotchy Mag beam
this has to be one of the best-kept secrets out there, if you've got an old 3-D Mag gathering dust, go on down to Sears, pick up their 3 AAA Worklight and pop the bulb in the Mag, it'll give it a new lease on life...
maybe down the road i'll sputter the reflector to smooth out the beam, but it's actually not neccecary, the beam is decent enough as it is, and since this light will be my LED throwmonster, sputtering the reflector won't be neccecary....
here's some pics;
Mag 3D stock incan bulb, fesh batteries, flood and spot beams;
Sears Lux1 Worklight;
Mag 3D with Lux1 Worklight bulb
and now, some distance pics, the target is the flourescent index cards on the door, the door is about 10 feet away...
baseline shot for reference
Stock Minimag on spot focus;
Fenix L1 Lighthound Special;
SureFire G2 with BOG 3 Watt Luxeon LA;
SureFire 6P;
Inova X5;
Mag 3D with Sears Worklight Lux1 emitter;