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Wayne, Any Drop-In That Will Work With 4 AA's?

Gene

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Wayne, Any Drop-In That Will Work With 4 AA\'s?

Wayne,
I e-mailed you about this but thought I'd post it here also. I have a 4 AA cell mini mag, (2x1AA extenders). I love the look and feel of this light. I'm running an Opalec NewBeam in it now but would like to explore other options. Do you have any "drop-ins" that would work in this? Thanks.
 

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Re: Wayne, Any Drop-In That Will Work With 4 AA\'s?

The only options I can see are:

1) Purchase a BadBoy 500 sandwich and have someone replace it's stock 1w LS with a 5w. This will underdrive the LS a little but should still be stonking bright.

2) Have someone make a custom module out of a DownBoy or Wizard board.

Jon
 

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Re: Wayne, Any Drop-In That Will Work With 4 AA\'s?

The only valid combos are:

1) New Downboy and a 1W. (Boards are ordered, none in stock)

2) Badboy and 5W. (BB400, 500 and **HF*** BB7XX)

NOTES: HF = Heaven Forbid... (or more commonly known as Good Gosh)

The Wizard will not make a module since it lacks the backside Anode contact. The design is doable in making a sandwich, but, you would need to add a pacman board or anode board and make a double decker sandwich with the converter board in the middle.

The Downboy will not support the connectors that are used on the Badboy and Madmax. Making a sandwich would require wires from the converter board to the emitter board and possibly some mechanical support along with the epoxy filler.

I would not recommend (IMO) any 5W in a minimag except for very sporadic usage like less than 1 minute at a time usage.

Sorry for not answering the other post and the email. I saw both.

Wayne
 

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Re: Wayne, Any Drop-In That Will Work With 4 AA\'s?

[ QUOTE ]
dat2zip said:

NOTES: HF = Heaven Forbid... (or more commonly known as Good Gosh)



[/ QUOTE ]
Don't you mean HB? HB = Hand Burner
 

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Re: Wayne, Any Drop-In That Will Work With 4 AA\'s?

Actually, it should be HS which is normally the acronym for Heat sink but in this case means Hand Scorcher.
 

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Re: Wayne, Any Drop-In That Will Work With 4 AA\'s?

Wayne,
Can the Downboy and 1W be ordered as a "drop-in" for my 4 AA MM?
 

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Re: Wayne, Any Drop-In That Will Work With 4 AA\'s?

You will have to assemble a Downboy yourself. There are not current plans to offer a sammich with Downboys. The anode contact was added so theoretically it can be done without the connectors.

The anode contact was added mainly to allow usage in the Ecan module.
 

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Re: Wayne, Any Drop-In That Will Work With 4 AA\'s?

Isn't Wayne work on a buck boost? SF uses a Buck Boost in their L1 head.

Bill
 

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Re: Wayne, Any Drop-In That Will Work With 4 AA\'s?

I meant KL1 head. I own one I want to have modded.

Bill
 
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