LukeA
Flashlight Enthusiast
This is the LED-modified 1MCP spotlight I alluded to in another thread. It puts out about 1400 emitter lumens, and cost under $100 in parts (before I screwed up and had to order 2 more dropins 
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Well, it will, at least. I fried two of the dropins by mistake. Their replacements are on the way from DX right now. I'll install them when I get them and maybe take some new pics.
Remember: on this dropin, the center contact on the back is positive, everywhere else on the dropin is negative. Learn it. Know it. Live it. Save yourself $20.
It's seven of these running in parallel inside a gutted Husky/Vector/Dlack&Decker 1MCP incandescent spotlight. The stock spotlight is rated on the box at 580 (probably bulb) lumens. It's running on 2 strings of 3 AA Eneloops, but there's enough empty space in the spotlight body to double that. Runtime isn't a problem because I didn't heatsink anything well, so I just run it for a few seconds at a time. That's ok, because the switch is momentary only, but you can lock it on or off. YMMV
Until then:
Here's a shot 'down the barrel', as it were. Note the two empty reflectors. Those were the two I busted. The gray is the thermal epoxy that holds the reflectors to the glass. There's definitely a better way to do it, but this works fine for me. I'll eventually pot the reflectors with silicone or construction adhesive.
Side view. I removed the rubber shroud that comes on the light. I had to slit it to get it off, it was so tight and thick.
This is my Pelican 7060 pointing into my backyard. The 7060 is a very bright light. Sorry about the blur.
Here's the spotlight (running only 5 of its 7 emitters, no less) at the same exposure. Sorry about the blur.
The 7060 has the edge in throw (at least when the spotlight is down 2 emitters), but the spotlight kills the 7060 in spill brightness and diameter and in total output, and while the spotlight's spot is slightly dimmer (it really is, the spotlight beam pic has the hotspot pointed nearer than in the 7060's pic, inverse square law, insensitive camera...take my word for it), it's much wider. And it'll only get brighter when I add the 2 more emitters.
).Well, it will, at least. I fried two of the dropins by mistake. Their replacements are on the way from DX right now. I'll install them when I get them and maybe take some new pics.
Remember: on this dropin, the center contact on the back is positive, everywhere else on the dropin is negative. Learn it. Know it. Live it. Save yourself $20.
It's seven of these running in parallel inside a gutted Husky/Vector/Dlack&Decker 1MCP incandescent spotlight. The stock spotlight is rated on the box at 580 (probably bulb) lumens. It's running on 2 strings of 3 AA Eneloops, but there's enough empty space in the spotlight body to double that. Runtime isn't a problem because I didn't heatsink anything well, so I just run it for a few seconds at a time. That's ok, because the switch is momentary only, but you can lock it on or off. YMMV
Until then:
Here's a shot 'down the barrel', as it were. Note the two empty reflectors. Those were the two I busted. The gray is the thermal epoxy that holds the reflectors to the glass. There's definitely a better way to do it, but this works fine for me. I'll eventually pot the reflectors with silicone or construction adhesive.
Side view. I removed the rubber shroud that comes on the light. I had to slit it to get it off, it was so tight and thick.
This is my Pelican 7060 pointing into my backyard. The 7060 is a very bright light. Sorry about the blur.
Here's the spotlight (running only 5 of its 7 emitters, no less) at the same exposure. Sorry about the blur.
The 7060 has the edge in throw (at least when the spotlight is down 2 emitters), but the spotlight kills the 7060 in spill brightness and diameter and in total output, and while the spotlight's spot is slightly dimmer (it really is, the spotlight beam pic has the hotspot pointed nearer than in the 7060's pic, inverse square law, insensitive camera...take my word for it), it's much wider. And it'll only get brighter when I add the 2 more emitters.
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