Good morning folks, just wanted to ask the CPF collective on my options.
I have an old 2D cell maglite and following my first successful project building a set of CREE LED bikelights and learning a lot in the process I'm now looking at this old light in a very different way and what to turn it into something fiesty and useful
My first though was to use the same technology as I used in the bike light
This uses the MR11 Cree kit from cutter. Q5 Led's and a maxflex driver with either a 6 volt or 7.2 volt battery.
I can see how I would put togther a 4 or 5 LED light using a maxflex driver and a 9.6 volt (8AA cell) NiMH battery (I wouldn't have to bore the maglite out as its definitely big enough already)
What other options have a got? What about HID and ROP type builds? I'd like to make the most of the battery space I have and this seems to rule out a ROP build as that seems 6 cell specific.
Oh, and I'm in the UK so need pointers on where to get stuff from too. At the moment its all coming from Australia
Cutter have been really good with packaging things 'correctly' and reducing import taxes, when I've got stuff from the states before its been more of a problem for some reason
Any pointers gratefully recieved
Ian
I have an old 2D cell maglite and following my first successful project building a set of CREE LED bikelights and learning a lot in the process I'm now looking at this old light in a very different way and what to turn it into something fiesty and useful
My first though was to use the same technology as I used in the bike light
This uses the MR11 Cree kit from cutter. Q5 Led's and a maxflex driver with either a 6 volt or 7.2 volt battery.
I can see how I would put togther a 4 or 5 LED light using a maxflex driver and a 9.6 volt (8AA cell) NiMH battery (I wouldn't have to bore the maglite out as its definitely big enough already)
What other options have a got? What about HID and ROP type builds? I'd like to make the most of the battery space I have and this seems to rule out a ROP build as that seems 6 cell specific.
Oh, and I'm in the UK so need pointers on where to get stuff from too. At the moment its all coming from Australia
Cutter have been really good with packaging things 'correctly' and reducing import taxes, when I've got stuff from the states before its been more of a problem for some reasonAny pointers gratefully recieved
Ian
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