Mag Dragon Jr. Compact super thrower: Now 231,500 lux @ 1 meter.
In human society, it takes two adults to make a Jr.
In flashlight world, some times the same thing will happen, where two adult flashlights gave their lives to the birth of a Jr.
The Jr., in functionality (Not so much the look) is very similar to the MagDragon (https://www.candlepowerforums.com/threads/280670), thus, The name: MagDragon Jr.
Here are the parents:
Left, is this flashlight: https://www.candlepowerforums.com/threads/264722, it has achieved ~100K lux @ 1meter, but has some flaws that I am getting tired off, the cheap switch kept messing up & after the third time trying to fix it, I have decided to give up.
Right, The Ledean mag 1C with Surplus shed 52mm aspheric, although it's 18650 direct drive Cree P4, it held it's ground against Q5 aspheric fairly well in the LuxLuther Mag Aspherical shoot out back in 08.: https://www.candlepowerforums.com/threads/202045
It does around 60K lux @ 1 meter, not bad for 2008, however time has changed & Clearly, the time has come for it to pass the torch on to the next generation.
The operations are very similar to the MagDragon build.
First, the head of the Ledean Mag 1C was cut in two halves by my trusty-old table saw:
The bottom half of the Mag C head was then grind down to match the opening of the DX shower head/66mm lens.
The DX head was bored to remove the thread.
This is not hard to do, just take some time & patience, try not to let the grinding wheel touch where you don't want it to.
The grinding generate lots & lots of heat, so every 15 seconds or so, it need to chill out in a bowl of water:
When it's done, the Mag C Neck fit into the Dx head nicely. Again, plenty of JB weld, some weights to hold the two pieces
tight for a few hours op top of the Kitchen Counter. (I am not Cooking, but refused to get out of the kitchen :laughing
While the JB weld taking its time to cure, I turned my attention to the Mag 1C body.
I grind the edge of the Mag C sink & pushed it inside (Need to do that for focus with this lens).
Added a piece of copper around the Alu. heatsink post, changed the led out to XRE R2 from Cutter.
Its still Direct Drive. I didn't do tail cap spring resistance mod, you'll see why in a minute.
Wola, the MagDragon Jr is born! Isn't she beautiful? :devil:
Side by side with the original MagDragon:
I think there may be too many picture in one post,
Beam shots & Lux readings to come in post #2 below:
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In human society, it takes two adults to make a Jr.
In flashlight world, some times the same thing will happen, where two adult flashlights gave their lives to the birth of a Jr.
The Jr., in functionality (Not so much the look) is very similar to the MagDragon (https://www.candlepowerforums.com/threads/280670), thus, The name: MagDragon Jr.
Here are the parents:
Left, is this flashlight: https://www.candlepowerforums.com/threads/264722, it has achieved ~100K lux @ 1meter, but has some flaws that I am getting tired off, the cheap switch kept messing up & after the third time trying to fix it, I have decided to give up.
Right, The Ledean mag 1C with Surplus shed 52mm aspheric, although it's 18650 direct drive Cree P4, it held it's ground against Q5 aspheric fairly well in the LuxLuther Mag Aspherical shoot out back in 08.: https://www.candlepowerforums.com/threads/202045
It does around 60K lux @ 1 meter, not bad for 2008, however time has changed & Clearly, the time has come for it to pass the torch on to the next generation.
The operations are very similar to the MagDragon build.
First, the head of the Ledean Mag 1C was cut in two halves by my trusty-old table saw:
The bottom half of the Mag C head was then grind down to match the opening of the DX shower head/66mm lens.
The DX head was bored to remove the thread.
This is not hard to do, just take some time & patience, try not to let the grinding wheel touch where you don't want it to.
The grinding generate lots & lots of heat, so every 15 seconds or so, it need to chill out in a bowl of water:
When it's done, the Mag C Neck fit into the Dx head nicely. Again, plenty of JB weld, some weights to hold the two pieces
tight for a few hours op top of the Kitchen Counter. (I am not Cooking, but refused to get out of the kitchen :laughing
While the JB weld taking its time to cure, I turned my attention to the Mag 1C body.
I grind the edge of the Mag C sink & pushed it inside (Need to do that for focus with this lens).
Added a piece of copper around the Alu. heatsink post, changed the led out to XRE R2 from Cutter.
Its still Direct Drive. I didn't do tail cap spring resistance mod, you'll see why in a minute.
Wola, the MagDragon Jr is born! Isn't she beautiful? :devil:
Side by side with the original MagDragon:
I think there may be too many picture in one post,
Beam shots & Lux readings to come in post #2 below:
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