So yesterday I was walking around the local flea market and found a pretty nice 6D Maglite for $20 and decided to pick it up.
It would seem that the dude left the batteries in for too long and there's gunk everywhere, the switch assembly has some rust on the plastic and the retainer "C" ring is also rusted.
Was there supposed to be a O-Ring between the bezel and the lens? Its not there when I unscrewed the bezel.
Long story short, I'm looking to clean up this light and add a more powerful LED into it, some googling brought me to posts about the CREE XHP70. I'm wondering if there's a more powerful LED then this and where I can get the heatsink blocks for the LED to dissipate heat through the host's body, do I have to machine these myself?
I understand there are "bins" for CREE LED's what else should I look out for when purchasing LED's?
What about driver boards? specs? flashing firmware? I can get my hands on a USB AVRISP thingie pretty easily.
So far I have decided on using the 32650 batteries, will they work all in series or will I need to do some wiring to have them in parallel?
Is it possible to have a USB charger on the tail cap or do I need to pop all the cells out to charge one by one? How about a battery life indicator?
What about having a "zoom" changing the beam pattern from flood to spot like how it did originally? I read that the LED version reflector is different from the filament bulb version, mine is the filament version, is there anything I need to change?
This would be my first post on this forum and my first flashlight mod, hello from Singapore!
It would seem that the dude left the batteries in for too long and there's gunk everywhere, the switch assembly has some rust on the plastic and the retainer "C" ring is also rusted.
Was there supposed to be a O-Ring between the bezel and the lens? Its not there when I unscrewed the bezel.
Long story short, I'm looking to clean up this light and add a more powerful LED into it, some googling brought me to posts about the CREE XHP70. I'm wondering if there's a more powerful LED then this and where I can get the heatsink blocks for the LED to dissipate heat through the host's body, do I have to machine these myself?
I understand there are "bins" for CREE LED's what else should I look out for when purchasing LED's?
What about driver boards? specs? flashing firmware? I can get my hands on a USB AVRISP thingie pretty easily.
So far I have decided on using the 32650 batteries, will they work all in series or will I need to do some wiring to have them in parallel?
Is it possible to have a USB charger on the tail cap or do I need to pop all the cells out to charge one by one? How about a battery life indicator?
What about having a "zoom" changing the beam pattern from flood to spot like how it did originally? I read that the LED version reflector is different from the filament bulb version, mine is the filament version, is there anything I need to change?
This would be my first post on this forum and my first flashlight mod, hello from Singapore!
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