SimulatedZero
Enlightened
Well hello CPF,
Been quite a few years since I've been through here. I started getting into biking for my main transportation these days, which led to me picking up a Nitecore EA41. Which, naturally, led me to looking at every other light out there and here we are.
I also had the itch to start doing some of my own custom work and wanted to start with Maglite 2C lights for a cheap, easy base. Looking to stay within the ~3v range and see what can be done.
What's the latest and greatest in LEDs for swaps, tints, throw vs flood, etc.... been seeing stuff about non cree dies which was news to me. My preference for builds is regulated run times above all and somewhat throwy beam patterns. I guess my first goal would be to replicate the EA41 (~1000 lumens @ 30k cd) using 2 NiMH C Cells and seeing what I can get for runtimes.
What do you all think?
Cheers,
SZ
Been quite a few years since I've been through here. I started getting into biking for my main transportation these days, which led to me picking up a Nitecore EA41. Which, naturally, led me to looking at every other light out there and here we are.
I also had the itch to start doing some of my own custom work and wanted to start with Maglite 2C lights for a cheap, easy base. Looking to stay within the ~3v range and see what can be done.
What's the latest and greatest in LEDs for swaps, tints, throw vs flood, etc.... been seeing stuff about non cree dies which was news to me. My preference for builds is regulated run times above all and somewhat throwy beam patterns. I guess my first goal would be to replicate the EA41 (~1000 lumens @ 30k cd) using 2 NiMH C Cells and seeing what I can get for runtimes.
What do you all think?
Cheers,
SZ