'Unofficial Ginseng researcher' strikes again with links and long posts.
Hmm, now what if someone is just a nut like me and will not have a M*g mod that does not look 100% original. (kind of like a mint Mercedes '58 300SL 'gull-wing'; you'd be burned at the stake if you tried to 'bling-bling' one of these classics with 20in blindingly bright chrome wheels). No obvious outward change to it's appearance, and function. This is so that someone who already has seen/used a M*g before could just pick one up and use it like a standard M*g. In essence a "M*glite for Dummies"...except it will blind the living daylights out of mere mortals /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif.
How does one do this: retain the super quick spot-to-flood focusing mechanism that newbie's are so used to having available to them? Well, this means you need to have a cammed reflector. Only 3 ways to have cammed reflector at present. 1st, and perhaps best way, is to obtain one of the handful of Oto's PMR Carley modified/cammed reflectors. But it is not likely that someone who has one will sell it to you. It's all metal, but works just like the plastic M*g reflector. Next way is to use a technique for adding a metal or plastic(likely to melt with very high-wattage bulbs) PVC pipe with a diagonal cut in the tube to match that of the original M*g reflector and attach it to the Carley 1940 aluminum reflector. bwaites is supposed to do a pictorial tutorial one of these days ;-).
Less perfect way is to use the $25 M*gChr reflector sleeve, and place it into the stock plastic M*g reflector (this mod will probably melt with the lower of the higher wattage bulbs, but it has not been precisely determined as yet what wattage that is.
Bwaites-MagCh,metal>C/D, plastic reflector
After you tackle that weak link, you'll need a glass lens, and perhaps an additional O-ring as discussed here
countdown for the mag85 and related thread here to read Ginseng's comments:
52.1mm Borofloat Thickness Poll
Once that's done, you now decide which of the higher output bulbs will work. Hmm, I think I like the beam pattern of the Osram 64440 IRC (not to be confused with regular axial filament 64440) as shown here by Ginseng
Project Aurora: Version 4K (original thread title: " Project Aurora:
Fistful of Lightning (many pics)" Hehe, I think Ginseng is a Clint Eastwood/spaghetti western fan...que up the Ennio Morricone music, Ginseng at one end of the neighborhood walking down the street with innocuous looking M*g stealth Aurora, me walking down from the other end of the street, almost unnoticeable tiny M*gC cell in pocket, looking completely powerless, lulling the unwary into complacency (but hidden inside, stealth bulb and Li-Ion energy source). Tension builds, they get closer, who will draw faster, and who will aim their powerful, narrow, tight; spot-focused beams to hit the target 1st???
[ QUOTE ]
Joe : You shoot to kill, you better hit the heart. Your own words, Ramone.
[Ramone fires off two shots, but The Man With No Name stands right back up]
Joe : The heart, Ramone. Don't forget the heart. Aim for the heart, or you'll never stop me.
[/ QUOTE ]
The eyes, Ginny. Don't forget the eyes. Aim for the eyes, or you'll never stop me /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Call it a poorman's lower output Aurora (but just don't use the "Aurora" name here /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif, Ginseng has the one and only version of that particular mod.)
From the minute we found out that the V2 adapters would work, did not all of you think about possibly stuffing that oversized IRC into a 4D M*g???
Which wattage do we try, something that's both brighter than the Mag85(3D version), but has tighter spot???
64440 IRC at 50w/1,200+lm?
64432 IRC 35w/900+lm? generating the same heat levels in the head, but less current draw on the batteries than the WA1185
64447 IRC65w/1,700+lm, will a stock M*g be able to tolerate the current flow without completely melting down the pedestal using 1800ma RC-style AA NiMH's
Ah, but there are more problems to deal with. While all of these bulbs are the same size, they are bi-pin of larger size G6.3; and who would pot them into the PR base with precise centering of the filament?. Would it be even possible to pot one of the 25 or 35w bulbs into a PR base? The WA1185 comes close to melting a PR base IIRC, but the bulb itself along with pins are narrower in the WA1185. Hmm, on my M*g the spring for the bulb socket is somewhat compressed, to the lower position of travel, it can be pulled forward at least 10mm. So I took everything apart to approximate distances. Using standard PR bulb about 18mm in length, I can see that if you unscrew the M*g head forward of the body tube O-ring about 5mm, it is possible you could retain good flood to spot cammed focusing of one of these Osram 44mm long bulbs with filament at 30mm from ends of the pins. Whereas the standard PR filament is about 18mm from the bottom of the PR base. Then you'd have to slightly enlarge the PR base retaining ring to allow the 12mm thick Osram bulb to fit through that. But from Ginseng's close-up pic of the 64440 IRC, the GY6.3 glass body looks like it is significantly wider than the filament envelope, and you can only enlarge the PR base retaining ring out to about 13mm. Is the glass body of the 64440 IRC thick enough that you could file away a small amount to make it fit through the PR base retaining ring? I also wonder if you could remove the gold plated bi-pin contact sleeves, as if you were potting these, that part of the bulb serves no function. You'd probably have to use a mod'd Carley reflector with a slightly longer metal tube for the cammed operation, and then put plumber's teflon tape on the body tube threads with some nice thick clear waterproof silicone grease on the rest of the M*g body tube threads, as the head would not be able to screw down onto the the body tube O-ring. Not too good looking then, but it will be brighter than any M*gChr setup, with that lovely smooth beam. Seems like a 'fistful of trouble', but it just might work /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
Personally, if it can't just fit into my oversized cargo pant's pockets like a M*g2C, then it's too big! For everything else there's MasterCard™...and a few $$$$ put into modding the Maxabeam to it's fullest potential...I mean, the stock Maxabeam 0.67mm short arc xenon 75w capsule doesn't even output as many lumens as a WA1185 that has been overdriven /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif
Megaray slayer, mod'd MB???
