26K doubles brightness of Dorcy 1AAA

Just put a 26K LED (from smitty244's group buy) into my Dorcy 1AAA. The measured brightness went up over 90%. Color is also great.

The swap was very easy because the Dorcy board has a notch to help center the LED. I've done all mine now except one I can't get apart - which now definitely looks like an underachiever by comparison. I'll work on that last one when I get back from vacation.

side by side pics?

Hasnt this been done before? I remember a thread somewhere in the modified flashlights section before. It really does seem to add a hell of a lot of brightness.

Is that the same thing as a MJLED? Here's a couple of shots of my Dorcy's beam:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=40311
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=40305
These wouldn't post as pics, hopefully the links will work.

This is a great, and EASY, mod. I put the 26kmcd's in just about any 5mm LED flashlight that's reasonably easy to disassemble, and the Dorcy is the easiest of them all.

Owen, no the MJLED is different. IIRC it's a 100ma rated led that has a low Vf too.

Has anyone put these 26k in a Xnova 5 led light? That would be pretty neat I think. I put UV leds in mine though /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Sorry, can't do pictures (one of these days...), but beam pattern is exactly the same. I know it's been done before, I just wanted to add a quantitative measurement of improvement, which I had not seen before.

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IsaacHayes said:
Owen, no the MJLED is different. IIRC it's a 100ma rated led that has a low Vf too.

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Does this mean that an MJLED woud not work in a Dorcy or just not as well as the 26k?

The MJLED works great in the Dorcy, and is very easy to install(try those links to beamshots I posted above).
Isaac, or anyone: I don't know much about LEDs except Luxeons. How are these 26k ones compared to the MJLED?
I was highly impressed with the MJLED.

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Owen said:
Is that the same thing as a MJLED? Here's a couple of shots of my Dorcy's beam:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=40311
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=40305
These wouldn't post as pics, hopefully the links will work.

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try uploading here. http://imageshack.us/index4.php

Ok /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

http://img86.echo.cx/img86/4834/dscn05612bj.jpg
http://img86.echo.cx/img86/6761/dscn05622ih.jpg

So I guess missed it, which is brighter, mjled, or 26K. and by how much roughly.VDG

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Owen said:
http://img86.echo.cx/img86/4834/dscn05612bj.jpg
http://img86.echo.cx/img86/6761/dscn05622ih.jpg


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god, thats a big improvement! better spill, tighter, bigger, brighter spot. smoother beam...

anybody wanna sell me a mjled? lol

how about a nichia 50K in a dorcy 1aaa