Dewalt Worklight LED Conversion

I'm thinking about how this light can be converted to LED.The EverLED will fit but 18v is to much for it.The Led stuff on theledlight.com site are all set up for 12v.I'd like to stuff as many 5mm leds in as I can or maybe a 5 watt lux star though I'm concernd about beam quality with the smooth dewalt reflecter.

I worked on the same light. One potential problem that you will have with a 5W would be heat. The whole unit is plastic and there is no/little way to dissipate the heat. In the end, this is how I decided to go with:

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Will

those types of drill lanterns make excellent hosts for lux mods.. to deal with the plastic problem you need to vent the heat.. if you don't go overboard.. i.e. 5W or less.. you can easily get enough convection if you just have a heatsink with vertical fins and drill holes top and bottom in the head of the light.

My favored approach is to use a small (2" square 1/4 thick) heatsink with a fan (avail. at radio shack for $12 or so)... and mount 3 stars on it... you can run them full power (1A) no problem.. using a buck driver like the 'buck puck' from led dynamics... I use the buck puck because it has a control pin and i can make a low-voltage cutout that will shut it off before wrecking the batteries.

Other possibilities are nFlex (but i think it might have 16V maxiumum)... and no low-volt cutout.. so the best i know of is the buck-puck..

http://mega.rouse.com shows the similar light i built for myself.

http://ldo.rouse.com shows the low volt cutout i built to go with with parts from RS.

-awr