Found Peak LED Rainer Mod Fun!*Updated* More Pics

I found my Peak LED Rainer 2005 Special Edition hiding under a chair so I decided to have some fun with it!



The head was direct drive with some black epoxy and a pin for battery positive and my Dremel Tool kind of chewed it up. Wonder if a FluPic can be shoved in there to fix this mess?


Looking much better now but now does the FluPic fit?


Looks like it fits OK to me! Hmmm......... But...........


Now it looks like the other end of the head needs some work! I`ll have to get back to you when I have the Cree & Mcr17XR shoved in there for some light!

Ken




*I forgot about this light for a while but now here is the rest of the mod.

Lets see, it looks like I need a Cree in the head next.


Since I took a lousy, blurry picture I filled in some detail but I didn`t do a very good job of that either.

The positive & negative pads were ground off on the bottom side of the Cree and wires were soldered to the top side. It was then epoxied where the Luxen was before. A ground path was needed so I used a second negative wire from the FluPic that I screwed to the inside of the head to for this ground. Someone had modified this head before to fit an Mcr20 and a Luxeon U bin. You can see the head was ground out on the inside at the top for the reflector to fit.


With FluPic power wires soldered, fill with Arctic Alumina Epoxy and drop in fluPic.


Important to build up positive contact on FluPic because...........


If it isn`t, a loose fitting battery could short to negative. That would be VERY BAD! The FluPic board I used was the small .42" size so this was neccesary IMHO


I used a large O ring to on top of the reflector under the lens that fit great but I don`t know where it came from or what I bought it for. I have a lot of flashlight spare parts and I found it while digging around. If the head had not been previously modified and ground out larger to fit an Mcr20 it might not have of fit?


Screwing down the bezel sqeezed the O ring for a nice seal to the head and it holds the reflector tight & centered.


It`s Cree XR-E bright, nice Mcr17XR beam with the multi levels of light from the FluPic. I`m very happy with this Rainier mod.



Time to mod another flashlight! Hehe!:grin2:

Re: Found Peak LED Rainer Mod Fun!

Kenster,
Do you sleep?
Why bother with a lathe if you can wield a Dremel like I've seen you do?

Re: Found Peak LED Rainer Mod Fun!

LED Zeppelin said:

Kenster,
Do you sleep?
Why bother with a lathe if you can wield a Dremel like I've seen you do?

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I slept a lot when I was a kid so I could enjoy being a dim lit dim wit of an old fart later in life!:huh:

Ken:grin2:

Thanks for the kind words.:o

Re: Found Peak LED Rainer Mod Fun!

Nice work Ken..

I look forward to seeing this one progress. :thumbsup:

Re: Found Peak LED Rainer Mod Fun!

I have a nice brass Rainier crying out for your skills ;)

Pics added to the first post.:)

Ken

Great work Ken :goodjob:

Best regards

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Tom

Ken, very nice! Excellent work. :goodjob:

I wouldn't say the little 3 watter is "crying out" for a mod, but it does Cree out nicely! :rock:

That is awesome Ken - especially that the FluPic makes a nice fit too!

That really turns the Ranier into the special - special edition!

Sweet job Ken. Beamshots?

Concept said:

Sweet job Ken. Beamshots?

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Concept, all those pictures I uploaded on dialup service and you want beamshots too!:ohgeez: I`ll see if I can get some done.;)

Ken