My C3 Mod

Started out with a little mini aluminum LED pocket light, designed for 1-AA or 14500. Perfect Pulled oout the LED module, stripped the PCB's, mounted 510 in place of the LED. Replaced the high-power LED with a standard one for power indicator. Vapes like mad and it's small enough to hide in your hand. Recessed connector. My smallest batty mod yet. Cool!!! This is fun.

It was such a nice little light I almost didn't mod it. I will have to order another I guess






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That is a neat little mod, you seem to really enjoy doing this...but it's easy to enjoy something when you're good at it and the results are so nice. (insert obvious jealousy here,,,my one attempt..ehhh not so good) I do enjoy seeing what you are up to.

 

Where did you get the flashlight? How much was it?

-Xen

 

That's the neat part: it is a Cree C3 clone (at least from the price I think it's a clone) .. search ebay for "3w 1AA Torch" and you will find them .. from HK for 2-3 bucks buy it now (or less if you want to play the bidding game) (shipping included) .. it's a 3-piece aluminum alloy flashlight, built for 1AA cell, a protected 14500 fits just fine. It includes a small voltage booster circuit (I put in a 1.5v Alk AA and tested the output voltage: about 3.5v unloaded, about 2.5 with a load) .. put in a 14500 and the unloaded output was about 12v, under load I am guessing about 5-6V. Since I was not sure about the circuit current capacity, I pulled all the components off the little PCB and rewired it. I think I will get more of them and experiment with the voltage booster.

Here are pics of my other one (I got 2) both assembled and disassembled. Total length: 3-7/8", diameter: 3/4" od

I am gonna order some more, this is a nice little pocket light in it's own right.

 

Maybe I'm a bit slow but......... One more thing I just discovered: there is a butt switch (click on/click off) .. but in addition, there is a mechanical twisty switch built into the body: tighten to turn on / loosen slightly to turn back off. Can do it one-handed. WOW!!! I'm ordering more of these babies



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That's awesome man, thanks for the info. I'm going to pick one of these up to make use of my 14500 batteries. I have always wanted to see the twist functionality as a potentiometer for variable voltage.

-Xen