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Beautiful glowing orangish red kickin 193mW with a 3-element lens ^^
Diode: Opnext 120mW Single Mode 638 Diode (HL63603TG)
Host: http://laserpointerforums.com/f52/ozark-trail-2-piece-aluminum-flashlight-walmart-86554.html
22600 Battery: http://kaidomain.com/product/details.S009416
It has been a while since i picked up several of these flashlights to do a few builds on (Prolly single mode red/blue/green trio), and one of the reasons it took me so long to finally start building was a lonnnnggggg shipping time on my 22600 batteries from china!
See one of the photos below, the 22600 batteries are slightly longer but diameter-wise they replace the 3xAAA battery holders perfectly!
So once my batteries were in, i ordered a diode+driver combo from DTR, took a few measurments to cut a heatsink at work, and conveniently enough i was able to do the build using all the internal components of the flashlight (minus the led diode/cone etc) and just shorten the spring and bypass the high/low/strobe components on the contanct board that came with it by soldering to the bottom of the board! (see before/after photos below)
With 3-Element lens =
Odd, not much increase, here is with G9 lens =
Before modification =
After modification =
Diode: Opnext 120mW Single Mode 638 Diode (HL63603TG)
Host: http://laserpointerforums.com/f52/ozark-trail-2-piece-aluminum-flashlight-walmart-86554.html
22600 Battery: http://kaidomain.com/product/details.S009416
It has been a while since i picked up several of these flashlights to do a few builds on (Prolly single mode red/blue/green trio), and one of the reasons it took me so long to finally start building was a lonnnnggggg shipping time on my 22600 batteries from china!
See one of the photos below, the 22600 batteries are slightly longer but diameter-wise they replace the 3xAAA battery holders perfectly!
So once my batteries were in, i ordered a diode+driver combo from DTR, took a few measurments to cut a heatsink at work, and conveniently enough i was able to do the build using all the internal components of the flashlight (minus the led diode/cone etc) and just shorten the spring and bypass the high/low/strobe components on the contanct board that came with it by soldering to the bottom of the board! (see before/after photos below)
With 3-Element lens =
Odd, not much increase, here is with G9 lens =
Before modification =
After modification =