aa maglight upgrade

[tommy the cat]

Well bought this from World of Camo off ebay and thought I would share.

You may have seen it in Blacks at about £9.99 I managed to get it at a cheeky offer of £5 + p&p.

I comes with a different cap and 3 leds that have an alleged life of 100,000 hours.
Also a push button on the base for on and off which seems a little uneccessary but make you feel like you are in C.S.I !!!!!!!!!

Now its hard to show how bright it is but it is brighter than my Petzl head torch with better battery life than a standard maglight bulb. Now not tried it for waterproofness but that wasn't my priority its a good backup to my head torch!!!!

Not really showing its brightness but I didn't want to shine it in the camera lens.
I I reckon if you can get it at under a £10 then not a bad upgrade £5 well worth it!!!!!!
Dave

 

[crazyclimber]

looks nice. The LEDs just last and last and use next to no battery power.

I've got a few of these around as backups http://www.fieldandtrek.com/src/shoppingcom/product-Stormlite-Mini-Pocket-Torch-25397.htm
Basically a small version of an AA maglite. Work well also, though unfortunately no CSI feature

 

[reddeath]

anyone seen a 2D cell upgrade like these? im looking for one
cheers

 

[David.s]

anyone seen a 2D cell upgrade like these? im looking for one
cheers

I have one for the 3D and to be honest i think its pretty poor not very bright at all, only good thing i suppose is battery lasts longer.

I also had that AA upgrade and wasnt to impressed. theres another upgrade thats alot better, not used it my self though.

 

[Chainsaw]

I got one of these a while ago in a B&Q warehouse but I think I paid about £10 for it and it didn't have the 'CSI' feature either. I didn't really like my AA maglite and it sat in the back of my tools and stuff cupboard for a very long but this wee upgrade got it back in my good books.

I've never seen a 2D flavour but it maybe worth a google!

Cheers,

Alan

 

[reddeath]

yeah hadnt looked on fleabay etc just saw this thread and remembered id thought about it a while back

was the 3D version light output as good as original or just **** poor?

 

[David.s]

i think its pretty poor, ill have a look for it tomorrow and stick a few pics up for ya to compare.

 

[nzgunnie]

Check out

http://www.led-replacement.com/

I have their teralux TLE5 for the AA maglite and the light output is almost identical to my Fenix L1P. I really recommend this upgrade.

The TLE10 is in one of my AAA maglites, but the light of this is not so nice, It's quite blue and has a yucky yellow corona. A difusing filter fixed it up though, and now it is a handy little light with lots of flood.

The DB-W3 in my 3D mag is weak and blue and not really worth the money in my opinion.

These guys do have models for 2D maglites.

 

[Minotaur]

The way I am going to do it is not by using the Nitelize kit. Nitelize do a part called the I/O switch, which give you 5 modes. Then Terralux do a Led for the Maglite.

This seems mod solves all of the maglites problems for me, as the one reason I never like using it was the lack of on off switch.

 

[Surrey Yeoman]

The Nite Ize combo conversion kit is available form USMC in Portsmouth / Southsea for £7.99. I bought one for myself and when the boys and girls at work saw it, I ended up going back down and buying several more for them!

Get it online at

www.USMCPRO.com

No connection with shop / sellers, just a happy customer!

They also do the I/O "intelligent" switch.

 

[tommy the cat]

I like the aaa mag for its weight but the battery life and brightness of bulb is pants.
If I had seen an upgrade for the aaa I would have bought that.
The Nite ize is I think makes the old maglight as mentioned above a better piece of kit and worth carrying....cant justify spending much more on one as its only for seeing and my Petzl and now the mag are capable of that with a long battery life span.
Dave

 

[nzgunnie]

The way I am going to do it is not by using the Nitelize kit. Nitelize do a part called the I/O switch, which give you 5 modes. Then Terralux do a Led for the Maglite.

This seems mod solves all of the maglites problems for me, as the one reason I never like using it was the lack of on off switch.

Be wary of using this switch with the teralux mods. I'm not entirely certain about this, but when the switch came out it was found that it didn't work properly with the led mods. A search on CPF might reveal more as that is most likely where I read about it. I was going to get one to use on my teralux modded AA mag, but didn't after reading these reports.

 

[Black Sheep]

Been using one of these for over a year at work, very robust and great battery life.

Bought mine from B&Q, didn’t quite fit so I made it, works great.

Rich.

 

[Simon1]

Had mine for over a year to and it works fine , good light and a good revamp for your old mini mag. I would recomend the convertion!

 

[SOAR]

I've just ordered a led upgrade for my 3d maglite, its the 3w maglite product, are these pants then?.

 

[hanzo]

I like the terralux led too. It cranks out a blazing 140 lumens from a AA Mini-Mag!

 

[phaserrifle]

I got one of these a couple of years ago, and so did my dad. within a few months of us fitting them the rear switches both failed, at around the same time. the leds still work in dads though.(and mine was still working when someone nicked it)

 

[leon-1]

I got one of these a couple of years ago, and so did my dad. within a few months of us fitting them the rear switches both failed, at around the same time. the leds still work in dads though.(and mine was still working when someone nicked it)

I have been running the TLE5 with a IQ switch for a long time now, my brother got one and though there was a fault with it, I changed his batteries and it worked perfectly. Effectively the switch only allows one mode when the batteries start to fail.

 

[Wallenstein]

I like the aaa mag for its weight but the battery life and brightness of bulb is pants.
If I had seen an upgrade for the aaa I would have bought that.

I got the terralux upgrade for the AAA maglite - no complaints, plenty of light for using around camp.

it won't light up a whole hillside, but to be honest I only use my for close-up camp tasks and navigating back to my pitch from the campfire.

 

[Graham_S]

I had one.
Didn't like it. The switch is very prone to dirt/dust/corrosion, and I wasn't impressed with the light given out by the LEDs
I got a fenix AA torch instead. Much better than maglites.