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#72661 - 09/05/06 09:56 PM Re: Mini Maglite LED at Wal Mart
bassnbear Offline
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Registered: 08/25/06
Posts: 44
Loc: Southeast US
I converted my Mini-mag AA when the kit first came out (that was BEFORE they included the new push button tailcap and I love it. It throws a great deal of light but does not focus to a spot (the only drawback). For any mini-mag fans out there I would highly recommend converting. And for the die hard night lite fan - just don't replace your tail cap and use it just like you always have.

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#72662 - 09/06/06 03:53 AM Re: Mini Maglite LED at Wal Mart
NYC2SoCal Offline
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Registered: 10/31/05
Posts: 117
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**WHAT!?!** Not sure I read that correctly.


Sounds like a flashlightholic in our mist, or at least a cpf member.. <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

$24 for a mini mag AA LED seems a bit steep.. I would have tried it for $12, maybe $15.. I find that the RiverRock AAA sold at Target for $9.99 is well worth it.. Am I willing to pay 250% more for a maglight? Probably not.

FYI, the RiverRock is my EDC.. I reversed the clip and use it to clip it to my pocket. My surefire is in my bag when I really need some serious light.. <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

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#72663 - 09/06/06 08:24 PM Re: Mini Maglite LED at Wal Mart
joaquin39 Offline
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Registered: 03/19/05
Posts: 149
Loc: Philadelphia,Pennsyvania, USA.
Ducktapeguy:
If you pick one of the maglite 2-AA led and you said that you have already converted one maglite with the niteize, can you compare them and let us know if they are worth it? Thanks.

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#72664 - 09/06/06 08:30 PM Re: Mini Maglite LED at Wal Mart
joaquin39 Offline
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Registered: 03/19/05
Posts: 149
Loc: Philadelphia,Pennsyvania, USA.
Breathingmeat:
The new Mag with LED's can be used as a lamp also like the old ones. I dont know if the nite-ize convertion can do that. Maybe Ducktape guy can answer that since he converted one.

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#72665 - 09/06/06 08:48 PM Re: Mini Maglite LED at Wal Mart
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Just to satisfy my own curiousity, I installed a TerraLUX TLE-10 led module in one of my AA-MiniMags this morning. Has absolutely no light out the sides, so one would need to use the ceiling as a reflector to get any area lighting.

As for the TLE-10 otherwise: meh. It was brighter than with the incandescent bulb, but with a bluish beam with some green around the fringe. This is a single led module with included reflector, so one can still rotate the bezel and focus the beam. And runtime is supposedly over 10 hours with alkaline batteries.

As I said before, I may just leave this one incandescent for the candle mode (I carry an Inova X1 in the same bag with a Princeton Tec Pulsar II clipped to the outside). Still waiting for Fenix to offer the L2P in some other color than... black.

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#72666 - 09/06/06 09:49 PM Re: Mini Maglite LED at Wal Mart
jamesraykenney Offline
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Registered: 03/12/04
Posts: 316
Loc: Beaumont, TX USA
Candle mode works fine with the Niteize conversion...
It may be a little dimmer from the sides, but it is going to last MUCH^2 longer and is not going to break the first time you bump it either...
I was looking at getting the new LED version(I got the LED conversion for the 2D Maglite FROM Maglite and it is quite good), but the extra length kind of pushed me away...
I will probably have to get one just so I can review it for the forums(yea sure... that's a good excuse)...

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#72667 - 09/06/06 10:59 PM Re: Mini Maglite LED at Wal Mart
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It may be a little dimmer from the sides, but it is going to last MUCH^2 longer and is not going to break the first time you bump it either...


I gotta' ask: C'mon, has anyone really had that much trouble with the fragility of incandescent bulbs? To put it another way: is this a real problem or a made-up problem to justify going out and buying some new stuff to try (not that there's anything wrong with that <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> )?

I've got over a half-dozen Maglites that I've been using for at least decade. One or two are probably approaching two decades. They've been dropped to the floor and routinely tossed into the toolbox and have the scars to show for it... I think I've replaced one bulb during that time. Come to think of it, I've got a 5 C-cell Kel-Lite (the predecessor of Maglite) that's around 30 years old (whoa... I had to take that in for a second) that's running on the original bulb despite many years of rough handling.

I'm not trying to put down led lights (I own several), they have plenty of advantages (ruggedness and runtime are right up there), but let's be realistic. I'm not ready to lump incandescent lights together with slide rules and pencil pointers just yet. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />



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#72668 - 09/06/06 11:48 PM Re: Mini Maglite LED at Wal Mart
UTAlumnus Offline
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Registered: 03/08/03
Posts: 1019
Loc: East Tennessee near Bristol
I went with the new L2T. It's got 2 light intensities. They also stand on end for candle mode without having to disassemble.

From the Fenix site:
" The high level: Constant 55 Lumens, 3 hours (Ni-MH)"
" The low level: Constant 10 Lumens, 22 hours (Ni-MH) "

It would be nice if they used "natural" HA3 for a finish.

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#72669 - 09/06/06 11:49 PM Re: Mini Maglite LED at Wal Mart
aloha Offline
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Registered: 11/16/05
Posts: 1059
Loc: Hawaii, USA
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I gotta' ask: C'mon, has anyone really had that much trouble with the fragility of incandescent bulbs? To put it another way: is this a real problem or a made-up problem to justify going out and buying some new stuff to try (not that there's anything wrong with that )?


I have had problems with the mini mag lite's bulbs' frailty. Don't get me wrong, I have owned many (about a dozen) mag lites including quite a few mini's. The problem that I noticed was with the mini's as I haven't dropped a bigger one. Whenever I accidentally drop a mini from even as low as 2-3 feet, I find that most of the time the bulb shatters and most of the time, the spare bulb in the tail cap shatters too, leaving me up the creak.
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#72670 - 09/06/06 11:52 PM Re: Mini Maglite LED at Wal Mart
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Interesting... I'll have a look. Thanks.

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