Page 1 of Maglite LED upgrade

Ever since I got a really nice LED torch, my poor maglite has been left on the shelf. I just couldn't bring myself to use it anymore, it's poor little underpowered yellowy light in comparison.

After almost a year of occasionally umming and ahing between various different LED upgrades, I finally plumped for this one:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271317837273

Was easy to do, and the difference is huge. You lose a bit of the wide focus beam, and it works best as more of a spot, but it's still definitely given the poor old thing a whole new lease of life.

And in the process of repairing it (a battery had leaked at some point and caused a bit of damage), I now understand how the thing is engineered. Quite a clever design!

Well worth doing if you have an old one lying around.

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I also have dumped my old Maglite for this beast, very useful for working on or in the vans (or cars for that matter). Has a plastic hook on the back for hanging, and magnets built in for sticking to metal sides.

Also used a few of them to light up our workhut the other day, when we lost the mains electricity for a while. Worked a treat.

Got them in Wilkinsons, for a fiver each, takes 4 AA batteries. Rubber sided and quite robust.

Working in the entertainment industry I upgraded my trusty one to LED and tis good :)


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