{"id":73,"date":"2011-06-23T03:56:54","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T03:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/?p=73"},"modified":"2018-01-20T22:28:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T22:28:29","slug":"your-dads-maglite-4d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"Your dad&#8217;s maglite 4D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time to get your dad a new flashlight for a belated Father&#8217;s Day gift, but he won&#8217;t quit toting that damned\u00a0incandescent\u00a0maglite?!?<\/p>\n<p>It just so happens that Mac&#8217;s XM-L drop-in is intended for just that old flashlight! \u00a0Provided that it has a D in the serial number, that is. \u00a0If the Mag doesn&#8217;t have a D in the serial, it&#8217;s very, very old now. \u00a0The XM-L dropin replaces the old SST-50 dropin. \u00a0The SST-50 was driven at the same current but was less\u00a0efficient, so the XM-L should be brighter.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/macscustoms.com\/MagLiteDropIn.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/macscustoms.com\/MagLiteDropIn.aspx<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>alkalines just can&#8217;t handle the current on high though:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.candlepowerforums.com\/vb\/showthread.php?t=287161&amp;p=3655620#post3655620\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.candlepowerforums.com\/vb\/showthread.php?t=287161&amp;p=3655620#post3655620<\/a><\/div>\n<div>anyway it&#8217;s a good dropin alternative to the incan, it&#8217;ll be bright enough to be worth the bother rather than just a little brighter.<\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;d say that the best fuel for the beast might not be the batteries Mac is recommending though, those are not LSD. \u00a0As a flashaholic, Mac is very accustomed to short battery life, charging constantly, etc. \u00a0The rest of us want the equipment ready whenever, and high-capacity non-LSD cells don&#8217;t necessarily do that. \u00a0Either a set of LSD d-cells\u00a0<em>or <\/em>a set of 8x eneloops in 4x of these adapters (or similar):<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dealextreme.com\/p\/soshine-aa-to-d-size-battery-convertor-case-3228\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.dealextreme.com\/p\/soshine-aa-to-d-size-battery-convertor-case-3228<\/a><\/div>\n<div>the LSD D-cells I&#8217;ve seen mentioned a couple of times here and there are these:<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/AccuEvolution-Self-Discharge-NiMH-Cells\/dp\/B00124BN4U\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/AccuEvolution-Self-Discharge-NiMH-Cells\/dp\/B00124BN4U<\/a><\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;d say that $10\/ea is reasonable, they should have about 4x the capacity of an Eneloop&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time to get your dad a new flashlight for a belated Father&#8217;s Day gift, but he won&#8217;t quit toting that damned\u00a0incandescent\u00a0maglite?!? It just so happens that Mac&#8217;s XM-L drop-in is intended for just that old flashlight! \u00a0Provided that it has &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/?p=73\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}