{"id":78,"date":"2010-12-14T15:55:12","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T15:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/?p=78"},"modified":"2018-01-20T22:28:30","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T22:28:30","slug":"dhs-heatsink-for-old-mags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"DHS heatsink for *OLD* mags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.candlepowerforums.com\/vb\/showthread.php?203235-*****-P7-and-DHS-Heatsink-Part-2*****\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.candlepowerforums.com\/vb\/showthread.php?203235-*****-P7-and-DHS-Heatsink-Part-2*****<\/a><\/p>\n<div>At some point he (re-?) added these to the main listing&#8230; $20. \u00a0That&#8217;s for the mounting of LEDs such as the XR-E, SSC P4, Luxeon K2-TFFC. \u00a0In theory you could also put an XP-G or XP-E mounted on ~7.7mm mcpcb on there, based on my measurements of my DHS heatsink. \u00a0Or just grind off the guides and mount a 14mm star or whatever.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This is primarily useful for those of us who have retired old d-size mags (those old enough not to have a D in the serial number). \u00a0I&#8217;m not sure how worthwhile it is to upgrade, even with the heatsink being available&#8230; it&#8217;s true that you can achieve around 270L at 1000mA with a Cree XR-E R2-bin, which will net well over 200 out the front lumens with the optics in place&#8230; but you&#8217;ll need:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>$00 Old D-Size Mag<\/li>\n<li>$20 heatsink<\/li>\n<li>$10 LED<\/li>\n<li>$?? driver board<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>If you&#8217;re dealing with the popular 2D size, I think the lowest you could go for a decent 1A boost driver is a BB Nexgen 1A:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theledguy.chainreactionweb.com\/product_info.php?cPath=48_49_61&amp;products_id=730\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/theledguy.chainreactionweb.com\/product_info.php?cPath=48_49_61&amp;products_id=730<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0that should be optimal for any of the last-gen LEDs such as the XR-E, SSC P4, and the Luxeon K2-TFFC, but not enough juice to get the most out of an XP-G (1.5A).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>So about $18 shipped for that&#8230; bringing the cost of the mod into the $48 range.<\/div>\n<div>A different option would be to use two<a href=\"http:\/\/kaidomain.com\/ProductDetails.aspx?ProductId=2723\" target=\"_blank\"> KD 3AA-&gt;1D<\/a> battery trays at $2 each and a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dealextreme.com\/details.dx\/sku.26110\" target=\"_blank\">DX 5W driver<\/a>, in theory that should be good. \u00a0Possibly more fiddly, but that reduces driver cost to $6 including the adapters, bringing the total down to $36 (assuming the $10 LED pricetag I actually made up is accurate) and allowing you to use readily available (and rechargeable) AA&#8217;s.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>3D with a 7135 based 1.4A driver and a modern low vF XP-G might be a good recipe though.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I hate to pay $20 for a bare aluminum heatsink of that size though, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britelumens.com\/emittersandparts.html\">BriteLumens heatsinks<\/a> have much more mass and are anodized a stylish black. \u00a0Unfortunately they are not an option for older mags though.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.candlepowerforums.com\/vb\/showthread.php?203235-*****-P7-and-DHS-Heatsink-Part-2***** At some point he (re-?) added these to the main listing&#8230; $20. \u00a0That&#8217;s for the mounting of LEDs such as the XR-E, SSC P4, Luxeon K2-TFFC. \u00a0In theory you could also put an XP-G or XP-E mounted on ~7.7mm &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/?p=78\">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-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","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=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodenoughforjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}