Has anybody here converted their maglite solitare to run an LED? There seem to be plenty of mini maglite conversion kits available, but I'm drawing a blank on the solitaire at the moment. I found mine underneath a pile of stuff yesterday and thought it too neat to throw out, but the performance is quite poor by modern standards.
Cheers
If I were you, I'd keep the Solitaire as it was made to be - incandescent and a bit poo output wise but well made.
Treat yourself to a mini LED torch.
i converted my solitaire with a chip from ebay.
Its still not much of a light, but its 10x better than the original bulb.
this kind of thing
http://www.amazon.com/BULB-SOLITAIRE-MAGLITE-KEYCHAIN-FLASHLIGHT/dp/B003BJNFVS
TBH, for the price, you might as well get a modern LED torch from one of the usual suspects, or even aldi/lidl/tesco
I'd be surprise if you can't find a conversion kit on Deal Extreme...
Thanks. Can't spot anything immediately obvious on DX, maybe I'll have to end up with something on ebay/Amazon from the US: I haven't found anything in the UK so far.
It is a funny one though; as it is I'm not going to use it as it is useless, but I don't want to throw it out, as I've always liked the design.
there doesnt seem to be very many manufacturers of the right voltage bi pin converter around these days - I guess it's an osbolete spec.
But I did find this via google and ebay.
NL167 is the right spec apparently, but Id email and check.
But at £11. Id just not bother 🙂
I will take good care of mine though!
Hmm, thinking more about it, I could buy a new Maglite Solitaire LED version for a couple of quid more than the cost of converting mine; it doesn't make sense to be sentimental about a torch!
Cheers for your help though.