What to do with a light with a burned-out lamp?

rhino

rhino

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Here's the deal:

I have a Pelican PM6 (model #3320) with a dead lamp. It's a nice little polymer body, 6V, CR123A cell, incandescent flashlight that produces 74 lumens.

The obvious fix is to get a new lamp assembly, fresh batteries and go on with life.

However . . . I paid $20.97 for the light complete with Energizer batteries. The lamp assembly from the same source is (drum roll please) . . . $20.97.

So for the short term, I just bought another complete flashlight.

But what to do with the old? Is it possible to replace just the lamp/bulb itself and maybe save a few pennies?

Should I look for an LED conversion of some kind?

Suggestions! Comments! Insults! Go!
 
being they are the same price, i would treat it as disposable and throw out the old one.

and led assembly would likely cost more than the incandescent.
 
The lamp assembly is the expensive part. An injection-molded plastic flashlight body costs next to nothing to manufacture. The Pelican body is waterproof, so that could be an advantage over using a 99 cent flashlight body for your mod, but it's plastic so a powerful led would have a heat problem. All I can suggest is go over to www.candlepowerforums.com and read the mod forum there -- but don't get the idea that you have a valuable flashlight body that you can't let go to waste so you have to use that for a project.
 
If you think there might be use for it... but you don't have one... sell it on ebay!

Heck, I'd buy it to play around with (don't have a lathe, so always need new 'exoskeletons' for my projects) if I wasn't poor beyond my means. :p

An LED conversion isn't a bad idea. If there aren't any pre-built packages, and you don't mind having your 74 lumens reduced to like 20 lumens, you could slap something together yourself with a bit of soldering.
 
If it's water proof, you could make a small survival kit out of it to keep in the car. You could put some means of fire starting in it (matches) and twine for fishing in an emergency.
 
I hve the similar Pelican 3330 which has a 1 W Luxeon bulb .No heat problem. I like it better than my G2 ,giving about half the brightness but for 4 hours full brightness and gradually reducing for many more hours.
 
Thanks for all the feedback, guys. You've given me some interesting ideas.

Of course, now that I know I have a lot more options, my decision-making disorder will probably manifest itself! :D
 
Dunhausen said:
If you think there might be use for it... but you don't have one... sell it on ebay!

Heck, I'd buy it to play around with (don't have a lathe, so always need new 'exoskeletons' for my projects) if I wasn't poor beyond my means. :p

An LED conversion isn't a bad idea. If there aren't any pre-built packages, and you don't mind having your 74 lumens reduced to like 20 lumens, you could slap something together yourself with a bit of soldering.
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the days of 20 lumen LED's are long gone the surefire KL4 is 100 lumen, lotsa the fenix stuff is 135 lumen, the SF KL1 is 40 IIRC, not to mention the cree drop in bulbs that everyone seems to be making now, heck ya would have to look for something with only 20 lol.

i havent ever heard of a LED conversion for a pelican lite but then again i havent been looking for one either.
 
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