Welcome to Adventure Sport. Today's episode Top 5 best LED
upgrades for maglite. All the bulbs featured
in today's episode of the straight drop
in type that don't require any
modification to the maglite host for
use the bulbs be ranked in order of
least output to the greatest number five
a simple LED replacement bulbs that I
picked up from ebay seller rapid2you
install is like a standard incandescent
bulb it's rated at 260 lumens of output
which is the highest i was able to find
for a 2 cell light it uses a cree xpg2
LED and it has a solid feel to it it
definitely has better heat sinking than
some of the other bulbs available and i
like the color too vs my
niteize bulb it has a single-mode
output and maintains the quick focus
ability of the maglite retail price on
the rapid to youbulb is fifteen
dollars and forty cents which makes it
cheap easy upgrade to bring your mag
light into this decade number for the
Malkoff xpg2 drop in the Malkoff has a
325 lumen output and it works in 3-6D
cell Maglites has a unique patented
design the side pieces cut at an angle
which puts pressure on the side wall as
the set screws tightened overall it's a
sharp-looking product battery contacts
are made when pressure is applied to the
drop in from above in order to use this
bulb you will need to either cut the cam
from your existing reflector or purchase
one with this done to it from the
website the system eliminates the quick
focus capability of the maglite but is
still fully focusable from spot too wide
by twisting the maglite head Malkoff
also offers a 2 d-cell bulb and C cell
options and has a 700 lumens xml2
bulb i chose the xpg2 version
because of the much wider voltage range
and because of the lower price
retail on this one is forty-seven
dollars number three the firefly drop in 800 lumen bulb with a 3 mode
user interface high medium and low with
memory installed by simply removing the
old reflector involve retaining rings
then screw the bezel on and gently
tighten down the head can be used with
3-6D cells to create xml2 LED and
large smooth reflector provide a beam
with a tight round hotspot and bright
spill firefly comes with a detachable
ring which enables it to be used in
newer incandescent Maglites with the D
and the serial number as well as older
mags with the shallower headwear no "D"
is present retail price on the fireflies
$56 number to the terralux tle 310m
thousand lumen conversion kit it works
in 426 dsl Maglites and offers users a
choice of single-mode or multi mode user
interface UI is changed by moving a
small switch on the side one direction
of the other peering through the optics
I can see what looks like three
generation one xml meters installed by
threading onto the post the bulb holder
than unscrewing the head till it reaches
the base of the drop-in you'll need to
replace the factory Oring under the
lens with the thicker one provided
the terralux is a fixed focus module
with a medium beam profile
I'd call it a large hot spot with usable
spill retail price on the tle 310 is
69.95 number one the adventure sport
flashlight super bulb this bulb comes in
two varieties a 2000 lumen three xml2
bulb and a 5000 lumen 3x hp50 the user
interface is programmable so you can
choose which mode you want and which one
2000 lumen bulb is designed for use
in a 3-cell light and 5000 lumen bulb
for a 6-cell light but it can also be
used in smaller size mags with
lithium-ion batteries the adventure
sport bulbs also work in C cell
Maglites with the optional expansion
ring both bolts have a large hot spot
and right spill but they're still useful
at a great distance just by sheer volume
of the output to install remove the
reflector involve retaining ring unscrew
the head past the o-ring snug down the
bezel and then snug down the head retail
price on the adventure sport bulbs is
129 for the XHP and 121 for the XML I did
an independent test of the output for
each of these bulbs and for this test i
went with the best-case-scenario i use
the resistance fixed maglite and the
maximum number of cells allowed by each
bulb follow the balls that can handle
6 cells use the pair of IMR 26650s
which will perform much better than
alkaline d cells on the left is the
factory claim and on the right is the
number that i got i also ran a test for
the bulbs that could fewer cells to
see how they performed on the minimum
amount i also tested each of these LED
upgrades for being distance of these are
the numbers that I got
one final test I did was to check the
current at the battery in for each bulb
using the maximum number of cells i
tested each bulb at the maximum output
and for the multi-level brightness ones
i also tested the very lowest mode the
question marks on the adventure sport
xml to bulbar because my multimeter
won't measure any current less than ten
millions the beam shots i did my best to
give you guys an idea of what the beam
profile as well as the overall output of
each bulb is adjusted the lighting on
some of the pictures so that i could
give the most accurate portrayal of what
it actually feels like to hold these
lights in your hand both outdoors and
inside a room for the inside shots i
concentrated mostly on what i would call
the ambient light of the beam basically
the amount of filled that in the room
other than the wash out on the wall
I feel like they came out really
accurate
there's a few things I'd like to get
feedback from you guys about this week
number one is if you have any of the
bulbs we saw in this video what do you
think about him the other thing would be
are there any bulbs that i missed is
there something that you feel like
should have been in this video another
bulb I didn't know about maybe was
thinking for my next video what i could
do maybe is a flashlight batteries 101
you know just go over some of the basic
chemistry is just the things that you
really need to know to run hype our
flashlights effectively and safely like
charging and discharging and things like
that with the advantages of different
chemistries are and I thought I'd
give your brand recommendations
what what ones live up to their names
and then maybe talk about how you
calculate what runtime you could expect
by using different cells you know the
capacity and everything and also maybe a
video on some of the more creative ways
that you can power up these high-powered
bulbs like if you wanted to use a a
6-cell ball and a two or three so mag
you know get into some of the AAA
options and things like that to make it
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