Just modded my flashlight

Sorry, no pics at the moment, but I just had to post because I'm very proud! I had been planning on making an LED mag lite for quite some time now and I finally got all the parts together and took the time to bust it out. And here's the recipie!

Ingredients:
1 Mag lite flashlight, 5 D cell (Rodney King Edition!)
5 9000mAh NiMH D batteries
20 9000mcd ultra bright white LEDs
soldering iron, various pliers, some wire, and a pcb to put it all togther.
2 margaritas with fresh juice and patron tequila
2 jello shooters (celebration )

I just got the 20 LEDs completely enclosed in the flashlight and it looks awesome. Not quite as bright as it would be with the regular bulb, but it's a whiter light (not orange colored like bulbs) and can run for 24 hours straight before a recharge (calculated time of charge, not tested yet. It may be much higher).

And as soon as I take the time to find some info on how to build a rapid recharging circuit, I'll build a charger for the batteries so that I just plug the entire flashlight into a base to let it charge when not in use. Right now I'm still going to be taking the batteries out to charge in a regular charger.

Total cost for anyone who may want to try this: $130 + cost of solder and pcb and such. The mag lite was $20. The LEDs were $20 (thanks to exabytesystems.com, which will soon no longer be a source of LEDS). The rechargable batteries and charging base was $90.

nice. we want pics!!

pics dude!!!!!

lol, I modded my mini-mag lite a while back with an LED. I'm sad, because I must have left it on and now the battery is dead.....and the other battery is at home.....8 hours away, hehe. I could stop at a radio shack, but those are expensive batteries (12v, same width as AAA but half the length.)

Anyway, i've always wanted to make a big mag-lite LED conversion....I just didn't have the materials or patience, hehe.

Anyway, what's the battery life on that compared to a regular mag-lite? And, how does the brightness compare? I suppose with the 9000mcd LEDs, it's going to be comparable if not better, heh. The LEDs I have are about 3000mcd....so it's almost the same as that tiny light bulb, heh.

And again, we need pics!!!

edit:

doh! I didn't read your post completely, rofl....my bad.

Sounds sweet, cant wait for pics. That battery life sounds freakin awesome. I hate running out of power just when you need the thing, lol.