Re: [APML] OT: LED Flashlights

["westergren" <westergren@netzero.net>]

Steve,

You can make your own red LED "bulb" and use it in a flashlight or
inexpensive headlight.  I took the Xenon bulb out of my headlamp, sacrificed
the bulb to unsolder the light element and break away the glass.  Replace it
with a bright red LED (5000 mcp from Radio Shack).  You have to solder in
the LED with the correct polarity, and if you use more than 2 batteries,
then you need to put in a dropping resister between the LED and the "light
bulb contact base.  This makes a red LED that can easily be replaced back
with the regular bulb if you so desire.  I've been using my red LED headlamp
for a couple years, and have to change the batteries every 6 months or so.
I got tired of holding the red LED flashlight in my teeth too.

Don


> I have a number of commercial red LED flashlights. All of them have a
> major drawback--when I need both hands free, they end up being held in
> my teeth. There are some really nice headband mounted units like the
> Princeton Aurora--except they only make them in white.


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