Okay, I ordered the EBLCL CE ROHS FCC PR P13.5S 18V 247 Lumen CREE XP-G2 S4LED upgrade for my 18 volt Ryobi worklight. To make a long story short, like the Jomitop, it too throws an irregular crescent shaped light that I don’t like. This unit is sold by a number of vendors on Amazon so buyer beware.
Here’s a photo of the EBLCL unit and the beam it projects:
I’m going to just leave this unit installed and look for a new worklight … I may even just put a replacement bulb in the unit. I use these things quite a bit and I would rather have a decent wide area of light vs. these oddly shaped beams.
Bottom line, unless you like the shape of the beam shown above, I can’t recommend it.
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Back in about 1982 or 83, I saved my money up in high school and bought a seemingly giant 4-D cell Maglite. That thing has been all over the US with me – camping, in cars, trucks, by the night stand and so forth. My dad was so impressed he bought both a three and five cell version and used them on the farm. Fast forward to 2015, my dad had passed away and I had both of his lights plus my old one – the paint was chipped and the old-style bulbs didn’t crank out anywhere near the light of a modern LED flashlight but they were still operational. Face it, Maglites were built to last! My Maglight and my dad’s were just sitting on the shelf and I couldn’t bring myself to toss them.
As so many things go in life, I was researching on LED upgrades for Surefire M951 weapons lights and wondered if some kind of upgrade existed for Maglites. The answer was a resounding “yes”! There were all kinds of replacement and upgrade parts available. I wound up getting three TerraLUX TLE-6EX MiniStar5 140 Lumens replacement for the traditional bulbs in May 2015. Because I am writing this almost two years later, I can tell you the bulbs are a great deal – they’re not very expensive, bright as heck, durable and really easy on the batteries. I was impressed then and still am now.
At any rate, two years later, zero problems, way brighter and better battery life – sounds like something worth sharing while I drink my morning coffee.
First, the Maglite design is really cool. You can readily get to just about everything that can wear out. You don’t need to pull the batteries unless you want to, but you do need to unscrew the head and remove it. Years ago I had a battery burst in this light so I always check batteries just to play it safe. This is my four cell that I’ll take apart:
Now, you unscrew the front bezel and that gives you access to the lens. I am pretty sure I tossed my original because it was so scratched up. When I upgraded the LED, I also put in a new Crystal Glass upgrade lens in. I just did it on mine and have had zero problems with it. When you take the bezel off, the lens just lifts/falls right out. There’s no glue to deal with.
Now the lens sits in the body on a shock absorbing system. I found an old bulb and inserted it so you could see the steps. The bulb is held in place by a threaded collar that simply unscrews and you can then remove the bulb unit. In the third and fourth photo, you can see the collar to the right of the bulb.
The LED emitter is a tad longer than the bulb but this doesn’t matter. Just put it in place of the bulb and then screw the collar back into place. Just snug the collar – you don’t need it to be crazy tight. Also, I inspected all the O-Rings and out a light smear of heavy silicone grease on all the threads and O-rings to make everything turn smoothly – you can still change the beam from flood to spot, same as always. Note, if an O-ring is torn, cracked or looking bad, take it to your local hardware store and replace it.
Next up, the rubber cover on my light’s switch was cracked and oxidized. You can find replacements for those as well. They are simply press fit so you can remove them very easily with your fingers or use a small tool to lift the cover up. The replacement I bought in 2015 still looks like new.
The result: I spent about $30 and have a very bright durable light. I keep one in my truck and the other big light floats around between my shop and the house. In the next photo, you can see the LED emitter working.
One thing that is interesting is that the five cell’s LED is not as white as the other two but it used to be. I’m not sure why – I think it has the original batteries from two years ago. It’s something else to add to the need to check out when there is free time list 🙂
Would I do it again? Absolutely. I like being able to use these lights once again. There’s a lot of nostalgia involved with both of them.
12/28/23 Update: The upgrade I bought is no longer sold. The following are options that are highly rated on Amazon:
TRLIFE is another vendor – very well reviewed and you get two LED upgrade assemblies for a very good deal. They claim 2000 lumen but then again they also say the LED assembly can handle Streamlights that have 3-16 C or D cells. I don’t know if any Streamlight with that many batteries. Click here for that one.
Rounding out the list is JESLED. It gets great reviews. The English is iffy in the description. They say 247 lumen and 3-16 C or D batteries. Click here for that.
5/23/19 Update: Still working great. No problems and has been used a ton not to mention bouncing around in my truck through the winter.
2/9/20 Update: Still going strong – no failures or problems.
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I really like Surefire weapons lights but they can be very expensive. If you haven’t noticed it, there are some great deals on new in the box Surefire M951 weapons lights on eBay. Now hear’s the thing – they are new old stock – they have the old Xenon bulbs with them but these things are often unused or lightly used and include the picatinny rail mount and pressure pad. You can upgrade them to an LED for often less than $20 for both a brighter and longer lasting light.
To find the Surefire M951, the trick I found is to search for one of the many “kit” packages that are for sale. The light I purchased was a “Surefire M951 Kit02” to be exact.
The M951, and a number of other Surefire lights used the P60 Xenon bulb. There are a ton of LED upgrades out there and I opted for one from Amazon. The following text links are to the actual LED reflector I bought off Amazon and used – I just had to remove the external spring (it pulls right off) and put it in my M951.
Surefire sells replacement heads for the M951 but they are pricey – $45 and up. It held up fine on both a 9mm and 5.56 AR. It was a fun conversion project and my buddy has it on his AR now.
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