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Replacement Bulb for Ultrafire WF-500 Flashlight (cdn.tcb13.com)
submitted 1 year ago by TCB13@lemmy.world to c/askelectronics@discuss.tchncs.de
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Some years ago, before LEDs were a thing, I bought an Ultrafire WF-500 Flashlight that features a Xeon light bulb. As you might imagine the bulb reached its lifetime and burned away.

Now a replacement bulb is available here https://www.ebay.com/itm/321916301663 the thing is that it will cost me 35€ and for that price I could just buy a new LED flashlight.

Now I was considering trying to adapt a generic LED bulb like this one here https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002419159094.html?mp=1.

Anyone else with this model of flashlight succeed at a similar mod? Any LED bulb recommendations? Or... is there any other source for the original bulb at a lower cost?

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Thank you.

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[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Well I emailed UltraFire and they will ship me a replacement bulb that is LED. They also say it is 600lm. I'll report on how it goes.

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Finally got a replacement head from them with a LED, works great, way less heat than before and most likely the light.