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A high-power flashlight for under ¥20: three 18650s (Beiliang 3.7V) spot-welded into a pack with an AWithZ handheld welder, heat-shrink and PVC pipe for the body, an LED e-bike headlight + 16mm metal push-button switch + DC jack, hot-glued together; night test reaches 150 m outdoors
A tutorial with no voice-over, just BGM and a few captions. Three Beiliang 18650s (shopping screenshot ¥9.50 each, 5550mWh flat-top) are placed side by side and spot-welded into a pack with nickel strip on an AWithZ handheld welder (0–30s), wrapped in blue heat-shrink and shrunk with a heat gun (34–49s), with red and black leads brought out at both ends. The body is grey PVC water pipe (shopping screenshot ¥2.77), marked with a whiteboard marker and cut open with a utility knife (63–98s); a 16mm 12–24V metal latching push-button switch (90s shopping screenshot) and a DC jack (148s screenshot) are fitted; the head is an LED e-bike headlight (square, multi-LED), lit up at 111s. A 50mm-ID grey PVC pipe cap serves as the tail cap (155s), the pack is pushed into the pipe and wired (171–185s), and a hot-glue gun fixes the head and the connectors (187–194s). Night test: a casual try outside the front door with the spot head while it is not fully dark yet; in full darkness outdoors 150 m should be no problem; a flood-beam version is shown for comparison (207–223s); the ending shows several finished units. Of 1013 comments only 11 were captured: the top one is ‘your 10 flashlights aren’t as bright as my one’ (the creator replied); someone warns that with no charge/discharge protection it will over-discharge and an external charge protection is needed, and asks how to charge it; the creator’s pinned comment adds ‘Demacia G40 gear 2’ as a brightness reference.
DIY high-power flashlight tutorial: three 18650 cells and an e-bike headlight for under ¥20ProjectsGoodnight

Comments (10)

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狗尾巴草 · 1 yr ago

Which is brighter, this or the G40

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晚安(射灯爱好者Author · 1 yr ago

Demacia G40 on gear 2

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开机重启 · 1 yr ago

How do you charge it

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用户1682458161703 · 1 yr ago

I've got two Future Eye F20X lamp heads, can you mod them.

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螺杆空压机一站式服务中心 · 1 yr ago

Ten of your flashlights aren't as bright as this one of mine!!! (creator replied)

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螃蟹快跑 · 1 yr ago

No charge/discharge module, the Li-ion cells will over-discharge, and charging is awkward too, you need external charge protection.

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南风知我意~ · 1 yr ago

Light and switch are all there, it's just not much use once built, runtime is too short and it's bulky

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Yip Fat · 1 yr ago

Take the lamp off, make a 50-to-80 head for it

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平度水电小陈 · 1 yr ago

Can you build a laser cannon for under 100? No scattered light, the beam has to be tight

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窗外 · 1 yr ago

Charging directly with no voltage conversion?

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