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Replacement Bulb for Ultrafire WF-500 Flashlight (cdn.tcb13.com)

submitted 1 year ago by TCB13 to c/[email protected]

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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 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for the reply.

So your in your opinion something like this would work better: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005278498808.html

But... I don't believe that bulb does 500lm was advertised.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Not really. With that bulb, all the light is focused forward, not to the side. The light will never hit the reflector, it is only focused by the lens in the LED housing, and that isn't enough.