[Milsurplus] GRC-9 Maglite in situ

[Hubert Miller]

Installing the Maglite adapter is done with needle nose, gripping the rim of the lamp base. It is actually quite easy to install and easier to remove than the original bayonet base
bulb, as you don't have to manipulate your fingers into the crowded workspace.
Now:
1- the Maglite bulb has a "warmer" glow than the LED, which is "whiter" light.
2- the Maglite takes substantial current. If you use flashlight batteries to light the filament, you're getting up into 1 amp territory. 450 mA rec + 250 mA light.
    I prefer a dial light that is on all time receiver is on.
3 -no, I didn't try this out at all in real life receive conditions.
4-  Any incandescent bulb has lower life hours than an LED.
5- After my last experiment, I am sold on the B+ LED. It gives sufficient illumination with practically no power consumption. Hard to beat that !
6- Contrary to my previous thinking, I am not totally convinced that a voltage booster would create RFI into the receiver. This has still to be tested. But the voltage booster did not
bother at all an AM radio when placed near the antenna. This would have to be placed in the space where the audio bias battery plugged in, which limits solutions to the bias
battery problem. I am thinking about how to deal with that.

Now to look for some white LEDs to buy.
-Hue
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