How to Change the Bulb on a Victorinox Flashlight A Victorinox-brand flashlight has an LED bulb that lasts longer and uses less battery power than a conventional flashlight. The LED bulb is screwed into the flashlight in a similar manner to that of a flashlight which uses an incandescent bulb. A few tools found around the house will be needed to replace the bulb. Unscrew the battery cap from the back of the Victorinox flashlight. Place the battery cap aside. Remove the batteries from the battery compartment and place them aside also. Unscrew the reflector from the front of the flashlight. Stand the flashlight on a table with the front facing up. Hold the flashlight in place by grasping it from the side with one hand. Hold the needle-nose pliers in the other hand. Insert the needle-nose pliers into the front end of the flashlight. Grip the base of the bulb on the socket inside the flashlight. Twist the base of the bulb counter clockwise to loosen it from the socket.

Repeat this action a quarter turn counter clockwise. Unscrew the bulb from the socket with your fingers. Dispose of the bulb properly. Put a cotton glove on the hand that was holding the plier earlier. Pick up the replacement bulb with the hand that is wearing the cotton glove. Insert the base of the replacement bulb into the socket inside the front of the flashlight. Turn the bulb a quarter turn clockwise with your fingers. Insert the needle-nose pliers into the front of the flashlight. Grip the base of the replacement bulb with the pliers. Rotate the base a half turn clockwise to seat it in the socket. Screw the reflector on the front of the flashlight. Reinsert the batteries in the same manner as they originally occupied and screw the battery cap on The "Stinger" flashlight by the Streamlight brand has a brighter bulb than a conventional flashlight but is just as susceptible to a... The Victorinox Swiss Army Knife Midnight Manager is a 2 1/4-inch pocket knife that combines the basic Victorinox Swiss Army Knife blade,...

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Xenon Vs. LED Flashlights How to Fix an LED Flashlight LED Flashlight Vs. Regular Flashlight How to Open a Stylus StreamlightWarning: Removing the cover too many times can result in it no longer fitting tightly to the knife. My cover fell off one day and I lost my battery and battery compartment door. It’s probably a good idea to use a bit of glue to make sure the cover stays when you put it back on. The Victorinox Midnite Minichamp is a damn useful Swiss Army knife. It’s cut and picker blade is very useful for stripping wires when a proper wire stripper isn’t available. It also has a retractable pen and an LED light. The newer ones use a white LED, but I bought mine many years ago, before low cost white LEDs became available, so it has a weaker red LED. A red light can be beneficial if you want to preserve your night vision while reading constellation maps when stargazing. However, that is a very specific purpose and there have been many times I could have used a brighter light.

Therefore, I’ve wanted to replace the Minichamp’s red LED for a long while, but it wasn’t until I saw Swiss Army knives being assembled on an episode of Modern Marvels that I finally gave it a go; it turned out to be a piece of cake. The Minichamp’s CR1025 battery is removable by poking a toothpick into a small hole in the knife’s plastic cover. The toothpick pushes the battery and tiny plastic door out the opposite side. With the battery removed I was able to wedge a guitar pick between the plastic cover and the body of the knife. Then I removed the plastic cover by gently prying around its perimeter. I didn’t have to break any glue bonds or plastic tabs; it was just a simple friction fit. The LED assembly consists of a battery holder, a momentary switch, and a 3 mm LED soldered to the assembly’s substrate. I desoldered the red LED with a little solder wick, cut the white LED’s leads to the same length as the red LED, checked I had the correct polarity, and then soldered the new LED to the board.

The width of the white LED was larger than the red one and prevented the plastic cover from properly fitting back onto the knife. To fix this I used the Minichamp’s file to remove plastic from the LED until it was flush with its housing. The LED assembly and cover should be refitted onto the knife so that the LED and retractable pen point in the same direction, so you can see what you’re writing in the dark. Finally, I shouted “Lumos” (*cough* Dork!) and pressed the button. Nice, bright, white light. I was thinking about how I could use an RGB LED and a switch with more than one throw to get red and white light, when I remembered there is such a thing as bi-color LEDs that only use one anode and one cathode. This type of LED has two dies in anti-parallel in one package. Therefore, if this type of bi-color red and white LED is used in the Midnite Minichamp all the user has to do is take out the battery and flip it over to switch from red light to white light; no other changes to the circuit are necessary.