No offense but may I ask if those are mobile phone or compact digital camera shots taken in automatic mode? If so, the camera/phone tried to adjust the white balance automatically, making those shots look almost identical and unusable for tint comparisons. It´s not easy even with a DSLR and using RAW mode to get proper representative images of LED flashlight color tints.
Besides that, I´m definitely not a white wall hunter. I use my lights indoors and outdoors and simply enjoy hi CRI neutral tints to get accurate colors from the subjects I illuminate.
The cardboard box of the Tiny 26650 III has a âhi criâ option written on it⌠but no hio cri version exists yet. So I was just taking the oportunity to ask George if a hi cri version is planned.
Point taken. Guess Iâm a bit of a flashaholic now. Canât look at a flashlight with out thinking, What could I do with this ?
In the process of doing a MT-G2 2D maglite mod.
Iâve damaged a few things myself.
Hi George, will these drivers be available for purchase? Iâve bought 3 of these and the last one I received worked for 30 sec. and the driver quit workingâŚsmell of burnt electronics. Sorry if this has been talked about already peeps. I had limited time this morning and want to get this puppy running again.
Thanks DB for pointing me to this thread! Are you in Austin?
Trying to figure out how that driver could have gone magic smoke on ya, seems likely you had a short somehow but George took precautions to prevent that. Which makes me wonder if something got jarred loose in shipmentâŚ
Hi George.
It is off topic but I can not resist to suggest idea for future flashlight. Zebra
18650 like titanium headlamp lighter and smaller than h600.
May be sound like a joke but how old are you?, some times the noise depends a lot of the age, I have the same flash light and I donât heard any sound but I have 40 years old.
I will ask to my wife if she hear some noise she has better hearing than me.
My 9 yr old has heard bugs squealing where of course I got nothing. Young females tend to hear better than anyone, but young motherâs are scary with what they can hear even from a distance and through walls!
Once youâve got some age on you, as a male, and after some years with intense audiology in a car and/or shooting handguns, thereâs ALWAYS enough whine going on to cover a mere flashlight driver complaining. But not, sadly, enough to cover a wife going on and on (used as an example only, for clarification. )
Today is an anniversary date, 34 years ago today I married the wrong person.
I use my nw quite often and I donât hear any noises.
I just had my wife take a listen, she hears nothing either.
But I have 30 years combined (3M,P&G) in loud manufacturing and I didnt always wear hearing protection :person_facepalming:
You can also use a sound editor to generate tones to pinpoint your upper hearing limit. I recommend Audacityâitâs free. Use the âGenerate Toneâ menu option to create a clip of a specific frequency.
I usually file or sand off the end of the battery tube to re-gain clean bare aluminum so that when assembled the ground is secure.
I also rarely use thread lube. Never on the tube to head contact and only sparingly on the o-ring. Try to keep the o-ring lube off the tailcap threads. I donât like the dirty lube getting between my ground connection.
Hi, Kusie,
usually, I will source LED, cool white at 1A/B/C/D, and nature white 4/A/B/C/D, but usually nature white is not so easy to resource, so, 3 seires or 5 series also will install if cannot find 4 series at that time. for 26650 V3.0, first installed 5B tint (around 4000-4250k), later and current is 3C (4750-5000k).
about nichia 219b/c, first I cannot resource this LED, then I think more important thing is, the optics seems not so fit to richia leds, the hot spot is not clear and the lux is much lower than XPGs at same current set. so, thatâs why there have no nichia choice.