Comparison: Stainless Steel AA Flashlight – Amutorch XPG3-S3 vs “Neal’s” Nichia 219C

Niiiiice. :smiley:

Nice job :+1:

I have, they are good 4000K 219B’s, no issues at all.

:smiley: :sunglasses:
Yeah, this wins over the reflector :wink:

Thank you :smiley: Not as nice as some builds or mods I’ve seen (if you know what I mean), but thanks :wink:

I guess that “warm” is the new ’cool’, isn’t it? :sunglasses:

Yep, warm is cool and cool is hot :smiley:

Very nice info MascaratumB !

Eheh, indeed! :smiling_imp: :sunglasses:
I must confess that at first I thought that the flashlights with that “white” strong light were the best, and that those with “yellow” lights were old-fashioned, that they didn’t illuminate anything, as the “old” incandescent lights were a bit like that.
Then I got my first Convoy S2+ with the XML2 T6-4C, and my opinion radically changed!
Now I got my first Nichia, with a beautiful tint (the photos cannot express how good it looks at human sight!!!), and I’ve been converted :innocent:

Not that I’ll become a “tint snob” or that all my lights will all have these warm tints, but I surely be more aware of what can I expect from a light with a more warm tint like this :student:

Thanks! I hope it helps :wink:

Excellent, thanks!

Yes, you will. It takes time, but once you go there, you never want to go back. :smiley:

Actually, I’m itchin’ to try those really warm Nichias that FT sells.

Just gotta figure out which host to put it in, as I gotta use a TIR for these puppies. Guessing that means an S2+…

Hmm, more later!

You mean those 219A 2200K (or something like that) ones?
They’re not high CRI. :frowning:
I got me a bunch a wile ago (ordered 3 pcs, they somehow sent me 6 pcs) but they’re not more that 80 CRI.
They are cheap though…

I can confirm that… :smiley:

Especially with the warmer tints your eyes expect higher CRI and more deep red.
With cooler tints (5000K and more) i can live with lower CRI better.
And then the Crees benefit from their higher efficiency.
I still quite like the 3A tint from Cree LEDs.

Yep. I figure even 80cri is better than The Usual™. Something warm, juuuust to have one, would be nice.

Worse comes to worse, they’d make nice nightlights. :smiley:

Eheh, maybe I will :wink: I’m still learning about these CRI and tint things (among a lot of others… :person_facepalming: ), so I have a long path to run before that!
But now I’m sure I’m more inclined to get neutral to warm tints, despite CRI numbers as they are better to the eyes!

At least one of these AA flashlights will get a neutral LED (XML2 T6-3B) just to try how it works in terms of colour and fitting the lens itself! I guess it will be “cool” to have several in each colour temperature :sunglasses:
From then on…it’s just a matter of time to become snobish :smiley: Eheheh

Nice comparison! Flashlight review turned into optics demonstration very informative, thanks. :slight_smile:

Thanks djozz :wink: Yup, it was a bit like that, as the main review was already made, so the more important and useful things (for me, at least) would be to provide information about other possibilities of lenses or reflector, or how the tint would look on those! :wink:

Hope this helps to other mods, in these or other flashlights :sunglasses:

Nice comparison. I am still waiting for my two from Neal but I am already tempted to order those lenses. The diffused light does look so much better.

Thanks Dave G! The Nichia version from Neal is really nice :slight_smile: And definitely looks better on the pebbled lenses!
I guess I put a link for the lenses above, if you need them.
I’m seeing myself with more and more lights with “hive” lenses! And I like them more and more :wink:

Apparently it is sold as a Hokage stainless Nichia as well

Hum, I did see an image saying that it was “Hokage”, but didn’t see link for it! Did you find it?

Just for curiosity, as I have 4 (all with different settings ) laying around… :person_facepalming: