I think it would be helpful to have a bit more info about the light you’re designing. Emitter choice might depend on form factor and intended use of the light.
+ 1 here The initial design of this light (with side switch) was more appealing for me, but it was changed! Now, this led choices…let’s see where it ends!
I guess that they have all the opportunity to make a classy, appealing, well designed and powerfull flashlight (the first numbers were about 1000lumens), with a nice (programmable ?) user interface!
I’m not sure where this will end, but I’m still interested to know! There is room to innovation, and for a nice build on this light
Night vision preservation… any application really where I need to see and I do not want to dilate my eyes. Hunting would be included in that as well as night hiking, backpacking, camping.
Both LEDs can work independently as well as together (Two LEDs are illuminating). And max lumens (2 LEDs working) with 14500 powered is about 1400 lumens.
I like a light for each purpose but since you narrow me down to 2 I pick neutral and red. If i had a choice I would pick neutral and green.
And yes I picked both for hunting. Again I carry 2. A floody neutral and a spot green. I do have a spot red but it seems everybody and their mom has one for hogs around here and while the pigs are not supposed to be able to see it they do. The rednecks are swapping to green now so it’s just a matter of time they have the hogs trained to run from every color.
I was going with the hypothesis that everyone who voted for red was voting for it to be a hunting light. Since the design of the light itself will make it not good for hunting, I supposed that those people might choose another LED combo that they’d like that would be useful with this light design.
Oh, is that all it takes? A little bribery? :smiling_imp:
Are any of you guys who voted for NW + Red able to be bribed? I don’t have much money, but I could send you a cheap flashlight that I have lying around.
Put it this way I prefer red for times when I need night dilated vision preserved, be it hunting or otherwise. Although the red light itself is not used for spotting/targeting game… the actual act of hunting / killing.
One thing I find about extended exposure to red light is it tint shifts my vision-color spectrum. Just a few minutes of red light is all it takes. It makes me temporarily extra sensitive to white and green light, until my vision re-adjusts back. Its like getting a little OTF lumen boost.