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.
Secondaries could be (preference order as follows):
a) something very low CCT (~ultra warm) White (max. 2000K, but 1300K would be even better)
b) Amber (not the monochrome, Cree XP-E2 has PC-Amber (PC = phosphor converted), which means a bit more diverse spectrum, but it has better efficiency, if I remember it right)
c) UV
d) Red (Cree XP-E2 has ‘Far red’ beyond 700nm, too)
It needs to be lacking any pronounced hotspot, should flood well.
The “Neutral white + Red” will be available in next batches, the first batch is NW+CW.
And there are 5 modes, Turbo, high, medium, low, and strobe. And highest output is 1200 lumens when two leds working together.
Neutral White + UV = 27 votes
Neutral White + Red = 31 votes
Neutral White + Cool White = 8 votes
And which one did they make first? :person_facepalming:
EDIT: I’ll say this again, too: NW + CW is not such a good duality anyway. It should have been WARM + COOL anyway, for a better spectrum. :person_facepalming:
Yeah. That’s how it seems to me too. It’s also got a very high price, and IMHO completely unjustified. I really don’t know what they were thinking. Oh well.
$89.90 MSRP might be considered as reasonable for the Titanium version, but for the Aluminum version, definitely not.
Also, there is no CRI ratings for the emitters (and I don’t expect good performance here, because it is XP-L, and XP-L has 80CRI emitters only up to 4000K CCT, and 90CRI only up to 3000K CCT - the CW emitter is probably a 70CRI one). This should be within $8.
I think, driver is also not too complicated, maybe an additional $8-12.
The USB rechargeable battery maybe adds another $6-10.