Exactly J-Dub74………
Hunter, to try and say it nicely; IMO….this was not your most stellar post. Not by a long shot………. :person_facepalming: …
+1 …. As far as I am concerned it was an insulting post.
I think possibly sometimes we get hung up to much on the word “budget”. There is much more to the meaning of the word “budget” than ‘cheap’. One word that comes to mind is ’value’. There are many more…………
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Edit: I just saw this after I posted the above….
Your “one innocent question” was not the problem my friend, it was all the balderdash you included with it.
I really doubt you caused much “discomfort” to anyone except yourself, and that would be because you sent yourself to stand in the corner…
I read an extensive article about anodizing aluminum. It explained the honeycomb-like-physical properties of the nano-tubes that form during the process. This is what holds the dye that can give various colors. The article said white dye has an atomic structure too large to fit in the nano-tubes, so as they said you’ll never see a white anodized aluminum.
The article also went on to say that for similar reasons, colors don’t work well with Type III Military Grade Hard Anodize.
“It’s not a linear scale.
The stated outputs are the power level, which can be misleading. Throw distance follows an inverse square law, while perceived brightness tends to follow something like an inverse cube. So, there’s usually not much point having a mode between 50% and 100% power.
For example, let’s say it puts out 1000 lumens and does 50 kcd lux. Here are the resulting levels in more detail:
0.1% power: 1 lm, throws 14 m, brightness 10/100
1% power: 10 lm, throws 45 m, brightness 21/100
10% power: 100 lm, throws 141 m, brightness 46/100
35% power: 350 lm, throws 264 m, brightness 70/100
100% power: 1000 lm, throws 447 m, brightness 100/100
So, to a human eye, the 35% level actually looks like it’s 70% as bright as the 100% level, and it throws 59% as far. Does the mode spacing make more sense now?”
Setting the linear numbers in the firmware is not the same as the non-linear output. Which of course causes confusion until you come to grips with the fact that you’re dealing with 2 separate things.