I have a sneaky suspicion the two are tied together .
Before I started playing around with flashlights I was defiantly a night light guy . I used to have 7 watt light bulbs burning all night,christmas lights ,and numerous night lights strategically placed in the house to facilitate late night strolls .
My question is are you now... or have you ever been a night-light- a -holic ?? ..and..Do you like moonlight modes on your flashlights ?
My reasoning is that a person who likes big bright lights that start on high and have no low low modes is probably the kind of guy who would just flip on the lightswitch so he can see ....vs . someone with a 1/2 lumen light with a red diffuser on it silently slinking thru the living room ...
I like being able to have moonlight…just a little light, enough to see where you are going or whatever as to not wake everyone up or screw up your night vision
I like/need night lights and have several mains powered around the house, some Masterplug LED with single white 5mm, some Ecozone EL (earlier ones were green, later ones blue). The EL are brighter than actual moon light but consume less power. I do find I need to shield my eyes from them but I can live with that as I am familiar with their locations.
I do like having a good moon light mode in a flashlight. It makes the flashlight feel more versatile. I have found when my photophobia is particularly bad, it’s better if the moon light can be thrown away from my eyes instead of trying to create a comfortable level of flood (even a modified red Inova keyring felt too bright at times).
I have always liked low wattage lights. I have more than a dozen 0.5w led night lights that I plug to diff wall outlets in our house. I prefer several low-watt lights turned on instead of a single high-watt light.
When I discovered led flashlights and BLF, I started using my flashlights on moonlight mode as night lights. I have Quark Pro QPA, a Supbeam L10, a Klarus ST11 and a Supbeam K40 L2. I use all of them alternately as night lights.
Quick story: Went on a 20 day appalachian backpacking trip with about 10 other kids, and I was still on my original batteries that I started with at the end, because I used my lows +moon/fireflies. Often, their headlamps (always on high, fyi) behind me was often good enough to see by.
I don’t really do nightlights, but I’m the sort of person who can walk to the bathroom in the middle of the night with my eyes closed. I hate turning on the lights and burning my eyes. When I’m out camping and I have to get up in an unfamilair place in the middle of the night, the moonlight mode comes on. How about that Armytek Tiara, it’s lower then low!
I haven’t had a flashlight with low low until I got the armytek tiara pro recently. It’s now my night light whenever I need one. The lowest isn’t enough at this time of the year but i suspect it will be about right when the winter nights start. The second lowest works really well at this time of year.
I very recently built up a convoy s6 with a qlite driver set up with one moonlight mode. Surprisingly it is fairly bright - much too bright for late night use. Not sure how that came about but may be related to the max. amps it puts out (about 1.9 on high).
So yes, from my perspective I really like a light with moonlight mode(s).
You may need to try another driver, moon level varies and can change over time due to 7135's instability at low level. If I understood Texaspyro's post in another thread. I have a C8/qlite setup were the moonlight is barely dimmer than low visually.
I used to like going through the house with no lights at all until we got cats. They would just lie in the hallway waiting to be tripped over. Small, dim flashlights to the rescue.
Nightlights, and dim, amber ones, not white light.
Recently I’m seeing lights with both photocell (don’t come on in daytime) and motion detector sensors — so far none of those with amber emitters, but they can be modified by taping yellow plastic over the emitters (some of them are to hard to crack open — this for example, uses a 9v battery, and I can’t get the case pried open to change/filter the LEDs inside: http://www.dx.com/p/0-5w-light-operated-human-body-infrared-induction-led-broad-bean-lamp-orange-2-x-6f22-164863
Now, if someone made a motion-detector night light with a cat detector so they didn’t flash on and off whenever the cats went on tour of the house …. but the one linked above can be mounted high up so it ignores them.
One annoyance is how older wall-plug type nightlight circuits differ. I have some — all originally meant for incandescent — that handle aftermarket LED bulbs fine. Others go to half brightness, and yet others blink. I know that’s something about how they’re mishandling the 60-cycles.
I put the end of my finger over the lens of my S2 ( it covers it completely ) and make use of the nice red glow that emanates when I am in stealth mode .
I also have a red Inova button cell light. One like it has been in my shirt pocket since before white leds became available. And I have a three color night light set on red only. Looking for a chance to go night hiking with my Philips deep red led.
Just a short story on moonlight mode….My wife and i stayed at a friends house and the bedroom was super dark due to no outside lights(in the middle of nowhere) so i put my V11r on and it was just right to give enough illumination if needed to get up. So yes I guess I and my wife are nightlight and moonlight people. You do not realize how much light you can get from moonlight mode until it is pure darkness.
I have been using low level lights, like christmas lights, led lighting, el wire, since i was a kid.
I like the ambient lighting of those warm colors, to light up my rooms to a nice level. Only the bathroom and toilet do have “normal” lighting, like 40-60 watt (well actually i replaced them with led lamps, but comparable with 40-60 watts of the old bulbs)
And most of my flashlights have the moon mode , my nightstand light is a fenix ld12 with red filter :bigsmile:
I put the end of my finger over the lens of my S2 ( it covers it completely ) and make use of the nice red glow that emanates when I am in stealth mode .
Cool tip. Gotta try to keep that one in mind.
Moonlight and lower here. Red moonlight even better. Like to preserve as much night vision as possible. Don't like outdoor area lighting at all either. I do like having lumen blasting capability at hand, but consider it more like insurance.
I love moonlight mode. Like one for every light of mine. I used to think I prefer as low as possible. But recently I noticed some moon modes were a little too dim for me. Now my preference is something b/w 0.5lumen to 2 lumen.
Just ordered a nitecore P12. Excited…
Moonlight & Firefly modes are a Must have.
I have modded many of my lights with the Q-lite Rev. Nanjq 105c driver to just add the moon light mode. Probably 15 % of my collection of lights have moonlight mode in some way, including a couple Sipiks i have with Moonlight.
for the last number of months my custom built Steam Pipe light glows continuously on my night table with the blue side glow tube.
below was a photo of some of my favorite Moonlight capable lights in moonlight mode.
Left to Right: Nitecore P25 , UF-PD32, Roche F12, Olight S20, 20-Mode Sipik SK68 with XM-L2.
, my nightstand light is a fenix ld12 with red filter :bigsmile: