Hahaha, using any kind of lighting outside the house you’ll get fined ($10/head/act), arrested, and probably beaten using rattan stick by the Pecalang “traditional policemen” (it’s legal by hindu law here). Non hindu people still can enjoy anything inside the house or the hotel as long as there are no lights, noise, activities detected from the outside.
But I’m lucky since in my area non hindu people are working together night guarding the neighborhood, helping those Pecalangs. A perfect time to make use all those flashlights. Unfortunately, taking beam shots would be very inappropriate :laughing:
This is from two years ago. Taken just outside the house:
What kind of optic is appropriate for the 144A? I know some of the first 6V samples had pretty impressive egg yolk, but my recent samples still make a huge yellow-green dot with a clear TIR optic (the famously crappy stock Prime one).
Funny you mention that, ’cause I got a few LED lanterns from Amazon for exactly that, swapping out the craptastic Angry Blue™ LEDs with some nice 2000K LEDs scavenged from strip-lights.
No flicker, gonna use it probably with the come-with “volume control” circuit, or at least just the potentiometer from it.
I should have mentioned I’ve used beaded optics and it does look perfectly fine with them, but they aren’t as throwy as the clear ones. It seems like unless there is quite a bit of mixing, you get that huge yellow blob, so clear optics are out.
I remember you mentioning the Stanley, goggled all around trying to find somewhere to get some. Only RS in the UK had any, but shipping would’ve been obscene (and USD→UKP even worse), and Mouser or whoever was supposed to have some locally, had 0 stock and no resupply in the foreseeable future.
So I hit AX and grabbed pretty much anything that said “2000K”.
Just put the 2000K into ultrafire uf10. What a great sunset tint! Not sure it is very useful in any real world application but looks just gorgeous. It may end up in a headlamp for bedside service.
Clemence, thanks again for making these e21s available. Most of them are beyond great.
The setting on the picture is 1.5 lumen, so 1/10 the light output of a candle which is rather perfect for night use in my son’s bedroom when we stay the night somewhere else (myself I prefer no light at all at night), the runtime should be about 100 hours on a battery load.
Yes, it should get along very well with copper. And yes, this CCT is great for very low lumens so I am wondering if there is a nice twisty AAA host with a firefly mode, where the board can be installed after heavy sandung. Like, Fenix E05 form factor, but with a <~1lm lowest mode