“White balance” can also be considered to be happening in real life when your eyes adapt to ambient light: From the earlier samples, I have swapped the 10r emitters to Nichia 4000K and left the 46r to CREE 5000K. Indoors, with eyes adapted to halogen light below 3000K, I tend to grab the 10r. BUT outdoors I feel it’s way too yellow to me and grab the 46r instead.
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I’ll have to see how I like Wuben’s 2-button switch, I’ve used another similar 2-button light and the switch is a little hard to press and just doesn’t feel as nice as a single button switch, but it is more convenient with the separate mode functions.
What I really like is the G18’s compact size compared to the longer and chunkier TO46R.
Plus it has the magnetic tail:
Real pity about the price though, plus $8.00 for shipping to the states for a whopping total of $71.00!
That does look like a nice light. One major downside however is the large gap between high and turbo modes. I’ve tested the runtimes on my stock TO46R and on high mode (600 lumens) it was still going strong after 2 ours on a Basen 3400mah protected cell, and I’m gonna push it even further this weekend.
Got my tracking # as well and the carrier’s site says not received yet, but it shows the destination as Netherlands (I live in the US!), hopefully just based on the tracking # ending in “NL” . If any of you get an unexpected package from Wuben, send it my way!
It’s the same for me for most packages from China, I’m in Europe. I think they repackage it in the Netherlands and ship it on or something like that, a pit stop if you will.