I too like NW for lighting indoor trees
Honestly, there is not much difference between the two beam profiles. My HD has a more pronounced corona around the hot spot, my HI has a bright hot spot that fades to the spill with no pronounced ring. My personal thought is the reflector style/design with the domeless HI emitter produces a better beam.
Here you go. The trit sits .55mm proud. Which means, the slots are only about 1mm deep. I didn’t install the other 5 because of this. However, the single trit above the button, makes finding the button at night easy. Used Norland UV adhesive, cured for 3 minutes.
Has anyone taken the driver out to see if it can be replaced or modified to increase the output?
Still waiting on mine; USPS has been saying “In transit to next facility” for the past 3 days. So it’s in the US, somewhere… :weary:
Thank you, that’s exactly what I wanted to know.
One trit is probably the best idea for someone like me, if it can be broken I will find a way. Will have to wait till my new UV light gets here. I killed the last one :person_facepalming:
Haha! grab youself a convoy uv. I’ve installed close to 700 trits with it, and it’s still going strong.
I like the color on the SC26 NW alot too. It looks about 4700k with no green. I think most people hate NW/WW due to the yellow, which is really because of tint being above the BBL resulting in greenish/lime/yellow. I am a WW/NW fan but I can’t stand yellow or green so the tint is as important as CCT. I think 4000k to 4500k works best for outdoor wilderness use as it simulates daylight colors the most to my eyes. I compared side by side with CW inside a dense forest and CW makes colors washed out and pale whereas NW with HI-CRI gives the forest life and colors are much more vibrant and saturated like it appears in daytime. However, with the Skylumen Delta, I’m kinda starting to like CW (with little to no blue) for throwers. It looks freaking intense.
If there’s still time to jump in on this, I’d love to snag one!
Interested. Can I get in on this? Thanks!
Also interested, is it still possible?
That sucks about the trits.
That’s a great idea about just putting one above the switch. I bought 6 trits for this light but it’s only going to get the one.
Order placed for the SC26.
Will have to dremel the trit slot a little deeper for the power switch.
Am I the only one that was surprised by the fact that the side switch ONLY lights up blue when the light is on? I was hoping the switch would glow when it’s just sitting on the shelf…
Also, the HI (dedomed version) neutral white is much more yellow than I had anticipated. The HD (domed version) is a great neutral white. Side by side, the HI is well…. pretty dang yellow :weary:
For those of you who are interested in the disassembled pics of the light, below are the pics that khas took and posted elsewhere.
I received a brown HD NW today. The overall finish is spotless.
However the beam is really ugly with a bright NW hotspot surrounded by a yelowish corona and an other purpleish one around it… Almost a rainbow. Not the best beam i’ve seen.
Another issue is the tail cap ano is a slightly different tint. Not a huge difference but it’s not spot on.
Is there a shortcut to moon from off? - like long press on the D4 and other lights?
I got the same configuration and same issue with ano tint. Mine is ever so slightly greenish compared to the rest of the brown body. But I’m used to some variation from the old Natural OD days.
Funny but the beam off-tint intensity seems to vary with the available ambient lighting, sometimes more yellowish than others. If you are ok with a less pronounced hotspot, a little diffuse film around the edges (annularly) knocks the tint (shift) right out.
I searched for the same and there does not appear to be. +1 on that feature being +desireable /missing.
I noticed the same thing with the yellowish tint. I wish I had gone with 2 HI’s instead.
The user interface on this is pretty bad. They tried to make it similar to Narsil, but failed. Who thought it was a good idea to require a full press to turn the light on, and have it remember the last mode? I keep turning it on turbo, turning the light off, clicking the button hoping it would begin ramping up… nothing happens, I look at the light, release the switch, and now I have 1500 lumens searing my retinas.
Apparently Haikelite assumed that we would all know the exact mode we would want next time. It’s like Russian Roulette; I wonder what brightness setting I will get the next time I turn my lights on :person_facepalming:
Something I found that sometimes helps - BEFORE turning Off from Turbo, double-click to return to the previous mode then turn Off. Next turn On will return to the last used saved mode rather than Turbo (unless that is your last saved mode.)
Being able to toggle Mem would have solved that :-(.
So I received my lights yesterday. I only got to test out the white one (I also ordered a blue one). My white one came a little scuffed but it’s not really noticeable because of the color. I did inspect the blue one for imperfections but I didn’t notice any when I quickly looked it over.
I see what people are saying about the trit slots being shallow. However, on mine only the trit slot above the switch is shallow and the rest of the slots are deep enough where the trits fit in and are recessed. In my excitement, I installed 2 on the light, one above the button and another on the opposite side. I will report back over the weekend, when I have more time to play with the light and possibly have time to mod one of them.