Wondering if ya could be more specific. I’m interested in your opinion even tho’ someday I’ll pick up one of these. Realize you say the CRI is “usable”.
Watt I mean….
Specifically, how does the color brown at night TCR to the brown(s) on a familiar object when it’s viewed in sunlight?
PS. I reside in a high desert environment. LOTS of rattlesnakes. Foremost the Southern Pacific on this 5 acre property. It’s also considered by one of the top venomous snake experts in the country (my doctor) if not THE most venomous now due to suspected interbreeding with the Mojave Green. It’s mainly a brownish snake in that color spectrum.
@whackjob, i would give it a 10 for TCR, it is easy to see brown versus black or green at night with this light; the colors are true with no extra yellow of some cheap emitters.
i don’t really have a good way to take a beamer shot to show you, maybe someone else more experienced will do that.
This is not the OT-50L version, but the OT・50L. Center dot versus dash, subtle little difference such as sometimes seen in products from vachina.
It has really long springs at both ends, so they could easily be shortened to use a longer single cell. It’s just begging for a mod.
Yeah brother! We got those plus gopher snakes and mah favorite rattler control bird, roadrunners. Well, they’d be mah favorite bird regardless. Luv that critter.
Beep! Beep! :laughing: :+1:
Don’t get me wrong. I have a couple dozen cheap lights, possibly more. You know, there is not much variation. Cheap is cheap. I thought this was the budget light forum, not the cheapest light forum.
The beauty of a really cheap light is people who don't mod ..(because they feel like they have very little talent) OR ( hate to screw up a decent light) get the opportunity to take a chance and might realize that they made the light better . , A cheap light gives all of us a chance to try something new without any real risk.
Nobody is forcing you to read or post in this thread in the AAA flashlights forum, but you obviously can’t stay away—and it’s because you aren’t sure that this isn’t the best new $1 AAA- batteries-included flashlight out there, right? Or are you just slummin’ down here with the cheap suits.
i understand the hesitancy, but if you don’t like the beav, walmar will take it back and give you a refund, no questions asked.
Heck you can open the tail and remove the plastic separator while in the store and give it a try there—don’t even have to buy it if you don’t like it.
But if you try one there is a huge variation, none of your cheap beamers will even come close.
Budget means Value, not price. Good Value for your money is good for the Budget.
Grabbed a few of these today that look like post #5 with OT.50L printed on the tube. They’re extremely cool white and on the throwy side. For comparison, left to right:
There’s noticeable tint difference among the four I bought, with two slightly rosy and two slightly green. In my super-scientific bathroom ceiling bounce test, my luxmeter app read about 50% higher than the FC11’s “50LM” setting (using Eneloops) so the OT.50L’s 50 lumen claim is probably accurate, possibly conservative.
I don't know much of anything about western snakes...enough to know that there's a damn lot of them and most of them mean business. Snake latin and species/subspecies/varieties are weird, though, lots more going on than with most other areas of biology. Pretty common for someone to tack on their name upon confirmation of a new species, etc...like astronomers getting to name their stars.