What is the brightest red LED flash light out there?

I guess it depends on what and how the meter reads that WL.

Supposedly 200 is doable with only 0.7A for this bin. But you raise the question of whether the WL will work for my son (not spooking hogs).

You may want to look into a deeper red, 640-680nm. Get E1320 to make you a 3watt dropin, you won’t need more than 40-60 lumens with night adjusted eyes.
Smooth reflector for some throw

You could also turn just about any light you have into a red, blue, green, amber light by using colored lenses. Not as efficient but if you start with a 800 lumen light…………….

Good input, guys. He found a cheap red 501b on DX but he may get the SF high voltage drop-in since he wants something in single mode and I have hosts. Or maybe in time both to have parts for a custom.

Fenix store has diffuser lenses that fit some diameters and there $6 ish
If you get the 501b let me know how good it is :slight_smile:

The DX 501b have red XR-C at least the one I ordered did. Typically red diffuser lens used on white leds will severely deplete output.

Really appreciate getting more input. Apparently the DX reviews say something about Crees instead of the spec’d LED . . perhaps the product is slowly getting updates based on led cost and availability.

Edit - I guess the other question is if you got an XRC, did you get something worse than they spec’d? My quick review suggests the K2 might be much better than the XRC?

The DX ad IIRC states Luxeon K2. In the last year or more Cree have been sent. The Green I ordered had a Cree XRE. The Red had Cree XRC. Guess my older Cree pdfs are out of date as no Red XREs are listed. Read the newer pdfs and suprise RED XREs. Mouser or Ledsuppy doesn’t list them. Who has Red XRE stars?

LZ4-00R100 @ 445 lumens.

http://www.ledengin.com/products/emitters#LZ4

Always something new and in a quad die. Where can I get one?

I picked up a PT121 red less than a month ago. 2000+lm

http://www.luminus.com/products/PT-121.html

Built a green PT120 aspherical last fall.

That thing looks just like an MCE.. havent seen them for sale anywhere tho.

I’m pretty sure they can be purchased direct from led engin. There is a phone number on that link to request quotes.

“I picked up a PT121 red less than a month ago. 2000+lm”

Nice! 2225 red lumens @ 30amps. I would love to have one of these built into a drop-in of some sort for one or any of my lights. Not in either of my Hellfighters, obviously.

Been getting my PT54 reds from DTRLPF for a while. Currently he has new pulls cheap 6@$50 on Ebay.

Mouser has LED Engin @ $36 + s&h.

I bought a red xre from goodluckbuy.com havent used it yet. I also ordered the green xre from goodluck and installed it in a small sun c10 flood to throw and its pretty sweet. It throws good, throws easy 500 feet.

Havent tested the light out in the field with a scope but should be more then bright enough. Its only driven at 1.1a but thinking of doing either direct drive or a 1.4a single mode driver i have.

Willie is the man on colored leds.
Installed that pressure switch on the small sun that you suggested to me and works good.

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This is the brightest RED light i know of it won’t be cheap but a red SST90 should be a bright as your going to find anywhere

http://flashlightnews.net/forum/index.php?topic=2831.0

This is very interesting. Wouldn’t mind having one.

Lambda has inspired some of my direct drive builds. The SST90 is actually a little less powerful than the PT54 and is no match for the PT120/121 series.

This was with a 8A build.

And PT120 green build.

While that is definitely a good start, I found that my ET T20C2 MKII XML with a red filter isn’t nearly as bright as using the red LED drop-in in the same light. I use red and green frequently and have been thoroughly pleased with the red drop-in for my EagleTac.