But no, seriously, light + water = win. Haven’t you ever taken a candle-lit bath? Marvelled at the way a fountain looks under a strobe light? Reflected light off the waves from just above the surface to amplify them up onto a wall like a giant watery sunset? Watched the source-reflective water droplets dance around the floor like a thousand little spheres of ball lightning?
One kind of interesting thing I did after experiencing the PWM can make rain look different and surreal, especially bad PWM in a light. I turned off the bathroom light and leave the room lit only by the PWM light…some modes make the water look kind of neat, some modes make shower streams look like sparse droplets or broken lines of water. Of course I’ve only done this once with high lumen lights, I’m not sure moon mode would work to give enough contrast …except to show you your moon maybe.
OK I wondered how long it would take before someone followed up on the flashlight in the shower comment. My mind certainly wandered until someone finally asked the question and it was answered.
I consider my flashlights as tools and expect them to work under adverse conditions. And if I were about to have my life depend on the ability of my light to work under adverse conditions I would be testing them in heat, cold and water. But since I’m not in the armed services or a mountain climber I would never take my flashlight into the shower or a hot springs. My experience with water is that one really can’t tell when water will have a negative effect today and not tomorrow so why take the risk. That said, I would bend my rule if the shower contained the right person.
Hey some of us name our lights, not every one I build but some of the most special ones, I know I’m not alone either, right off the top of my head Dale has “Texas poker”.
I also have a UV light in exactly the same type of host.
These UF-602C hosts are nice for little custom lights. I’ve got one with a Nichia 219B, one with a 365nm UV emitter, and a couple red ones for use as bike tail lights. There’s no retaining ring in the pill though, so when the driver isn’t soldered in it can be a little sensitive to motion.