WTB Deep Red LED Flashlight or build one for me

Not sure but Richard at MTN electronics may put it together. Write him.

Yeah, I’m pretty sure Richard at MtnElectronics could build something for you. He’s got a few different sized zoomie hosts; something there should work for you. He seems to be sold out of the 660nm XP-E’s, but those are very, very red. Just a matter of how long a restock would take. I’ve got one of those emitters on a Qlite driver at 1.9 amps and its got very good output. I’ve never used that Luxeon you mentioned so I have no idea if its better or not. I’d shoot Richard a message and see when he expects that 660nm emitter back in stock.

Well I emailed them and got no response!!! So kinda leary about giving them my business.

Is anyone interested in a project?

Thanks

Mtn isn’t a corporation with a 25-hour help desk.
Mtn a small family-sized operation and the guy has a small family — rightfully taking precedence over email inquiries.
Trust us. Long-term customers here. You won’t find more than a couple of sources for the kind of help you want. He’s one of them.

Be patient. You will be rewarded.

DITTO

Try PM’ing member “18sixfifty” He has vast experience building lights that use RED emitter’s. He built a very powerful one for my brother for Night Hunting Dogs! :wink:

I have a thing for Deep Red also. That bright orange dot in the middle… well just irks me.

So the cheapskate (or stop gap) method.

I grabbed a thrower “UniqueFire UF-V8” (This mod will of course work on lots and lots of other lights) and pulled the stock lens out and put two (yes 2x) standard (used) red 52mm camera filters in it.

Bingo done.

Now I did have to pull the lens out of the filter housings, but that was not hard, some just screw apart.

Another member who builds red/IR lights is “kevind43”. He sells mostly to starlight night vision hunters but also does standard red illumination.

what kind of critters are you hunting and at what ranges with what weapon?

You’ll probably find the red XP-E2 in the Brinyte B158 will work just fine for you. You can focus or defocus as required

I’ve done quite a bit of hunting with red lights of various sorts and built a few, and haven’t bothered with deep red.

It’s more a matter of using just enough light to be able your target to ID and shoot safely, something the “1000 lumen” brigade don’t get about this sort of hunting.

Thanks for more responses. I currently have a light, but it is about 630nm according to the manufacturer, it works well, just looking to go a little deeper red. I’ll be hunting hogs, coons and maybe coyotes out to 100 yards or more if I can get a light that will go that far. Btw Richard had responded to my email, I’m waiting to see if he is interested.

I’ve been interested in red lights too. Does the red light reflect off the critters eyes like standard light does? That makes it easier to pop coons and rabbits that think they’re hiding in the brush.

In my experience, the eyes reflect more with the red light.

You can get them even redder here. 720-740nm. I’m not sure how visible that is though. Anyone know?

Yes:

https://www.google.com/search?q=human+vision+sensitivity+spectrum&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X

Most of the Google images show vision stopping before or at 700. Very few show any light above 700. So the answer seems to be no. But they don’t say IR in the description, so I assume people can see at least half of the light. Anyone with experience?

Beyond my pay grade

I missed this one that was for sale, so I had Brad (18sixfifty) build a more powerful one for my brother, I think it was around 5amps? For Sale. UF-T20 with Phlatlight PT-54 (Red High power emitter) $55 (sold)

100 yards is easily done with the bigger lights like the larger of the Brinyte lights like the S18 and S28, the B158 will do it easily on full focus.

The Solarforce M3 also works fairly well with a red XP-E and the green version throws really well - I have and M3 for which I’ve built switcheroo pills. :slight_smile:

http://www.customlites.com/Solarforce-M3-with-Red-or-Green-XPE2-SOL-M3-COLOR.htm

Rabbit eyes pop much better with red light than white or green. Fox eyes light up well with red light also. Green makes fox eyes light right up really bright, and green is more visible to us, and the green XP-E’s commonly used in these lights will out throw the red ones by a good way.

I ordered a T20 host, red xp-e2, and a qlite driver that’ll be maxed out at 1.9a…we’ll see how that build goes.