I purposely ordered mine with 5700k, 5000k, and 4000k, lol…point blank, it looks weird, but at distance the blend is quite nice.
Our Convoy T3’s showed up today. Nice little lights these are! I love how easy they are to disassemble, easily screw apart in 3 different places. I prefer the rubber tail switch on my wife’s compared to the one on the Ti version…something I didnt expect. Also prefer her 4000k to my 4500k. Seeing how easy it looks to dedome, I’ll likely do mine later this evening. If I don’t like it, oh well!! I’ll have learned something and it only cost around $40. I’ve wasted more money for less many times over. The fun begins!
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Congrats and thanks for the great photos
glad to hear youre enjoying your Convoys
Go for it!
I really like DeDomed 4500K, it becomes 3500K… nice and warm with a rosy cast, good indoors after dark.
Thank you, and thanks for the insight and photos! I will absolutely dedome tomorrow during lunch at my desk. That color looks great for my intentions.
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I look forward to your success!
dedoming tips,
I like to warm up the LED by running a high output for about 10 seconds. It helps soften the glue so the dome comes off cleanly in one piece. Remove the battery before dedoming.
If there are any bits of dome or adhesive remaining, I push them off w the q tip, gently, moving from center outward.
I check for a clean reflection on the glass that covers the LED phosphor, and if needed, wipe clean with alcohol on a qtip
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What is the relationship between starting CCT and rosiness? IE would a de-domed 4500K be more or less rosy than a de-domed 5700K?
Rosyness is mesured as Tint DUV, which reports how far below the BBL the tint falls.
another factor is Color temperature, measured in Kelvin and reports how warm or cool the color is.
imo a DD5700K will look cooler and more rosy while a DD4500K will look warmer, and more orange
red arrows show the DD5700K and DD4500K:
their Tint DUV is almost identical at -0.0042 and -0.0038. Which looks more Rosy to you?
Rosyness can also be quantified on a spectrum plot… farther below the black line (more negative DUV), is more Rosy:
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Thank you, that makes sense of it. In the photo I agree that the 4500K de-domed looks more yellow and the 5700K looks more white with a hint of pink. The diagram bears this out, looking below the BBL at the cooler end it’s more pink and at the warmer end more orange.
On that basis I’d probably like a de-domed 4500K more than a de-domed 5700K.
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glad it is helping make sense
I really like DD4500K, indoors in the evening, its more like the warm glow of firelight
otoh, I prefer a cooler Color Temperature during the day, and outdoors at night, where cooler Color Temperature stands out more obviously than warmer Color Temp
both have their place
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Dedoming was successful and easy. Took all of 3 minutes!
BUT…now when I turn the light on, it seems like it shorts out for a second and blinks once every few seconds that it’s on. Any ideas why that could be?
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Congrats on the DeDome 
Low Battery voltage?
Could just be one of the contacts not making good connection and the light “thinks” this is low voltage?
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That crossed my mind, so I took a standard AA from my wireless mouse and put that in instead. Far less power/brightness, but it no longer blinked. So I’m thinking that may be the case here. I really didn’t use it a lot last night, so maybe it didn’t have much of a charge to it by the time it made it to the states. I just thought it was odd it only started happening now, so I feared I may have made a mistake!
LiIon Batteries usually ship Half Empty.
They should be charged before use.
Do Not continue to use the discharged LiIon battery.
If you dont own a charger yet… Use AA batteries
Overdischarging a LiIon is dangerous, it can overheat the next time it gets charged, and vent with flames. I dont know if your light has built in protection, or if your battery does… but… dont tempt fate…
To confirm your battery is not Overdischarged:
Learn to check battery voltage. I use an inexpensive DMM:
https://www.harborfreight.com/electrical/electrician-s-tools/multimeters-testers/7-function-digital-multimeter-59434.html
IF the voltage is less than 2.5V (unlikely), Do Not Recharge. Take it to be recycled. HomeDepot has battery drop off boxes near the entrance.
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