I didn’t mean the gas de doming only took 10 minutes ….
I de dome emitters in lights by adding a little gas to a 2 shot shot glass. then add paper towel and make a small ball of the paper towel to act like a wick …and i just set the emitter on top of the ball . next morning i knock of the emitter clean it up with some alcohol and let it air dry … done it to about a half dozen #3 zoomies …there is nothing to lose and the improvement is pretty dramatic …. the flood is as big or bigger than any other Flood to throw light I’ve ever seen. A good NW xpg2 doesn’t hurt these lights at all either
Appreciate the details, Boaz. Will try it myself asap. I ruined a latticebright from an sk68 clone by dunking it in petrol overnight. The bond wires came right off by themselves, and I’ve been hesitant to dedome cheapies ever since.
I replaced the incan bulbs in a pair of Granny’s 2D plastic Duracell brand flashlights with the Dorcy LED replacement bulb and she loved them. They will run for days on lightly used batteries.
Rather than go back to low-brightness incandescent, you can filter the LED, or now finally even buy lights that specifically don’t interrupt sleep.
I gave some of those (and over-the-eyeglasses light yellow safety glasses) to one of my neighbors who was just about to be given heavy duty sleeping pills and a CPAP machine.
She says it’s helped a lot to change the evening lights, and has held off the $$$ medical intervention.
You can find the same thing much cheaper with the usual blue-white emitter, and cover that with an amber/yellow filter fairly easily.
I’ve had no luck zero nada finding any lights from China using amber 590nm LED emitters in motion sensor nightlights
(possibly because they don’t translate “amber” — and “yellow” means “warm white” which has a blue spike)
But lest anyone coming along not understand, here’s the spectrum — the spike is the blue light part of the white LED spectrum.
LEDs are fluorescent lights, remember — a blue/UV source underneath a phosphor that absorbs some of the energy and re-emits photons in the warmer part of the visible range
No offense, I know you guys know this.
Please don’t post pictures of what you’re dreaming about that keeps you awake. Family friendly site here.
It’s funny, I have all kinds of lights around, but I find that I grab a cheap little SK68 off my nightstand the most. I swapped in a 3W warm white emitter about five years ago. (you know, the type that have ceramic bases and big electrical tabs). The light doesn’t go full flood or zoom. The reason I reach for it most is that its shape makes it easy to hold and turn on/off. Also, the tint if very nice in the house in the middle of the night (like hank says above). It’s also small enough to stick in a shirt pocket and has a pocket clip that prevents it from rolling around. Translated: It’s where I want it to be when I need it.
I keep thinking I should update the emitter, but I can’t because the darn light does it’s job well as it is.
I change them to Luxeon Rebel ambers, or the newer PC Ambers from Luxeonstar.com (square boards, so these need a copper disk inserted to cover the hole in the pill) or else XP-E2 amber or PC ambers (which come on 16mm round copper boards from MtnElectronics, so fit well enough into the ledge in the pill).
