a few years ago i got a 3000K BLF-A6
it;s very warm
and you can set many light levels on it
pretty sure number 2 can be about 5 lumens
i don;t even like it at low lumen levels, almost rather have a coolish light for that dim
wle
Only light I have that uses multiple AAA batteries and has both high cri / low linens and red led is a black and decker 2xaaa light that had a red 5mm led / a green 5 mm led and an Xpe ?
Stock it was red as low light .. green at about double the brightness (8 lumens?) and main Chinese? Emitter at about 30lumens but has throw.
I ended up sacrificing the green LED for one of the high color rendering 5 mm LEDs
A simple easy swap that made the light much nicer.
Black & Decker LED Pocket Flex Flashlight – 2 Pack $4.99< proving that it pays to be a BLF member:)
I also just put diffuser film over a 2X a a mag light for the first time. Wondering why I never did it before. Amazingly mag lights got away with selling lights with such a horrible beam .. all to be able to focus such an oddly artifacts pattern .
not perfect but 100 times better
i also have a 3$ plastic piece of junky headlamp that has a 5 mm red and had two 5mm cool white leds that got replaced with two of rngwn’s high cri 5mm leds .
Great little POS light headlamp with the bonus being > it runs on one AA battery. Has a great color weighs nothing ,costs nothing and ends up a great place to put half used alkaline batteries. There is some odd twisted pleasure of running a cell to nothing before tossing it.
Truth of the matter is I find red LEDs it’s not very useful and rarely use them. same with UV lights. Very gimmicky and hardly practical.
I see the same estimated delivery date of August 21 for the United States if I order today, for both the 3400K warm white and the 670nm deep red versions.
It should do better than that. Maglite rates the 2xAA mini for over 5 hours per the ANSI FL1 standard. It should gradually dim to about 10% of original brightness over that time.
By the way, I have an old Maglite Mini incandescent that I put a Yuji 5mm LED in (no longer available, but the rngwn LED’s mentioned in this thread are comparable). For this light and LED combo, it’s almost as easy as replacing a burned out bulb:
(1) Enlarge the hole in the base of the reflector with a 1/4” drill bit (or 13/64” if you have that size and want the closer fit)
(2) Sand a tiny little tab off the legs to make them smooth.
(3) Bend the legs to match the spacing of the incandescent bulb pins, then trim to the same length.
If you put it in backwards, it won’t turn on, but there’s no harm done. Just pull the LED out and rotate it 180 degrees.
It will theoretically run for days, starting out at maybe 10 lumens on fresh batteries, and just very gradually dimming.