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    Advice: best halogen bulb, HB4 + HB3

    Just to clarify - the first bulb is HIR2. There's no Amazon in Argentina and GM's part number doesn't tell much.
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    Stock LED headlights don't produce enough lumens

    https://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/test/lichtsysteme-im-test-ist-teures-licht-besser/ Go and check the gallery. A side by side comparison between 15 different cars with different headlights (halogen, HID, LED). All stock and aimed correctly. Unfortunately some pictures show low beam, some high...
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    5400K ~90CRI. vs. 3000K ~60CRI fluorescent tube

    High CRI only! Sodium streetlights that give some ugly orange-ish light have 50-60CRI (basically no colors, everything is either orange or black).
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    tariff

    No chance. US market is nowhere near enough to make a separate plant for them. You'll just pay more.
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    Favorite 18650 powered EDC light?

    Nitecore MH20 NW. Plenty bright, very mature beam profile, good mode spacing, easy UI with shortcuts to low and turbo, voltage indicator, USB charging. My two little gripes - it's slightly chubby and I've seen neutral LEDs with higher CRI.
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    Review of Nitecore MH20

    That rating applies to the steady water. During the wash water pressure was much higher (accasionally but still).
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    So right now (end of 2017) are there any LED headlights that beat HID?

    That's because of the incredible light density - HIDs are very easy to focus to throw far (smaller light source=better focus). With LEDs you need multiple emitters to achieve similar brightness but it means much higher surface area. That's why properly designed HID reflector is still far...
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    Fenix TK35 Ultimate Edition 2018

    But it also was extremely floody. MT-G2 is a massive emitter so it needs a large reflector to focus.
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    Fenix TK35 Ultimate Edition 2018

    I think CRI is more important than color temperature. I have one neutral light (Nitecore MH20) and it has very low CRI, instead of making colors pop it makes everything turn yellow. I think 5000K is a perfect color temperature (looks like sunlight), higher CRI does the job, D4 is the second...
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    Fenix TK35 Ultimate Edition 2018

    I wish they made one with the XHP35 5000K 80+ CRI (there is such emitter) driven up to around 1500-2000 lumens. Perfect flashlight.
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    Klarus XT12GT

    They just want you to buy their batteries.
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    Zebralight SC64c

    Distance between the dies is pretty much the same in both but in the 50.2 they're all covered with the same layer of phosphor. Single die activates slightly bigger area of the phospor than the die itself slightly covering the gap. That's why there are less artifacts.
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    REVIEW: Nitecore Concept 1 (C1) Flashlight

    I don't need to access all modes all the time but I'm using a couple of them regularily and I'm not the only one. Nitecore complicated the most basic thing in a flashlight and to me it's a solid deal breaker. Press and hold should be used to change modes (I'm not a fan of that solution either...
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    Nitecore Concept 1 Review (Best EDC ever?)

    It would've been soo good with neutral XHP35 HI...
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    Possible to replace 9006 bulb with 9011 HIR hi beam

    9011 is 9005's equivalent. You can mod 9012 to fit in the 9006's housing.
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