milkyspit
Flashlight Enthusiast
I faced an interesting dilemma the other night. I wanted to work on modding a PC power supply unit in my living room while my son drifted to sleep on the sofa. The trouble was that the lights in the room were out (to help my son's sleep), so I couldn't see the colors of the various wires in the PSU very well. My solution was to grab an LED flashlight for this purpose; after all, they put out much whiter light than incandescents, right?
Actually, it wasn't quite so simple as that. ALL the LED flashlights, both 5mm and Luxeon, had some sort of color shift in their output, so I ended up trying all of 'em to see which allowed me to see the colors of the wires the most accurately. Turned out that my SL Prop 4AA LED gave the right combination of brightness and color purity for the task at hand.
I'm wondering what others' experiences in this regard have been since my choice of flashlights was obviously limited. (My wife would strongly disagree with this last statement, though. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif )
Simply put, what in you folks' experience is the LED flashlight with the purest, whitest beam?
It also might be useful to ask the question for both high-end ($50 and up) and more affordable (under $50) LED flashlights, in the interest of finding some acceptable choices in each group.
This could be an interesting little mini-project if we all put in our two cents, so to speak. Thanks in advance, everyone! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbsup.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbsup.gif
Actually, it wasn't quite so simple as that. ALL the LED flashlights, both 5mm and Luxeon, had some sort of color shift in their output, so I ended up trying all of 'em to see which allowed me to see the colors of the wires the most accurately. Turned out that my SL Prop 4AA LED gave the right combination of brightness and color purity for the task at hand.
I'm wondering what others' experiences in this regard have been since my choice of flashlights was obviously limited. (My wife would strongly disagree with this last statement, though. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif )
Simply put, what in you folks' experience is the LED flashlight with the purest, whitest beam?
It also might be useful to ask the question for both high-end ($50 and up) and more affordable (under $50) LED flashlights, in the interest of finding some acceptable choices in each group.
This could be an interesting little mini-project if we all put in our two cents, so to speak. Thanks in advance, everyone! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbsup.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbsup.gif