My Garrity Nichia LED light has an odd color...

PrimiToad

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it's more of a white center with a purple looking outer ring. Could it be defective? Frankly it's not that bright but still a nice looking flashlight.
 

The_LED_Museum

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Wide-angle 5mm white LEDs from Nichia can have a white center and a bluish ring outside that; I've seen just one that had a distinctly purplish-blue outer ring.

Here's a photograph I dug up:

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dda

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Mine has a beam very similar to my Brinkmann Long Life and at least as bright or a litle brighter (without the outer rings.
 

shogun

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I have one of those new 3AAA 2 LED headlamps from Garrity. One LED was white while the other had a very yellow green tint to it. It wasn't as bright as the whiter one and most of the light comes from the good LED. It could be that they had mixed lots of those 5mms.
 
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