Blue LEDs, Green LEDs...Ho, Ho, Ho!

[Confederate]

While ordering some lights recently, I bought a twenty-dollar Inova X1 with a blue LED. There also was one in a green. I know they make red lights for night vision retention, but the blue, aside from being purty, seems to be puzzling.

I LOVE the color and it's just a little light for navigating around the house and turning the air conditioning up after my wife's turned it down, but I'm wondering why blue and green ones were made?

Thanks!

P.S. -- BTW, does anyone make a multiple-LED light with blue, green, red, and amber LEDs just for beauty? If I wanted to make my own light using, say, an Inova X5, how difficult would it be? I assume buying these colors in LED would be fairly simple, but how difficult is it to change them? (I'd probably want five or more light sockets, but that shouldn't be too difficult to find, either.)

 

[greenlight]

I own both, I prefer the green one, it appears brighter and isn't as glaring at night.

 

[cuervo]

Blue is supposed to be good for game tracking to see the blood trail.

Thinkgeek.com has an RGB flashlight that can make about 10 colors. It's more of a novelty than a serious light, though, which may be what you have in mind.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/8db4/

 

[PhantomPhoton]

For some reason that completely escapes all logic, Inova did not make amber and red X1s. :shakehead

I have the same light that they sell at thinkgeek... I just found it somewhere else cheaper... and it's pretty, but that's about it.
3AAA batteries in a carrier, PWM, and a really, really, really cheap tailcap reverse clickie switch. Those are the bad points.
Beyond that to rule out any confusion, it is not a single 3W RGB led. Rather it is 3 separate LEDs each supposedly driven to 1W behind a diffuser then put thru a plastic spherical lens to focus the diffused light forward a bit.
It makes pretty colors though! Not bad for $20, but you're definitely not getting $50 build quality here.

 

[AndyTiedye]

P.S. -- BTW, does anyone make a multiple-LED light with blue, green, red, and amber LEDs just for beauty?

Coast makes one with red, blue, green, and white, each with its own clickie
so they can be turned on in any combination.

 

[Confederate]

Thanks for all the comments.

I'm going to check the one made by Coast. That sounds more like what I'm looking fer.

Cheers!

 

[KeyGrip]

but the blue, aside from being purty, seems to be puzzling.

Blue light is very soft, and is less likely to be noticed by the audience backstage or during a scene shift.

 

[fasuto]

I also like multicolored lights.

The coast looks nice, but a bit pricey.

A cheaper alternative is this, without blue and less quality, but fun.

I probably end buying a blue nite-ize for my blue minimag. I had a green nite ize in a green mini mag, but died after a seven floor fall.

 

[h_nu]

For some reason that completely escapes all logic, Inova did not make amber and red X1s. :shakehead.

I guess I will be second in line if they ever wake up at Inova. My X1 is the old TIROS version. I want one in amber and one in red too.

 

[gandbag]

I got a couple "prolight" brand "3W" Red.Blue.Green stars from BestHongKong last winter. It is really 3 1watt dice under the same dome. Now they have supposed 5W versions as well.

Anyway, I replaced the luxeon star in a cheap dorcy flashlight with the prolight star set to blue. It produces a rich blue that always gets a wow, especially in the dark. It seems to put out a some UV as plastics and glow quite readily in low light conditions.

By modding the switch you could easily make the other colors work too.

Should be a straight-forward mod for any 1W luxeon star based light.

Below is a close-up shot of the business end. Notice the three dice, only the blue is lit, off center.

 

[Aepoc]

Don't forget about the Kroma. Red White and Blue are the only three colors unless you get the milspec... Its well worth the steep price tag. :twothumbs

 

[ZMZ67]

I don't have any experience with them but Technology Associates Inc.(Eternalight) has a model with one each green,amber,red and blue led.The RAVE'N2 party light for about $40.I have seen positive feedback on this forum in the past for other Eternalight models.These lights are a little different than what we usually see here but might meet your needs. :thinking: