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Of course, HID also has it's substantial shortcommings in various areas, too.
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Cavers - "White LED's Suck..."
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VidPro
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jashhash said:
THANKS HEAPS, got a gps, and never even occured to me to search the geocaches for caves , your weird
prolight makes a 3w rgb, it can have optics put on it, and i pulled off a rgb flashlight, mostly to prove that i can be done, and get mosly white from it.
prolight is one of the sponcers here, and they finally have a 6 wire emitter. hope that i am not the only one they made it for.
hank_moon
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The best info on caves is gleaned from cavers. Despite being made of rock, caves contain very fragile geological features and ecosystems that can be destroyed forever by careless visitors. Check out www.caves.org if you want to learn more about caves and caving in the U.S. Please inform yourself before visiting any cave and take care to avoid damaging this delicate and finite resource.
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Ditto on the caves.org recommendation.
Exploring caves is great fun, *but* can be very hazardous to both you and to the cave if you don't know what you are doing!
If you are in the USA, definitely go to caves.org and see if there is a local caving club (aka "grotto") -- that's by far your best way to learn the prudent and safe techniques.
Exploring caves is great fun, *but* can be very hazardous to both you and to the cave if you don't know what you are doing!
If you are in the USA, definitely go to caves.org and see if there is a local caving club (aka "grotto") -- that's by far your best way to learn the prudent and safe techniques.
jashhash
Enlightened
I want to go caving sometime myself but I still dont have enough money to invest in a GPS reciever. Another good reason for getting GPS locations from geocaching.com is that you know somone has already explored that particular cave (guinie pig). Maybe this christmass time I might happen on some extra cash... I dunno... As far as damaging ecosystems, try to walk softly and dont take home any souveniers such as stalagmites you find in caves.
PeLu
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Re: Cavers - "White LEDs Suck..."
Of course you are right. And I have to state that it is just one person doing it, not really statistically relevant.
But the result was that it worked better than expected. Maybe colour vision is not that important.
I, for example, do not need any focusing for a caving light (we talk about caving lights, do we?).
jashhash said:
Of course you are right. And I have to state that it is just one person doing it, not really statistically relevant.
But the result was that it worked better than expected. Maybe colour vision is not that important.
I, for example, do not need any focusing for a caving light (we talk about caving lights, do we?).
jashhash
Enlightened
I took a look at caves.com. While there is some usefull statistical info and it is a good resource for finding caving gear, I just cant find any usefull information on caves in my area.
jashhash said:
Yep, and you won't find any such information there -- the National Speleological Society has a strong culture of never, ever, ever publishing cave locations in public forums. We feel it's far better to pass this information along person-to-person... it's not that we want to prevent folks from seeing the cave, it's that we think it's safer for caves and cavers this way.
For those of you who have no interest in an existing caving organization, may i respectfully suggest that, at a minimum, you read the "Guide to Responsible Caving":
http://www.caves.org/brochure/grc.pdf
which provides a lot of good information about how to keep yourself safe!
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