Do you really use 0.2 lumen?

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Kestrel- Get it done, and you will use the T1A more... 🙂 Both of my Ti Titans were modded before my purchasing them with high-cri Seoul P4's, and are my most-used lights if you go by runtime per day, not carry time. I used to own a DaFab modded T1A, and can attest to the quality and usefulness of the mod.
 
i remember seeing those tritum map reader things. i wonder how much lumens it has.

also i wonder if a red diffusor would be easier on the eyes regardless of the lumen amount.
 
f22shift said:
i remember seeing those tritum map reader things. i wonder how much lumens it has.
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I asked someone who had both the T1A and a trit 'light' (one of those 'Lucce del Notte' - please forgive the bad spelling) and he reported that the trit 'output' was about a third to a half of the T1A at minimum output, IIRC.
 
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I am hoping I would someday. I live in a city with lights everywhere. Not really have a chance to really appreciate the low low. Like another member said... hopefully this summer while camping I will get a chance to appreciate the low low.
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I was in the city for a few months last year and used my medium levels a lot more than low, expect when inside the house at night. Definitely at their best in a dark house...
 
I live on the outskirts of our city, I have the wood close to my garden. And in the night there is only the moon. We donot have any street lights here. So it is really dark.
I suffer from clusterheadaches http://www.clusterheadaches.com (episodical, thanks to heaven) and I need a VERY low light in the night to find my Oxygen-bottle etc. Too much light immediately increases the pain to a dreadful level.

So I have a HDS or Novatac or Quark every night tailstanding on my nightstand shining on lowest level with a diffusor. Perfect. More light would be excruciating painful.

Andreas
 
Kestrel said:
I asked someone who had both the T1A and a trit 'light' (one of those 'Lucce del Notte' - please forgive the bad spelling) and he reported that the trit 'output' was about a third to a half of the T1A at minimum output, IIRC.
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The tritum map reader is that low? I remember seeing it on youtube and it's pretty bright.
 
Little man got cold during the night and demanded I change his short-sleeved PJs with some long-sleeved PJs. I grabbed the Quark AA to look in the drawer and the 0.2 Lumen Moon-mode was absolutely blinding when I turned it on.

It makes me think that the people who can't understand wanting a sub-lumen level must not ever use their lights in the middle of the night. Or maybe they sleep with shades on 😎

--flatline
 
It's only a unit of measurement, not a commandment (Thou shalt not use sub-lumen power outputs on your flashlight! 😉). If 0.2 lumens sounds too low, you can always call it 2 decilumens, 20 centilumens or 200 millilumens. Whatever makes you happy. 😀
 
I have both my clickys set to .07. I use one every night. Recently at a hotel stay I used one as night
light in candle mode. Family liked it just fine.
 
I may have posted before, but my "go to" light for middle of the night use is the Warm White SPY007, level one is set very low.
We don't have any streetlights affecting the interior of our house, so even on low, it is surprising how well you can see. AND it doesn't bother the dogs, nor are your eyes rudely awaken with the harshness from my cool white lights.
Much easier to return to sleep afterwards.
 
No, don't need it!! I know some people on this web site feel it's a must, but my fenix LD01s at (2 lumen) output is all the lowest light I would ever need! My Surefire E2Dl has the 5 (lumen) mode and that's also very satisfactory to me. If you need to check on a child/baby in your house, just point the light toward the celling or just away from them. Trust me 2-5 lumen output on any light is just fine. Other people on this site will disagree.
 
Definitely.

When in complete darkness (wilderness at night, room with blinds down, etc.) your eyes will ahve adapted itself into night-vision mode. By this time, turning on a 0.2 lumens beam is more than enough. If you use this setting as an area-light (e.g. candle), it is enough to distinguish objects around you. If you hold it and shine it directly at targets, you will effectively identify them, texture and all.
 
At night in complete darkness my Jetbeam RRT-0 with it's .003 lumen, yes you read that correct, .003 lumens, is bright enough for navigation. Any light worth it's salt should have low lows like this! Hopefully someday a AAA light like this will be available that won't be uber expensive.
 
I think I may have posted this earlier in this thread but all my Novatacs are programmed with the three lowest modes and the HIGH is < 5 lumen IIRC it is 3.4 lumens. I regularly use my Jetbeam RRT-0 hanging over my laptop computer at night and somewhere between .003 lumen and .03 lumen is where it stays.
 
I don't know what I'd do without the 0.18 lumen setting on my Zebralight SC51w, it's so useful! But many times I find it is too bright when navigating my house at night, so I'm hoping to purchase a HDS High CRI light in the near future which will have a 0.07 lumen setting!

Woodentsick
 
Beacon of Light said:
At night in complete darkness my Jetbeam RRT-0 with it's .003 lumen, yes you read that correct, .003 lumens, is bright enough for navigation. Any light worth it's salt should have low lows like this! Hopefully someday a AAA light like this will be available that won't be uber expensive.
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Hey Beacon, do you have any idea what level it takes to approximate the visual brightness of the moon? I don't think it would be very high at all and can only assume that those incapable of seeing the value in the very low output levels must also be incapable of walking by the light of the moon.
 
My current CR123 EDC is an HDS Basic 60 with an XP-G 5C. The lowest setting was OK but the PWM was killing me. I hadn't messed with the 250 click method on this light previously as I figured the low setting was the lowest already. Did the 250 click crack and discovered that it wasn't the lowest setting AND the lowest setting appears to have a higher PWM rate. 750+ clicks later I've got all the levels levels to my liking.
 
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