Everled (or any luxeon) color changes

gadget_lover · Jan 15, 2004

First, some background: I got my everled 5 or 6 months ago. It was to go in my 3-D Cell Mag, the one I grab to look for racoons in back yard. It doubles as a club if necessary.

It has a nice bright beam but I hated the color (very green tint) so I haven't used it much since I bought it. It was my first luxeon, so I was quite disappointed. I expected whighter than white. Even my wife commented on the tint.

I did some beam comparisons last night when I got some Xenon bulbs for my other 3D Mag. The Xenon was quite nice, but I didn't pay much attention to the color of the Everled. Yeah, I get focused like that.

This morning I grabbed the Everleded 3-D to compare the output against a minimag madmax that I had modded. To my suprise, the everled is now white! I'm talking very white. Nothing has changed other than the fact that it's been sitting against a cold outer wall all night, and the batteries are now about 4 months old with 3 or 4 minutes of run time on them.

I felt that my new ARC LSH-S was initially a bit purple, but that went away after 20 minutes of use. I don't know if I just got used to it or if it really improved.

So the question: Do luxeons change color as they age? Do they get whiter?

Daniel

FluffyGrunt · Jan 15, 2004

I have noticed some of my lights appear to be different colors at different times. Most often when using a light in a well lit room during the day the light looks like it has a lot of color in the beam, E2e looks yellow, Everleds look a bit green, Arc-LSs tend toward blue. Then at night in a dark room they all look very white, when used seperatly. If I start comparing them my incandescants all look very yellow and a slight purple tint shows up in my LSH normally very white. I don't think any of the lights are actually changing colors, just our eyes adapting to different lighting conditions.

Negeltu · Jan 15, 2004

I have similar experiences. I think it is our eyes.

franken2 · Jan 15, 2004

My white ever-led is as white as the day I got it some 6 months ago. Whiter than my arc ls low dome? or my e1ew/kl1 or my bb400.
all in a dark room agaist white walls.

I know, I'm hooked.

p.s. my cyan ever-led throws a BRIGHT beam as well. looks the same color as when I got it too!

chumley · Jan 16, 2004

I have an Arc LS second that I thought was somewhat yellow. After shining a fairly green SL 3AA Luxeon tasklight on the wall, the Arc looked pure white, and my Arc LSHP looks slightly violet. I think we have different conceptions of what is white. My Arc LSHP looks neutral white if not compared against any other luxeons.

IsaacHayes · Jan 16, 2004

Just depends on what light source you have been in I think.

Stanley · Jan 16, 2004

Would it be possible that the weaker the batteries, the less white the light output will be? I mean, the tints might stand out more on weaker batteries as compared to if you're running it at full brightness, in which the colour rendition might seem brighter/whiter?