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You looked up this beforehand i assume? The click-click-hold part can be a bit finicky, but it shouldn't be impossible.
*EDIT* I didn't see that someone else'd replied already.
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You looked up this beforehand i assume? The click-click-hold part can be a bit finicky, but it shouldn't be impossible.
*EDIT* I didn't see that someone else'd replied already.
I subscribe to this youtube channel and watch it occasionally. When I bought my first HDS, I learned how to set it up from this video. When I want to change the settings for a change of pace, I watch it to check the procedure.
jon_slider
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congrats on your new light
fwiw, level 16 is not actually 10 lumens..
for example, on a 200 lumen High CRI model, level 16 is 8 lumens
Here is the HDS output chart by model:
(yellow highlights are clicky defaults)
Hogokansatsukan
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Someone should tell whoever did those videos to clean his nails... and lay off the rum!
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The ******* keeps touching the reflector too, tsk tsk.
I got a HDS twisty at auction. It's an older model, but it works well. The color temperature was high, the spot was small and the light distribution was beautiful. The low mode was not red, but I wonder if it can be changed in the settings?
desert.snake
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If I'm not confused, then red can be on the TR85 (or T85R) model, but the regular Twisty does not have red. The model is indicated on the bezel, but the bezels can be rearranged
Well, yes, I was wrong, there should be an inscription Ra 85 Tr, table at the bottom of the page
HDS Systems: EDC Twisty Flashlights - EDC Twisty Flashlight
EDC Twisty Flashlight
Henry is a great guy, very few manufacturers keep the descriptions of old models and have to spend hours searching the Internet for old scanned catalogs
There is a wonderful Yahoo auction in Japan, did you find it there?
Is this twisty the Ra-100-Tw in the table ? If there is a red mode, I would try to set it, but if there isn't, I have no choice.If I'm not confused, then red can be on the TR85 (or T85R) model, but the regular Twisty does not have red. The model is indicated on the bezel, but the bezels can be rearranged
Well, yes, I was wrong, there should be an inscription Ra 85 Tr, table at the bottom of the page
HDS Systems: EDC Twisty Flashlights - EDC Twisty Flashlight
EDC Twisty Flashlightwww.hdssystems.com
Henry is a great guy, very few manufacturers keep the descriptions of old models and have to spend hours searching the Internet for old scanned catalogs
There is a wonderful Yahoo auction in Japan, did you find it there?
I'm disappointed that there is no red low mode, but I like it because I didn't have a high color temperature HDS yet. It is too white for indoor use, but not bad for outdoor use.
I usually use Yahoo Auctions and Mercari a lot. I also use eBay occasionally. I recently purchased this Twisty on Yahoo Auctions.
The images are, from left to right, NB27, NB45, and HDS twisty; the levels of NB27 and NB45 are 23, and twisty is in high mode. twisty's high color temperature makes the neighboring NB45 appear to have a low color temperature.
desert.snake
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So, it looks like I was wrong again, on the bezel of the Twisty only Twisty is written, without indicating the model :( Alternatively, if you do a factory reset, then if there was red there, then it should appear
I went into customize mode and checked it out. I could see that this twisty has no red mode, after the minimum level of brightness it went back to the maximum level.It was a good experience for me to learn how to set up twisty. I will try to use the default settings for a while.
PaperKnife
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Old Quote? Yes, but I always appreciated coming back to this forum and seeing what users were adding in terms of beam shots, etc.
Like:
@WarriorOfLight
@jon_slider
@muichimon
@Hogokansatsukan
@desert.snake
Etc.
Just wanted to contribute a bit too and add to the madness.
Below from Left to Right:
HDS Amber 250mW @595nm
HDS NB27 170Lumen (2700K)
HDS NB30 180 Lumen (3000K)
HDS SS40 225Lumen (4000K)
HDS XP-G2 250Lumen (6200K)
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Very nice to see not only NB27 and NB30 but also amber in the line. i didn't know about SS40 so i looked it up. it looks like the SST20 version that was sold some years ago in custom-built. This is another good color and I hope it will be sold again.
PaperKnife
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@WarriorOfLight made a nice list of the different options that were available --> Here
Yeah, the SS40 is a clean "white" , at least to my eyes.
I always appreciated how warm incandescent lights looked and the NB27 hits the nail on head.
I made a belt pouch for my HDS Rotary NB35 that arrived ~2 Weeks ago. The pouch is not perfect but useful. The fabric is antique and hand woven on a narrow loom somewhere in rural China. The lining is Cupro and the button is olive wood.
thermal guy
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The red mode is only on the golden dragon led. I think that’s what it was called. You can see it clearly when you look at the center led. There is another very small one to the side of it. That’s where the red comes from. I forgot all the details but it was a feature on that led to test for direction of the current? And Henry found a way to incorporate it to stay on. I have been out of the HDS world for awhile so don’t quote me on this
I’d buy that
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If we ever get a rotary that works as a clicky and the dial works as a light colour/warmth selector i’d be very, very tempted to get that.
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would require at least 2 LEDs of different Color Temperatures that could be blended together. Anduril calls this feature Tint Ramping (its mixes 2 channels).
I have an Anduril light, an Emisar D2 with a white and a red led.. here you can see the Tint Ramping feature (which I dont use, only switch from one to the other in this case), but for sake of example:
If the light had a warm white and a cool white LED, they could be blended together to produce neutral white.
here is an example of 2700K 219b mixed w 4500K 219b
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