@Robot Mania FU
Yes you are right, an Amber HDS is a really great light.
In 2019 I asked Hogo about an Amber HDS since I have the Amber Surefire Aviator which was the coolest light I had before I got an Rotary with Amber LED.
If you are interested that is the story on how Amber began. It was this posting I did:
Than Hogo started the interest thread:
and at the end we had Amber!
You all convinced me...Just placed an order for an amber rotary!
Of the monochromatic lights, and I have them all, the UV is my most used... followed by amber. The UV is used for search and destroy missions in the back yard as it makes scorpions and hornworms fluoresce. I can find hornworms when they are tiny and pick them off the grape vines, pepper plants, and tomatoes before they get big... while simultaneously getting bombarded with every night flying insect within a 2 mile radius.
The flying insects stay away when the amber is used when I'm not hunting plant suckers or mini stinging lobsters.
I'm glad to be able to see how it came about. I've been moving towards warmer and warmer lights over the years, but this is my first rotary and it serves its purpose wonderfully. I bought it for fishing at night, but I ended up carrying it permanently. The amber is too satisfying, even when compared to my 2000k emitters. It's hard to go back.
@thaugen You're going to love it. It was well worth the wait. Even when I have another light suited for the task, I still end up carrying the amber because of how satisfying it is.
I'm hoping those monochromatic lights get as much love as they deserve. They serve a purpose and in conjunction with the rotary, really fill a gap at least I personally couldn't cover. I spend a majority of my time outside of work fishing....and when I say a majority, I mean A MAJORITY. My life is on the water and it's made it so much more comfortable not having my face swarmed by bugs when I'm trying to see what I'm doing. Comfort aside, I'm always at a compromise between eyes adjusting to light at night and the ability to make things out in the water that I could potentially run into running the boat. Red may be the best for keeping night vision, but shadows and objects in the water don't show up fast enough for me. The amber is a happy medium. It keeps my night vision, while still allowing me to make out shapes and shadows in the water. Also, I don't know if there is any science to this, but at least to my eyes it cuts through the inherent fog over the water better than anything else I've used......and admittedly, in the two weeks I've been carrying it, I may have dropped it in the river and banged it up across some rocks in the current before I was able to chase it down. Didn't even flicker.