Bullzeyebill
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It is a neat light and great for finding dark brown socks, which always appear to be grey with most LED lights.
Bill
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It is a neat light and great for finding dark brown socks, which always appear to be grey with most LED lights.
Bill
That might be the most used task of my high CRI lights...
Finding socks... Black vs blue / shades of brown / etcI have one of the 120 Hi CRI lights in orange cerakote that going gear sold a couple of years ago and it is a favorite, sorting socks, yup, great for that, but just a very pleasing light to use in general and suitable for 80 percent of the tasks that require a flashlight.
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Echo63
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If it were designed from the ground up as a CR2 light it could be much smaller than the current HDS lights (but hopefully without forgetting the wonderful "bombproofness" of the current lights.
personally i would love an 18650 tube for my twisty (i know they are out there, i just dont have one, and cant afford to post a WTB) for the extra runtime - i see the twisty as a bombproof light to get you home, when everything else has failed (which is why i carry it along with my 170GDP)
Good to know. I wasn't sure if there was much higher CRI there, or just more yellow and red to make the slightly lower CCT that makes them pop, after comparing some items between darkness and sunlight.
Since the topic lately is tint I thought I'd share some information I found elsewhere on CPF. I don't remember who originally posted this idea, but it is not mine. However it did work out very well for me.
The CPFer suggested a swatch book from Lee Filters for $2.00 (shipping $5.00), I suggest the designer edition. This swatch book has approx 700 filters samples, of all different color spectrums. They are a very thin film, so you can shine your light through it and pick whatever tint you like. Then cut out a 7/8 circle from the sample and apply it to the inside of the lens.
My Rotary 250 now looks like an incandescent that appears to have no loss in brightness and no effect on beam pattern.
I am in no way affiliated with Lee Filters. This idea was suggested by someone else and it happened to work awesome for me, thought I'd share.
If anyone is interested in this and I'm allowed to post the link to the swatch book, let me know.
The CPFer suggested a swatch book from Lee Filters for $2.00 (shipping $5.00), I suggest the designer edition. This swatch book has approx 700 filters samples, of all different color spectrums. They are a very thin film, so you can shine your light through it and pick whatever tint you like. Then cut out a 7/8 circle from the sample and apply it to the inside of the lens.
My Rotary 250 now looks like an incandescent that appears to have no loss in brightness and no effect on beam pattern.
I am in no way affiliated with Lee Filters. This idea was suggested by someone else and it happened to work awesome for me, thought I'd share.
If anyone is interested in this and I'm allowed to post the link to the swatch book, let me know.
Hondo
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See my link in post #5664
Are these available online? Or only through dealers?
I didn't see an order on their site.
(edit - never mind, I found it)
Ken
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tobrien
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thank you both! I'll never sell my hcri 120 because its tint is phenomenal. 90+ is great. thanks guys!
interesting use. I really only have white socks, but I'll have to try that sometime
kaichu dento
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[h=2]Changing LED Tint With Filters [/h]
Here's a link to the great thread that started it all from Derek Dean.
Here's a link to the great thread that started it all from Derek Dean.
This is who gave me the idea, thank you. I couldn't find the original post.
Hondo
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OK, glad you found it, as it is great stuff and deserves to be mentioned often. Although if you look back over the past week, you will see that I really tried to get you there too! 
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JKolmo
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Hogo, what's the status for the latest reflector batch? I'm eagerly awaiting my Rotary 170N ordered on February 11. Would be super awesome to be able to bring it for the upcoming summer vacation. Thanks!
Hogokansatsukan
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We are expecting them to come in quite soon. I thought they would have been here by now but this last batch was 1000 reflectors and the one before that was 200, so it's taking them a little more time to get them all done. I should think they will be in within a week (I could be wrong, just a WAG from the last time they coated them).
Once they come in, they will still need to be put in the heads and calibrated, boxed, shipped etc. I just got back from Albuquerque on business and am trying to keep my schedule open to help Henry when they arrive (though I've got a bit of a backlog on the leatherwork).
scout24
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That's a lot of reflectors... Thanks for the update, fingers crossed.
1000 reflectors. Enough to cover the backorders and, perhaps, some new orders also? Your thoughts? I've got a hankering for a 250 Rotary to join my two 200 clickies. Thanks...
I read that as "... to join my 200 clickies." Must have been daydreaming :naughty:
EDIT: Could not resist:
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Woo hoo! Two hundred clickies! That would be 40,000-50,000 lumens of solid precision old fashioned American enterprise.
Hogokansatsukan
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Yes, it will cover all the current back orders and still have a few left over... well, more than a few.
880arm
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Sounds great. Looks like you will have lots of calibrating to do!
Can't wait to check out my first HDS and Hogo holster :twothumbs
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