Howdy nxtreme, and welcome to finally posting on CPF!
I'm not sure that toxic green is MY color of choice, but I'll bet you don't lose it. Be sure and hose off after every use
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Thanks for the welcome, Derek Dean! Given my current lights I wouldn't mind the green myself, but yes, we all have different tastes.
looks definately different but the modes are not mines. 2 Lumens is to bright in the low mode and 20 lumen is not bright enough for medium. The light has 192 Lumen on high which is ok but i miss a 100 lumen mode for longer runtimes.
What modes would you prefer? I've only extensively used the modes on the Mini-ML and M2A, so I don't have much experience with different modes. I can say that for hiking and camping use, I quite like all the modes except for the low, which is ~4 lumens on the Minis and too bright if you are just trying to crawl out of a tarp shelter in the middle of the night without waking anyone else up. The medium is just about right for night hiking, with the occasional flick up to high for checking the path ahead, checking for reflecting animal eyes behind, or cutting through dense blizzards at night (which I've been in
). The 100 lumen mode you mention, was that on an old version of the Preon?
I am tempted to swap out the emitter for a Nichia High CRI LED, as show here [
http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb...emitter-swap-HOWTO-with-results-and-beamshots], I am starting to see the difference between "quantity of light" and "quality of light." Has anyone else done this swap, and if so, what recommendations could you give me? I repair electronics for the fun of it, and have a pretty good grasp of soldering both PTH and smaller pin-count SMD components. Are the newer Preon emitter "pills" just as solidly glued in as the old ones? If so, am I better off leaving such a mod to the pros?