With all my nice flashlights, of course I have to use them. I have a nice hiking terrain near my house with some forest and some open terrain, and with no artificial lighting. Now in the winter we have nice long and dark evenings here in Norway.
My walking light is my Dereelight CL1H with a 5A Q2 pill placed in an OP reflector. It gives a very comfortable light, and the colors of the nature looks quite natural. I love this tint. It gives smooth and good illumination of my close surroundings, and it has usable light that goes out to 70- 80 meters when om max. When I need or want to see longer than that, or just for fun, I pick out my DBS with SMO reflector. I have long used a Q5 WC pill, but have recently been upgraded with a R2 WH pill. This new led gives a little more light, and the green parts of my surroundings looks greener, which I like. It was well worth the upgrade.
There have been some discussion if the A5 tint is more effective, and in fact may be outweights the illuminance advantage of the cooler tints. I have done some experimeting on this on my evening trips by changing the pills back and forth between my two Dereelights and measuring distance to objects. I have found out that I need at least as many lux to discover and identify an object with the A5 tint as with the WC tint. So for me, the only real advantage of the A5 is that it is more cosy.
My Dereelights is the ones that get most used on my trips. I also always carry an L2D in my jacket, and my EDC light, my LF2X in my pant pockets. My Lf2X is used several times a day for a lot of different small tasks. I have become quite dependent on that little light. I hardly notice it in my pocket, and it is so nice to just put it in my mouth when I need both hands free.:laughing:
But the point of this story was that becoming a flashaholic is the healthiest hobby I have had for a long time since it makes me go hiking almost every night.:twothumbs
My walking light is my Dereelight CL1H with a 5A Q2 pill placed in an OP reflector. It gives a very comfortable light, and the colors of the nature looks quite natural. I love this tint. It gives smooth and good illumination of my close surroundings, and it has usable light that goes out to 70- 80 meters when om max. When I need or want to see longer than that, or just for fun, I pick out my DBS with SMO reflector. I have long used a Q5 WC pill, but have recently been upgraded with a R2 WH pill. This new led gives a little more light, and the green parts of my surroundings looks greener, which I like. It was well worth the upgrade.
There have been some discussion if the A5 tint is more effective, and in fact may be outweights the illuminance advantage of the cooler tints. I have done some experimeting on this on my evening trips by changing the pills back and forth between my two Dereelights and measuring distance to objects. I have found out that I need at least as many lux to discover and identify an object with the A5 tint as with the WC tint. So for me, the only real advantage of the A5 is that it is more cosy.
My Dereelights is the ones that get most used on my trips. I also always carry an L2D in my jacket, and my EDC light, my LF2X in my pant pockets. My Lf2X is used several times a day for a lot of different small tasks. I have become quite dependent on that little light. I hardly notice it in my pocket, and it is so nice to just put it in my mouth when I need both hands free.:laughing:
But the point of this story was that becoming a flashaholic is the healthiest hobby I have had for a long time since it makes me go hiking almost every night.:twothumbs
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