Tinting incad bulb

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Anyone tried tinting an incand buld with eh blue highlighter or something else?

I think tinting a incad bulb might make the beam white! what are your views on this?
 
What you are actually doing is creating a filter. Instead of applying the filter to the bulb, I would have applied it to the lens. For some flashlights you can even buy filter adapters and they sell premade filters for IR, UV, red, blue etc.

To get a white incan beam, change to a better type of light/bulb, and forget about using alkalines. My WA1274/WA1185 setups are very white (and very bright).

Sigbjoern
 
planing on applying using a permeanent blue marker on the xenon bulb of my e2d... i don't want a filter... extra weight and bulk
 
You might make things worse. When that light heats up, if whatever you put on there isn't high-temp proof, it may burn and adversely affect bulb life. A Surefire isn't exactly a cheap yellowing flashlight, though. I found the E-series to be extremely bright and white. It's your light though. You're free to experiment (That's why we're all here! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif) but go easy on applying anything directly to the bulb.
 
yeah, what sween said...i think it will eventually burn, and you'll end up with this thin brown layer all over it...but hey, try it out and let as know!
 
I tried glow paint once, it fried and turned brown on a simple 3D mag cell. It was just an experiment. I kinda knew it would burn up but It was pretty cool right before it fried.

Jeff
 
You guys are aware that car bulb manufacturers tint their bulbs with a special phosphor coat to achieve higher CCT? They're essentially trying to give an incan a color closer to that of high end HID without HID's price tag. Nowadays even the inexpensive low end bulbs have a little bit of it too.

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Doing so with a blue marker sounds like a recipe for a popped bulb though, remember there is a reason why you should never get fingerprints on a bulb.

However, if you are willing to sacrifice an MN03 in the name of science, please share the results /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Hmmmm...I'm trying this right now. I must say that it is very hard to get the marker on the bulb. There are tons of streaks and lines. It's very hard to make it a solid blue. The beam, is very poor. White spots everywhere. As for the burning off, well, it doesn't look like the marker is melting/burning off but the light is being filled with a misty white gas. I can see it flowing by the bulb. Very weird. I'm just gonna let it run until it blows up or the batteries die.
 
hmmm... sounds like i m heading to desaster if i use marker... never thought bout the high temperature the marker ink hav to tolerate. so any idea where to get the special phosphor coat? seems like the best option... If the special phosphor coat is easy and cheaply available, it might be the next big thing from getting incand even whiter! (thats from my point of view)
 
They make caps you can put over bulbs to color them, a lot of the import car guys around here do that to change the color of their interior lights. Another option, if you've got access to it, are the gels they use for spotlights in theatrical applications. .
 
Atom you cant put it on yourself! The manufacturing process is costly and requires special equipment to apply it!
Doug

IIWY I'd bite the bullet and use a filter? You will ruin a lot of bulbs and possibly the bezel if a bulb pops and they are a lot more expensive than a filter!
 
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ACMarina said:
They make caps you can put over bulbs to color them, a lot of the import car guys around here do that to change the color of their interior lights. Another option, if you've got access to it, are the gels they use for spotlights in theatrical applications. .

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do they make customisesd caps?
 
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dougmccoy said:
Atom you cant put it on yourself! The manufacturing process is costly and requires special equipment to apply it!
Doug

IIWY I'd bite the bullet and use a filter? You will ruin a lot of bulbs and possibly the bezel if a bulb pops and they are a lot more expensive than a filter!

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Still like the idea of a bulb that looks like those of cars.. those tinted blue blubs /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Hmmmmm.....batteries are dead. The blue marker melted off of a dull bulb running at about 4 volts. White misty gas smells REALLY bad (forgot about the gas and opened the light near my face /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/sick2.gif. That stuff smelled really bad). Anyway, marker is definitly not a good choice.
 
Nope.....it was very splotchy. Some parts of the beam were white and some were blue. You'd never guess how hard it is to smoothly apply marker to a light bulb until you try it /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif
 
I don't think the caps are done on a custom basis, but there's so many different kinds that you shouldn't have to worry about color choices.

Remember, though, that any filter or color you use will decrease light output. The word on the street around here is that many of the import guys were putting in the "Ion" or "Super White" bulbs, and the coatings cut the output so much that they didn't pass inspection. .
 
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