Trit colour question

[aaltl]

Hi

I am planning some work on one of my lights and was wondering if anyone has pictures of lights fitted with white trits in the dark. I want to use white but they look quite dim in Steve's sales thread in cpfm.

Thanks a lot.

 

[TEEJ]

Pics of glowing trits are VERY hard to compare.

Essentially, in day light, you can't see the glow, but at night/with night adapted eyes, they are quite bright. (When you want them to be)

:D

The greens are the brightest by far...blues might be next IIRC.

Whites are dimmer compared to the others if that's what you were wondering.

 

[AnAppleSnail]

Tritium vials ARE dim until your vision is adapted to the dark.

 

[franzdom]

I have seen a chart comparing them, trying to dig it up again, but white was somewhere in the middle.

 

[TEEJ]

I have seen a chart comparing them, trying to dig it up again, but white was somewhere in the middle.

Here's my reference shot I saved from Mercava:

Left to right: Merkava TEC-A3/S3 Fobs with Tritium in Green, Yellow, Ice Blue, Orange, White, Red, Pink & Purple


White IS in the middle, but, they are not arranged by brightness.




Its fairly obvious, to me at least, that white is about the dimmest.


I have some of his trit stuff, and its excellent BTW.

My favs are the Ice Blue and Greens...they even got my wife into tritium.


:D

 

[franzdom]

White IS in the middle, but, they are not arranged by brightness.

Its fairly obvious, to me at least, that white is about the dimmest.


I have some of his trit stuff, and its excellent BTW.

My favs are the Ice Blue and Greens...they even got my wife into tritium.


:D[/QUOTE]

Photography really is different than what we see though due to the sensors, I have found that dark blue is MUCH less radiant than ice blue which is not the case in that picture, and that green is brighter than shown.

 

[TEEJ]

LOL

Of course, hence my initial post...

But, they are still somewhat relative.

I'm sure there are also batch to batch variations, and so forth.


You really need to see them yourself, at night, with night adapted vision, or at least just before completely adapted so you can see the colors better.

The camera's sensors are definitely not the same as the cones, etc, in our eyes...and, our MONITORS we are now looking at these with are not going to have identical color calibrations, etc...so seeing is believing, or at least more relevant.

:D


I stand by green being brightest though...as I have first hand knowledge of that. The Ice Blue looks almost as bright, very very close to the green.

 

[murpharoo]

White is really dim I'm afraid. You will be disappointed with them...

 

[Esko]

I have seen a chart comparing them, trying to dig it up again, but white was somewhere in the middle.

Green is the brightest, yellow is the second brightest, ice blue&white should be the next and, then the rest. The chart should be found in the first post of B@rt's sales thread in MP. Of course, the size of the trit do have a significant effect, too.

Pressure and age may be other factors to consider. But if you buy small locator size trits, you probably don't know the pressures (which presumably are pretty high anyway) and the small vials that are sold here are most likely pretty new anyway.

And, the trits are dim. My 0,04 lumen firefly flashlight is a lot brighter than my biggest 15cm green tritium vial. They are nice locators in dark though.

 

[Arm and Leg]

Blue and green are brightest, yellow follows, then red, then purple and white are the most dim.