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Enlightened
I was away for a long weekend twenty miles from the nearest light pollution. What better opportunity to play? Unfortunately this is in the middle of some seriously bad forestry done for the grant money about 40 years ago and this timber was never thinned. I had to use a saw several times to clear fallen wood off the track to the house. There have been high winds lately hence the track clearance. So while I waited for it to get dark, I took some pics and charged up all the cells.
The power pole is 30m away. The river Don between the power pole and the second one and it is in spate so I wasn't about to measure exactly. I'd guess it is about 100m to the second pole. The shadowed low wall in the foreground is 12m (Measured) away.
The faded green compost bin with the stone on it is (measured) 25m away.
So here are the entrants.
6D ROP High. KD reflector, KD plain glass lens, 5,000mAh NiCd cells. I mislaid my 6AA ROP Low or it would feature here too. The ROP High was at tightest focus for all shots.
Elektrolumens TriBlaster 4C, 2800mAh NiMH cells (Nasty but all I could get locally)
Romisen RC-T5 Quad Cree running 4 x RCR123.
UltraFire WF-500 running 2 x 18650.
Nuwai ALX153L (Luxeon V) using a pair of 17500s as I've no wish to go bankrupt feeding the thing primary 123s three at a time.
Golston "7W" (burned out original resistor – now using a 3.6ohm one) running 2xRCR123
And finally a Fenix P3D running on a 17670. All the P3D shots were on turbo.
The order is physical size rather than brightness though the largest is the brightest by quite a way.
So once it got dark – all shots are 4 seconds at f2.6 exposure. The sky did NOT seem that light to me. Temperature is around freezing so I tried to be quick, at least for the NiCd powered ROP high and the NiMH powered Elektrolumens TriBlaster 4C (3 K2 LEDs – once the new K2s are again available this guy is due an emitter swap). The Elektrolumens device is a truly great hand warmer. So I pointed the lights at the power pole and the compost bin. The lights were handheld and my aim wasn't all that good at times. The haze in some of the pictures is cigarette smoke and not strange atmospherics by the way.
25 metre shots.
ROP High
Elektrolumens triK2
Romisen RC-T5 quad Cree
WF500
Nuwai ALX153L – which I should have aimed higher up.
Golston
Fenix P3D
Having done that, I tried the power pole which is 30m away.
ROP High
TriBlaster
Oops – forgot to take this one, but then it isn't a thrower anyway.
Romisen
Not nearly as intense a hotspot as the ROP but note you can still see the second power pole 100m away.
WF500
Nuwai ALX153L
Golston
P3D Turbo
Then to show the size of the hotspots I pointed the lights at a gap in the low wall 12m away. The gap is a bit over 1m wide (guesstimated)
ROP
Note the very tight hotspot and that the beam could have as many rings as you like, you'd never know. Actually it isn't too bad at all, my ROP low 6AA is far, far worse.
TriBlaster
Shows more clearly than the others just how busy the moles have been lately.
Romisen
oops - wrong light! Next time maybe.
WF500
Nuwai
Golston
Fenix
Then to finish off I tried to light up the farther power poles on the other side of the Don.
ROP
WF500
Next time I'll take some clamps and another tripod so that the lights are all pointing to exactly the same place. And will try some of the smaller lights at the 12m wall. I got too cold to take the shots this time. Just for fun I'll try next time with a fauxton among others and will get a camera that lets me fix the white balance.
The power pole is 30m away. The river Don between the power pole and the second one and it is in spate so I wasn't about to measure exactly. I'd guess it is about 100m to the second pole. The shadowed low wall in the foreground is 12m (Measured) away.
The faded green compost bin with the stone on it is (measured) 25m away.
So here are the entrants.
6D ROP High. KD reflector, KD plain glass lens, 5,000mAh NiCd cells. I mislaid my 6AA ROP Low or it would feature here too. The ROP High was at tightest focus for all shots.
Elektrolumens TriBlaster 4C, 2800mAh NiMH cells (Nasty but all I could get locally)
Romisen RC-T5 Quad Cree running 4 x RCR123.
UltraFire WF-500 running 2 x 18650.
Nuwai ALX153L (Luxeon V) using a pair of 17500s as I've no wish to go bankrupt feeding the thing primary 123s three at a time.
Golston "7W" (burned out original resistor – now using a 3.6ohm one) running 2xRCR123
And finally a Fenix P3D running on a 17670. All the P3D shots were on turbo.
The order is physical size rather than brightness though the largest is the brightest by quite a way.
So once it got dark – all shots are 4 seconds at f2.6 exposure. The sky did NOT seem that light to me. Temperature is around freezing so I tried to be quick, at least for the NiCd powered ROP high and the NiMH powered Elektrolumens TriBlaster 4C (3 K2 LEDs – once the new K2s are again available this guy is due an emitter swap). The Elektrolumens device is a truly great hand warmer. So I pointed the lights at the power pole and the compost bin. The lights were handheld and my aim wasn't all that good at times. The haze in some of the pictures is cigarette smoke and not strange atmospherics by the way.
25 metre shots.
ROP High
Elektrolumens triK2
Romisen RC-T5 quad Cree
WF500
Nuwai ALX153L – which I should have aimed higher up.
Golston
Fenix P3D
Having done that, I tried the power pole which is 30m away.
ROP High
TriBlaster
Oops – forgot to take this one, but then it isn't a thrower anyway.
Romisen
Not nearly as intense a hotspot as the ROP but note you can still see the second power pole 100m away.
WF500
Nuwai ALX153L
Golston
P3D Turbo
Then to show the size of the hotspots I pointed the lights at a gap in the low wall 12m away. The gap is a bit over 1m wide (guesstimated)
ROP
Note the very tight hotspot and that the beam could have as many rings as you like, you'd never know. Actually it isn't too bad at all, my ROP low 6AA is far, far worse.
TriBlaster
Shows more clearly than the others just how busy the moles have been lately.
Romisen
oops - wrong light! Next time maybe.
WF500
Nuwai
Golston
Fenix
Then to finish off I tried to light up the farther power poles on the other side of the Don.
ROP
WF500
Next time I'll take some clamps and another tripod so that the lights are all pointing to exactly the same place. And will try some of the smaller lights at the 12m wall. I got too cold to take the shots this time. Just for fun I'll try next time with a fauxton among others and will get a camera that lets me fix the white balance.
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