What is the best flashlight in the fog?

[DM51]

..... at least I can spell "punctuation"

LOL, fair point. Cheap keyboard...

 

[Fusion_m8]

You need to grow up and pull your thumb out...

Coffee anyone?

Try to see the humour (English spelling) and stop being a teachers pet. You are supposed to put my quote above your reply BTW - it's a bit confusing to read the reply first.

 

[Ian2381]

Hi, I moded my Romisen RC-29 (Flood to throw) to direct drive using 14500 battery and warm Cree LED. Will this set up be able to penetrate fog? On my last Mt climb, even my bright Solarforce L2 R5 with smooth reflector can't penetrate the thick fog.

 

[mvyrmnd]

All I know is my floody High CRI lights allow me to see better than my pointy cool lights... I'm not really smart enough to explain why.

 

[DM51]

... stop being a teachers pet

You need to grow up and pull your thumb out...

Rule 4 beckons if this type of post continues...

 

[Fusion_m8]

I guess we have to leave that to the scientists, we have lots of the homemade ones here on CPF apparently.

All I know is my floody High CRI lights allow me to see better than my pointy cool lights... I'm not really smart enough to explain why.

 

[Kingfisher]

I'm looking to try a few things out when it gets foggy - don't seem to get the 'pea soupers' here anymore like we did when Sherlock Holmes was knocking about.

 

[HooNz]

1st post in this Fred , its been a good read .

Last night we had Fog and recalling this discussion i opened the front door and poked out the XML-T6 Ho out there pointing at a small tree/bush about 40m away and around 15ft diameter.
It was a fairly bright night due to the Moon being up and the tree/bush being very faintly highlighted from the back-ground (could just see it with eye no torch) , to my surprise on MAX the tree and everything disappeared due to the bounce-back , tried high then medium and it was the same , i was very disappointed , i thought low would get there by then but nope! , then lighted up the 5d halogen and YEP , could see the tree/bush and bounce back was far reduced.

Please do not even bother with the beam/focus/intensity routine as i have tried a few over the months and noticed the same .

I have noticed this same phenomena on clear nights when one would think just by the feel that there is no humidity/moisture about , LED's are a good indicator if any sort of moisture is in the air with bounce-back , without a LED i would have never known that there was/is and i thought i was a fairly good judge for humidity and dry nights clear or not , but they show up something that seems to be floating about , and with smoke i would guess it would be even worse , even just smell-able smoke , imo.

 

[buds224]

Bump to see if there are any other opinions (newer developments) about Flood vs. Tight Beam & Color Temperature advantages in the fog.

 

[davidwestonh]

Any thoguhts on the old KL3's??? Anybody had a chance to use one in the fog/foggy conditions?

Anyone have pictures of kl3 to fit in the review section?
were these special use or edc?
anyone have a close up of the lense?

 

[maoku]

XML T5-5C 3700-4000k

 

[kaichu dento]

Very interesting thread to see opened back up again and I'm hoping to get a chance to do some comparisons here sometime soon.

 

[BenChiew]

I am equally interested to find out if technology has provided a solution for those foggy conditions. 🙂

 

[Ian2381]

Any update on this thread? Been looking to build a light with XPL Hi warm led(having a hard time finding one though) to be used during Mt hiking/climbing. Thanks

 

[recDNA]

Isn't green supposed to be good in fog? Surefire has some greenish led. Maybe only cuz they"re too cheap to put good ones in.

 

[lumen aeternum]

Another bump. Now that we have throwers with multi-thousand Lumens; seems to be little in a fog-cutting pencil beam being made; certainly not much advertised as such.
Wonder if you can buy a true yellow LED to duplicate the headlight color?

 

[yellow]

yellow Led

do You mean yellow light as in car headlights in the last millennium?
And think that this were a plus in regard to fog?
then I have a slight update: wrong!
😉
proof: easy --> with a survival of the fittest standpoint: do You see a single car running yellow headlights now?


to "fight" fog ... get rid of any spill light, that is what blinds

 

[lumen aeternum]

Yea I read the whole thread about colors & Rayleigh Scattering etc.
But a yellow flashlight would be cool.
And if my car is the only one with yellow lights, it will be noticed by other drivers. So safer for me.

 

[jacksmith69]

Aren't warmer colors better suited? Or am I missing something??

 

[bykfixer]

Isn't green supposed to be good in fog? Surefire has some greenish led. Maybe only cuz they"re too cheap to put good ones in.

Green by SureFire is the new cool white. When you absolutely positively have to completely blind a bad guy, do it with a kinder/gentler cool white.

Nah, seriously I see Toyota SUV's have a slight green tint in the beam of the headlight. It allows a brighter bulb to be used but isn't seen as harsh to oncoming motorists and is apparently better at cutting through darkness in late night, dew-ey conditions (or in rain) without self blinding the driver when their lamps reflect off roadsigns or wet objects.

Why Sure does it? I dunno.