brightnorm
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The little superlight people just can\'t believe
Well, technically it's a mod but I put it here because it's 99.9% SureFire. Some of you may know it. It's Nascar's mod inspired by Don (McGizmo) that puts a P61 (120 Lumens) into a standard E2E bezel with a few clever alterations.
By now my friends and colleagues have grown pretty familiar with and rather blasé about my lights since many of them have been pressed into observer duty for my "Urban Throw Tests". Certainly they're still impressed by the Tigerlight, SN II, MagCharger, US, M6!, 9P/SRTH/N2 and the three 2x123 super-long throw lights, but they no longer register that first "shock of disbelief" at seeing lights capable of seemingly impossible performance.
Except when I demonstrated this mod one evening recently. I showed it to them, even let them handle it (locked out of course) , then aimed it at a building wall of solid travertine, slowly panning vertically to approximately 60 feet. The universal reaction was "That's not possible!" They were simply unable to reconcile the tiny size and 3.2oz weight with the wide floodlight beam that illuminated a large swath of the admittedly light colored building.
The P61 in its appropriate standard bezel projects a beam approximately 2x the diameter of the P60 for twice the lumens and therefore is not "brighter" but impressively massive and still relatively focused. The P61 altered to fit the slightly changed E2E bezel throws an even wider beam, reminiscent of a MN03 on steroids; many steroids. Despite its increased diameter there is somehow an impression of more total light than the normally-bezeled P61, perhaps because of its perfectly blended beam.
It is surprising how long the P61 will remain white if it is used judiciously, in which case heat buildup is not an issue.
Brightnorm
Well, technically it's a mod but I put it here because it's 99.9% SureFire. Some of you may know it. It's Nascar's mod inspired by Don (McGizmo) that puts a P61 (120 Lumens) into a standard E2E bezel with a few clever alterations.
By now my friends and colleagues have grown pretty familiar with and rather blasé about my lights since many of them have been pressed into observer duty for my "Urban Throw Tests". Certainly they're still impressed by the Tigerlight, SN II, MagCharger, US, M6!, 9P/SRTH/N2 and the three 2x123 super-long throw lights, but they no longer register that first "shock of disbelief" at seeing lights capable of seemingly impossible performance.
Except when I demonstrated this mod one evening recently. I showed it to them, even let them handle it (locked out of course) , then aimed it at a building wall of solid travertine, slowly panning vertically to approximately 60 feet. The universal reaction was "That's not possible!" They were simply unable to reconcile the tiny size and 3.2oz weight with the wide floodlight beam that illuminated a large swath of the admittedly light colored building.
The P61 in its appropriate standard bezel projects a beam approximately 2x the diameter of the P60 for twice the lumens and therefore is not "brighter" but impressively massive and still relatively focused. The P61 altered to fit the slightly changed E2E bezel throws an even wider beam, reminiscent of a MN03 on steroids; many steroids. Despite its increased diameter there is somehow an impression of more total light than the normally-bezeled P61, perhaps because of its perfectly blended beam.
It is surprising how long the P61 will remain white if it is used judiciously, in which case heat buildup is not an issue.
Brightnorm
