gcbryan
Flashlight Enthusiast
Why are there no RGB flashlights? The single die emitters are out there but no one has put them into a flashlight. Not a custom builder, an individual DIY type or a major or minor company. I know there was the Quark RGB but that was just a MC-E with each emitter a different color (and a relatively useless UI).
There was one exception I found in a cheap novelty light that used one LED (RGB) to make 10 colors that one would cycle through. It was $25 so it can be done and doesn't have to be expensive so I'm wondering why it hasn't been done by others. The Quark was $100 and (although well made) didn't come close to maximizing the potential.
I realize there are issues in getting various colors to focus at the same point but a diffuser or optic for a floody beam solves that (apparently judging by the cheaper light that I mentioned).
There has been no flashlight that allowed the use to mix colors.
With all the flashlights out there that are more or less the same you would think there would be a few RGB ones. With all the DIY experimenters you would think there would be a very homebrew models as well.
It might not be the most practical of lights but it would be interesting and there are plenty of custom lights that aren't practical either but no RGB.
I'm not looking for an expensive customer RGB light by the way. I'm just mentioning all the usual players.
Actually, it would be practical as a teaching tool and I'm sure in several other areas. The white light (all the colors mixed) should be better as far as CRI than a standard emitter.
What am I missing as to why there aren't a few of these lights?
As a side note, the fact that an inexpensive RGB light with premixed colors came out of China inexpensively should lay to rest all of the talk that other lights (U.S.) are so expensive relative to the cheaper Chinese ones because the cheap ones are copying all of the expensive design work that U.S. companies are credited with. Here is a case of a $25 light that wasn't a knock-off since no one else has done it yet. Here it would cost $200 and we would be posting about how we are glad to pay that to support an innovative company.
There was one exception I found in a cheap novelty light that used one LED (RGB) to make 10 colors that one would cycle through. It was $25 so it can be done and doesn't have to be expensive so I'm wondering why it hasn't been done by others. The Quark was $100 and (although well made) didn't come close to maximizing the potential.
I realize there are issues in getting various colors to focus at the same point but a diffuser or optic for a floody beam solves that (apparently judging by the cheaper light that I mentioned).
There has been no flashlight that allowed the use to mix colors.
With all the flashlights out there that are more or less the same you would think there would be a few RGB ones. With all the DIY experimenters you would think there would be a very homebrew models as well.
It might not be the most practical of lights but it would be interesting and there are plenty of custom lights that aren't practical either but no RGB.
I'm not looking for an expensive customer RGB light by the way. I'm just mentioning all the usual players.
Actually, it would be practical as a teaching tool and I'm sure in several other areas. The white light (all the colors mixed) should be better as far as CRI than a standard emitter.
What am I missing as to why there aren't a few of these lights?
As a side note, the fact that an inexpensive RGB light with premixed colors came out of China inexpensively should lay to rest all of the talk that other lights (U.S.) are so expensive relative to the cheaper Chinese ones because the cheap ones are copying all of the expensive design work that U.S. companies are credited with. Here is a case of a $25 light that wasn't a knock-off since no one else has done it yet. Here it would cost $200 and we would be posting about how we are glad to pay that to support an innovative company.
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