One of my favorite mods - a blue FW3A that I swapped SST-20 Deep Red into.

This is with a fresh Molicel P26A 18650.

Thing rips.

But I mostly use it at low levels where it’s very efficient.

I love deep red because it does not attract insects and it’s gentle on your eyes at night.

  • @Adair21M
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    61 year ago

    Not attracting insects is the best part about having deep red in a headlamp. It sucks having your face attacked by 1000 june bugs

      • jon_slider
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        1 year ago

        I wonder if green lights attract less bugs too?

        google says: “The study showed that 22% of bugs were attracted to the blue spectrum, while 18% were attracted to white, 10% to yellow, 2% to red and 4.7% to green.”

        “green light attracts the most fish”

        “results found that the green light was the most attractive to mosquitoes. There was 43.3% of all the insects collected in the green light trap. The blue light attracted 31.8%, and only 24.9% went for the incandescent traps.”

  • @INeedMoreLumens
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    1 year ago

    Which firmware did you use?

    Standard - 100% FET

    Or

    219 - 50% FET

    • FuckOffOP
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      31 year ago

      Standard

      • @INeedMoreLumens
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        31 year ago

        Sweet! I didn’t think DR would be able to handle 100% FET. I might need to build one of these!

        • FuckOffOP
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          41 year ago

          So far, I’ve never had a problem pushing the SST-20 Deep Reds. Same with the white ones too. They hold up quite well!

  • @solrize
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    31 year ago

    Very nice pic. It had never occurred to me before that a powerful DR light was useful. I always had thought of DR as being for when you want minimal light. But now you’ve got me interested.