Who makes a good flash light. Used a mirror in my masonary chimney cleanout to check out my insulated liner, but the light I have isn't cutting the mustard to see up inside. Need something with a strong focused beam. Should I wait and look at night? Anyone know of a good brand of light. Can't be a big spot light either.
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The brightest hand-held light we have here at our place is a diving light, as used for night scuba dives. We have two of them, and they are the brightest lights I've ever held. Don't know what they cost, but I seem to remember we paid about $15 or $20 each for them, though that was some years ago, back in the nineties.
Diving shops have them. Maybe even Amazon or someplace online, I don't know.
Diving shops have them. Maybe even Amazon or someplace online, I don't know.
I like a spot light like one that could be used for looking for deer at night.
http://www.amazon.com/Stanley-SL5W0...4MCG/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1297116408&sr=8-6
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http://www.amazon.com/Stanley-SL5W0...4MCG/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1297116408&sr=8-6
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The latest hi-tech headlamps used by backpackers and campers have a very intense LED that is quite focused and has a long throw. That's what I use for my inspections. Plus, it has numerous other uses around the house, like working in dark crawl spaces, under sinks repairing plumbing, seeing what you are working on in the deep recesses of your engine compartment, etc. Heck, some folks even go hiking with the things.
the light that I put up and BK recommended are both LED's. While they work well and use less power use run longer on a battery, the colors never look right to me. If you find one w/ a halogen lamp then your colors will be truer. But, that's being very nit picky
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I have one of those headlamps, but I know the one I have won't be bright enough. It's has dual LED's . Think I'll try shining a light up the flue at night, see how that works. Yup ,, the headlamp set up came with me to work for two years when I was working in dark or unlit area's . Like a third hand.Battenkiller said:
All I care about is seeing up the flue, well enough, to make a judgement call. My flue runs so hot all the time I doubt I'll have anything of concern. I want to be safe and check. Scrubbing the pipe is easy to do for a peace of mind. I wanted to just see how well I burned thus far.pen said:
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Completely off topic, but hopefully interesting nonetheless:
The human eye has an amazing ability to compensate for the color cast of light. Think about looking at green grass on an overcast day, at high noon in the sun, and in that golden moment before sunset: It always looks green, even though the light was actually intensely blue, neutral, and yellow, respectively. The LED light isn't any less true than halogen - it just happens to be cooler (bluer) than the very warm, yellow halogen light and our brains seem to prefer warmer colors. They're both about the same deviation from a 'daylight balanced' neutral light, just in opposite directions.
And that, folks, is what happens when you major in Photography as an undergrad. You know more about the color of light and how it's perceived by the brain AND you change careers because good photo jobs are very few and very far between!
FixedGearFlyer said:
From a science standpoint halogen bulbs provide more of the full spectrum of light where LED's and flourescents do not. If the full spectrum isn't emitted by the light, it then the full spectrum of possibilities can't be reflected from the object back to your eye since it isn't there in the first place.
I found this out the first time I switched my mini-mag to a led bulb instead of it's traditional bulb. It worked great with it's "bluer" spectrum emphasis. When I went out to help a buddy track a wounded deer i soon realized that red blood is completely indistinguishable from any background using an LED. Appraently the LED didn't emit enough lower energy red light for me to be able to see the blood.
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Dakotas Dad
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For the money, I think the Surefire G2LED is just about the brightest cleanest beam flashlight in it's class.
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