What color Photon light is brightest? Also, which is the prefered model? I, II, or 3? Thanks

Also, In your opinion which is better? The Photon Lights or the Pulsar lights?

All other factors being equal, white is still the most intense light in the spectrum. The appropriate use of white is something else. For preserving night vision red is better, while both red and green light may wash out some map details in those colours. If I was stomping around in the dark ( I prefer my wiggy's bag over all other gear and exercise anyway) red would be my choice. If I was trying to attract the Goodyear Blimp overhead a nice bright white light would be the choice.

Thanks, What about the Photon vs. Pulsar? Or are they about the same? (and whats a wiggy's bag?) <img src="images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

I own the pulsar1 (we can't easily get photons oer here) and it only has a temporary button, so you have to hold it to get light. However I think that the pulsar II has the slide button.

Blue is probably the BRIGHTEST Photon, but that's an unusual color for my tastes... the whites, IIRC, are blues with a phosphor coating on the "lens" - so from a practical standpoint, white is the most usefully "bright". My EDC is red in my left pocket and turquoise in my right pocket. White is in my gear in my FAK. Hmmm - I suppose I could rig running lights for a canoe with those 3, now that I think about it, LoL... (port, starboard, and stern)

So far I prefer the Photon II. I have exactly one Photon III (recent production) and it died the first day I carried it in my pants pocket - apparently it activated. Have not had any such problem with the IIs. I would LIKE to use the IIIs - I like about 4 of the modes and they are possibly a bit more water resistant - but... VERY annoying that it turned on/stayed on the first time I carried it. YMMV.

Regards,

Tom

i like the idea of photon lights.

I am about to get a couple. But after some research I will be getting the orange or yellow lights.

The reason being is that the white lights have a VERY short life span ie: <12 hrs. The more red the color the longer the light will last. A red, orange or yellow light can last up to 120 hrs. I have other ways of signaling so the photon light is just that, a light.

Mike

We have all three of the colors you mentioned - red, orange, and yellow. Look at the beam spreads here. The orange is good, but I'm not sure what "niche" it fills (the son who uses that one likes it, FWTH). The red and the yellow have different uses IMHO. The yellow is...interesting. I use the red - and it is a rather bright red; a bit too bright if you're not careful, although it is a pupil dialation/contraction effect, rather than a night vision adverse effect (less time to recover). These are are fundamentally short range devices for most uses and I find the wider beam spread on the red to be more useful for general tasks than the orange or yellow. I like the yellow well enough, though, to seriously consider it as a replacement for white in my FAK for longer trips - and it's a tidy one for reading in a shelter after dark.

Since they are usually sold at a considerable discount if one purchases two at a time, why not purchase a red and a yellow or a red and an orange?

My 2¢ worth...

Tom

I agree with other's opinions about relative brightness.

Yellow has a very narrow beam.
Red or blue or turquoise seem to have the largest beams.
White is OK for standard use : bright and wide beam, no color masked...

I made a bulk order (total 51 lights : photon3, Xlights, + 1 Fusion) before Xmas, to have gifts for friends/relatives : I did get 2 D.O.A. + 1 D.O.A. CR2016 battery.
Last month I ordered 25 more (a mix of Photon 3 + Xlights) and get 5 or 6 D.O.A. lights + 4 dead batteries !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(4 out of the 5 first Photon I tested, were dead !!!)
I hope it was just a bad batch (mainly new production (with SOS mode) white Photon3)
And sending packages back and forth between USA and France is not free ....

This being said, I'm very happy to have those tiny powerfull lights (when they work.... <img src="images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />) :
in my EDC kit, I carry 1 red + 1 white Photon3 (in addition to 1 SureFire 6P - not the same purpose).
+ I put one in each FAK (car, rucksack)


Alain

You can get the Photon 2 in the UK at www.clubbertoys.co.uk/
At the amazing price of £15 including delivery. Yeah, oh dark clouds of gloom and misery, the best survival torch in the UK is cheapest on a dance music site <img src="images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />. Its been a while since I was "dissin the [censored]" <img src="images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />(I thought Garage Music was a Perry Como tape for 2.99 from the local ESSO), but there it is...
In the UK, yellow is best for night time map reading because you only lose the minor roads, and you can still see them by the lines edging them.

Hope this helps.