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What you mentioned may be true with the more common LED flood lights, but the newer spot style will cut through like a xenon.

That's interesting. I haven't had that experience with any of my LED lights, including at least one narrow beam with a fair amount of throw, but maybe I should look into this more. I took my entire flashlight collection for an outdoor middle-of-the-night test a few weeks ago. I walked through a field and surrounding woods on a moonless night. It was fairly foggy, and I was very disappointed with the glare from my LEDs. I think it would have been really hard to navigate with them in a pinch. (Of course, in the absence of fog, they are real champs.)


In addition to how tight the beam, I think beam color comes into play. In reading about fog lights, I came accross the observation that more "yellow" lights are not as hard on our night vision and thus make better fog lights. I think the same thing comes into play here as the LED lights are much less yellow.

-john