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Led vs Halogen for lamping

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  • 07-12-2016 9:44pm
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    trackerman
    Registered Users Posts: 516 ✭✭✭


    Anyone got a view on the newer LED lamps versus the older and established Halogen lights...
    Does the whiter LED light help or hinder the eye reflection?

    Cheers

    T


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    gunny123
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    I can't answer your question Trackerman, but when i was lamping years ago, it was a constant palaver messing around with large batteries, that drained rapidly with the halogen drain. The leds are worlds apart, i can get hours out of a couple of small batteries.


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    Heavy handed
    Registered Users Posts: 205 ✭✭Heavy handed


    Halogens are becoming old fashioned at this point. I still use the plug in tracer when driving around on private land but the rest of the time I use nothing but Led equipped night master 800s. Small compact and light weight plus you'll get a few hours from a single charge.


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    hrcbob
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    Personally i prefer the light "colour" of a halogen. I find the leds i have tend to make everything the same blue ish colour that can make critter identification that bit more difficult.
    Maybe i just need better led torches.

    Or to go to specsavers..


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    trackerman
    Registered Users Posts: 516 ✭✭✭trackerman


    thanks folks, I was worried that the untra white from LED might make it harder to identfy my quary.


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    J.R.
    Registered Users Posts: 2,352 ✭✭✭J.R.


    hrcbob wrote: »
    Personally i prefer the light "colour" of a halogen. I find the leds i have tend to make everything the same blue ish colour that can make critter identification that bit more difficult.
    Maybe i just need better led torches.

    Or to go to specsavers..

    I feel the same.

    Some of the modern cars have extremely bright lights ...too bright, in my opinion, as they are dazzling when approaching them and very uncomfortable & blinding to look at.

    I wonder do the animals feel the same...are powerful LED's too bright & uncomfortable for lamping???


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