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Summary

Seven LEDs in five colors, in a very compact flashlight. The Nichia 519A LEDs are just beautiful with their high CRI and lovely tint. Red, green and blue are less interesting to me, but the UV light comes in very handy. This paired with the great driver and magnetic charging make the MiX-7 almost perfect.

It’s hard to say anything negative about it. I’d like to see more brightness levels for the color channels and maybe the possibility to mix them. Sometimes it can be annoying that the colors were integrated together with the white channel into the low group.

Overall I’m very satisfied with the MiX-7, even at my high expectations I had for this flashlight. If you want a flashlight with multiple colors, you should definitely try the MiX-7.

  • AItoothbrush@lemmy.zip
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    11 months ago

    I didnt know about the others but incandescent doesnt work because the glass blocks most of the waves if i remember correctly.

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      11 months ago

      Put your hand in front of a 120 W bulb. Does it get warm?

      Question is: What do you want to achieve by using a black body radiator? It won’t give you any fancy colors, just a pretty smooth spectrum.

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        11 months ago

        So you can have a light with a continuously variable wavelength. E.g. to see how organisms/minerals react to any wavelength through photoluminescence.

        Basically just academic interest or just for fun.

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        11 months ago

        Thats infrared. You dont get a sunburn for example because the glass blocks the uv out. Thats why you dont get a sunburn indoors.

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      11 months ago

      Yeah I think some of the small amount of UV is intentionally filtered out by the glass. You’d have to use a glass that is optically clear to all wavelengths. Probably not possible, but I know you can get glass transparent to UV light.