Originally Posted by
commodorefork
Yes. I'm wondering if there are any tail lights that use incandescent bulbs rather than those dreaded LEDs? The LEDs are too small, too focused. I want something that glows in all directions evenly. Maybe some sort of flashlight with a red filter would do the trick here? Something that uses ordinary AA/AAA batteries and can be dismounted would be ideal. Any ideas?
Thanks. :-)
I doubt there are even any incandescent light tail light being sold anymore. At any rate, you'd need a ton of battery to get them to the brightness that you can get with LEDs. The power consumption of LEDs is much, much lower than for the same brightness in incandescent.
The diffused beam that you are looking for is a function of the diffuser or the lens that is placed in front of the LED. There are numerous LED lights that do have wide diffuse beams so that they are seen from wide angles. The
Serfas Thunderbolt is a good example. The king of all the LED lights with wide diffusion is the
Niteflux Red Zone 8. It's so bright and has such a wide diffuse beam that you can actually see it from the front in some perspectives. Search youtube and you'll find numerous videos that illustrate this.
J.