Originally Posted by
Ziemas
Why don't you go set up your 140l light at eye level, back off 20 or 30 meters and tell me if it's blinding.
I don't think I've ever had a battery-powered light that I
didn't examine in that fashion
It's powerful, but certainly not blinding when driving a car with about 2500 lumens out the front, or in daylight/twilight. Given the cagers' compliments to me and other BF members, and the fact that they don't actually exhibit any signs of being blinded in the real world, I don't see your hypothesis (it's too intense/bright!) being supported by the empirical evidence. And you know what that means
A focused LED produces a totally different light and beam pattern from a defused halogen. It's not a fair comparison.
The DiNotte has a pretty broad flood pattern, actually. It's far less focused than, say, my L2D Premium Q5 (which has, OMG, a blinding 180 lumens). Beam shot:
Take a look at a police LED deck/dash strobe, some of them have 8 to 16 emitters jammed in there, not just one. And yet, people survive having looked at them, and stuff
Here's a sample:
