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What color light?

Time for a new light I think. Bought one a couple years ago after trying a few different lights and have never been totally happy with it.


What color led light do you prefer, the bright white or the yellow/warm light?

For colored bulbs, which color(s) do you like and why?

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I like the boss hotspot 3d myself. Everybody has their own opinions but in mine the hotspot is the best on the market. Yellowish light with a red led that is super great for finidng coon eyes, floods the tree, and gets pretty bright. Green led that also gets pretty bright and is great for walking as you dont get swarmed by bugs.

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I've never seen the warm/yellow leds. Anyone here that's hunted with both and prefers the bright white?

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Originally posted by Bayemup34
I like the boss hotspot 3d myself. Everybody has their own opinions but in mine the hotspot is the best on the market. Yellowish light with a red led that is super great for finidng coon eyes, floods the tree, and gets pretty bright. Green led that also gets pretty bright and is great for walking as you dont get swarmed by bugs.

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Re: What color light?

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Originally posted by calblu
Time for a new light I think. Bought one a couple years ago after trying a few different lights and have never been totally happy with it.


What color led light do you prefer, the bright white or the yellow/warm light?

For colored bulbs, which color(s) do you like and why?

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Anyone like blue or amber, and what do you like them for?

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Ive never used the amber but Ive heard of a lot of people that like it. Ive also heard hornets like it pretty good too

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Originally posted by calblu
Anyone like blue or amber, and what do you like them for?

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Kindly goes back to the old country folks around where I was raised. After dark and after a hard days work people would sit on the porch with porch lights on - in those day people tinted their porch lights yellow and no other color, why because yellow attracted bugs less than any other color. Here is something I pulled from the internet that explains in short what color insects see:


What light is attractive to insects?

Humans can see light wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum from 400-800 nanometers (nm), which ranges from violet to red in color, but does not include ultraviolet (UV) light at 350 nm. Insects can perceive light in the 300-650 nm range, but prefer light that is between 300-420 nm which includes UV light. A light’s UV output is probably the most important factor in its attractiveness to insects. Since most insects are attracted to UV light, this is why most ILTs (Insect Light Traps, including bug zappers) utilize UV/blacklight bulbs as their source of attraction.

Insects generally see 3 colors of light, Ultraviolent (UV), blue and green. Bright white or bluish lights (mercury vapor, white incandescent and white florescent) are the most attractive to insects. Yellowish, pinkish, or orange (sodium vapor, halogen, dichrom yellow) are the least attractive to most insects. When white incandescent bulbs were all that was available, the advice was to change them to yellow incandescent bug bulbs. Yellow and “warm white” bulbs tend to be more like sunlight and are less attractive to insects than “cool white” bulbs that have a more bluish tone. Red bulbs are even less attractive to insects than yellow, but red provides little visible light to humans and it carries an “undesirable” social stigma from decades ago.

In addition to the color or wavelength of light, insects are also attracted to the brightness and to the heat from lights. The greater the bulb’s wattage rating, the brighter the light and the greater the drawing distance. Also, the greater the wattage, lights that use glowing filaments (incandescent, halogen, etc.), generate an increasing amount of heat. Cool lights that generate light from flowing gas (LED, sodium vapor, mercury vapor, florescent, etc.) generate less heat.

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Originally posted by Sam Davis
Kindly goes back to the old country folks around where I was raised. After dark and after a hard days work people would sit on the porch with porch lights on - in those day people tinted their porch lights yellow and no other color, why because yellow attracted bugs less than any other color. Here is something I pulled from the internet that explains in short what color insects see:


What light is attractive to insects?

Humans can see light wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum from 400-800 nanometers (nm), which ranges from violet to red in color, but does not include ultraviolet (UV) light at 350 nm. Insects can perceive light in the 300-650 nm range, but prefer light that is between 300-420 nm which includes UV light. A light’s UV output is probably the most important factor in its attractiveness to insects. Since most insects are attracted to UV light, this is why most ILTs (Insect Light Traps, including bug zappers) utilize UV/blacklight bulbs as their source of attraction.

Insects generally see 3 colors of light, Ultraviolent (UV), blue and green. Bright white or bluish lights (mercury vapor, white incandescent and white florescent) are the most attractive to insects. Yellowish, pinkish, or orange (sodium vapor, halogen, dichrom yellow) are the least attractive to most insects. When white incandescent bulbs were all that was available, the advice was to change them to yellow incandescent bug bulbs. Yellow and “warm white” bulbs tend to be more like sunlight and are less attractive to insects than “cool white” bulbs that have a more bluish tone. Red bulbs are even less attractive to insects than yellow, but red provides little visible light to humans and it carries an “undesirable” social stigma from decades ago.

In addition to the color or wavelength of light, insects are also attracted to the brightness and to the heat from lights. The greater the bulb’s wattage rating, the brighter the light and the greater the drawing distance. Also, the greater the wattage, lights that use glowing filaments (incandescent, halogen, etc.), generate an increasing amount of heat. Cool lights that generate light from flowing gas (LED, sodium vapor, mercury vapor, florescent, etc.) generate less heat.

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Originally posted by Jrkb2012
I don't see how they can claim that green attracts bugs,,I try to use my white flood LED walking light on my HORIZON light and I get attacked from every direction,,so I flip on the green LED flood light and BAM,,they disappear,,I've only used it 5 to 6 times so far,,but every time I flip on the green light,,the bugs,skeeters,etc. disappear,,to me the green light is a blessing for walking and keeping the bugs away

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I gave my opinion on another message board just a week or so ago. Here is a copy and paste of what I said.

The different colored lights do different things for different people.
1. Lets talk RED and what people have told me that the red does for them.
a. Great for spotting coons
b. In TN they have some type of Japanese Bee that the red works for.
c. My personal opinion is that Red is the best for finding coon and I also use it Gator hunting.
d. It does work for bug control but on most lights the red is not bright enough to walk with safely.
e. The brighter red LED's are also used for varmint hunting.
2. Here is what I know about the GREEN
a. Green may be the favorite of varmint hunting. You can get them bright enough to walk by and also they do not spook a lot of game animals. I have been within 30 yards of fox and they not know I am there with the green light right on them. Hog Hunters us green as the hog does not spook with the green either.
b. Green is effective for bug control and on some lights it is plenty bright enough to walk by,
c. I have some hunters say the like the green over red for shining the trees. Cecil Pittman just a couple weeks ago in Flora, Il was telling me how he prefers the green and several others have told me this.
3. Amber, with red and green coming on the scene I think amber is loosing ground as far as a color choice as the other colors seem to do what it can do and perhaps better. Of course if your an old time amber fan it will be hard to break old habits.
a. shining coon
b. bug control
4. The Warm White color some lights have.
a. I am finding that the warm white on low is effective to a point for bugs. Some places this time of year, nothing works. It also is bright enough to safely get around with.
b. I think in men there is a lot of color blindness and slight color vision problems. The warm white for me allows be to see the definition of the coons body and fur color better in a tree if I can't see the eye.

I have used about every combination of colored LED available. What I want in a light is the Warm White for the main beam which is very bright that I can see objects a long ways. I want a RED LED for sure. Then either having a green or flooded white would be my next choice. What the warm white can do on low is overlapping what the green does for me (bug control, varmint and hog hunting) so I am not as high on green as I once was and leaning towards a nice bright flooded white.

Since this was posted my Handler and a couple guys ended up in some bee hives and he told me that the red LED saved them. So there must be something to red led and bees I was told about in TN.

Thanks for the input and info. I'll definitely go with the more yellow/warm bulb on my new light, but I guess it still comes down mainly to preference on red or green for finding coons. I've had both and one didn't seem to work any better than the other for me.
I seem to remember having an easier time finding coons with my old light with the non-led bulb and an amber pop cover in the summer.

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Is that because it was more like a carbide light? I definitely wasn't around for them but everyone I've talked to that used them said you never had to worry about a coon not looking at you.
Personally I think the LED lights are great but I'd love to be able to change over to the old style head I use to have as an option. Something I've noticed is the new lights seems to hurt the coons eyes. So they rarely look at you.

Finding a coons eye...

There is NOT a light made that will even come close to finding a coon eye, when it's compared to the old carbide light...and it's possible our dogs were a LITTLE more accurate in the old days when we were carrying an old carbide light...

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Iv only had the nite lite Coonhunters favorite. And love it. It's non led. I usually wait till people shut they're leds off. And give up lookin for it. I shine the tree wit it on low to see its eyes then turn it up to spot the body. But the battery can get heavy if ur not use to packin weight.

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Originally posted by AppalachianBlue
Iv only had the nite lite Coonhunters favorite. And love it. It's non led. I usually wait till people shut they're leds off. And give up lookin for it. I shine the tree wit it on low to see its eyes then turn it up to spot the body. But the battery can get heavy if ur not use to packin weight.

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