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I notice on my s2r800 that when i turn on the high beams, and the blue indicator light comes on, its bright enough to darken my night vision.
from Wikipedia:
Biological night vision
In biological night vision, molecules of rhodopsin in the rods of the eye undergo a change in shape as light is absorbed by them. Rhodopsin is the chemical that allows night-vision, and is extremely sensitive to light. Exposed to a spectrum of light, the pigment immediately bleaches, and it takes about 30 minutes to regenerate fully, but most of the adaptation occurs within the first five or ten minutes in the dark. Rhodopsin in the human rods is less sensitive to the longer red wavelengths of light, so many people use red light to help preserve night vision as it only slowly depletes the eye's rhodopsin stores in the rods and instead is viewed by the cones.
The blue Hi-Beam LED is bright, so i took a piece of tinted plastic and laid it over top of the blue lens inside the cluster. It made a noticeable difference. It s still blue, and still bright enough to see it is on in the day light.
And as far as glare goes, and i am not talking about the color of LEDs here:
Bright dash lights create glare, period. Try turning your dash lights all the way up in your car on a dark night, drive down an unlit road, then turn you dash lights up just so you can read everything clearly....you should notice a big difference from the glare bouncing off your face/cheekbones. Or you could put on that fancy black stuff ball players use to cut the sun's glare....road warrior style. Seriously, the visor isn't helping the glare from the dash.
with that said, i don't mind the orange, since i don't see that color on many other vehicles, but if i were to change it would be to red, mainly because of the above statement.
