Thursday, July 18, 2019

Firefighter Helmet Lights Thinking Out of the Box....

After being on a couple fires at night I decided a helmet light was a necessity. I found some nice LED flashlights with helmet mounts for firefighters for $90. Since the FAA requires lights for night flights on drones, I didn't have an extra $90 and had a set of LED lights and mounts for my Mavic Pro so I thought I would give them a try.

The lights I use are called Lume Cubes and they're not designed for drones, actually they're designed for professional photographers providing various lighting for video and flash photography.

To me the Lume Cube has several advantages over a standard helmet mounted LED flashlight. It has a Bluetooth app with flash and video modes. It's dimmable from 0 to 1500 Lumens in the app and has 10 levels of brightness from the Cube. 

For investigators and others who need to take photos at fireground the Lume Cube has lots of light for shooting video and the optical sensor triggers the Lume Cube each time your camera flash goes off to provide additional lighting options. 

It's metal exterior is tough, the charge port is easy to access and it's waterproof down to 100', so it should do well in wet conditions,

At level 3 it provides good light for working 3-5' away, at level 10 the Lume Cube is very bright, it lights the area like one of the scene lights on our fire trucks. On level 10 it gives you 25 minutes of use, at 50% you can get up to 2 hours of use, on level 3 it should last 4 hours or more.

A Bluetooth app gives you control of the brightness as well as other functions like a strobe effect from your phone. This makes it easy to control brightness and strobe effect. The strobe is very bright and could be used to direct someone toward a firefighter or find a disoriented or down firefighter.

Tech Stuff for Photographers It's 1500 Lumen Light features a 6000K color temperature, and the unit's output is dimmable from 0 to 1500 Lumens. You will understand all the lighting features it has better than I do http://gooddogdigital.com/product/lume-cube/

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