The only good use case I’ve come across is looking at house numbers at night without lighting up the whole house. Generally I’m not a “it’s just fun to see far” kind of person.
And yes, I know there are better performing lights that cost less. I was already making a Wurkkos order and it just fell into my cart.
I have a TS11 and it's nice. I expected it to be of limited use but bought it anyway because anduril. It's more usable than I expected. Unfortunately they replaced it with a v2 version that is apparently worse, oh well.
I have resisted getting a LEP because that's probably too narrow. I've played with some keychain lasers and they are fun but only if they're cheap.
I've been planning on getting the Convoy L21B with CULPM1 emitter which equally gives a narrow beam but throws over a kilometer. Not because I need one but because I don't have one like that yet. It's a spotlight. If I need to see up close I'll use another torch.
Actually, I have an L21B in the mail, but with SST-20-DR (deep red) for wildlife spotting. My understanding is that the L21B in a white LED will have a slightly more "usable spill" than the TD01C but I'm not speaking from experience.
Narrow beams make for good signalling as long as you have a fixed position at the other place you're signalling. Also assuming the other person or group doesn't have nvgs. In that scenario, you're just targeting each other.
Hm, I think I’m not that tactical most of the time lol. But good to add to the memory banks as a use case.
I have an Acebeam E10 with a TIR that is perfect for lighting up the opposite side of my extremely long backyard if anything starts moving around back there. I also have some neighbors across a culvert to one side who probably don’t want a floodlight in their downstairs window, so something without much/any spill is good for that section of the yard too.
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