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Lume Charging.
I've searched and come up short. Anyone have advice on the best ways to quickly charge you're watch lume besides a mag lite? Maybe there's some gizmo I haven't heard of....
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![]() No gizmo Mario...Just something bright like the sun or flourecent light! ![]()
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Check out the Reference Library. In our Luminova article, we have a link to the manufacturer site.......... there you will find out exactly how many lumens it takes to charge Luminova, how long it lasts and how much degradation to expect over how long...........
Or, you could just hold it under a fluorescent or halogen lamp for a half minute or so............ ![]()
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With a Wenger I bought my son, I noticed the areas of thinner lume (the numerals) did not charge with a bright LED flashlight. I think some of this lume may be more sensitive to different spectrums of light that the LED was not providing. Robert ![]() |
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Surefire 6P for about 30 seconds gets mine as bright as it's ever going to get.
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Ha, I just realized I can use the flash on my blackberry! Not the best charge but one none the less.
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I thought I read that the duration of the charge and the wavelength of the light used to charge it dictate how long it will keep a charge so-to-speak.
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Once the lume is charged/excited to it's maximum, continuous charging will not have any further affect.............. ![]()
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It's hard to beat natural sunlight--even a short exposure will do.
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I use a high intensity flashlight for about 5 minutes before "lights out". Seems to work.
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To get the best out of my Deepsea's lume, i use a huge LED flashlight. Like the type Police have.
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I've been doing some research into this as I am swapping dial and hands to luminova next week.
Luminova is not fully charged just because it glows brightly, which it can do after only 20 s outdoors in daylight. It takes approximately 30 min for it to reach its full charge. I have a delightful "dancing pug" lamp on my nightstand and I balance my luminova watches on the head of a pug (about 6 inches below the bulb) for 30 minutes while I read. If you hold luminova near a light source for even a second it glows like the full moon, but the trick is to get deep into the 'meat' of the application and excite the molecules, and that takes 25-30 minutes.
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Surefire flashlight, FTW. I hit my with mine for about 3 seconds and it glows.
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Since it's some up, I am surprised some of the more adventurous of us here on TRF have not tried or proposed a swap of DSSD lume onto a sub for example? Having a sub with green lume ought to be cool.
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http://www.rolexforums.com/showthread.php?t=119570
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Mario, an LED flashlight should do the trick.
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[QUOTE=robsteve;1709872]A pop from an electronic flash will charge it pretty bright. That is how I took the lume shot below. I fire a flash at the watch and immediately take a picture in the ambient light.
Robert X2 ![]() ![]() A camera flashlight is by far the fastest way to charge the lume at about 1/10,000th of a second. ![]() |
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