Thread: The flashlight sticky

The LED you linked is great with the dome on, but if you de-dome it (like you're planning to with the stock LED) it'll turn a yucky orange colour. When an LED is de-domed, the tint (colour) of the light shifts towards orange: the more orange you start off with, the more orange it'll be once de-domed. If the plan is to de-dome an LED you want a more white or blueish tint to start with. Google LED tints to get a better understanding of what I mean, or I could be here all night explaining it haha.
Basically, I don't recommend you de-dome the LED you linked, because I'd say you'll hate the colour of light (maybe a good idea to try it and see anyway). It is already 4500ish K which is quite a warm tint, de-doming it makes it really orange. A good LED to de-dome would have a stock tint of more like 6000K, and after you de-dome it should be more like 4000-5000k which is pretty much neutral white.
Hope that helps rather than confuses.