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Help me choose color 6 months 1 week ago #29547

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So I have my white arbiter, and because it's to expensive for me to buy a new saber I want to buy a new LED, but I don't know which color. I am thinking about blue or yellow, but blue just seems a bit too normal and common. Have though about green and red as well. But think it's between blue and yellow right now.

It's a 6w LED with quick connect.
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Help me choose color 6 months 1 week ago #29550

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There is always Amber. It's another of the "pure" colors, meaning no mixing necessary to achieve it.
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Help me choose color 6 months 1 week ago #29551

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Yellow/Amber strong choices.
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Help me choose color 6 months 1 week ago #29558

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i have an amber acolyte ordered. i cant wait.
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Help me choose color 6 months 1 week ago #29559

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Amber or Mint Green, imho
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Help me choose color 6 months 1 week ago #29565

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The yellow is a lovely colour, but amber edges it for me, plus in reviews doesn't appear to wash out as much near the blade tip.
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Help me choose color 6 months 1 week ago #29615

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GREEN! lol but i'm partial to it
The light shall burn away the darkness
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Help me choose color 6 months 1 week ago #29616

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Amber is great IMO.
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Help me choose color 6 months 1 week ago #29635

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Amber does look nice. I ordered mine in Indigo and Cyan and I was amazed by how cool the cyan looks in person and differed from other blues sabers I have compared it to. I like the Indigo but the Cyan---Just----wow!!!
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Help me choose color 6 months 1 week ago #29794

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Hellrazoromega wrote:
Amber does look nice. I ordered mine in Indigo and Cyan and I was amazed by how cool the cyan looks in person and differed from other blues sabers I have compared it to. I like the Indigo but the Cyan---Just----wow!!!

I want cyan for my next saber it just really stands out to me
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Help me choose color 6 months 1 week ago #30723

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Brax wrote:
There is always Amber. It's another of the "pure" colors, meaning no mixing necessary to achieve it.

What colors are mixtures then? And what colors are pure?
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Help me choose color 6 months 1 week ago #30730

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i believe the pure colours are red blue green and amber
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Help me choose color 6 months 1 week ago #30732

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Okay which one of the blue?
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Help me choose color 6 months 1 week ago #30748

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It's red, green, blue, amber, and white. For the blues, I think, each is a mix of blue and white LEDs:

Deep Blue (pure blue): 4B,0W
Medium Blue: 3B,1W
Light Blue: 2B,2W
Arctic Blue: 1B,3W
White (pure white): 0B,4W
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Help me choose color 6 months 1 week ago #30755

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The "blues" are two types of blue led: "blue" and "royal blue."

Also, there is no straight 4 white LED "white" but rather there's frost white which is 3w and 1b. Also "light blue" has a green tossed in and deep blue is 4 rb (70% sure this is all true). I feel like we should have the correct info stickied in the FAQ because this question gets raised so often.
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Help me choose color 6 months 1 week ago #30757

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Ah, okay. I was basing my mixes based on the listed colors on the main site, where white is White but not Frost White (which would imply some blue). I forgot Royal Blue existed, too, and it makes sense that Deep Blue is pure Royal.

What surprises me is the green in the light blue... I haven't seen it in person yet so I guess I haven't picked up on it. I also wonder what some of the other possible mixes of blues would look like...
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Help me choose color 6 months 1 week ago #30763

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Phil posted a video a while back on the SF YouTube channel that explains each of the 12 colors and what dyes are used.

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Help me choose color 6 months 1 week ago #30769

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Mihoshi wrote:
Phil posted a video a while back on the SF YouTube channel that explains each of the 12 colors and what dyes are used.


He forgets to mention what makes purple (2 Red+2 Royal Blue). It would be nice if they released an updated version of this video with the 12w+ LEDs, the other greens (mint and lime), and in a darker environment.
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Help me choose color 6 months 1 week ago #30773

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Mihoshi wrote:
Phil posted a video a while back on the SF YouTube channel that explains each of the 12 colors and what dyes are used.


Thanks for the info, I appreciate it! Though I wonder if the info is up to date- he says the white uses 4 6K white dies, but as mentioned earlier in the thread the frost white uses at least blue die. Are they distinct or did SF replace the white option with Frost White?

Otherwise, the video only tells me how little I actually know of the optics of color mixing. :blink:
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Help me choose color 6 months 1 week ago #30785

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Man some of them look so much alike. Can't decide on if i should go with amber/yellow or a blue.

Currently making a desert jedi cosplay, kinda inspired by Obi-wan and Rey.
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