color spectrums

[jpatter123]

I have seen so many ways to skin a cat when it comes to frog lights. But what I haven't seen is anything that pays attention to color spectrum. Some people want ultra-brite some people want medium some use landing lights, frog lights, halogen fog lights. But looking at the lights I can notice some are a different spectrum some yellower and some whiter.
Has anyone played with different wave lengths? Like some of the new blood tracking lights layer different spectrums to cause wet blood to "shine". Obviously these are LED's and their distance is not pratical for frogging but you could use "visors" to create different wave lengths with halogen or xenon bulbs.
My ultimate goal would be to lower the wattage of the white light which causes a lot of reflection and bring in something like a red spectrum which has little to no reflection allowing the frogs to show up like gator eyes do. But I am not sure which side of the spectrum would be better (if any) blue/violet or red or both.
I guess I could bring some frogs home to try out some different lights but I figured someone out there has had to try this before.

 

[basketcase0302]

jpatter,

I figured someone out there has had to try this before.

You're right! The U.S. Navy has been doing this for about 40-50 years now. Called "rig for red" which is a standard at general quarters.

The red color was found to not cause reflections, (especially through the periscope lens). Use to always take about 5-10 minutes to train the eyes to get used to, after that good to go.

Hope this helps.

Basketcase

 

[Basslies]

I don't know what colors will work out the best for you on frogs, etc. But did a lot of experimenting on hogs and other night time critters in a lot of Texas hunts.

I found that while red doesn't spook the animals as much as white light, it also has a limited range for the hunter. Green especially and blue to a lesser extent then amber (it also has a more limited range) seemed to work well.

I've not tried it yet, but I'd be interested in seeing what night vision with the infra red illuminator would do on frogs. I know they really shine gator eyes, and the gators don't see a thing. Rabbits go crazy thought!?! Go figure.

On the different colors of normal light, a fairly cheap way to experiment is to go to a music supply store and pick up a few colors of gel sheets. They use them to cover the stage spots for the different colors during performances.

Hope you have succss at this.

HR