Dumb Visipole question

[ictalurus]

My new Visipole showed up on Wednesday in time for me to test it out in the afternoon and evening. It's pretty sweet and was a good buy. Thanks to all those who helped arrange the group purchase.

I noticed the cone of the light had a thin strip of clear-ish plastic inside it. Is that just for protection during shipping, or does it help reflect/diffuse the light? I left it in there since I didn't see anything in the instructions, it seemed to be jammed in pretty tight, and it didn't interfere with anything. Has anyone removed the plastic?

[Shady]

I believe it helps to diffuse the light. The sternlight that I used prior to getting the visicarbon had a white plastic thing sort of over the light too. I took it out to see what it looked like without it and the light did not show up nearly as well from a distance.

I think the light illuminates the white plastic and helps add to the visibility.

[DOGFISH]

The LED reflects off that little diffuser. Otherwise, there would have to be more LEDS aimed in all directions. LEDs are kind of directional.

[Sun]

+ 1 to what dogfish said. The angle of illumination of white LEDs is very narrow. Using that strip to bounce the light out is pretty clever.

[ictalurus]

Cool. Thanks, gents. I'm glad I didn't yank it out.