1k Shorty Dive Light is here....

[Dive Right In Scuba]

I love my light. The sock, not so much. It is coming unstitched after one weekend of use

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Ronin, just email me a pic mike@diverightinscuba.com and we will send out a new one

 

[Mitchell Teeters]

Ronin, just email me a pic mike@diverightinscuba.com and we will send out a new one

I think in fairness it should wait until I send that other part back. I how to get it out to you this week.

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[tridacna]

Is there a belt pocket for the shorty?

 

[Candiru]

Please dont take this as personal jab, but I think your post illustrates several important points. I would also disagree that your light outperformed your instructors 18w can light. I understand that it is brighter but perhaps build quality and burn time should be factored into the discussion.

I've dove my 1k shorty all week in my rebreather class. With the 00wabbit goodman handle, its really nice.. Outperformed my instructors 18w can light. I did notice the DRIS has a more yellowish light than my other lights. Heck of a backup light though. I used mine as a primary for my Mod 1 class, as I didnt want to deal with my can light yet for first dives on my Meg. With Energizer Lithiums its one hours and thats pretty much it in performance.

Sadly, my light has to go back, as there's a machining tolerance problem of some sort, as neither the Sanyo Eneloops, nor Tenergy 2500ma cells fit inside mine without tearing off the cells shrink wrap, and even with that, I'd never get the cells back out again.

 

[Dive Right In Scuba]

Please dont take this as personal jab, but I think your post illustrates several important points. I would also disagree that your light outperformed your instructors 18w can light. I understand that it is brighter but perhaps build quality and burn time should be factored into the discussion.

I wouldn't say that there is a tolerance issue. Your Eneloops seem to be a wider battery than standard AA batteries. I had a customer send me some, and I had tried them in an early version of our light awhile ago. They worked no problem. That light, is not the same as the current light. If we had a tolerance issue, the AA batteries wouldn't fit. There might be a tolerance issue with the Eneloops that were built.

The shorty can definetely hold it's own against bigger lights, but as you pointed out, burn time is much greater on a can light.....followed by price tag, size, and bulk. The Shorty has a place in the tier, some prefer it and some don't. If you want to factor burn time into the discussion, then you should also factor in size, easily replaceable batteries, easy to find batteries, and 1/15th the price of the popular can lights

I wouldn't, however, throw build quality out on this light. The light is actually built with EXCELLENT quality, and holds it's own against lights 15x as expensive...as long as you are OK with putting in new batteries after every dive or two depending on useage.

 

[Herb-alaska]

I would like to address the quality issue and the burn time of the light not from a sales perspective but from the cheap diver perspective . I did two dives on the shorty Saturday one was 63 minutes and the other was 61 minute. The first one was normal Alaska twilight green water and my light stood up to the other 6 can lights no problem the second dive was no questions a night dive and again the light stood toe to toe with the other lights.

For the second dive rather than change batteries I simply grabbed my other shorty and away I went. The light would have been up to the challenge of a second dive no problem but I like to make sure. Both are equipped with Sony 2500 mma rechargeable The light was as bright when I went into the water as it was when I came out on each dive I also then just rotated the first light to back up light as it was not dimming and if my primary failed my dive would be about done anyway.

My total cost 200 for 2 lights vs about $800.00 for one light. Every person has to make their own equipment choices however for me this is an easy choice. If I really wanted to go cheap I would have just carried a second set of batteries .

 

[Mitchell Teeters]

Please dont take this as personal jab, but I think your post illustrates several important points. I would also disagree that your light outperformed your instructors 18w can light. I understand that it is brighter but perhaps build quality and burn time should be factored into the discussion.

I would think that until you have one in hand it might be a good idea to reserve judgement. My Dive buddies were suitably impressed to want one each to use over their dive rite canister lights. Before the Dive they were pretty pessimistic about the ability of the light. Post dive they were pretty interested in getting them. Just saying.

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[3D diver]

The Shorty is brighter, but will have a shorter burn time due to the smaller batteries. You do get a LOT smaller size, and an easy to replace and find AA battery design in the shorty as well. I'm a bit biased, but I think they are both really well built lights

Missed this post when it came out...brighter because it's using 4 batteries in series where the original is using 3?

 

[Keith.M]

Missed this post when it came out...brighter because it's using 4 batteries in series where the original is using 3?

I would like to know why as well. It only has three AA batteries.

 

[Candiru]

That is a very good point.

I wouldn't say that there is a tolerance issue. Your Eneloops seem to be a wider battery than standard AA batteries. I had a customer send me some, and I had tried them in an early version of our light awhile ago. They worked no problem. That light, is not the same as the current light. If we had a tolerance issue, the AA batteries wouldn't fit. There might be a tolerance issue with the Eneloops that were built.

The shorty can definetely hold it's own against bigger lights, but as you pointed out, burn time is much greater on a can light.....followed by price tag, size, and bulk. The Shorty has a place in the tier, some prefer it and some don't. If you want to factor burn time into the discussion, then you should also factor in size, easily replaceable batteries, easy to find batteries, and 1/15th the price of the popular can lights

I wouldn't, however, throw build quality out on this light. The light is actually built with EXCELLENT quality, and holds it's own against lights 15x as expensive...as long as you are OK with putting in new batteries after every dive or two depending on useage.