Dive Light Suggestions?

[LuigiD68918]

[FONT=arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif]I am looking for something as bright as possible (1000 lumens minimum, but the brighter the better!). A reasonably wide angle would be nice too. The absolute minimum burn time cannot be less than 1 hour on full power. I have been considering either Tovatec By Intova Meganova 2000 Lumens Torch ([/FONT]http://www.leisurepro.com/Catalog.aspx?o… orhttp://www.intova.net/products/meganova/… Big Blue 1000 Lumens LED Diving BB-1X30 Light (http://www.leisurepro.com/Prod/BBLLBB1.h… orhttp://bigbluedivelights.com/products-de… or Tusa TUL-1000 LED LIGHT (http://www.leisurepro.com/Catalog.aspx?o… or http://www.tusa.com/shop/tul1000-dive-li… I like the pistol grip as opposed to the lantern, and think that I would also prefer an LED, but I'm not too worried about those features. Let me know what you think! Thanks!

 

[buddhasummer]

You may get more responses if you describe the conditions and type of diving you do. Brighter is not always better. Conditions play a big part in light selection e.g when Im diving clear tropical I want a less bright wide angle beam, when cold and murky I want bright and narrow.

 

[CajunJosh]

I dive both Polarion (Probably out of your price range) and Watershot (great light, great value, modular system).

 

[Aqua-Andy]

I agree with LuigiD brighter is not always better. I have gone from my can light on night dives to a Liquid Image video light. This thing can bd had on Amazon for under $60 and puts out 300 lumens of nice wide light. If you are diving to see marine life they will run from a light that is too bright. This light works well around the Cape Ann area for night dives and for just poking around under rocks during the day.

 

[Superlyte27]

I can't believe those lights were put in a poll. What a load of junk LOL.

 

[merxlin]

I can't believe those lights were put in a poll. What a load of junk LOL.

Do you care to elaborate on why you think the items listed are "junk" and suggest better alternatives?

 

[LuigiD68918]

You may get more responses if you describe the conditions and type of diving you do. Brighter is not always better. Conditions play a big part in light selection e.g when Im diving clear tropical I want a less bright wide angle beam, when cold and murky I want bright and narrow.

The reason I was thinking bright is because I do quite a bit of night diving. I'm not sure what to go with because I do a little bit of everything. I live in the Boston area and around here I'm doing a lot of colder and murky diving (which I don't really need anything too crazy for) as well as diving at night (which as you said, a bright narrow light would probably be best), but I am also ALWAYS traveling down to the Caribbean for work, and many other tropical locations around the world doing night dives as well.

 

[Tejasmtb]

No UK or Light and Motion on the poll? Those would be my two suggestions, LED is the way to go IMHO.

Tejas

 

[jlorenzen]

Let me know if you have any questions about the Watershot lights. We have a 1800 Lumen light head that runs for 1.5hrs on a small compact battery pack and 3hrs on a larger battery pack. e-mail: jonathan@watershot.com

 

[buddhasummer]

I agree with LuigiD brighter is not always better. I have gone from my can light on night dives to a Liquid Image video light. This thing can bd had on Amazon for under $60 and puts out 300 lumens of nice wide light. If you are diving to see marine life they will run from a light that is too bright. This light works well around the Cape Ann area for night dives and for just poking around under rocks during the day.

...buddhasummer...