Help me pick a dive light

[BigAirHarper]

So I am looking for a primary and secondary dive light. I mainly do OW dives and I am currently in a AOW class and will be going on my first night dive. I was looking at the Princeton Tec Shockwave LED light for my primary and the Princeton Tec Impact XL LED for my secondary light. Any advice on these lights or better alternatives would be awesome.

 

[DiveGear4Less]

Check out the OMS Vega K2 light here. We also have some Intova lights in stock that I need to get on the site later today. They are also really bright. The wide angle is great for open water dives.

 

[Packhorse]

Intovas are hard to beat at lumen vs $$

The real question is what is your budget?

 

[Atomic_Diver]

If money is not an issue why not go with a Light Monkey (Salvo) 21W HID Primary Canister light?.. If your a bit tight on budget, but want a really bright light how about a Dive Rite HID 1000 Slimline Canister Primary, the Dive Rite LED Lux, or Dive Rite LED 700?...

 

[FireInMyBones]

+1 for Intovas as backup.

I like the Dive Rite LED Lux for primary.

 

[a22shady]

Go here a great and very bright light very little cost. two of my dive buddies use these lights and love them. Owner is Randy and is a great guy

Penetrater 220 220 Lumens

Piranha Dive Manufacturing

 

[Hatul]

Go here a great and very bright light very little cost. two of my dive buddies use these lights and love them. Owner is Randy and is a great guy

Penetrater 220 220 Lumens

Piranha Dive Manufacturing

I have the first version of this light and it's very solid and takes the ubiquitous AAA cells which give you the option of using NiMh rechargeables. The second version can only be better.

Adam

 

[rolling rapids]

GO for the Gold...GREENFORCE...

 

[Tortuga68]

Go here a great and very bright light very little cost. two of my dive buddies use these lights and love them. Owner is Randy and is a great guy

Penetrater 220 220 Lumens

+1 for Randy, great communication and quick shipping not to mention killer prices... Their tank bands rock and for half the price of comparable competitors

The shipping date for the 220s keeps getting pushed back though, still waiting for mine

 

[miketsp]

One of the things I found over the years is that the smaller the better.
When I started doing night dives I used to think, "the more light the better" so built myself a DIY 50W halogen unit and very soon found that it was total overkill.
Night dives were just like daylight dives.

Then I dropped down to conventional lights with 5 or 6 large dry cells.
But often I found I was carrying many pounds of lights ( 2 x primaries + 2 x secondaries for myself and my wife) on dive trips and many times we were not getting an opportunity to do night dives.
So looking for a solution, I saw that recent LED lights are much smaller and quite adequate for use as primary lights even at relatively low lumen outputs as their white light penetrates the murk much better.

So now I use as primary Mini Q40 eLED® Plus from UK

Mini Q40 eLED Plus Diving Light- UK - Underwater Kinetics

and as a secondary Princeton Tec Attitude which burns for 150 hours on 4 x AAA cells meaning you can leave it turned on for the whole dive, eliminating the light sticks I used to use as a third backup. For this small unit I purchased a neoprene wrist strap giving hands-free operation.


Attitude | Princeton Tec

So when I'm flying on a dive trip with tight weight limits as on many inter-island hops, lights are no longer an issue.