I used a couple of LetonPower TurboS Pro lights on a dive trip to Mainland Belize last year and again on trips to the Belizean reefs and also to St Lucia and the islands on the way to the grenadines. The lights were reliable, held a long charge and the quality of the light given the modest price was pretty remarkable.
Here's an example of using a pair of them on a camera tray in some pretty murky conditions and with a crazy amout of surge (sorry about the motion, my legs were working overtime to try and keep me stable!) ;-)
At the end of the trip on the outer reefs, the local DM was admiring the lights and was planning to get some. When we looked at the cost of getting them to him in Belize (outrageous import tax) I gifted the pair to him. As you can imagine he was overjoyed.
I've been looking for months for a replacement set and when googling to see if there were new lights coming out from the various manufacturers and then saw the post here about the SEAL lights. Given my experience with LetonPowers lights (and Amazon's favourable return policy if I didn't like them!) I bought a Shark CX (top of their range) and also a SHARK CX.
Spolier alert - I LOVE these new lights and consider them WELL worth the step up in price over the TurboS-Pro I previously used.
In the family, we still have a TurboS Pro (my son's) and so to help others understand the differences in physical size and light output, I have included it in a few of the pictures in this thread so you can see the size difference.
The new lights are packaged much like the previous generation TurboS. The same case but with the padding molded in a way that suits the new light.
In the image above, TurboS on the left and new Shark lights on the right.
You can start to see the differences between them when we look at the LED ends on these things.
You can see that the TurboS used a number of discrete LEDs, the Shark CB (6000 lumen) used a large central emitter for the bulk of its power with peripheral pairs or trios of LEDs adding the nuances of color to modify temp or blue or red. The Shark CX (8000 Lumen) has large LED light wells on the perimiter for the bulk light output while color shift LEDs are central..
One thing to note here is that LetonPower has broken away from the manufacturers that claim 'Gazillion' Lumen output numbers that defy logic and science. These lights should be close(R) to their advertised output (so it's not really a step down in output from the TurboS, just a new, rational approach to output from their marketing department. I can confirm this as I asked the company this specific question as the new lights seemed a downgrade in output from the previous generation.
One thing that is REALLY noticable when you place these emitting heads side by side (below) is the very significant increase in the diameter of the dispersion lens. The two new lights are miuch bigger in this regard than the previous generation; I assume to allow a better lens and dispersion (more later)
In Hand, the new lights fit a little nicer than the previous generation, but that might depend on the size of your hand,
I will continue in the next post so that I can continue to add pics
Here's an example of using a pair of them on a camera tray in some pretty murky conditions and with a crazy amout of surge (sorry about the motion, my legs were working overtime to try and keep me stable!) ;-)
At the end of the trip on the outer reefs, the local DM was admiring the lights and was planning to get some. When we looked at the cost of getting them to him in Belize (outrageous import tax) I gifted the pair to him. As you can imagine he was overjoyed.
I've been looking for months for a replacement set and when googling to see if there were new lights coming out from the various manufacturers and then saw the post here about the SEAL lights. Given my experience with LetonPowers lights (and Amazon's favourable return policy if I didn't like them!) I bought a Shark CX (top of their range) and also a SHARK CX.
Spolier alert - I LOVE these new lights and consider them WELL worth the step up in price over the TurboS-Pro I previously used.
In the family, we still have a TurboS Pro (my son's) and so to help others understand the differences in physical size and light output, I have included it in a few of the pictures in this thread so you can see the size difference.
The new lights are packaged much like the previous generation TurboS. The same case but with the padding molded in a way that suits the new light.
In the image above, TurboS on the left and new Shark lights on the right.
You can start to see the differences between them when we look at the LED ends on these things.
You can see that the TurboS used a number of discrete LEDs, the Shark CB (6000 lumen) used a large central emitter for the bulk of its power with peripheral pairs or trios of LEDs adding the nuances of color to modify temp or blue or red. The Shark CX (8000 Lumen) has large LED light wells on the perimiter for the bulk light output while color shift LEDs are central..
One thing to note here is that LetonPower has broken away from the manufacturers that claim 'Gazillion' Lumen output numbers that defy logic and science. These lights should be close(R) to their advertised output (so it's not really a step down in output from the TurboS, just a new, rational approach to output from their marketing department. I can confirm this as I asked the company this specific question as the new lights seemed a downgrade in output from the previous generation.
One thing that is REALLY noticable when you place these emitting heads side by side (below) is the very significant increase in the diameter of the dispersion lens. The two new lights are miuch bigger in this regard than the previous generation; I assume to allow a better lens and dispersion (more later)
In Hand, the new lights fit a little nicer than the previous generation, but that might depend on the size of your hand,
I will continue in the next post so that I can continue to add pics
