What primary light for Adv Wreck? Eos? Explorer? Other?

[Tortuga68]

Thanks guys

*Crosses E/O cord off shopping list

 

[LiteHedded]

Light Monkey's 12w if you want a tighter beam LED, its a single emmiter instead of the array DR uses. Equivelant to a 10w HID. There's a 21w LED as well, LM says it doesn't have the punch of the HID. Its gonna be tougher, smaller, and likely nearly as bright(1100 vs 1500 lumens apparently).

it's not. my buddy used to dive one of the 21watt leds. my 21watt hid is way sweeter

 

[rjack321]

You seem to be very heartset on LED. Personally I like the beam pattern and light quality of HID, esp. my older 18w bulb despite its increased fragility. But given your strong interest in LED...

The Aton LED seems solid and its close in overall brightness and the tighness of the spot to my 18w HID. The Aton 2 I haven't seen although its supposed to be better in both regards.

Available from Europe, from UTD in California, and apparently from Tillytech as well but I haven't confirmed this last distributor.

 

[PfcAJ]

E/O is great if you have multiple lightheads/ batteries. Its w/e without those, though. I have it on both of my lights, and its never caused an issue, but it has saved the day, before.

 

[Tortuga68]

You seem to be very heartset on LED...

Eh, I think it's the way of the future and I like the durability and reliability - but I'm not convinced they're competitive performance-wise with HID yet

The Aton LED seems solid and its close in overall brightness and the tighness of the spot to my 18w HID. The Aton 2 I haven't seen although its supposed to be better in both regards. Available from Europe, from UTD in California, and apparently from Tillytech as well but I haven't confirmed this last distributor.

Thanks, I'll look at it. I don't want to be a test pilot on this though. I have no doubt that I'll be happy with the performance of an HID, it's just the other factors, and also the desire not to be wanting to upgrade again in a year or two. Having said that, it's only money & you can't take it with you

At this point I would say I'll be getting a 9Ah/21w HID Explorer and a couple of free HP LED Scouts from WDS.com, unless someone mounts a pretty convincing argument for another option

 

[rjack321]

You can't ride the wave of the future without being a test pilot.

 

[Gombessa]

You can't ride the wave of the future without being a test pilot.

The mixed metaphors! My eyes, they bleed!

 

[rjack321]

The mixed metaphors! My eyes, they bleed!

LOL
There was a time not that long ago when a big ol' 50W halogen with a DR MultipleLeakSystem canister was cutting edge

 

[LiteHedded]

the 21watt hids are pretty damn robust. mine just survived a pretty violent car crash.
I once sneezed at a halcyon 18watt hid and broke the bulb though.

 

[PfcAJ]

If by sneezed you mean dropped, then ya.