Which NON canister light as a primary light?

[Patoux01]

I don't care about what used to be done.

 

[Bennno]

I don't care about what used to be done.

The point was that this 'weight issue' you mentioned is straight out of fantasy land. Especially considering that the modern hand helds are very small and light.

 

[runsongas]

Agreed..

Cave Adventurers - bigblue AL100NP - Marianna, Florida USA - Never Undersold! 2hr of 1100 Lumen, works for me..

I'm gonna call BS on those specs listed. For a single XM-L2 to do 1100 lumen, it has to be heavily overdriven at 3A+. For a 2 hour burn time on a single 18650, that would put the 18650 at a capacity of nearly 6000mAh. Nobody makes a 18650 with that kind of capacity. It either has a shorter burn time or lower luminosity than stated.

 

[Doby45]

I'm gonna call BS on those specs listed. For a single XM-L2 to do 1100 lumen, it has to be heavily overdriven at 3A+. For a 2 hour burn time on a single 18650, that would put the 18650 at a capacity of nearly 6000mAh. Nobody makes a 18650 with that kind of capacity. It either has a shorter burn time or lower luminosity than stated.

You can take that up with BigBlue as I just posted what they claim.

 

[sea_otter]

The weight is a major factor when it's at the end of your arm. If you do long-ish or multiple dives a day, it quickly becomes noticeable (to me at least).

The BigBlue lights are pretty darned light. Mine feels heavy above water but isn't noticeable below (IIRC it's about 8 oz negative).

 

[Patoux01]

The point was that this 'weight issue' you mentioned is straight out of fantasy land. Especially considering that the modern hand helds are very small and light.

My experience is straight out of fantasy land, I know. You're getting boring btw.

 

[sea_otter]

My experience is straight out of fantasy land, I know.

How's the diving in fantasy land? I bet the vis is incredible!

 

[elgoog]

@sea_otter - Did the hard handle you got fit your BigBlue without any re-jiggering? It's hard to tell if the BigBlue light has the right holes in it to mount a "standard" hard Goodman handle.

BTW, I dove with sea_otter a couple of weeks back when she was using this light and it's amazing. We had about 5ft viz with tons of particulate in the water and using the beam to keep track of her in all that muck was super easy.

 

[sea_otter]

@sea_otter - Did the hard handle you got fit your BigBlue without any re-jiggering? It's hard to tell if the BigBlue light has the right holes in it to mount a "standard" hard Goodman handle.

Not out of the box, no. But Mike at Diver Dan's drilled it for me so I didn't have to re-jigger anything myself.

Btw... there was at least 10' of visibility, LOL! We need to go diving together again. Work schedules changed so I'll be around the weekend of June 18. Shoot me a note if you're in town and want to get together.