• Black Sheep Diggers presentation - March 29th 7pm

    In the Crown Hotel Middlesmoor the Black Sheep Diggers are going to provide an evening presentation to locals and other cavers.

    We will be highlighting with slides and explanations the explorations we have been doing over the years and that of cave divers plus research of the fascinating world of nearby lead mines.

    Click here for more details

Just Landed: the New Fenix HP35R

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Feast your eyes on this new beast of a headlamp, the HP35R inglesport.com/product/fenix-hp35r-high-output-headlamp

Just arrived at Inglesport. Here's why it's a game-changer:

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Blinding 4000 lumen output
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450m beam distance
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Versatile spotlight and floodlight modes
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Massive 10,000 mAh battery - up to 500 hours runtime
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Weatherproof and dustproof (IP66 rated)
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Removable battery pack with extension cable
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Built-in power bank to charge your devices
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Fast 2-hour recharge time

Pop into our Ingleton shop or order online to get yours today
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This is general commment, not necessarily related to that particular lamp.
Battery capacity without a refference to nominal voltage is meaningless. More expressive is watt hours, which is the way the limit is sett on airplane flights for hand luggage.

Re this lamp the cells being two of them, are obviously parallel to get that stated capacity, so I do have the answer to my own question, but from a knowledge of these matters. Its 3.6V nominal. My point here is that any battery pack with parallel cells will have highest capacity for the number of cells, another one with serial connected cells can have a much lower 'stated' capacity but actually have a higher capacity in real terms.
 
It's an impressive looking light and looking forward to seeing one.

@Inglesport, do you have one out of it's packaging to 'play' with in-store (or perhaps at Hidden Earth)?

So many people seem to be using Fenix lights these days for caving. At first, I thought they looked good but wouldn't last long underground, although I've been proven wrong on that several times now... but even if they don't last as long as say, a Scurion (my Scurion being 15 years old), you could always buy several Fenix headtorches for the price of a Scurion, so did it matter?

Obviously, this new headtorch is more expensive (around half the price of an entry-level Scurion) so I'm looking forward to having a play with it to see the build quality etc. For example, can it be smashed against the wall/roof of a passage (as my Scurion so often is during my clumsy caving) and still come off fine? Are all the connectors/buttons/switches going to stand up against grit/mud ingress etc.

I'm curious... for caving is IP66 good enough? Will that be OK for a wet trip with lots of ducks where the light will receive regular dunking in water or liquid mud?

Yes, I know, I should probably cave in some nicer places :ROFLMAO:

Assuming the robustness is there, I have a feeling this light could prove rather popular. Looking forward to hearing some reviews from cavers who have actually used it underground.
 
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