New lamp
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cavemanmike
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Scurion. starless River.
You'll never need another lamp
You'll never need another lamp
JoshW
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There are about 3000 threads about headlamps on this forum, with 400 people responding with 400 different suggestions on each one.
Anyone who tells you which one to get is wrong.
You need to ask yourself the following questions:
a) what do I need it for? Diving? digging? expeditions in big caves? leading groups
b) how much am I willing to spend
specs that will be different on different lights and have different uses will be as follows:
- waterproofing levels (think diving)
- type of batteries used (think convenience of leading groups, or perhaps for expeditions)
- lighting power (what size spaces are you going to be in)
- weight (and possibly more importantly front to rear balance)
- fitting to helmet (easily removable for other uses? type of helmet to be fixed to?)
any light is going to be compromises of all these things and then finally compromising on how much you want each of these things against how much you're willing to spend.
A short list (off the top of my head) of retailers/providers that people regularly recommend here:
Starless river
Inglesport
Roy Fellows
Little Monkey
The advantage of using one of these four, is having a UK based supplier that will be able to assist if anything goes wrong with the light.
Each of these have a range of lights available, check them out. Ask questions of the supplier, ask questions on here. If you know someone that has one, ask to borrow and test it out?
Anyone who tells you which one to get is wrong.
You need to ask yourself the following questions:
a) what do I need it for? Diving? digging? expeditions in big caves? leading groups
b) how much am I willing to spend
specs that will be different on different lights and have different uses will be as follows:
- waterproofing levels (think diving)
- type of batteries used (think convenience of leading groups, or perhaps for expeditions)
- lighting power (what size spaces are you going to be in)
- weight (and possibly more importantly front to rear balance)
- fitting to helmet (easily removable for other uses? type of helmet to be fixed to?)
any light is going to be compromises of all these things and then finally compromising on how much you want each of these things against how much you're willing to spend.
A short list (off the top of my head) of retailers/providers that people regularly recommend here:
Starless river
Inglesport
Roy Fellows
Little Monkey
The advantage of using one of these four, is having a UK based supplier that will be able to assist if anything goes wrong with the light.
Each of these have a range of lights available, check them out. Ask questions of the supplier, ask questions on here. If you know someone that has one, ask to borrow and test it out?
alastairgott
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T pot, I think a fenix would be perfect for you.
royfellows
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Josh, I think that in every thread there is one who posts what I would call absolute, good old fashioned, common sense. In this one, if there were a prize, it would have to go to you. Big time.
alastairgott
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T pot 2 said:
Where did you go? Were you forced to go to cussey?
Mrs Trellis
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Why not replace the lead acid battery on one of your Oldhams with a rechargeable nimh?
