The Inova Radiant series is Inova's version of lower cost flashlights. Inova has been known for its high-end products in the past. The Radiant series operates on AAA, AA and C cells. I feel that the lights lack some of the finishing touches that you will find in Inova's higher end flashlights.
The body of this light is an octagonal shape which prevents the light from rolling of f of inclined surfaces. That's a pretty good idea and I find it very useful. The center of the light's body is black and has a grip type feel. There are vents surrounding the head of his light to allow the heat to ventilate from the LED. This prevents heat damage to the LED. There is a switch in the tail cap and two lanyard holes as well.
This lights outputs a stream with a central spot that has no defined corona as you'll see in most flashlights. It also has a very wide spill beam. The white light is a high color temperature and has good color rendition which is more towards the blue end of the spectrum. I find the illumination to be of high quality that Inova is known for. Even for a lower end flashlight, I was very happy with this one.
The switch which is located on the tail cap of the flashlight is covered by a cone shaped rubber cap. This switch requires very little pressure for activation which can cause it to illuminate unintentionally without much effort. The switch is also design so that using light pressure will allow you to signal quite easily before locking the switch to the on/off position.
The Inova radiant is labeled as "water resistant" and not designed for submersion. This holds true as I did test this. I submerged my light for 15 minutes before it failed to light. After disassembling the light by hand and allowing it to dry for about half an hour, I was back in service.
I'll have to rate this light highly for lower end flashlights. I like the fact that it is water resistant. You don't have to worry about rainstorms or even dropping this light in the water, it'll be fine. It is also a tough little lamp as I dropped it twelve times from a height of about 25' and it never cracked nor failed me. This light also had quite the lengthy battery life lasting six hours before dropping illumination by 50% and that is always a good thing.
About the only thing I found as negative was the on/off switch. It wouldn't be considered a very tactical light as it is so easy to trigger the switch to on.
I think you'll be a happy customer with the purchase of an Inova Radiant flashlight. It exceeded the majority of my expectations as I find that most lamps do from Inova.
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The body of this light is an octagonal shape which prevents the light from rolling of f of inclined surfaces. That's a pretty good idea and I find it very useful. The center of the light's body is black and has a grip type feel. There are vents surrounding the head of his light to allow the heat to ventilate from the LED. This prevents heat damage to the LED. There is a switch in the tail cap and two lanyard holes as well.
This lights outputs a stream with a central spot that has no defined corona as you'll see in most flashlights. It also has a very wide spill beam. The white light is a high color temperature and has good color rendition which is more towards the blue end of the spectrum. I find the illumination to be of high quality that Inova is known for. Even for a lower end flashlight, I was very happy with this one.
The switch which is located on the tail cap of the flashlight is covered by a cone shaped rubber cap. This switch requires very little pressure for activation which can cause it to illuminate unintentionally without much effort. The switch is also design so that using light pressure will allow you to signal quite easily before locking the switch to the on/off position.
The Inova radiant is labeled as "water resistant" and not designed for submersion. This holds true as I did test this. I submerged my light for 15 minutes before it failed to light. After disassembling the light by hand and allowing it to dry for about half an hour, I was back in service.
I'll have to rate this light highly for lower end flashlights. I like the fact that it is water resistant. You don't have to worry about rainstorms or even dropping this light in the water, it'll be fine. It is also a tough little lamp as I dropped it twelve times from a height of about 25' and it never cracked nor failed me. This light also had quite the lengthy battery life lasting six hours before dropping illumination by 50% and that is always a good thing.
About the only thing I found as negative was the on/off switch. It wouldn't be considered a very tactical light as it is so easy to trigger the switch to on.
I think you'll be a happy customer with the purchase of an Inova Radiant flashlight. It exceeded the majority of my expectations as I find that most lamps do from Inova.
http://www.knifesupplycompany.com/r2a-t.html
