OK, you price concious guys. I'm with you. Here is my post from the spotlight thread. Can you help? This thread is mch more visited.
Presently using a cheap Garrity 6V i beam lantern from Wal-Mart.
This is what I use it for.
I participate in Rogaines, which is basically a 24 hour orienteering meet, so it goes right through the night. We have to find controls out in the woods and hills which have point values. Most points wins. So you can see the value of continuing through the night and getting as many controls as possible before the 24 hours runs out.
I use the Garrity 6V to spot the controls at night because they do have a piece of reflective tape hanging on them. The light allows me to scan down into a ravine or across to the other side of the ravine or valley or uphill and downhill while searching.
The Garrity does the job. It seems to throw a concentrated beam sufficient to reflect back the control at 100-200 feet or more.
I cannot find any info on lux/lumen/watts on this Garrity to even begin to compare it.
What I would like to do is find a light that is equal in distance/brightness but
less bulky and not as heavy. Preferably with a long enough run time to last through a long night, although it is only used intermittently. I use my headlamp for making my way to the general area before using the spot.
This is the light.
http://www.garritylites.com/page104.html
I am going to look at some of the lights mentioned on this thread, but they are hard to try out and compare unless I buy them.
Tonight I will go down by he creek here and measure the beam and distance of the Garrity.
