terjee
Enlightened
Hi,
I'm considering buying a pair of dive lights, although it's a topic I know nothing about. Hoping a friendly soul here can point me in the right direction.
What I think I want, in decreasing order of importance:
- Reliable
- Lanyard or similar, being able to fasten the light to a wrist securely enough that we can confidently let go of it under water.
- Possibility to service the light, replace o-rings and so on.
- 18650 fueled (I've pretty much standardized on 18650 at this point)
- High CRI (seems like it would be an advantage?)
- Something brightly colored on the light, making it easier to spot if lost
This is unfamiliar territory to me though, so feel free to disregard high CRI if it doesn't matter much under water, and so on.
Realistically the primary use case here is my daughter and I tossing things into the water and picking them back up. As such, the use case is relatively safe freediving, and safety wise it's far from scuba diving in caves. Still, anything that combines water with darkness calls for a certain degree carefulness I think. Drift too far and your light becomes the primary means by which others can locate you and so on. So I'd much rather pay more of a quality light, than save a few bucks and compromise reliability.
We don't really need to much in terms of either power or runtime, it'll be relatively easy for us to replace batteries and so on.
Secondary/backup lights could be interesting as well though.
Ideally I'd like to stay below $100/light, but I'm flexible, and wouldn't mind too much spending a bit more if the light is worth it. While dive lights are new to me, I guess I'm a borderline flasholholic. ;-)
Any recommendations or wise words?
I'm considering buying a pair of dive lights, although it's a topic I know nothing about. Hoping a friendly soul here can point me in the right direction.
What I think I want, in decreasing order of importance:
- Reliable
- Lanyard or similar, being able to fasten the light to a wrist securely enough that we can confidently let go of it under water.
- Possibility to service the light, replace o-rings and so on.
- 18650 fueled (I've pretty much standardized on 18650 at this point)
- High CRI (seems like it would be an advantage?)
- Something brightly colored on the light, making it easier to spot if lost
This is unfamiliar territory to me though, so feel free to disregard high CRI if it doesn't matter much under water, and so on.
Realistically the primary use case here is my daughter and I tossing things into the water and picking them back up. As such, the use case is relatively safe freediving, and safety wise it's far from scuba diving in caves. Still, anything that combines water with darkness calls for a certain degree carefulness I think. Drift too far and your light becomes the primary means by which others can locate you and so on. So I'd much rather pay more of a quality light, than save a few bucks and compromise reliability.
We don't really need to much in terms of either power or runtime, it'll be relatively easy for us to replace batteries and so on.
Secondary/backup lights could be interesting as well though.
Ideally I'd like to stay below $100/light, but I'm flexible, and wouldn't mind too much spending a bit more if the light is worth it. While dive lights are new to me, I guess I'm a borderline flasholholic. ;-)
Any recommendations or wise words?