Looking for info.

[pasty steve]

Hello everyone, Ive come across this forum several times when researching different lamps and always found it very usefull so thought it was about time I joined.

I use my lamps for fishing and especially this time of year am always looking for somthing a bit brighter.

Tired of my heavyweight tiga with that horrible orange glow and am now using an pt apex 130 with a Silva lx as a back up.

Im wondering if there is anything on the market similar to the Silva lx2, but with a better wide beam rather then just the powerfull spot light? or a brighter version of the pt apex?

Any help is much appriciated.

 

[pasty steve]

WOW, you are all so very helpfull!

 

[DM51]

Welcome to CPF, Steve.

I only saw this just now as I just validated your 2nd post in the thread.

I'm actually a little surprised no-one else has responded, but I don't think you'll gain much by showing your frustration about that. This isn't the most heavily-frequented section of CPF, but give it time and I expect you'll get a response.

In the meantime, did you take the opportunity to look at some of the other threads here and read up on all the latest and best headlamps on the market?

 

[PhantomPhoton]

:welcome:

Unfortunately most of the standard manufactured headlamps available aren't very good. Most are far behind standard flashlights in terms of brightness, durability and features.

I take it that you're looking for a bright headlamp with a lot of flood beam. The Silva LX II uses an old (by semiconductor standards) emitter.

The two suggestions I have for you to look into are a Petzl Myo (a couple different models to researc) which has a flip up diffuser or a Zebralight which is a pure flood light and can be had with a wonderful neutral tinted LED.

As for the Apex, how old is yours? There are ones with old lousy emitters and newer ones with half way decent emitters. If you have an old one you can replace the LED with some dissasembly and soldering iirc.

 

[pasty steve]

:welcome:

Unfortunately most of the standard manufactured headlamps available aren't very good. Most are far behind standard flashlights in terms of brightness, durability and features.

I take it that you're looking for a bright headlamp with a lot of flood beam. The Silva LX II uses an old (by semiconductor standards) emitter.

The two suggestions I have for you to look into are a Petzl Myo (a couple different models to researc) which has a flip up diffuser or a Zebralight which is a pure flood light and can be had with a wonderful neutral tinted LED.

As for the Apex, how old is yours? There are ones with old lousy emitters and newer ones with half way decent emitters. If you have an old one you can replace the LED with some dissasembly and soldering iirc.

A friend I fish with has the Myo and tbh, although it's not fad for the size, its not half as good as my Apex.

Im not exactly an expert when it comes to all the different LED's and emitters, and can be a tad confusing!

My Apex is around 3 months old, it was sent to me to replace my old 60 lumen model when a duff Batt burst and melted the Batt housing, Princeton has awsome customer service, It wasn't there fault but they were happy to just send me an upgraded complete model for nothing!

Are there people on here that do mods? I wonder if there is a way to mod my Apex and make it even brighter? Id rather let someone else do it though as I dont have any soldering eqiptment and am a bit cack handed with that kind of thing anyway.

 

[Marduke]

How old is his Myo? You may have been comparing to the previous generation, not the current one.

 

[drmaxx]

My Apex is around 3 months old, it was sent to me to replace my old 60 lumen model.

Headlamp producers are usually not on the forefront of LED technology. There is a range of very high end (>$200) headlamps. Other then that, you might take a look at the Fenix HP10 - latest LED and substantially brighter then the Apex, without braking the bank:
http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/showthread.php?t=247180

There is always the option of installing a diffuser. The simplest way for the Apex is using some frosted scotch tape. Of course there are more sophisticated methods out there....

 

[pasty steve]

How old is his Myo? You may have been comparing to the previous generation, not the current one.

Was the latest model out when he bought it beginning of this year.

Headlamp producers are usually not on the forefront of LED technology. There is a range of very high end (>$200) headlamps. Other then that, you might take a look at the Fenix HP10 - latest LED and substantially brighter then the Apex, without braking the bank:
http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/showthread.php?t=247180

There is always the option of installing a diffuser. The simplest way for the Apex is using some frosted scotch tape. Of course there are more sophisticated methods out there....

What is the best available in the $200 range??? Might be a daft question, but what dose a diffuser actually do???

 

[drmaxx]

What is the best available in the $200 range??? Might be a daft question, but what dose a diffuser actually do???

I ment more then $200 (>$200) lights. Here a choice of serious headlamps for cavers:
http://www.serv-light.com/
http://www.stenlight.com/
www.scurion.ch

 

[jankj]

Might be a daft question, but what dose a diffuser actually do???

No daft questions, but there are a lot of daft answers...

A diffuser will convert a throwy beam (good for spotting things far away) into a floody beam (good for close range work). It's typically a frosted plastic lens that slides or flips over the head of the lamp so you can switch between the two. You can test the effect with some transparent tape, white plastic bottle caps or similar.

 

[pasty steve]

No daft questions, but there are a lot of daft answers...

A diffuser will convert a throwy beam (good for spotting things far away) into a floody beam (good for close range work). It's typically a frosted plastic lens that slides or flips over the head of the lamp so you can switch between the two. You can test the effect with some transparent tape, white plastic bottle caps or similar.

Thank-you!