Seattle Sparky
Newly Enlightened
- Joined
- Apr 19, 2014
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- 176
Would have been great if people could be more specific of what exact problem they encountered with HDS, some of that could be subjective. I have passed through my hands close to 15, and never had any reliability issues.
HDS is not ideal for every single scenario, but for 80% of my daily routine it is, outside of construction work, where I need to use a flood headlamp at 600 lumen mode for close up work, going through two 18650 a day. But for getting out of a car, walking a trash can, getting mail, going to a bathroom, movie theater, ,searching inside a car, under a sofa, shinning up your nose...that sorta thing, it works magically and effortlessly. Rotary even more so. Clicky model is also super simple and intuitive once your grasp it , theoretically it is more robust without moving tail with better pocket clip options. For the clicky, i like the stock level presets for general needs..Frankly up to today I am only interested in high cri white leds offerings from HDS, but that may change, who knows.
Here is a beamshot of a 200 lumen high cri rotary. Fence is at 13m, the pine tree behind is at 44m. Even in this non traditional event of using an edc light, it still shows that 200 lumen in a compact light is still sufficient. On a plus side too, the battery is not going to die on you in 15 minutes, but will provide amount of needed light for as long possible,and in case of emergency, like getting out of a cave without having spare batteries, this can be life saving.
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HDS is not ideal for every single scenario, but for 80% of my daily routine it is, outside of construction work, where I need to use a flood headlamp at 600 lumen mode for close up work, going through two 18650 a day. But for getting out of a car, walking a trash can, getting mail, going to a bathroom, movie theater, ,searching inside a car, under a sofa, shinning up your nose...that sorta thing, it works magically and effortlessly. Rotary even more so. Clicky model is also super simple and intuitive once your grasp it , theoretically it is more robust without moving tail with better pocket clip options. For the clicky, i like the stock level presets for general needs..Frankly up to today I am only interested in high cri white leds offerings from HDS, but that may change, who knows.
Here is a beamshot of a 200 lumen high cri rotary. Fence is at 13m, the pine tree behind is at 44m. Even in this non traditional event of using an edc light, it still shows that 200 lumen in a compact light is still sufficient. On a plus side too, the battery is not going to die on you in 15 minutes, but will provide amount of needed light for as long possible,and in case of emergency, like getting out of a cave without having spare batteries, this can be life saving.
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