woodrow
Flashlight Enthusiast
Hi,
I am a sucker for lanterns. When I was a kid, they were the Heavy Artillery in flashlight wars at summer camp... and no form of light takes me back to my first love of this hobby like they do. Unfortunately, the plastic clad lantern has not been the recepient of many of the modern inovations of leds (although there are some great 3,000+ lumen H.I.D's out there) and what we mainly see here on cpf are a million variations of 2x123a lights with modern leds... which are wonderful, but do not capture my heart the way a good lantern does.
When I saw the new Pelican 9410 led lantern (thanks to 276) I was immediately excited. A led lantern that can take abuse, is rechargable, has a swivel head (they did not have that feature when i was a kid) and puts out 710 Measured, honest-out-the-front lumens.... I knew I would most likely end up owning one. One call to Greg at Brightguy to "find out some information about it" had it coming to my house second day air. (as I feared it would...) One nice thing, BG has the lights marked at $249 and not the $325+ I was seeing them on other sites before BG got them in.
Anyway, Here are some pics and info on the light:
The Box, which contains the light, charging base, AC cord, Manual and a really heavy-duty strap.
The Light has 3 modes: Click on (soft switch) High, click again in 3 sec. for med (300L) and a strobe that flashes at about 2x per second...to get attention, not irritate. At any time after 3 sec. clicking again will turn the light off.
One cool thing about the switch is that it glows green when it has 75% or more of its charge left, orange when charge is 25%-75% and red when charge is under 25%.
The lights use 4 leds, the manual does not state, but they look like xpg's to me. Maybe a better expert can confirm this. (sorry I missed the dust on the lens (which I am guessing is some sort of polycarbonite in material)
Here is a closer pic of one of the leds. Beam tint is Q5 cool but not bluish white.
One thing I really like about this light (that I did Not like on the Streamlight led lantern) is that there is plenty of room for even a gloved big guys hand to hold the light. I really think Pelican was thinking of Firemen when they made this thing.
Speaking of Firemen, the atachment points for the serious carrying strap (which is actually more heavy duty feeling than the one that came with the 10LB Streamlight lightbox HID) look well done as well.
Here is a pic of the strap and charging base that comes with the unit. The light flashes red when the light is charging.
On the underside of the light near the head, are 2 screws that make contact with the metal posts of the base when the light is locked in place on it.
One neat thing this light will do is stand on its end, and project its light anywhere from straight up, to past 90 degrees (120 all together) The racheting motion seems very solid.
OK, the beam. Being a 4 led light, I was a little worried about what the beam would look like...if their would be wierd artifacts. Thankfully their are not. This pic (next to a TK12R2 Fenix (both lights on high) has the wall less then 3' from the lights. There is no 4 led pattern even at this range. As for spill, I had Greg at BG compare it to the TK45. He said the Fenix had the easily brighter spill, but the Pelicans was much wider and the Pelican the easily more intense spot. This beamshot shows the limitations of my camera. The TK12 looks as bright as the 9410. It is not. It does show how wide the Pelican's spill is though...It is Huge!
Here is a ceiling bounce shot at 6/10" f/2.8 of the Fenix TK12
same settings, the Pelican
Sorry I do not have other 600+ lumen lights to compare the Pelican too, so I will (edit) only do a couple of comparrison shots. Here is a 1" shot at about 30'.
Here is a 1.3" shot at 25 yards. As I said, the spill is quite wide.
Edit, I dug up some comparison beamshots that I thought I would post just to show the difference in spill and throw with a couple of my present and past brightest handheld lights. All are taken at 8 yards at 1sec exp. and iso 64 f/2.8
First, 4Sevens Quark 123a X2 Turbo
Next the 210 L (OTF) Streamlight Stinger HP (a great throw light)
Next the Pelican 9410
I look forward to some of the new high output lights coming out in the next few months to offer a better comparrison. But I wanted another shot to show the spill of this light.
Overall, I am quite happy with my new light. I was looking for a brighter than 200 lumen light, and have had a TK40... which was a great light...but I wanted something different. I also did not need the 3000 L of another hid, and I wanted instant on and off (without hurting the ballast) capabilities. I also like rugged lights.
The Pelican has fit the bill for me. It is not large at 9" long (4" wide and high) or heavy at 3lbs. Its NIMH 4D pack will give it over an hour and a half (I believe regulated..but not tested) of light on high, and over 4 hours (300L) on low...and its strobe does not ever need to be hit...unless you want it, and even then it may be usable at 2 flashes per sec.
So if your looking for a bright light...and just want something a little differnt than an 18650 light... check this one out. Now if I could only find a way to send it back in time in a care package to my 5th grade summer camp.....
I am a sucker for lanterns. When I was a kid, they were the Heavy Artillery in flashlight wars at summer camp... and no form of light takes me back to my first love of this hobby like they do. Unfortunately, the plastic clad lantern has not been the recepient of many of the modern inovations of leds (although there are some great 3,000+ lumen H.I.D's out there) and what we mainly see here on cpf are a million variations of 2x123a lights with modern leds... which are wonderful, but do not capture my heart the way a good lantern does.
When I saw the new Pelican 9410 led lantern (thanks to 276) I was immediately excited. A led lantern that can take abuse, is rechargable, has a swivel head (they did not have that feature when i was a kid) and puts out 710 Measured, honest-out-the-front lumens.... I knew I would most likely end up owning one. One call to Greg at Brightguy to "find out some information about it" had it coming to my house second day air. (as I feared it would...) One nice thing, BG has the lights marked at $249 and not the $325+ I was seeing them on other sites before BG got them in.
Anyway, Here are some pics and info on the light:
The Box, which contains the light, charging base, AC cord, Manual and a really heavy-duty strap.
The Light has 3 modes: Click on (soft switch) High, click again in 3 sec. for med (300L) and a strobe that flashes at about 2x per second...to get attention, not irritate. At any time after 3 sec. clicking again will turn the light off.
One cool thing about the switch is that it glows green when it has 75% or more of its charge left, orange when charge is 25%-75% and red when charge is under 25%.
The lights use 4 leds, the manual does not state, but they look like xpg's to me. Maybe a better expert can confirm this. (sorry I missed the dust on the lens (which I am guessing is some sort of polycarbonite in material)
Here is a closer pic of one of the leds. Beam tint is Q5 cool but not bluish white.
One thing I really like about this light (that I did Not like on the Streamlight led lantern) is that there is plenty of room for even a gloved big guys hand to hold the light. I really think Pelican was thinking of Firemen when they made this thing.
Speaking of Firemen, the atachment points for the serious carrying strap (which is actually more heavy duty feeling than the one that came with the 10LB Streamlight lightbox HID) look well done as well.
Here is a pic of the strap and charging base that comes with the unit. The light flashes red when the light is charging.
On the underside of the light near the head, are 2 screws that make contact with the metal posts of the base when the light is locked in place on it.
One neat thing this light will do is stand on its end, and project its light anywhere from straight up, to past 90 degrees (120 all together) The racheting motion seems very solid.
OK, the beam. Being a 4 led light, I was a little worried about what the beam would look like...if their would be wierd artifacts. Thankfully their are not. This pic (next to a TK12R2 Fenix (both lights on high) has the wall less then 3' from the lights. There is no 4 led pattern even at this range. As for spill, I had Greg at BG compare it to the TK45. He said the Fenix had the easily brighter spill, but the Pelicans was much wider and the Pelican the easily more intense spot. This beamshot shows the limitations of my camera. The TK12 looks as bright as the 9410. It is not. It does show how wide the Pelican's spill is though...It is Huge!
Here is a ceiling bounce shot at 6/10" f/2.8 of the Fenix TK12
same settings, the Pelican
Sorry I do not have other 600+ lumen lights to compare the Pelican too, so I will (edit) only do a couple of comparrison shots. Here is a 1" shot at about 30'.
Here is a 1.3" shot at 25 yards. As I said, the spill is quite wide.
Edit, I dug up some comparison beamshots that I thought I would post just to show the difference in spill and throw with a couple of my present and past brightest handheld lights. All are taken at 8 yards at 1sec exp. and iso 64 f/2.8
First, 4Sevens Quark 123a X2 Turbo
Next the 210 L (OTF) Streamlight Stinger HP (a great throw light)
Next the Pelican 9410
I look forward to some of the new high output lights coming out in the next few months to offer a better comparrison. But I wanted another shot to show the spill of this light.
Overall, I am quite happy with my new light. I was looking for a brighter than 200 lumen light, and have had a TK40... which was a great light...but I wanted something different. I also did not need the 3000 L of another hid, and I wanted instant on and off (without hurting the ballast) capabilities. I also like rugged lights.
The Pelican has fit the bill for me. It is not large at 9" long (4" wide and high) or heavy at 3lbs. Its NIMH 4D pack will give it over an hour and a half (I believe regulated..but not tested) of light on high, and over 4 hours (300L) on low...and its strobe does not ever need to be hit...unless you want it, and even then it may be usable at 2 flashes per sec.
So if your looking for a bright light...and just want something a little differnt than an 18650 light... check this one out. Now if I could only find a way to send it back in time in a care package to my 5th grade summer camp.....
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