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For my college graduation my roommate bought me a Gerber Carnivore 'Blood Tracking Light'
According to the packaging which is a plastic clamshell, the light has "Trax Technology" which is basically just ultraviolet light. Now I don't have a whole lot of experience with ultraviolet lighting but this light utilizes four red and four blue LEDs in a pattern. Four red in an arc along the top and four blue in a diamond pattern under the red, and what does red and blue equal? Violet! Here is what the box says:
Trax Facts:
Ready for a science lesson? Research shows that the human eye is most sensative to the color red and much less discerning of dark colors such as blue and black. Gerber has finely calibrated multiple light spectrums in a way that makes the red of blood appear to virtually jump off the ground. Once you've found the trail, you can easily toggle back and forth between the bright white xenon light and the trax LED mode to locate your trophy and find your way home. Then you can get on to more important things, like picking the thistles out of your backside.
Some data:
Water resistant - Yes
Battery indicator (located under the Trax LEDs) - Green: full, Yellow: low, Red: replace
Bulb - 45 lumen xenon - replacement bulb: Gerber part # 22-80079
Trax LEDs - Lifetime L.E.D's never need replacing
Sheath - Holster style with vest clip included (cheap POS)
Batteries - 4 x AA alkalines included
I have shined the light on virtually everything that is red in my room and red colors really do seem to jump out when the LEDs hit them. Unfortunately I don't have any blood in my room so, pending any injuries I won't get to really utilize this feature for a while, and since I live in San Diego hunting is not part of the norm out here so I doubt I'll get to use it for that any time soon.
*Question for all you hunters out there: DO you do a lot of hunting at night? Because this light would be most useful at night.*
It contains a single O-ring where the main reflector is, and the battery pack on the bottom has three fin-like rubber stoppers on the inside to block out water. The battery pack holds four AA's firmly in place, and the bottom of the battery pack has a metal lanyard attachment. Lanyard came attached already to the light. The reflector appears to be made of plastic, and the lenses for both the LEDs and the Xenon are plastic. The LEDs appear to be sealed inside by a single rubber square-ring. I would give this light permission to be in the jungle rain but I would never recommend dunking it.
The beam pattern is interesting. The Xenon appears to be focusable, with a similar pattern to a lot of streamlight beams. At tight focus the beam appears as a tight spot with decent throw, and at loose focus the beam appears wide and has a hole right in the center. It may or may not be 45 lumens, but I can guarantee my streamlight scorpion (~50 lumens?) will out-throw this thing by a large margin. The reflector has a light texture to even out the beam pattern--it's not OP but it follows more of a square/rectangle patterning.
To operate the light you press the black (reverse clicky) power button behind the head. This activates the light in Xenon mode every time. To change modes, press the red selector button underneath the LED's like you would pull the trigger of a gun--this changes back and forth between LEDs and Xenon, but the light will always come on in Xenon mode as it should for safety reasons.
Body and battery holder are constructed from a very hard plastic, but the back and front of the light have rubber for grip. The red selector buttons would be a little small for use with gloves, but would probably be do-able.
Along with the Tracking light he bought himself a SOG knife called "Jungle Primitive" which is quite hefty and very VERY sharply cut. It has all kinds of serrades and could probably double as a machete. He also bought me a 50,000 spark flint attached by a lanyard called "FireFlash". This is something that may some day be incredibely useful. IMO everybody should own a flint just in case as a basic survival tool.
So here are some pictures!
Side View
Front View
Rubber Grip
Power Button
UV LED's
Xenon Reflector Close Up
Xenon On 3/4 view
UV Head On View
UV on "The Art Of Business" Red really shows!
UV 3/4 view
Xenon Side View
Xenon Tight
UV on the wall
UV close up front view
Xenon close up front view
Packaging
More packaging
Battery Pack Front
Battery Pack Bottom
Battery Pack Side
FireFlash Flint
FireFlash Flint 2
That is all for now.
DK
For my college graduation my roommate bought me a Gerber Carnivore 'Blood Tracking Light'
According to the packaging which is a plastic clamshell, the light has "Trax Technology" which is basically just ultraviolet light. Now I don't have a whole lot of experience with ultraviolet lighting but this light utilizes four red and four blue LEDs in a pattern. Four red in an arc along the top and four blue in a diamond pattern under the red, and what does red and blue equal? Violet! Here is what the box says:
Trax Facts:
Ready for a science lesson? Research shows that the human eye is most sensative to the color red and much less discerning of dark colors such as blue and black. Gerber has finely calibrated multiple light spectrums in a way that makes the red of blood appear to virtually jump off the ground. Once you've found the trail, you can easily toggle back and forth between the bright white xenon light and the trax LED mode to locate your trophy and find your way home. Then you can get on to more important things, like picking the thistles out of your backside.
Some data:
Water resistant - Yes
Battery indicator (located under the Trax LEDs) - Green: full, Yellow: low, Red: replace
Bulb - 45 lumen xenon - replacement bulb: Gerber part # 22-80079
Trax LEDs - Lifetime L.E.D's never need replacing
Sheath - Holster style with vest clip included (cheap POS)
Batteries - 4 x AA alkalines included
I have shined the light on virtually everything that is red in my room and red colors really do seem to jump out when the LEDs hit them. Unfortunately I don't have any blood in my room so, pending any injuries I won't get to really utilize this feature for a while, and since I live in San Diego hunting is not part of the norm out here so I doubt I'll get to use it for that any time soon.
*Question for all you hunters out there: DO you do a lot of hunting at night? Because this light would be most useful at night.*
It contains a single O-ring where the main reflector is, and the battery pack on the bottom has three fin-like rubber stoppers on the inside to block out water. The battery pack holds four AA's firmly in place, and the bottom of the battery pack has a metal lanyard attachment. Lanyard came attached already to the light. The reflector appears to be made of plastic, and the lenses for both the LEDs and the Xenon are plastic. The LEDs appear to be sealed inside by a single rubber square-ring. I would give this light permission to be in the jungle rain but I would never recommend dunking it.
The beam pattern is interesting. The Xenon appears to be focusable, with a similar pattern to a lot of streamlight beams. At tight focus the beam appears as a tight spot with decent throw, and at loose focus the beam appears wide and has a hole right in the center. It may or may not be 45 lumens, but I can guarantee my streamlight scorpion (~50 lumens?) will out-throw this thing by a large margin. The reflector has a light texture to even out the beam pattern--it's not OP but it follows more of a square/rectangle patterning.
To operate the light you press the black (reverse clicky) power button behind the head. This activates the light in Xenon mode every time. To change modes, press the red selector button underneath the LED's like you would pull the trigger of a gun--this changes back and forth between LEDs and Xenon, but the light will always come on in Xenon mode as it should for safety reasons.
Body and battery holder are constructed from a very hard plastic, but the back and front of the light have rubber for grip. The red selector buttons would be a little small for use with gloves, but would probably be do-able.
Along with the Tracking light he bought himself a SOG knife called "Jungle Primitive" which is quite hefty and very VERY sharply cut. It has all kinds of serrades and could probably double as a machete. He also bought me a 50,000 spark flint attached by a lanyard called "FireFlash". This is something that may some day be incredibely useful. IMO everybody should own a flint just in case as a basic survival tool.
So here are some pictures!
Side View
Front View
Rubber Grip
Power Button
UV LED's
Xenon Reflector Close Up
Xenon On 3/4 view
UV Head On View
UV on "The Art Of Business" Red really shows!
UV 3/4 view
Xenon Side View
Xenon Tight
UV on the wall
UV close up front view
Xenon close up front view
Packaging
More packaging
Battery Pack Front
Battery Pack Bottom
Battery Pack Side
FireFlash Flint
FireFlash Flint 2
That is all for now.
DK
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