ISC-Darian
Newly Enlightened
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- Jan 28, 2019
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Searching for information about these lights I stumbled on this forum, so I hope it is OK for me to post these questions here. (If not, I assume from the big yellow notice that this won't ever be seen!) This isn't an attempt to sell them, but just information gathering.
First a bit of background to all this: Our company works with law enforcement agencies and accepts their surplus equipment in trade as credit. We are currently evaluating some surplus provided to us by a department which includes 5 of these lights. One appears to be a Gen 3 light and the rest are Gen 2. Unfortunately, there does not appear to be any batteries in the surplus, but there are chargers, cables, and power supplies with each in their hard cases. From cursory searches, it seems these are pretty top-of-the-line when it comes to lights, but without the battery packs, are they still useful to folk? Checking with Peak Beam the new batteries are not compatible with the included chargers, so it would be about $500 in upgrades to be portable with a rechargeable battery pack.
We want to be able to give the department the most trade credit as possible, so my questions to the light aficionados here are as follows:
1. Is anyone aware of sources for the older battery packs, and if so roughly what do replacements cost?
2. Are these lights in demand at all even without the batteries?
3. What would a fair market value be for these without batteries? (I've seen listing starting at $800, but if someone needs to spend $500 to get a new battery and charger, we couldn't sell them close to that and therefore wouldn't be able to give them much trade credit.)
Thank you in advance for your help!
First a bit of background to all this: Our company works with law enforcement agencies and accepts their surplus equipment in trade as credit. We are currently evaluating some surplus provided to us by a department which includes 5 of these lights. One appears to be a Gen 3 light and the rest are Gen 2. Unfortunately, there does not appear to be any batteries in the surplus, but there are chargers, cables, and power supplies with each in their hard cases. From cursory searches, it seems these are pretty top-of-the-line when it comes to lights, but without the battery packs, are they still useful to folk? Checking with Peak Beam the new batteries are not compatible with the included chargers, so it would be about $500 in upgrades to be portable with a rechargeable battery pack.
We want to be able to give the department the most trade credit as possible, so my questions to the light aficionados here are as follows:
1. Is anyone aware of sources for the older battery packs, and if so roughly what do replacements cost?
2. Are these lights in demand at all even without the batteries?
3. What would a fair market value be for these without batteries? (I've seen listing starting at $800, but if someone needs to spend $500 to get a new battery and charger, we couldn't sell them close to that and therefore wouldn't be able to give them much trade credit.)
Thank you in advance for your help!