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| Originally Posted by jonny4846 Have been diving twins for the past year, and have been upgrading my gear as I go and as course's require. Now it's time to upgrade the torch as it is not an umbilical, and thus is not supposed to be used in tech diver 1 IANTD. However upgrading to an umbilical poses some problems.... Which one,
The most popular Salvo, Sartek, Halcyon and etc. to me still seem to be very big, the lighthead and ballast, and are not what you call cheap for a torch that you don't pretty much like. The other options was to start with a cheap Green-Force (F2 or F3, with standard 35W head) and upgrade the head when affordable...
The other problem I have is that my existing torch is rather reasonable. It's burntime is 1 Hour and it has 1600 lumen output, not joking, its a Beuchat 30/50. These stats mean that the green-force will be a step down and that salvo's and sartek's etc. will at 21w HID only be 1500 lumen, less then mine for a lot more money.
So my question is shpuld I just use my existing torch as if its disposable and see if it survives Tech 1 or go and purchase something approved by tech courses.
penny for your thoughts......
Cheers Jonny |
I know many will frown on this advice, but you could do a lot worse that a 50w JMD umbilical. You can get one of these new for under £300, bulbs cost a £5er and you can buy additional battery packs as spare ot to link with the main. I have one and thing its as good as many umbilicals Ive seen, its achilies heel thought is the burn time of 60 mins. But not being HID turning on and off when you dont need it isnt as problematic.