| I have a tritone handheld (the umbilical is identical head/battery and literally just has the cable instered) and it's been great as a backup. Takes loads of knocks, tough as old boots and uses standard alkaline batteries for 8hrs burn.
It's probably not QUITE as bright as a 10 HID but certainly not far from it, probably as it's a fairly wide beam and not as spot as some of the HID offerings. Take the offer of borrowing a CD one, they are a nice bit of kit and you can judge others by that. The Halcyon is a very tight beam and not as robust as the CD or tritone. Not used a sartek so can't comment on that one but do know someone who had one and it's very similar to the halcyon.
If you go to the dive show that's the best place to compare if you can - but bare in mind lights behave differently underwater - LED is not good in daylight and some of the cooler HID are the same - they are too close to daylight. Check bulb costs too as that may influence things. My handheld Tritone was £120 !!!! it's a backup to my metalsub 50w HID.
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