MB-SUB VB50 Cave review

[Goldigger]

The long awaited MB-SUB VB-50 head arrived at my door yesterday. Michael posted it on Monday and it arrived on the following wednesday.. thats pretty quick from Germany.
The VB50 Cave comes with the 12.6v 9.6ah battery pack.
The heads on the MB-SUB Cave light are interchangable.
VB-50 Head
The VB-50 Head uses a Luminus SST-50 LED rated at 1250 lumens max. This is paired up with an aspheric lens. The Head is also focusable from 8 to 36 degrees by turning the outside ring.
The outside ring turns continuously in either direction and will adjust the focus continuously turned in either direction.
The VB-50 has two power settings 35% and 100%, 35% gives you 15 hours burn time and 100% 6 hours burn time.
The switch is a rotating coller that is removable, this clips round the body of the light head. The rotating coller contains a small magnet that activates 2 reed switches sealed inside the light head. The rotating coller has 3 positions, off, 35% and 100%.
Because of this switch design water cannot penetrate the light head via the switch.
Photon Head
I also have the Photon head which uses a Osram Ostar 6 die LED, rated at 1000 lumens max. This is paired up with a reflector which the manufactures claim is 8 degrees.
The Photon is non focusable. It also has two power settings, 50% and 100%.
50% gives you 9 hours burn time, 100% gives you 6 hours burn time.
The switch is the same on the photon as the VB50. Except if you have the head clipped in the Goldman handle you simply rotate the head in the handle.
Anyway enough of the technical babble, pictures speak louder than words so here are various shots.

To show how big each head is:
VB50 held by the goodman handle

Photon held by the goodman handle


Beamshots

All camera shots taken using the same settings
Photon at 1 Meter

VB50 at 1 Meter

Photon at 2 Meters

VB50 at 2 Meters

Photon at 3 Meters

VB-50 at 3 Meters

Photon at 4 Meters

VB-50 at 4 Meters


Under water beam shots are on post 5..

[Mark Chase]

My one turned up today. Diving it tomorow. So will let you know what I think ahead of my report.


ATB

Mark

[Goldigger]

My one turned up today. Diving it tomorow. So will let you know what I think ahead of my report.


ATB

Mark

Sorry theres no herons in my report..

[Dyson Diver]

looks like it should come with a health warning ,, or a note about setting fire to the wall paper , look forwards to a full review.

[Goldigger]

Heres some aerial shots of the heads underwater..

I've just nipped down the canal.. after all people want to see how the VB-50 will look like in poor viz..
Photon


VB-50

[HP]

Have you been hanging around by the canal again Jase?

[Goldigger]

Have you been hanging around by the canal again Jase?

I have... you know me to well..
I was also told there's a pub down there called the Dog Inn..

[Goldigger]

Here's a video i took showing an example of the varible focus at roughly 3meters to the wall.

[whitenoise]

Good stuff there GD.

I did take some pics of my vb-50 (with photon2 body) but haven't got round to doing anything with them yet, and looking at your coverage, I don't need too now

[HP]

Here's a video i took showing an example of the varible focus at roughly 3meters to the wall.

How about some videos of your missus instead Jase?