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In terms of budget would be looking in the £400 - £500 area, VFM is an important issue and I would like to buy something that will last and not need to be replaced in the forseeable future.
Smack bang in the 10w 4.5ah Salvo range then..

Hmmmm. Salvo.. Hmmmm.
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Smack bang in the 10w 4.5ah Salvo range then..

Hmmmm. Salvo.. Hmmmm.
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In terms of budget would be looking in the £400 - £500 area, VFM is an important issue and I would like to buy something that will last and not need to be replaced in the forseeable future.
Not a Beaver Astro lamp then

Just buy a mini UK40. On your budget, you could buy enough of them to light most of the northeast. Why bother with a complicated, heavy canister torch when you can have one of these little charmers in your pocket?
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Smack bang in the 10w 4.5ah Salvo range then..
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Also well in the GF F2 + 50HID range, shame Greenforce do not come in black !
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The modular thing doesn't really appeal to me. If I wanted to swap lightheads you could get a new lid for a Salvo with a different head. Wouldn't take you much work at all. Plus in my experience it's sold as a feature but nobody really uses it. You might as well if you want a different torch sell the whole thing and get a complete new torch.

You shouldn't discount the Halcyon Pro 3 from your decision. Of course it's the only of the Halcyon torch products I'd actually buy, but it is really very good.

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Single tank and BCD to 30m in the north sea? Will you be utilising a pony? How is this mounted? How do you propose mounting a canister type system, on the tank? You may need to consider another bracket etc.. To me it all seems a bit messy and maybe for the depths you should consider a twinset with harness, would make life much easier for the umbilical torch, not to mention redundancy. Not trying to be awkward but just trying to point out a couple of things that may have been overlooked. (Haven't read all the posts mind so might have already been mentioned).
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Greenforce did have a 10w Focusable HID on display at LIDS and very nice it was too. They are currently working on different flavours of the focusable HIDs with a view to launching around October IIRC.
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Single tank and BCD to 30m in the north sea? Will you be utilising a pony? How is this mounted? How do you propose mounting a canister type system, on the tank? You may need to consider another bracket etc.. To me it all seems a bit messy and maybe for the depths you should consider a twinset with harness, would make life much easier for the umbilical torch, not to mention redundancy. Not trying to be awkward but just trying to point out a couple of things that may have been overlooked. (Haven't read all the posts mind so might have already been mentioned).
Just sick the cannister on the weight belt? Just a thought...
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Just sick the cannister on the weight belt? Just a thought...
Presuming he has a weightbelt and not integrated. I think we need more info as to current setup. From what I remember of BC's doesn't the cummerband and clips sit pretty much over a weightbelt, unless the belt is hanging off your ass this could still be awkward.
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Greenforce did have a 10w Focusable HID on display at LIDS and very nice it was too. They are currently working on different flavours of the focusable HIDs with a view to launching around October IIRC.


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