Red Sea Torch advice needed please

[Silent Diver]

Well the wife and I finally did it we are off on our first ever Red Sea Liveaboard next year with Tony Backhurst on Whirlwind

We are booked on an escorted Northern Wreck Tour with the opportunity for some wreck penetration or so we have been told anyway.

My wife currently uses a Greenforce F2 Battery with an HID50 head and I use a Metalsub HID200.

I also have sat here doing nothing a Greenforce AA12 Battery with Tristar LED head.

So my thinking is that the HID heads, (especially my 200watt one), are going to be way to powerful for the Red Sea especially on night dives we want to see the fish not cook them

I thought that the wife could use her F2 Battery with the LED head and I would use the AA12 battery and buy a second Tristar LED head for it.

Has anyone used the Tristar head in the Red Sea if so was it any good for wreck diving and photography at night....

Or is the HID50 we already have ok for the Red Sea.......

Sensible answers on a postcard to the usual address please

[Neil M]

i used my tristar on the last few l/bs and love it....

i tend to dive using my spotting torch at night for pictures and clip off the g/f until i'm not using the camera

[rob lumb]

there is a new tristar led head available in about 5 weeks it is 660 lumens which is more powerful than the hid 50.and it is the same price as the original tristar plus head and it is the same size as the original tristar head.it will do about 90 mins on the aa12 battery.3 hours on the f 11 battery.if you need any further help do not hesitate to contact me.

cheers
rob

[Neil M]

was that the daft bright one at the show Rob?

Cheers
Neil

p.s. sorry I couldnt get across to see you this morning with my F2....

[Silent Diver]

there is a new tristar led head available in about 5 weeks it is 660 lumens which is more powerful than the hid 50.and it is the same price as the original tristar plus head and it is the same size as the original tristar head.it will do about 90 mins on the aa12 battery.3 hours on the f 11 battery.if you need any further help do not hesitate to contact me.

cheers
rob

Cool cheers rob but the problem is I think for the Red Sea the HID is too much so an LED that is more powerful than that is not really what I am after but if it means the price of the older tristar is dropping then I will be interested in taking one of those of your hands

[Bottle Maker]

I did the wreck tour an used a Frogman lensor for the whole trip including a tour of the engine room on the Rosalie Mular(spelling?) this torch was well up to the job. peaple with aircraft landing lights just turned relaxed ninhgt dives into day dives.

Graham.

[Jay Tee]

Don't take anything too powerful, you'll not need it + you'll scare everything away, just done a similar trip b.t.w. - Enjoy!!

[Napier]

Take a lenser frogman......great for Egypt night dives and far less weight than you're proposing. Just take a spare set of AA batteries...even though they last for ever !!!

[rob lumb]

no neil the daft bright ones were the quadrstar and the monostar 880 and 900 lumens.but the good thing is that both are dimmable so you can use it on full power 66% and 33% power depending on how bright you require it to be.

cheers rob

[Neil M]

They were brilliant!!