My new torch

[somouk]

untakenname said:

The Sorfin lights must be best bang for buck you can get whilst still having decent quality, still using the IF23 as a powerbank more than anything else.


Just a headsup that Olight's black friday sale has begun which has a fre iTHX, stand out deal I can see is the Arkfield UV for £45 which comes with another free torch.

I've had mine for a while now and it's useful for checking car aircon leaks as well as other types of leaks in hotels etc..

https://www.olightstore.uk/flash-sale

Been very interested in the bundle they are doing with the Seekr 4 Pro and the new Arkfield pro which has the normal torch, UV and Laser all in one.

https://www.olightstore.uk/seeker-4-pro-usb-c-torc...

[595Heaven]

defblade said:

595Heaven said:

There is also a strobe mode which was quite unpleasant in the pitch black - not sure why I'd want that?

A function of "tactical" torches.
The idea is, if you are attacked in the dark, you strobe your attacker and he (/she/they?) is both mostly blinded and quite disorientated. Became a thing when outputs hit about 200 lumens (below that, it's just a bit irritating) and from playing with it years ago, it's actually quite effective. Whether you'd be able to trigger it under pressure is another matter... with modern torches packing several hundred/thousand lumens, there's not much need to strobe tbf. It's not nice even in daylight when someone shines it at you.

Thanks. Makes sense that it is a defensive mode as it is really not nice. Not sure I’ll ever need it though!

[RammyMP]

RammyMP said:

N4LLY said:

You guy's made me spend ..... £32.99 for a SC31 pro.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08FM6MZQ6/ref...

They’re £26 at the moment, thought I might as well get one as the evenings are now dark…

I’m very pleased with it but it does get quite warm when it’s on its brightest setting.

[Dermot O'Logical]

RammyMP said:

RammyMP said:

N4LLY said:

You guy's made me spend ..... £32.99 for a SC31 pro.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08FM6MZQ6/ref...

They’re £26 at the moment, thought I might as well get one as the evenings are now dark…

I’m very pleased with it but it does get quite warm when it’s on its brightest setting.

That's an added bonus, it's a handwarmer.

I bought one for my son and daughter-in-law for nocturnal dogging* activities. I haven't given it to them yet, but I've had a good look at it, and it appears to be well made, and good value at £26.


*They have two dogs...

[littleredrooster]

Following a bottle of wine, I fell victim to an email from Olight and their black Friday sale.

One of these and a freebie iTHX are winging their way towards me. I now need to check my stock of 10440 batteries!

[defblade]

defblade said:

I'll be giving it a bit of love and maybe seeing if there's a drop-in LED bulb available to update it, but to be fair, it's still a reasonably good torch albeit with a very yellow tone, not half bad for an ancient hot-wire

(Garage at roughly 18 metres)

And with the (1w cree) drop-in:




Bit of a doughnut to the hotspot, but loads more flood fill. I think it'll be staying

Given the case a good clean, just trying to decide if I want to risk trying to polish the scratches out of the lens - I've had pretty good resutls with car headlights...

[TGCOTF-dewey]

You can buy custom reflectors too, which may fit your torch that may help with the donut.

[defblade]

TGCOTF-dewey said:

You can buy custom reflectors too, which may fit your torch that may help with the donut.

Nah, the reflector mounts the bulb itself, and has specific little pegs on it that hold it in place in slots for the screw-down-to-make-contact mechanism.
I sold most of my Fivemega mag reflectors on years ago...
There are some LED bulbs were rather than just surface mount, the emitter is held/surrounded by plastic designed to diffuse the light and make it closer to old bulbs... but I'm not that worried!
There was no sensible reason to buy this torch - just pure nostalgia

[TGCOTF-dewey]

defblade said:

TGCOTF-dewey said:

You can buy custom reflectors too, which may fit your torch that may help with the donut.

Nah, the reflector mounts the bulb itself, and has specific little pegs on it that hold it in place in slots for the screw-down-to-make-contact mechanism.
I sold most of my Fivemega mag reflectors on years ago...
There are some LED bulbs were rather than just surface mount, the emitter is held/surrounded by plastic designed to diffuse the light and make it closer to old bulbs... but I'm not that worried!
There was no sensible reason to buy this torch - just pure nostalgia

You could be the Singer for torches though.

[hidetheelephants]

I've bought a quite vanilla torch for the old man's christmas, as he as a shelf full of ancient cheap crap with glowing wires fit for the bin, most of which don't work and even if they did would be dimmer than a candle in a mineshaft; a Convoy C8+ which I've set to the simplest mode so he can't alarm himself with an unexpected strobe.

[Sporky]

TGCOTF-dewey said:

You could be the Singer for torches though.

Water cooled torches just aren't as classy.

[S11Steve]

An IF23 has been added to the collection...

[DannyScene]

Dermot O'Logical said:

RammyMP said:

RammyMP said:

N4LLY said:

You guy's made me spend ..... £32.99 for a SC31 pro.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08FM6MZQ6/ref...

They’re £26 at the moment, thought I might as well get one as the evenings are now dark…

I’m very pleased with it but it does get quite warm when it’s on its brightest setting.

That's an added bonus, it's a handwarmer.

I bought one for my son and daughter-in-law for nocturnal dogging* activities. I haven't given it to them yet, but I've had a good look at it, and it appears to be well made, and good value at £26.


*They have two dogs...

Looks like its currently at £38, I don't mind paying a tenner more but is the torch worth it do we think?

I've been using cheap Cree T6 base Chinese torches for years but I've got £80 amazon vouchers from work so I want to upgrade, something pocket sized but with a decent throw and ideally a focusable (sp?) beam

[indigochim]

Looks like it's ~£24ish from with tax from Ali Express with 5 day shipping You're paying a high Amazon tax there.

[wilbo83]

Looking for a headtorch for use whilst running in the dark evenings. Budget of <£50 ideally.

After a brief bit of browsing, below is my current shortlist. Any reason to get one instead of the others? Any others I should be considering?

SILVA TRAIL RUNNER
PETZL TIKKA CORE
PETZL AKTIK CORE

[indigochim]

I have a NITECORE NU25 UL which I'm very impressed with although for running you may want one with a solid headband all the way around like the UT27. That said I always used to have a Petzl Zoom when I was a kid and they stood up to a lot of abuse.

[Zadkiel]

I have an old generation Petzl Tikka Core and an older NU25 and the new NU25 (not the UL [Ultralight] so it has the comfier headband). I see they've bumped up the Petzl lumens to similar to the Nitecore now which is good. It seems the Petzl has effectively double the battery size and corresponding significant increase in weight. The Nitecore really does feel incredibly light. I'm not a runner so not sure how much it matters but I'm thinking I'd rather go with light and charge it more often unless that's tricky to do or you do very long runs.

[12TS]

indigochim said:

Looks like it's ~£24ish from with tax from Ali Express with 5 day shipping You're paying a high Amazon tax there.

Now £15.60 from Ali Express or £37 from Amazon

[Steve Campbell]

Just a short thank you to this thread for introducing the Sofirn IF23 into my life :-)

Just need to spend some time with it to get the muscle memory for the myriad of options !

Edited by Steve Campbell on Tuesday 16th January 11:25