Does your dog mind you waggling its lead?Quote:
Originally Posted by daz h
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Does your dog mind you waggling its lead?Quote:
Originally Posted by daz h
Have you tried http://www.alpkit.com/gamma/ It's not the smallest in the world but the single LED is bright and the rear has a red light which also flashes so the cars have something to aim at.:)
Funnily enough I was wondering if they were any good. Presume you've tried one sf? Any good for running? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by stephen.firth
It will be the best £12.50 you've spent this year!Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
Top piece of kit for the money.
Blimey - £12.50. I've read a few reviews and there's some reference to "ok for running over easy terrain".
Is it suitable for light fell running does anyone know?
Yeah had mine for about a year now and a couple of lads at the club have them. Fantastically bright for the money. Use it every time we go out as a few of the lads like to off road it on Thursday nights:o Would recommend them to anybody, the service is also first class from Alpkit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
Right where's the commission:D
You need a head torch for dark fell running:DQuote:
Originally Posted by RichK
Cheers Stephen - only ever heard good reviews of their kit and service so I might try one :)Quote:
Originally Posted by stephen.firth
Should be easy enough to fix. Wires/contacts sometimes crack due to movement (basically - metal fatigue!) and it's simple enough to repair with a soldering iron.Quote:
Originally Posted by daz h
The £12.50 is including P+P as well. Mine should have arrived by tomorrow, I'll report back.
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Originally Posted by stephen.firth
ya get commission after 10,000 posts! :p normally a clip round the lugs holes for been on this thing for too long..
Certainly seems like top value. :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by RichK
And batteries!!!:DQuote:
Originally Posted by RichK
Mine arrived yesterday, but with no batteries - I don't have any of that type so I haven't had a chance to test it yet!Quote:
Originally Posted by The Navigator
You seem to have started a valuable debate Amex, i agree that the ones that go really bright seem to be the best.:cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Amex
Ive just bought a 3 Watt luxeon powerd head torch for less than £25 new!and with rechargies inlcuded.:eek:
seems to work fine,
keep you posted
Apparantly Alpkit are curently out of AAA Duracels (I received 2 torches without batteries this week), but will be sending batteries on as soon as they are back in stock.Quote:
Originally Posted by RichK
Ordered an Alpkit Gamma. Report to follow when I get it :)
Have you bought one yet Amex? Does it light up everything?Quote:
Originally Posted by Amex
I think he's got one of these.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Master
NBAL -I it take that the battery pack on the back of the harness will be big enough to keep the whole thing 'balanced'?:D
It's far more cunning than that. There's actually no need to carry it at all. This was its first outing last night.Quote:
Originally Posted by wheezing donkey
I get the idea. Turn it on, then leave it at home. Go for a 3 mile run down the beam and a 3 mile run back up the beam - with welding goggles, one presumes.:D
Not yet Master i am waiting for all the information to come through from here to make the most informed decision, it's not easy making such a tough call on which head torch to use, i have heard they are bringing out a new one called petzl ZL74 which i feel will be visible from outer space;)Quote:
Originally Posted by The Master
Amex, That's the one that I'm waiting for: Sells for £9.99 in the local hardware store, including re-chargeable battery & charger. Weighs 100 grammes. Goes 100 hours on a single charge. With a 1 mile beam for the full 100 hours. ;)WE ALL HAVE OUR DREAMS
can't see wot the fuss is about wait till it snows then ya don't need a head torch otherwise nick some of roger the dodger vrabbit's carrots..
I ordered an Alpkit Gamma yesterday at lunchtime and it arrived today. Initial tests (in cupboard under stairs with half-flat batteries ;) ) are encouraging - much brighter than a Petzl Tikka. Looking forward to trying it out tomorrow properly :)
Full moon tonight.
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Originally Posted by Derby Tup
eee that made me laugh Derby!! :D
I noticed it was full moon tonight and had thought about posting about it too Eric. Sadly it is absolutely lashing down with rain here and I for one am not going out to play!Quote:
Originally Posted by Eric Postlethwaite
Non of that technical stuff about nano-lumens per metre cubed for me Emmi ;) :)Quote:
Originally Posted by emmilou
Very impressed with Alpkit Gamma. Obviously not in the Hope league but well made and probably similar performance to Mylo XP for £12.50. A bargain me thinks :)
I've got the Gamma and tested it out with my Myo xp (2008) last night.Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
If you want to try out running at night its a cheap way of doing it.
Its not as bright as the XP it is a close call though.
BUT it has a very tight beam, you can't pick out a line ahead and see where your feet are going
The beam width of the xp is over four times wider at 10m, when using the Gamma your field of vision plummets I can't believe anyone who uses an XP would use this on its own :rolleyes:
Using it with the XP was a different matter though as its circle of light is very "clean" great for picking out the line ahead while the XP with the diffuser up was used for the closer stuff :)
I know that I may have mentioned cycle lights once in the dim and distant past and so am not absolutely pure BUT, c'mon, are'nt we getting just a little fixated with torches.
Britta is doing stirling stuff in a professional capacity but some of us are getting carried away - can we move onto something else like handbags or stockings or whether the 2009 XT levers are too long to use with barends - please?
Point taken about the narrow beam - I'd noticed that too. I'm thinking about trying a hand-held torch to compliment my GammaQuote:
Originally Posted by Baggins
Too right you're not pure, it was only last month you started that thread on bike lights :rolleyes: :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Lola
Has anyone tried this? http://www.mammut.ch/en/productDetai...ucido+TX1.html From the specs it looks very good.
Spyros; both the TX1 Zoom & the X1 Pine appear to have a cracking spec on paper - better than the various manifestations of the Petzl Myo XP.
I think that £6.00 for the X1 Pine must be a misprint - I would guess that it is £60.00.
Lucido were the first LED headtorches on the UK market - just 7 standard 'old' super bright LED's - they were imported by OSC that owns RonHill, Mountain Equipment & SprayAway. I bought one back in '01. Only fault was that there did not appear to be much spring steel in the various switch contacts and they continually needed 'tweaking', as did the battery contacts ( possibly of Italian origin - their auto electrics can be dubious). I could live with my soldered up & botched up 'special' but as I was down to navigate leg 5 of Baggins' BG in Sept, and did not want to let him down, I treat myself to a Black Diamond Icon; so no more headtorches for me, this winter! ;)
C'mon Lola, the guys and gals are enjoying themselves too much to stop. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Lola
Oh, OK then.
Shedding a little personal light, I too have an Icon and it does the job a treat with rechargeables fitted. Because they are not that fashionable they are also often reduced on the web. Not that robust tho so if you get one it probably won't last, meaning that next winter we start the thread again, hoorah!