Orcatorch D800

[no_surrender]

Anyone have any experience with this torch? I'm new to deep diving, night diving, and diving in general. This looks like a pretty decent non-canister light as a primary for recreational diving. Also curious if using it out of water occasionally will lower its overall performance. Thoughts?

Thanks!

 

[stuartv]

I would get an Xtar D26 1600 over that light any day.

The Xtar is less lumens, but it's still DANG bright. And the Xtar has 4 brightness levels. Sometimes even 1000 lumens is too much. Especially on night dives. Plus, at a lower level, it will burn for hours and hours.

And the Xtar is way more compact. The Xtar will mount in a soft mount (e.g. Oxycheq Raider) on the back of your hand, which is nice. That D800 is too big to do that comfortably.

Just my $0.02.

 

[no_surrender]

I would get an Xtar D26 1600 over that light any day.

The Xtar is less lumens, but it's still DANG bright. And the Xtar has 4 brightness levels. Sometimes even 1000 lumens is too much. Especially on night dives. Plus, at a lower level, it will burn for hours and hours.

And the Xtar is way more compact. The Xtar will mount in a soft mount (e.g. Oxycheq Raider) on the back of your hand, which is nice. That D800 is too big to do that comfortably.

Just my $0.02.

Thanks for the reply, stuartv. It doesn’t appear the xtar d26 1600 is available on Amazon at the moment, but I’ll keep an eye out. The wife still needs a primary as well. Speaking of primary, isn’t 2000 lumens the unwritten standard of brightness for primaries?

 

[stuartv]

I would not say that at all. If there were such a thing, I would probably peg it at 1000 lumens. Bear in mind that dive lights brighter than 1000 lumens didn't even exist until relatively recently in the history of scuba diving.

 

[no_surrender]

I would not say that at all. If there were such a thing, I would probably peg it at 1000 lumens. Bear in mind that dive lights brighter than 1000 lumens didn't even exist until relatively recently in the history of scuba diving.

I don't remember where I read that, but thanks for the clarification.