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At 03:39 PM 5/8/00 -0500, Joel Markwell wrote:

>They are incredibly bright lights, that I agree with.
>
>I'll keep an open mind on this, but you're saying that an HID light will
>allow one to see to some useful degree in a total siltout--chocolate milk? I
>don't believe it, but I'd like to see it.

I've had one for about two weeks.  I was in near zero-viz today in
Diepolder during deco and didn't really notice the light improve
visibility over a halogen light.

That said, I do very much like the quality and brilliance of the
light (it was hard-white compared to the pale yellow of the other
divers' light), and the extra burn-time is nice too.  EE repackaged
the ballast transformer into a more streamlined shape than the
first-generation lights; I hardly noticed any difference in the way
it handled vs the conventional halogen light-head.

-Mike Rodriguez
<mikey@ma*.co*>
Pn(x) = (1/(2^n)n!)[d/dx]^n(x^2 - 1)^n

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