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About the SpD, agreed that standardized parts, batteries, etc. available at Home Depot is desirable. However, this hasn't affected my diving one bit. I've never had to replace anything on the light, and I use it every weekend. Therefore to me, this disadvantage hasn't offset any of the benefits I've gotten out of the light. Not having a Goodman handle is also a disadvantage, but one can be made out of PVC. And I like the twist-on handle, and never had any problem with it. About the mounting... I mount mine on my left cylinder of my doubles, as forward as possible. It presents a low profile, and is much less of a snag problem than the idiotic practice I've seen of mounting the argon bottle on the side of your doubles, where it sticks out and catches the monofilament. I've never snagged the battery pack even once, and most of my diving is on the mud hole wrecks, not even on the Gulhune, the nastiest snag wreck you've ever seen. About the cord... I route the cord up the left cylinder, across the top of cylinders (behind my the top of my backplate and wings), and down my right side. If you do it this way, the cord is almost a perfect length. Again, I like this light because of the small, less bulky battery pack (you shouldn't carry what you won't need for that dive), and the light, rubber head. With regards to other lights, I like the thin canister battery pack and the way it mounts on the backplate for that new OMS light, but they absolutely ruined the light by making the head a monster size and very heavy weight. It negates any advantage of having a separate battery pack / canister at all! You might as well get one of those Blue Water lights instead, which doubles as a wreck hammer. What I would really like is the thin OMS canister and the SpD rubber head, together. Regards, Christina P.S. If anyone wants to give their SpDs away like Mr. Sadler, please e-mail me, I'll take them. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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