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Kent, That little chinese made dildo looking thing is the best strobe I have been able to get so far. the Joltron doesnt have the output youd like to have and the tektites will leak before 50 dives or so. There is a place in Brooklyn that sells one that has a plastic yellow body, that is the same size,shape,design, NSN, SOLAS# etc as the orange one, but when you put the lithium battery in it, you get a camera flash level of brightness for the first ten hours or so. The orange body one doesnt seem to produce the same light. I have a friend-who is an excellent diver, despite being a FAS prototype- and an electrician who put me on to them. He claims he disassembled one of each and that the yellow one has a properly volted flash assy. while the orange is overvolted, and that the NSN/solas # is useless as a guide. He has used them for penetrations in the 225 to 250 range, and yes they are in place of a penetration line, and no after 15 years of doing it his way he wont change, although he did switch to bt and tables after a series of skin bends, but I dont want to make it sound like the guy deserves a one way ticket to Blackville Stupid. < paging Greg Zambeck, call your office> I believe I still have the box from when I bought a few last year, i can look if you want me to, to see if there are any other identifyting # on it. The yellow one comes in a square box, unlike the orange one which Ive only seen in a blister pack < flat plastic coated cardboard> at west marine,etc. For anchorline I cut off th velcro and rig it with a d ring & ss hose clamp around the body. I use a large ss gate snap and hook it to the chain. When its not clipped to the anchor chain I carry it clipped off inside my bug bag, which has the requisite ss bolt snap and no metal to metal connections. For obvious reasons I dont recommend metal to metal or suicide snaps on the body. You will probably want to wrap it with cave line a dozen times or so and tie a bolt snap, and carry it in the leg pocket. Or i have seen it carried on a deco bottle using the supplied velcro strap. Another plus to the orange is that the cost is low so you can replace w/o too much pain I actually pay as much for the lithium c cell as for the strobe. The yellow one I have only been able to get from the dive shop in bklyn and he wont tell me where the come from and yes you guessed it they are expensive in the shop. But then, how much is it worth that day you are floating toward the Kodiak Islands, or in my case, Ireland??? regards, Al Marvelli Kent Lind wrote: > So what is the preferred marker strobe these days? > > I'm looking for a decent reliable strobe that I can rig DIR style on my > harness to use occasionally for marking anchor lines, but more importantly > for rescue purposes. It gets dark up here FAST in winter. > > Every strobe I've tried has turned out to be a piece or shit. Or, maybe I'm > just hard on gear. I have a box of junk gear in the garage and nothing > works. I've tried.... > > Tektite 200; dead, flooded after 5 dives > Princeton Tech; dead, flooded > something called a Firefly; dead (smashed) > > In fact, the only strobe I've ever bought that is still working is some > little Chinese-made Xenon strobe with a rotating switch in the end. It's > probably only still alive because it doesn't get wet. It stays in my > backcountry ski kit. > > So what are you guys using? I've heard the Joltron strobes from Norway are > reliable but no one seems to sell them in the US. The Tektite strobes > "look" like they should be decent, but danged if I can make one last more > than 5 dives. Is it just me? > > Kent Lind > Juneau, Alaska > klind@al*.ne* > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.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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