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When you're 90 m down and it's pitch
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black, you want the best and brightest
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possible dive strobe to guide you back
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to the shot line. Now, I've just bought
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myself a new model, and I'm super
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impressed by it. So, I thought I'd share
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it with you. I've got no idea how you
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pronounce a brand. Perhaps Prohu, I
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don't know, but this is their 4,000
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IP68 100meter rated rechargeable strobe.
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I've done six dives with it, all in the
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60 to 90 m range, and it's performed
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absolutely flawlessly. Not only that,
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it's clearly much brighter than anything
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else that's been on the shot line. I
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think everyone likes it at less than 100
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quid to have one of these delivered to
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you. I think we're going to be seeing an
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awful lot of them on boats very soon.
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And if you want to buy one, I've put a
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link in the description, and there's
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also one up here on the top of the
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screen. So, what do you get in the box?
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Well, first of all, you get the box, and
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seems to be pretty common with stuff
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that comes direct from China. You get
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quite a nice little box uh with
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everything in it. So, not a huge amount,
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but you know, there's a lanyard. Well,
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you're probably not going to use that,
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but it's there if you want it. This is
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the really clever bit, I think, which is
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that it's got through case charging.
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That's a little magnetic charger. Clips
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on the outside. I'll show you where it
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goes in a second. And obviously, bog
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standard USBA connector. What else have
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we got? Well, some O-rings. Obviously,
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they're useful. And then the instruction
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manual, which also has details of the
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warranty and all that kind of stuff. So,
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well, instructor manual. It's basically
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a bit of paper, isn't it? But there's
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everything that you need in there. This
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isn't a particularly complex uh piece of
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kit. So, there we go. Which brings us
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nicely on to the actual strobe itself.
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So, different form factor than perhaps
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the ones that we've been used to uh
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recently, but you know what? Works
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really well. So, there's the brand,
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which I can't pronounce, and the on
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switch is on the front. There is the
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magnetic switch for the charger that
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goes on the back. And you can see that
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just sticks on there and means you can
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charge a torch without having to take it
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apart. Sticks on really nicely. So
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that's fairly simple. What else have we
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got? Well, the battery. Should you need
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to take it apart, then obviously it's a
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screw on the end here. And you can see
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there it quite a lot of threads. So
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takes it a while to get off. And we've
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got a Vog standard uh
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21700 5,000 milliamp battery which is
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going to make sure that it uh stays
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illuminated for a long time. I haven't
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actually need to charge mine yet. In
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fact, one of the tests I'm doing is I'm
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seeing how long it will last before I
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need to recharge it. So, uh you can see
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getting the uh the battery cap on is a
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bit of a fight there. There's obviously
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quite a decent spring inside, which is
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quite nice as well because you don't
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want the battery to kind of be loose in
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there and potentially to break contact.
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So, there you go. That's how it all goes
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back together again. And I will get
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there eventually. And to turn it on, one
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press is There you go. And it's flashing
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away. You can probably see there's green
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indication. Another press and it will go
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into the other mode, which is just white
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light. And then third press and it's
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off. So, that's really, really simple.
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People will know, I'm sure, that I like
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to have a double strobe just in case one
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doesn't work for whatever reason. So,
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this is how I've currently got it
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rigged, which seems to work pretty well.
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You can see there I've got one of my old
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kind of type strobes and one of these
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new ones. I've got this John clip, which
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I really like, and I've got a little P
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clip there to kind of attach it onto my
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kit. the Puzza Storch. You can see there
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I've got these lovely dive signs uh
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stickers on them which are quite nice.
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So there's no doubt who it is. There's
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another one there. And that just seems
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like uh seems a really really good
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setup. Really pleased with it. So if
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you're in the market for a really
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bright, decent quality strobe that's not
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going to break the bank, I would say
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this is the one to go for. If you want
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to buy one, there's a link in the
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description. There's also a link just
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above me here. Anyway, as always, I'd
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love to hear your thoughts, so please
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tell me what you think. Thank you and
