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Well, last night I promised another flashlight thread so ... here goes.
A couple of days ago yet another flashlight made its way down the mail slot. Oh happy oh joy! This time we're looking at HDS Systems "EDC Ultimate 60GT". Fancy name for such a simple thing huh. The fancy name does serve a purpose though, it identifies what type of flashlight we're dealing with:
Now, some more info regarding the "Ultimate" designation. Well, it just means that it's got a lot of nifty little features. I'm just gonna name a few of them and if you want to know more (HAH!) you can go ahead and read the 14 page manual. The features include such things as emergency strobe, locator beacon and SOS.
This light is controlled completely by a microprocessor and the different features can be set up to fit the user. You can set how bright it should be, if it should turn on at a specific level each time or if it should turn on to the same level it was set at when you last used it and such. There are 20 different levels of light output giving you anything from very bright output for about 20 minutes to hours upon hours of medium-low level light.
At the highest level it can get quite toasty, because of this it is protected against overheating and will automatically step down light intensity to keep the LED from frying (or your hand from getting burnt).
Its primary battery is a CR-123A cell but it can also be run from rechargeable R123a/16750's etc. It will keep your unprotected rechargeables safe to prevent overdischarge (which destroys that particular type of battery).
It is very rugged and can take A LOT of abuse before dying on you. Unless you go crazy and start throwing it with all your might into concrete floors you're not going to stop this thing from doing what it's suppose to do. It is even waterproof to 2 atmospheres so you could take it diving if you felt like it.
I could probably go on for a while longer but I'd think most of you guys stopped reading somewhere in the second paragraph. I'll round it off with a few pictures that I've stolen from some japanese site. I was too lazy to take pics of my own this time.
A couple of days ago yet another flashlight made its way down the mail slot. Oh happy oh joy! This time we're looking at HDS Systems "EDC Ultimate 60GT". Fancy name for such a simple thing huh. The fancy name does serve a purpose though, it identifies what type of flashlight we're dealing with:
- EDC = Every Day Carry. In other words, a flashlight that you carry with you, always.
- Ultimate = All the good stuff when it comes to included features. (more on this below)
- 60 = 60 lumens of happiness
- GT = Guaranteed Tint. This flashlight uses a Luxeon 3W LED from
Now, some more info regarding the "Ultimate" designation. Well, it just means that it's got a lot of nifty little features. I'm just gonna name a few of them and if you want to know more (HAH!) you can go ahead and read the 14 page manual. The features include such things as emergency strobe, locator beacon and SOS.
This light is controlled completely by a microprocessor and the different features can be set up to fit the user. You can set how bright it should be, if it should turn on at a specific level each time or if it should turn on to the same level it was set at when you last used it and such. There are 20 different levels of light output giving you anything from very bright output for about 20 minutes to hours upon hours of medium-low level light.
At the highest level it can get quite toasty, because of this it is protected against overheating and will automatically step down light intensity to keep the LED from frying (or your hand from getting burnt).
Its primary battery is a CR-123A cell but it can also be run from rechargeable R123a/16750's etc. It will keep your unprotected rechargeables safe to prevent overdischarge (which destroys that particular type of battery).
It is very rugged and can take A LOT of abuse before dying on you. Unless you go crazy and start throwing it with all your might into concrete floors you're not going to stop this thing from doing what it's suppose to do. It is even waterproof to 2 atmospheres so you could take it diving if you felt like it.
I could probably go on for a while longer but I'd think most of you guys stopped reading somewhere in the second paragraph. I'll round it off with a few pictures that I've stolen from some japanese site. I was too lazy to take pics of my own this time.