Howdy folks.
Ben from Snowy's again
with another Nitecore Torch: the MH 23.
Now this is a little pocket sized power house of light,
with up to 1800 lumens, it's made from an arrow grade,
aluminium alloy and it has a military speck hard anodized
finish to it.
There's mineral glass in the end here,
which protects high-quality Cree LED.
All the operation occurs through one button
on this Torch here and it has a rechargeable
lithium ion battery in the end here.
3600 milliamp hour battery that's recharged
through USB port on the back here.
This torch weighs 96.2 grammes.
Length-wise is 111.3 millimetres.
The head of the unit here is 31.8 millimetres in diameter.
An the tail unit is 25.4 millimetres.
I'll show you what comes in the box with the MH 23 Torch.
Down here we've got a USB cable for charging,
you get a lanyard, so you gotta secure it around your wrist,
and also a pocket clip that just attaches
around the side of the torch here.
You do get a replacement USB cover just in case
this one wears out over time.
A couple of spare o-rings to keep it waterproof
at the end here when you take that on and off.
And you get a belt holster which can either
go through your belt or just clipped
to a buckle or to a backpack.
Now I wanna show you how to use the unit.
It's got five light levels, plus three special settings,
which are strobe, SOS, and beacon.
So the lowest setting, which is one lumen,
you get up to 330 hours of run time out of it.
Right through to 1800 lumens out of this little unit
but you're only gonna get about
half an hour of run time out of it.
On the mid-range settings, 260 lumens,
about five and a quarter hours of run time.
Now the whole thing operates from this one button here.
It's a two-stage button, so a half press
and a full press do different things.
A full press turns it on and a half press
scrolls through the modes.
So I actually got it on the lowest setting there now.
If I do a half press it scrolls through
the five light settings, right to the highest setting there.
If I do a half press...
hold down on a half press, while the torch is off,
it's direct access to low mode,
that's now turned on to low mode,
where as a full press while the torch is off
is directed access to momentary turbo mode.
So as soon as I release that button
the turbo mode turns off.
Now that's a different setting when the torch is on
so if I just turn that on to low setting there.
Now if I do a half press and hold down while it's on,
it gives me direct access to momentary turbo mode.
So I can just flick between turbo mode there.
And a full press while the torch is on
accesses special modes.
So I hold down on that, I've got a beacon.
And then a half press scrolls through the special modes.
I do it again I've gone to SOS.
And then another half press...
then takes me to a beacon mode.
You can see it's just flashing
temporary now and then on beacon mode.
And then a full press turns it off again.
Now that might sound, all sound just a little bit confusing.
Once you've used it a few times it all makes sense
and it's all in the manual that comes with the Torch.
So have a play around and you'll get used to it.
So now I want to talk about the indicator light
and this button here 'cause it's got quite a few functions.
Firstly, if we do a half press while the torch is off,
it starts to blink every, say, one and a half
to two seconds of blue light.
You might be able to just see that there.
That's a positioning light.
It's not on at the moment, but if you're in a dark tent,
or somewhere where you don't have any other light,
that's an easy way to be able to find the torch.
Do a half press again and it turns that off.
This also indicates charge status.
So while we've got a USB plugged in at the back here,
this will blink every one and a half seconds
while it's plugged in to show while the battery's charging.
And that is constantly on once the battery is charged.
And furthermore, this indicates the battery voltage to us.
When we first instal the battery,
I'll unscrew that and screw it up now
and we watch what this light does here.
This now blinks three times followed by another four times.
And that indicates to me that
the battery voltage is at 3.4 volts.
Three blinks followed by four blinks,
which is pretty much flat.
4.2 volts is a charged battery, 3.5 or below is almost flat.
It's gonna take about 6 hours to charge
a fully depleted battery.
You can use other types of one and 650 batteries and also
two CR123 batteries in there,
it's all outlined in the manual
what you can use and what you can and can't charge.
These are available on our website at Snowys.com.au
at lowest prices every day with free delivery
to pretty much anywhere in Australia.
Pretty powerful little Torch I reckon.
Thanks for watching.
We'll see you next time.
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