as many of you know I really love torches and flashlights I have a
collection of them and this is one know quite well it's called the Sun it's a
nightcore I have five or six head torches and I get requests I would say
probably on a monthly if not more basis to try out new flashlights and I
actually generally just turn them down but last week I decided to say yes and
see what came up and this arrived I'm Andrew st. Pierre White join me as I share
my passion for bowling four-wheel drive trucks and traveling to the remotest
parts
it is made by company called army tech it is a very very flimsy box and I must
say when I opened it first openers I thought we and this particular model is
called the Barracuda named after a fish and it is a long range of flashlights
very very large reflector and a simple switch at the back which turns it on and
a simple switch in the back that turns it off I noticed the first thing I
notice about it is that the light is very warm so if I compare it to I mean
it's not really a fair comparison because with something like the the Sun
it's many many times the price you know what I like about it I think it's the
kind of thing yes this is the kind of thing that I would probably put a it's
nicely made and it's you know and I probably put a clip or something and
actually have it somewhere in the vehicle where I could get to it and this
is almost too nice it's almost too valuable you know you're not I mean I
you know so I do like I do like it I think I almost might find myself using
it more than I do I do like it Knight cores equivalent to the Army
Corps Barracuda is the mh4 TGT are a very similar size and weight but with a
light that is more blue in color the same batteries and even a very similar
belt holster I'm I'm a big fan and I call I like then I call range almost all
of them very very much but I've never been absolutely
hooked on their hate torches and they these guys same thing army tech sent me
this guy his head torch and my immediate reaction was yeah very comfortable not
heavy and I turn it on and I turn it off when I put my hand up to me this is
really important to the head torch vital I want to put my hand up and not have to
fiddle for a button and every single one of the night core head torches clever
with a different shade and everything like that and different brightnesses and
and yeah great every single one of them including their very latest one I have
to fiddle with not with this I've got it in the college here it is here this is
the the model name is the Nu 32 this is the latest one that nightcore sent me
and if I put it on my head okay nice light weight good nothing wrong with
that no I want the white light there you go I've got the white light you see you
cannot see these labels when the torches on your head so they don't help see this
is the problem I want it on so I put my hand up and I can't feel any buttons
there are no nothing's proud it's all it's all flush there should be a big
lump on the on and off button I should be able to just put my head head up here
hand up and find it and click the button and so this has got a very very dull
setting I wish this one had a duller setting then it's got but it's not a big
deal because the dullest setting is pretty pretty dull sometimes I like very
dull which this is got and then it okay so it's now gonna art now so if I hold
it in okay and then it goes full bright so
I wanted slightly brighter okay now I want to turn it off it goes bright
instead of turning itself off okay so on off no brighter no no I don't know I
don't want that I wanted to go off so there okay I wanted to go off I hold it
in it goes brighter so how do I turn it off
I've got a cycle it to turn it off too fiddly I mean it's great you've got red
light which is nice for real and I think this I honestly think this army take now
the the actual model name is the e.l.f c1 multi flashlight it's us be
chargeable and the hid the little head thing there
that goes on the head is you just clip it in
so now I can use that for all kinds of things it's got yeah and then if I
wanted to go right up I just hold it in and then if I snap it closed it turns
off from the brightest setting or the Lisp riding setting and it remembers the
setting that you've had it on so when you turn it off and then turn it back on
it turns back on at the setting that you've had there is an equivalent head
torch like this that nightcore makes it's called the HC 33 it does not have a
magnetic function being charged with a much larger battery I found it very
heavy and actually quite uncomfortable to use and the rubber detachment
mechanism on the nightcore I was not impressed with that at all I honestly
think that this little guy is going to become a favorite because and I've been
using it on this trip now this is night 3 still function at night 3 1 2 yes 3
and I will report back and tell you how many nights it lasts because I mean
using it averaged around the camp to be if it's rechargeable it must last at
least 3 fairly heavy nights use at least three four it's to be practical because
I don't want to have to think oh I didn't charge the torch last night and
it fades so it's got to have a good battery in it for it to be practical and
the light that it emits is very round very easy very easy to read very I mean
actually really quite nice and I must say I think this is a new favorite it's
one of the nicest I've used I would have liked it to have both of these to test
side by side but the night core hadn't arrived by the time I left on my trip
and now the Barracuda is with my truck in Africa but this new night Court is
going to be used as my long-range ready to hand flashlight for my new Australia
Hero truck build so let's go and have a look at the Barracuda and the Sun and
that's a very very nice gives me a very very nice range and I like that a lot
let's have a look at the Sun that's on Turbo Power
so that's maximum brightness for the Sun as you can see the light is quite a lot
it's much bluer light and let's put them next to each other the truth is that I
was quietly hoping that they wouldn't be any good so the Sun is much brighter but
they are they're very good and given the price that said I've been using
nightcore for a long time and they're very robust army tick that's an unknown
for now I like it I like it a lot I actually think it's not it's not gonna
surpass this it's not this is this is that's not it's it's it's not better
than the Sun but it's very nice I wish the case was of a better the case is a
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