what's going on YouTube Kevin Aries here thanks for stopping by my channel today today I want to
show you all this streamlined Polytech X that I picked up so the reason I picked this up is
I have the original Polytech which comes in at like 280 lumens max I think this one here this
new one is 600 lumens to Polytech X it came with a micro USB rechargeable 18 650 2600
milliamp Streamlight battery and I got this light to replace the light on my fire helmet
which I'll show you all how I have my original stream light setup on it and to use the other
one is to keep like in my bunker pants for some hands-free lighting just from what I have found
being out on scene majority of time when you run into vehicle accidents they're going to be
at nighttime when there's decreased visibility so when you're involved in vehicle extrication
and you've got you know your buddies over here and y'all are popping the door you're cutting
the door it what I have found is only having a helmet-mounted light when I'm looking around is
not really enough I wanted another light to keep you know so I thought I can shine and
kind of see what's going on so it's the reason I picked up another one to replace it and also
to keep another good stream light in my bunker gear so opening up the box what you're initially
going to get get your paper work here you've got your your light which is going to come with the
battery and it has one of those disks that comes in between so I'll keep the power from being
accidentally activated that you'll remove before you use the light for the first time like I said
it comes with a really nice stream light battery and it's a 2600 milliamp three point seven volt
18 650 with the micro USB recharging capability and so when you plug that in it turns a like a
red color lights charging it's got a light down here the tip somewhere it's interesting because
you can't really see like where a light would be but it lights up red and then when it's fully
charged it turns blue so pretty handy to be able to have this because you know there's so many
micro USB cables around I've got a million of them really handy little feature you see here
your reflector here large spring so looking here y'all you've got a high medium low in a strobe
mode and you can see they give different runtimes so for your Co one two three A's you can see your
runtime and then you've got your 18 650 so you can see you get a good bit more runtime out of
that then you do see our one two threes since it comes with this 18 650 is what we're going
to look at you see you've got 35 lumens on low that'll run for 36 hours young and that's plenty
of light to see now what I like about this one on medium at 260 lumens which is close to my
max on my original stream light I get five hours and 145 minutes out of that if I want to take it
up too high 600 lumens three and a half hours on a full charge its impact resistant and it's
the the ip68 so waterproof to submersible of the one meter and you see right here your LED charged
indicators like I said charging the red LED is on when it's charged the green LED is on and so you
can see here if you look at the light that tells you looking inside it tells you the position 18
650 goes or your cr123 so it's nice they put this in here y'all so you can you can tell you can use
either or which is nice to have a multi fuel light so she positive side up here just just the picture
indicates drop that in comes with the o-ring right here around the cap sits on top of your belt clip
innocent it's a good light y'all like I said I've been in with my original Streamlight I've been
in I've worked cause where I've been outside for two hours in rain the lights on top of my
helmet has never given me any problems at all a structure fire I've been inside house fires
I've had electrical wires drape down on top of me shocking me and stuff the and I've never had
any issues with my original stream lights so the Polytech acts you know new and improved output
I'm expecting the same type of reliability and durability out of it simple polymer good quality
polymer design here and if you're one of those you know if you want to use this light it will
you can see a will tale stand for you it's got the 10th a programmable feature I have mine set
up right now we're gonna go low medium high all the width and this is my 600 lumen and I could
feel the heat off of this one but to change to the program so when you're in the off position
you tap the switch rapidly nine times within point four seconds per tap and hold it down
the tenth time continue holding the switch until the light turns off which was approximately one
second then you release the switch so that's how you change your different modes so to show
you all what that looks like 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 and hold it down and there the light turned
off you can see here the next mode that I'm in is high strobe and low and the next mode
that I can go to is high only so I'm gonna go 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 hold it down it went off
and you saw that then it went too high right at the end so when I press it I can keep tapping
it's gonna be high every time so and then to go back to my last mode 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 hold
it down you can see when too low and went off I can release it I don't only have to press it down
and click and hold it the only light behind me is an aerial light so looking out here over my
pond you can see this is looking at here in front this is your low mode on the stream light so low
medium low medium high so this is high this is your six hundred lumens as y'all can see
that gives a very very nice beam all the way out here across the yard you see here hitting
that magnolia tree down there other side of the pond you see here really really nice lights up
the whole area really really bright hotspot one thing about these stream lights I like that hot
spot really helps with with cutting through smoke um you know it does have a nice flood you can see
around it so even on low it's got a it's got a nice flood feature come over here where it's a
little darker kind of let y'all see that so I mean you can definitely even on this mode you can light
up and see a lot about where I work most of the time would be here with my your medium which is
still y'all look at that there's plenty of light for what I'm gonna be using this light for like I
said on scene right y'all so here's my fire helmet as you can see here like I was saying this is the
original stream light Polytech and you can see I have a stream light says stream light around the
stream light helmet band here's a rubber band so I took my I took my plate off the front here to put
this on take it off put it around the backside of it and you see I can actually run two flashlights
on here if I wanted to but I just choose to run a single one so it gives me up all the light output
I need and like I said I wanted to be able to go hands-free so um it's the reason I got this the
reason I just wanted to take this one off put this one on so that's what we're gonna do now
as y'all can see the reason I like I like this clip and I keep this clip on here and you can
see that clips actually a little different than this clip is but it goes over it like that so
if anything I mean it holds it so tight to this helmet it's never gone it's never gone anywhere
y'all I mean the light is in there I've never had an issue with it and it's been through hell
the clip actually you know it goes through and kind of goes over so it's it's just that extra
added level of security there just hold it in place but this this band holds it so tight I've
never had an issue with it coming out all right so I'd be lying if I said that it wasn't as easy to
activate as my old law firm so you can see here structural firefighting gloves and to activate
the light I can reach up tap it so I've got low medium high press it and click it I mean it works
not as easy because that tail cat business isn't this exposed but um just kind of get the tip tip
of my finger down on it so I can hit a low and I kind of have to match it a little bit harder
it's not quite as easy still doable I think for the extra six hundred lumens I can deal with it
but low medium click it and say if I want to work like that I know I'm probably blind the hell out
of y'all every time a little camera but this is another issue when you're working on scene you
working with another firefighter and askew so if you look at me and say what which is another
reason I like to have some hands-free lights which is why I wanted to keep the supplement
in my book year so that's kind of one of the issues you run into but here is still low medium
high click it works works fine so no problems with it at all really a little bit tougher but
it's still very manageable very doable not as easy as the other one of course because I mean
you're not you don't have you don't have this tail cabinet is completely exposed all right if
y'all are interested in a review of the original Streamlight poly sack I have a video of it on as
well the original Streamlight poly tech I still really like this light y'all it is that same tint
a programmable so right now I have it sets it for low low and high so I've got it set low and
then high the only too much you get on that one but same feature so if I go one two three four
five six seven eight nine ten you see it strobes and it goes off so and then when I go back to it
I have low strobe and then high which is how I had it set up before low strobe high but I
like the low high so one two three four five six seven eight nine ten hold off and there's also
so this mode is actually high so it'll only do high every time you turn on its high but I like
low high so one two three four five six seven eight nine ten hold it goes low and then off so
here we go we got low high so but anyway if you want to see a full review on this light like I
said check out my video already done one on it and now this is my thoughts y'all I think I'm
gonna rock this one like this for a little while see how I like it runs some calls with it see how
it performs on scene what I think I'm going to do with this light is I may put this light back
on here just because it's so easy to access that being that it's that easy to access that I don't
want it to be turning on and off you know inside my bunker pants when I put it in my bunker pants
you know by bumping around cuz I think if I lean into something I'm gonna activate it because the
tail kept so exposed so actually what I think I'm going to do is I'm going to go ahead and put this
one back on here and I'm gonna keep this one in my bunker gear so to have an extra because it's
got that extra protection you have to press it a little bit harder for it to activate and
I think it would be better served in my gear it's still the still stream like Polytech still really
tough and rugged so I can still pull it out and use it but I think I'm gonna have less chance
of activating this being in my bunker gear I may actually pick up another light and maybe run one
on the other side but keep this in my bunker gear and maybe put this one on the other side I don't
think this is the best the best light to be in a pocket honestly just because that tail cap is
so exposed and it's so easy to to activate it I mean you can see here I mean I can barely barely
tap it and it activates and I know I'm gonna end up active turn it on in my pocket so back here on
my helmet y'all can see there I mean look at the head it's so is so easy to activate that
I'm just gonna leave this one on my helmet this light actually uses cr123 batteries but honestly
I have had this light on my helmet for a few years now with these same batteries that came
in it and they are still as powerful I've never had to change them so far I just couldn't keep
this one in my pocket that tail cap is so exposed and it's so easily activated as y'all can see I
mean I really can't can't justify putting this in my pocket because I will inadvertently turn
it on I know that I will it's very easy to do so this one is going to go in my bunker gear
as y'all can see here so my bunker pants I'm gonna put it right here on this side this side
pocket here I keep some extrication gloves which what I'm going to do you know any any
kind of alter extrication these are the gloves I use I have a review on these as
well are three four sevens if you want to check those out but I'm gonna go ahead and
drop this in boom close it up even match this my bunker gear with the desert tan so they'll
just drop right in there I can close it and I mean I can you know always have that light by
my side so thank you for watching my video I hope this video is all y'all look at that
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