Dive torches? Lumens?

Hey Al,

I don't have personal experience with that light but that thing is probably a pretty good light. A 1 watt cree led @220 lumens is pretty bright. And 4-5 star Amazon reviews are usually a good indicator in my experience. I actually kind of want to pick one up. But replacing my light means losing the clip my light has. Its too big and not bright enough (40 lumens). But man I really like that clip and don't know how I would carry a light without one. (it clips right to my belt)

duskydiver that light has 220 lumens.

For comparison.... my main dive light has 400 lumens and my small hand held dive light has 77 lumens.

I'd say 220 lumens is plenty bright for a small hand held light like that.

Up here in Norcal, we use dive lights for almost all our diving... so I've become familiar with a lot of them.

I have owned a full range from 1 AAA micro lights to UK light cannons.
After using a wide assortment of Intova, PrincetonTec, Pelican, & Ikelites... I've settled on UK lights.
Used to love the small Ikelite PCa series, but had too many of them die on me.
Princeton Tec has some really nice lights as well; however, I had a couple issues with them.

Ultimately it's all personal preference.
For me, the UKs provided the best balance of price/durability/performance.

My current lighting arsenal consists of:

• 1 Q40 eLED Plus
  Supposed to be for mask strap, but never gets used.
  For the size, beam is surprisingly bright!
  Mini Q40 eLED® Plus Diving Light » Underwater Kinetics
• 1 SL4 Xenon
  Older light, updated with a CREE drop-in replacement.
  SL4 Xenon Light » Underwater Kinetics
  Stock, not as bright as base SL4 eLED, and poor battery life (4-5hrs).
  With CREE upgrade, WAY brighter, but still poor battery life.
• 3 SL4 eLEDs
  Workhorse light, great overall, excellent white light.
• 1 SL3 eLED
  Round with 3 c-cells stacked.
  Bright, very nice light.
  Not a fan of the twist on/off, so doesn't get used much.
  SL3 eLED® LED dive light » Underwater Kinetics
• 2 SL4 (L1) eLED
  400 lumens & 8-10hr burn time!
  Just a great light overall.
  SL4 eLED » Underwater Kinetics
• 1 UK HID Light Cannon
  For throwing more light, rarely used.
  Contemplated replacing with eLED light cannon, but didn't due to lack of use.

With all that, I've decided to trim down to just the two SL4 L1 eLED's.

note: I have had trouble with a couple SL4 series switches get "sticky".
Their customer service has replaced them, but it's annoying to have to do so.

i like that intova..it is on my birthday list very well reviewed torch