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chrisj Joined: 15/05/2011 Location: Blaenau Ffestiniog View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Anyone have any experience of this lamp? Posted: 20/05/2011 15:47:16 Reply \| Quote Hi I'm a newbie in North Wales and have recently joined the site. I'm just getting kitted up and I'm looking for a decent lamp as I only have a mountaineering headtorch at present. The thread title says it all really. Does anyone have any experience of this lamp? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TROGLITE-LED-Caving-Lamp-Mining-Light-/190534... It seems reasonable for the money and would maybe make a good backup when I can afford something more fancy in the future. But what do other people think. Is it as good as the write up and the linked review say or is it cheap, tacky and not very durable? Cheers for your help. Chris IP: 92.4.62.231
Vanoord Joined: 28/11/2005 Location: North Wales View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Anyone have any experience of this lamp? Posted: 20/05/2011 16:07:33 Reply \| Quote Not a bad bit of kit, a fair few people seem to use them. It may also be worth having a look at this: http://www.caplamps.co.uk/cordless-led-caplamps-mining/ - which also has the advantage of having a tilting bracket. -- Filling space until a new signature comes along... IP: 81.134.114.222
ttxela Joined: 04/09/2007 Location: Cambs View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Anyone have any experience of this lamp? Posted: 20/05/2011 16:16:28 Reply \| Quote I've seen one in use, my impression was that it was a bit lacking in brightness, perfectly sufficient for finding your way about though and for £60 quid or so new it's pretty good value. It looked tough enough but didn't get much rough treatment on the trip we were on. IP: 91.143.75.2
SimonRL Joined: 27/11/2005 Location: North Wales View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Anyone have any experience of this lamp? Posted: 20/05/2011 16:22:48 Reply \| Quote ttxela wrote: I've seen one in use, my impression was that it was a bit lacking in brightness, perfectly sufficient for finding your way about though and for £60 quid or so new it's pretty good value. It looked tough enough but didn't get much rough treatment on the trip we were on. Pretty much what I'd heard people say about them. Not the brightest by a long way but - lux value suggests about 100lm (?) so I guess on a par with most 1W Chinese mining lamps. Welcome to the site btw chrisj. You'll find a fair few people on here from N Wales. You'll also find yourself spoilt for choice with all the lamp options out there - you can spend anything from about £20 to £400 on one I'd perhaps suggest getting underground with a few people and see what you think of their lamps. Some lamps give really tight pencil beams - great for seeing something 200 yards away, not great for seeing what's under your feet. Some lamps are all spill and no beam - ideally you want something that gives you a bit of both. -- Remember there is nothing to be gained by trying to get away. IP: 95.148.0.42
zomjon1 Joined: 06/03/2011 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Anyone have any experience of this lamp? Posted: 20/05/2011 18:09:10 Reply \| Quote Alex, you are not the right person to be describing a lamp's power as you run around with your mega bright monster - anything else just pales into insignificance! IP: 87.115.240.167
royfellows Joined: 13/06/2007 Location: Great Wyrley near Walsall View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Anyone have any experience of this lamp? Posted: 20/05/2011 18:44:16 Reply \| Quote zomjon1 wrote: Alex, you are not the right person to be describing a lamp's power as you run around with your mega bright monster - anything else just pales into insignificance! Oh dear, just when you thought it was safe to go back underground. I have it in for an upgrade! -- ''the stopes soared beyond the range of our caplamps' - David Bick...... How times change IP: 78.150.204.239
ttxela Joined: 04/09/2007 Location: Cambs View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Anyone have any experience of this lamp? Posted: 20/05/2011 20:53:42 Reply \| Quote royfellows wrote: zomjon1 wrote: Alex, you are not the right person to be describing a lamp's power as you run around with your mega bright monster - anything else just pales into insignificance! Oh dear, just when you thought it was safe to go back underground. I have it in for an upgrade! Indeed, in the meantime I have come up with my own custom lamp. Not sure how many lumens it puts out but it's around 3 candlepower. IP: 92.6.253.232
chrisj Joined: 15/05/2011 Location: Blaenau Ffestiniog View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Anyone have any experience of this lamp? Posted: 20/05/2011 21:50:20 Reply \| Quote Thanks for the feedback folks. I think I'd be best waiting for now and look at all the options. Possibly ttxela has shown me the way to go. LOL IP: 92.4.62.231
Mr.C Joined: 23/03/2008 Location: North Staffordshire View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Anyone have any experience of this lamp? Posted: 20/05/2011 22:16:12 Reply \| Quote chrisj wrote: Thanks for the feedback folks. I think I'd be best waiting for now and look at all the options. Possibly ttxela has shown me the way to go. LOL Hmm, the subterrainian Liberace look? -- If things dunner change - the'll stop as the' are. IP: 2.27.5.143
rufenig Joined: 18/03/2008 Location: Shropshire Hills View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Anyone have any experience of this lamp? Posted: 21/05/2011 12:19:05 Reply \| Quote Anyone else old enough to remember when a 1 amp bulb in an Oldham was "Bright" We must have had better eyes then!! IP: 86.137.23.59
Brakeman Joined: 10/10/2007 Location: Cheshire View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Anyone have any experience of this lamp? Posted: 21/05/2011 12:22:34 Reply \| Quote rufenig wrote: Anyone else old enough to remember when a 1 amp bulb in an Oldham was "Bright" We must have had better eyes then!! Quite remember it, the funny thing was, we had absolutely no problem getting about in whatever size of mine we explored back in those days. -- The management thanks you for your co operation. IP: 86.27.164.254
NewStuff Joined: 26/07/2010 Location: NE Wales View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Anyone have any experience of this lamp? Posted: 21/05/2011 19:46:47 Reply \| Quote But why settle for less when you don't need to. My main headlamp for walking around is a 300 Lumen £5 from china cheapie. Works well enough, fairly sturdy, although I wouldn't attempt a crawl unless I had to. Why on earth would I want a heavire, dimmer, bulkier lamp instead? I have Oldhams, but I don't use em. I appreciate the nostalgia, and that you don't need to see that far to get around, but you can see the entire length of the chamber, in good detail these days, and it doesn't cost the earth. Brakeman wrote: rufenig wrote: Anyone else old enough to remember when a 1 amp bulb in an Oldham was "Bright" We must have had better eyes then!! Quite remember it, the funny thing was, we had absolutely no problem getting about in whatever size of mine we explored back in those days. -- In your mines, Taking your pictures... IP: 78.150.137.12
zephyr Joined: 05/03/2011 Location: London View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Anyone have any experience of this lamp? Posted: 22/05/2011 05:17:44 Reply \| Quote Vanoord wrote: Not a bad bit of kit, a fair few people seem to use them. It may also be worth having a look at this: http://www.caplamps.co.uk/cordless-led-caplamps-mining/ - which also has the advantage of having a tilting bracket. Looks nice, 90 lumens, and then I looked at the price: £135. Oh dear... for quite a bit less than that you can have a Spark ST6-500CW (about £80) - surely a more desirable bit of kit, although of course each to their own. http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/showthread.php?312069-Spark-ST6-500CW-review. IP: 49.49.75.125
vikingaero Joined: 30/09/2009 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Anyone have any experience of this lamp? Posted: 18/06/2011 11:50:23 Reply \| Quote ttxela wrote: Indeed, in the meantime I have come up with my own custom lamp. Not sure how many lumens it puts out but it's around 3 candlepower. Alex, Have you not told the forum of the fundamental flaws with your candlebra? Within 1 minute of entering Bedlams you were complaining of hot wax burns. I spent a good portion of the return leg relighting your candles which you would stub out on the roof. And by the end of your trip you looked like an extra from a Bukkake movie with all the wax over you. IP: 86.170.21.51
Edd Joined: 02/07/2008 Location: Alderley Edge View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Anyone have any experience of this lamp? Posted: 18/06/2011 14:00:53 Reply \| Quote vikingaero wrote: ttxela wrote: Indeed, in the meantime I have come up with my own custom lamp. Not sure how many lumens it puts out but it's around 3 candlepower. Alex, Have you not told the forum of the fundamental flaws with your candlebra? Within 1 minute of entering Bedlams you were complaining of hot wax burns. I spent a good portion of the return leg relighting your candles which you would stub out on the roof. And by the end of your trip you looked like an extra from a Bukkake movie with all the wax over you. IP: 62.254.11.22
RJV Joined: 16/03/2008 Location: Cleveland View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Anyone have any experience of this lamp? Posted: 18/06/2011 14:09:09 Reply \| Quote Its always nice to learn about fellow AN members areas of expertise outside of mine-exploring... -- Rich IP: 82.5.181.65
Tamarmole Joined: 20/05/2009 Location: Tamar Valley View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Anyone have any experience of this lamp? Posted: 19/06/2011 18:11:23 Reply \| Quote edd wrote: vikingaero wrote: ttxela wrote: Indeed, in the meantime I have come up with my own custom lamp. Not sure how many lumens it puts out but it's around 3 candlepower. Alex, Have you not told the forum of the fundamental flaws with your candlebra? Within 1 minute of entering Bedlams you were complaining of hot wax burns. I spent a good portion of the return leg relighting your candles which you would stub out on the roof. And by the end of your trip you looked like an extra from a Bukkake movie with all the wax over you. I just googled bukkake and really wished I hadn't IP: 81.132.244.113
Peter Burgess Joined: 01/07/2008 Location: Merstham. Or is it Godstone ...... ? View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Anyone have any experience of this lamp? Posted: 19/06/2011 18:46:22 Reply \| Quote "A Japanese method of serving various types of noodles..." Are you not keen on noodles, then? -- Hé ! Ki kapcsolva le a villanyt ? IP: 92.10.148.181
Tamarmole Joined: 20/05/2009 Location: Tamar Valley View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Anyone have any experience of this lamp? Posted: 19/06/2011 19:10:30 Reply \| Quote Peter Burgess wrote: "A Japanese method of serving various types of noodles..." Are you not keen on noodles, then? It is also a fairly dubious genre of "adult art" movie. IP: 81.132.244.113
stuey Joined: 15/08/2007 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Anyone have any experience of this lamp? Posted: 19/06/2011 20:29:40 Reply \| Quote Tamarmole wrote: Peter Burgess wrote: "A Japanese method of serving various types of noodles..." Are you not keen on noodles, then? It is also a fairly dubious genre of "adult art" movie. I gather it's a popular alternative to a game of golf, for businessmen. Right Kimberly, you can stay here, Mr Simmonds, Mr Penhaligon and I are off for a spot of bukkake! IP: 87.115.183.54

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