Thread: All things Maxtoch..

Not yet Cliff - couple of weeks or so.

Pm for any questions for the moment

I'm keen on one of the new LR headlamps and maaaaaaybe one of the big handhelds (XPro?)
Are the headlamps still a couple wks away?

Hi Gerbs - yes new LR headlamp should be ready for first orders end of month. Batch of new XPros coming this week...

Pity the old rimfire site died - was good value for many years

right ho...first off let me state I have NO vested interest in these lights...pain my hard earned $$$$ same as the rest of you blokes.
got the wee archer and charger and batteries... yip pretty impressive. stuck my older /lesser batteries in it out of the surefire to try it out
yip pretty darn good.....the batteries,not so much
so charged up the PROPER ONES and have given it another go
tail switch is great,easy to select what strenght beam you want and it does have 3..not 2 as I first thought.
low is good for doing normal walkies/tie dog up stuff
medium is bright.....really bright
high is blow ya socks off good....bright enough to spotlight bunnies from vechile bright,better than headlights bright

compared my old ultrfire CREE its about the same as medium on ARCHER but beam nowhere near as handy...its either flood or big square,
my P7 lenser is very similar to medium..slightly wider centre spot with slightly less range
put archer on full and no comparison at all...it quite simply EATS the others
poor wee bunny at 30ish yards was dazzled completely as was hare at 50ish last night

so very nice product and so far so good.

That's good Micky - very surprised P7 anywhere near Archer's medium. Last one I looked at was more like Archer's low in range. Were you testing the Archer on medium and the P7 out to max range?

Is there more than 1 model of the Archer available ?

There is an M2 available but not for hunters. Detuned some with fancy switch modes... M1 is for us.

it was foggy as inside of a night club and drizzly to go with it...pretty hard on any light... the magtoch on medium was better than P7, on low not as ,IN THOSE CONDITIONS the centre spot of beam was a LITTLE wider on P7 its light was whiter and the archers more a soft yellow/greeny tinge
hopefully it will be clear one of these night and will get out again to recheck against the others.

Any sense of green will be in the light conditions I think.

Archer tint like other Maxtoch hunters is designed to be slightly warm of neutral - about 5500K on the Kelvin scale. This gives best colour picture or CRI (colour rendition index). The warm tint is also there to help cut through particulate (crap in the air) eg dust/fog/moisture particles. Bright or bluey white will glare of this while warmer tints will tend to cut through and give better range. Like old school foglights but not so yellow.

https://www.larsonelectronics.com/bl...e-kelvin-scale

Many LED lights like the Led Lensers are often bluey white on the wall - high colour temperature up around 7000-8000 Kelvin. This tint washes out colour and cuts down target picture down range - not desireable.

I find my H01R is far too white on full. It washs everything out.

ahhh remember the 6vt dolphins the really good Big Jims and then we thought all our Christmas's had come at once with tiny 2x aa MAGLITES that chewed through batteries faster than a kid through licourice.... and I REMEMBER looking for deer with one of those maglites....oh how times have changed.
Ive still got a 12volt spotlight that has a scope base screwed into handle to mount it on scope with another ring...its powered by a 7amhr battery and used to last 30-45 minutes if we conserved it.....Im pretty sure the wee ARCHER has a better light that it ever had....... shit those bigger ones must be mind blowing LOL.

HO1R less of hunter tint - more of a general purpose short range camper/walker lamp

Yep - I also remember the two cell torches, then three cell, Big Jims, Dolphins, car lights with motorbike batteries, big old halogen spotties etc.

Thank God for modern LED tech

AMEN to that .

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

AMEN to that .

No religion here . Naughty boy

he started it...I just finished it off lmfao.