Princeton Headlight.

mick dunn

mick dunn

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After a lot of deliberation and thinking, I finally made the decision to buy one.
£75 (£20 off list price of £95) plus £10 for rechargeable batteries.
Great in the garden lighting up everything, but the other night on the beach I felt a bit deflated.
Bloke next to me had a Cree same as my old one and it was just as good if not a lot better than the Princeton. And my Cree cost £11.
Maybe I should have not bothered and left a specialist light for the likes of cavers for exploring caves. Plus I would be £85 better off.
Mick.
 
Princeton

Princeton

I bet ya Princeton last a lot longer than ya Cree light will I have had mine
About 6 year now and still going strong mick-:)
 
I agree with what the others say about princetontec they are great,plus you get a 10 year guarantee with them,my light broke after about 7 years so I sent it back to one of there main distribution shops whitby and co in Kendal and 5 days later a brand new 275 Luman lamp was delivered
Brilliant sevice
 
Mick, I've had mine for about 8 years I am guessing and it gets used a lot for fishing but mainly walking my dogs. The elastic s were not in the best of health so I emailed Princeton and they sent me a new set from the USA free of charge. The postage was about $15 alone. Brilliant service.

I also have Cree lights for the missus and it is excellent for the money. I've burnt out 2 mind in the last 2 years.
 
Cracking lights had one for boutique 8yrs and great service I had one replaced no problem....
My current one has just started to eat batteries though tried different brands still the same.
Get only but 3 hrs on high b4 starts flashing...mind it'll go for ever after that if drop to the less...
Didn't used to have this problem can't figure it out!!!!
 
P-Tex

P-Tex

Cannot recommend these enough. I imported mine from the USA what feels like 10 years ago now. Unbelievable kit. Pair with 2900 rechargeable batteries and you are set.
 
mick dunn said:
After a lot of deliberation and thinking, I finally made the decision to buy one.
£75 (£20 off list price of £95) plus £10 for rechargeable batteries.
Great in the garden lighting up everything, but the other night on the beach I felt a bit deflated.
Bloke next to me had a Cree same as my old one and it was just as good if not a lot better than the Princeton. And my Cree cost £11.
Maybe I should have not bothered and left a specialist light for the likes of cavers for exploring caves. Plus I would be £85 better off.
Mick.
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I think some of these cree are overkill - few things more off-putting than anglers (and we have all seen it) shining high powered beams into shallow inshore water on clear winter nights - they are way too powerful for the most part and impact to some degree the probability of catching fish. I use my P-Tec on the lower settings for most of my fishing. Stick with it
 
Only my personal opinion but having read of quite a few incidents of the cree headlights burning out or batteries exploding whilst charging etc. - then I know what I would rather have strapped to my head!:D

As with anything it is personal choice but I would rather pay for quality myself.
 
They didn't look very powerful Mick. Then I saw an angler shine it into your right ear, low and behold the beam came out the left one !!!!! ALL ABOARD, ANY MORE TICKETS PLEASE 🚂
 
blackrat said:
They didn't look very powerful Mick. Then I saw an angler shine it into your right ear, low and behold the beam came out the left one !!!!! ALL ABOARD, ANY MORE TICKETS PLEASE 🚂
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If you want some tickets get yersel down the stadium of light, they give thousands away to all and sundry every match day.
 
rommy said:
Only my personal opinion but having read of quite a few incidents of the cree headlights burning out or batteries exploding whilst charging etc. - then I know what I would rather have strapped to my head!:D

As with anything it is personal choice but I would rather pay for quality myself.
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I agree but you cant tell some.
 
Update on the light lads.
Had a evening session at Hendon couple of nights back. Guy fishing next to me had a new LED Lensor. (and they not cheap).
Compared lights and to be honest not a great deal of difference.
I managed a lot better as well. I think to be fair I should judge it over a longer timescale.
The main reason I bought it was for our trip to Norway on Feb 9th. I have been before when rain has been none stop and I did not want a cheap Cree on which would break in the rain. The Princeton is actually guaranteed to work one metre below water.
One thing is for certain if or should I say when I am standing by the Fjord in the pitch black and it starts to pee down I,ll be thinking kind of glad I bought this now.
Chief Wigum had a cheap Cree which broke when flooded when we had a comp down South and it let him down-----mind we were in torrential rain all night.
Mick.
 
mick dunn said:
Update on the light lads.
Had a evening session at Hendon couple of nights back. Guy fishing next to me had a new LED Lensor. (and they not cheap).
Compared lights and to be honest not a great deal of difference.
I managed a lot better as well. I think to be fair I should judge it over a longer timescale.
The main reason I bought it was for our trip to Norway on Feb 9th. I have been before when rain has been none stop and I did not want a cheap Cree on which would break in the rain. The Princeton is actually guaranteed to work one metre below water.
One thing is for certain if or should I say when I am standing by the Fjord in the pitch black and it starts to pee down I,ll be thinking kind of glad I bought this now.
Chief Wigum had a cheap Cree which broke when flooded when we had a comp down South and it let him down-----mind we were in torrential rain all night.
Mick.
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Mick quality never comes cheap. Just make sure you have a back up ,safer for you
 
mick dunn said:
Update on the light lads.
Had a evening session at Hendon couple of nights back. Guy fishing next to me had a new LED Lensor. (and they not cheap).
Compared lights and to be honest not a great deal of difference.
I managed a lot better as well. I think to be fair I should judge it over a longer timescale.
The main reason I bought it was for our trip to Norway on Feb 9th. I have been before when rain has been none stop and I did not want a cheap Cree on which would break in the rain. The Princeton is actually guaranteed to work one metre below water.
One thing is for certain if or should I say when I am standing by the Fjord in the pitch black and it starts to pee down I,ll be thinking kind of glad I bought this now.
Chief Wigum had a cheap Cree which broke when flooded when we had a comp down South and it let him down-----mind we were in torrential rain all night.
Mick.
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Aye it wouldn't have broken had i not been out in the rain. I only stood in it because it was a comp. No way would i have fished those conditions normally.
 
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