The Scurion® 1500 - the brightest lamp in our lineup! - new: 1'300 ANSI-Lumen
LED technology has made enormous progress since 2007 and we always used the best available LED's for our lamp models and of course the strongest ones for our flagship - the 1500 model. Unlike others we give you the real light output in measured ANSI-Lumen as well as measured runtimes!
Please find runtimes for all models here...
When you need longer run times from your lamp (eg. for an expedition or very long trip), should you use the Scurion® 1500 or the Scurion® 700/900 for longer run time? Answer: You can program your Scurion® 1500 to use lower power settings for this application. Just set the max. level you use to 3 and you have three to four times the run time. For example, wide angle on 3 and spot on 2 is a very comfortable all-round setting with a run time of 11 hours. And of course you still have the possibility to power up briefly, should it be needed. Technically speaking, the efficiency of the white LEDs is increasing when you decrease the power. The same goes for the electronics. So the Scurion® 1500 gets even more efficient when you reduce the power setting, making it optimal also for long expeditions. The tricky question then for you is just: "Can I resist using the full power?"
There are several options which can be added to our lamps.
The Scurion® lamp is available with an ultraviolet LED as an option. In addition to the two white power LEDs, a third, 20 mW, 375 nm UV LED is mounted inside the lamp head. The performance of this UV LED is not compareable with the white power LED’s but it’s quite comfortable to have an UV-source always with you. For other wavelengths please ask.
UV light reveals many things not visible with white light :
The UV LED can be selected like the other lighting modes by cycling through a number of presets. It can be programmed individually (or disabled if necessary).
Warning: UV light is harmful to the retina - never look directly into a UV source
There is one drawback when ordering the UV lamp head: The non-UV lamp uses a polycarbonate window with scratch resistant coating. This is extremely durable, unfortunatly, it is not transparent for UV light. The UV version uses an acrylic glass window, which scratches more easily. Try not to clean the window by wiping the dirt away, as this may give you scratches in the long run. Clean the lamp head under running water if possible (some caves have waterfalls...). In any case, spare glasses are available and changing the glass is not too difficult.
Our lamp head has an LED bar, which mostly displays battery charge status. This is quite practical, as you always know how much energy is left in the battery. However, you can't see it when you wear your helmet together with your lamp. Of course you can take off your helmet, but there is a better way... Credit for this brilliant idea goes to Peter, who suggested it in the first place: We add a lens to the lamp head, which projects the led bar to your hand (if you hold it in front of the lamp) or a nearby wall.
Using an optics design software, we designed the optimal lens and layout:
The five LEDs are projected using a plano-convex lens to the image surface (your hand for example). Of course this is no photographic quality objective, but sufficient to see the remaining power of your battery. There was no experimenting with this design, it was designed, built and worked at the first try. Image quality is actually so good that you can see the bond wires of the LEDs.
We had already five years of experience with our lights in toughest caving environment when the first proper diving version was born in 2012. It was a logical step because cave divers were in need of a light that can handle both situations - underwater as well as dry passages.
The Scurion® diving version is rated for dive depths of -150 m and it has been tested by experienced divers all over the world! Each system is individually tested to 20 bar before it leaves our workshop. The lamp is heat/cold and shock resistant and we give our respective warranty.
Quickly the lamp was adopted by other divers that use other gear configurations and the "Toddy-Style"® handle system was created.
In 2017 we pushed again the limits with our Scurion® tecdive version that has a much narrower spot beam for communication and is rated for dive depths of -250 m (individually tested 30 bar!).
