#15534
Brian_V - 8/18/2013 9:04 PM
Dive lights can be dived into two types, xenon (incandescent, light bulbs) or LED (light emitting diodes). Now if you’re looking for brightness along with long battery life, LED is the way to go, with the a couple drawbacks being LED light gives everything a bluish tint, washing out the colors, it’s also quite a bit more expensive than xenon. The advantage of xenon lights is that they bring the colors out on deep or night dives, like having a little bit of portable sunlight, and they’re cheaper than LED. The drawback is that they use up batteries much faster, and the bulbs burn out. LED’s are rated for something like 10,000 hours vs hundreds of hours for xenon bulbs.