Sunday, August 23, 2009

New Lights from Exposure


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Exposure has unveiled a couple of new lights for the coming new season. The Toro and Diablo are all-new lights, dispatching with multiple small LEDs in favour of a single P7 emitter. Well, we say "single", the P7 actually contains four emitters but on a single chip. That leads to some interesting optical challenges to throw an even, useable beam, and Exposure has custom optics that combine diffusers, reflectors and lenses to produce what it reckons is the most even spread of light out there.

While the Toro and Diablo use the same 700 lumen emitter, the Toro has a three-cell battery while the Diablo uses just the one. That gives the Toro three hours runtime on full power, 10 on the middle setting and 24 on low, with the Diablo having one, three (and a bit) and eight respectively. The Diablo's dumbbell design gives the central section the same diameter as the existing Joystick despite having almost three times the output, and its low weight makes it eminently suitable for helmet mounting. The Toro is designed with handlebars in mind. One of each, then...


Diablo


Toro

All of these lights have Exposure's Smart Port socket at the back, which can be used to connect an array of piggyback lights, tail lights, aft-pointing flashers, remote switches, extra batteries and so on, as well as being where you plug the charger in.

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