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Wolf Eyes Guider
Wolf Eyes Guider II
Lumens: 1,000 lumens
Runtime: 50 mins regulated high, 70 hours + low
Length: 17cm
Complete with charger and rechargeable battery
This torch has Free Registered Post (or free Express Post but Auspost doesn't offer insurance on Express) included - no postage cost to you
The Wolf Eyes Guider II LED Tactical Torch is a compact high intensity LED tactical torch with 4 output levels including disorientating strobe and huge 1,000 lumen high beam. It comes complete with rechargeable battery and Australian charger.
Are you a Queensland Police Officer or just prefer a forward mounted switch? The Wolf Eyes Guider II was designed and modified with the needs of Queensland Police Officers in mind with their unique (in Australia) low light shooting method. The effective instinctive method utilised by Queensland Police for effective gun and torch control requires a forward mounted switch.
Light Output
The Wolf Eyes Guider II LED Tactical Torch has four light levels:
High beam of 1,000 lumens running for 50 minutes regulated (non dimming)
Medium beam runs for 4+ hours
Low beam runs for 70+ hours
The Wolf Eyes Guider II series features a bright 1,000 lumen disorientating strobe output strong enough to temporarily disorient or disrupt an individual’s night vision, perfect for self defence use or as a non lethal tool for police officers or other officers of the law. It is similar to the preflashes before a camera flash, but lasts much longer.
The brightness level is brighter than the light output of the standard black baton like lights (Maglite) used in the past by many Police Forces in Australia. The Wolf Eyes Guider 1,000 LED Tactical Torch has brighter spill light, as evidenced in the photos below. The difference is Wolf Eyes Guiders are pre focussed, meaning they are always in focus irrespective of whether they are aimed 2 metres or 100 metres away. There are no annoying black holes in the beam either.
Construction
The Wolf Eyes Guider II LED Tactical Torch has an incredibly rugged construction, probably unlike most other torches or flashlights commonly used in Australia in police or military work. We recently compared the wall thickness to a consumer torch, the Led Lenser P7 and found the walls were DOUBLE the thickness in the Guider!
Constructed of aircraft grade aluminium with a brass liner, the Guider is designed to have a 25.4mm (1") diameter body, making it both easy to hold and easy to mount, 1" being the standard firearm mounting size. We have never had a Guider body suffer a catastrophic failure (Edit: excluding the torch dropped in tank treads, but not many torches can stop a tank!). The Guider is a high output torch with modest size. Most people don't realise that LEDs put out considerable heat, but unlike an incandescent torch which projects the heat out the front, LEDs heat the base they are mounted on. Overheating an LED results in permanent damage and reduced light output for the life of the LED. To remove the possibility of damage to your LED, Wolf Eyes have a brass liner inside the torch and a substantial aircraft aluminium body. The brass liner, as well as maintaining high electrical conductivity, mates to the mount of the LED and conducts heat along the body of the torch or flashlight, using the mass of the body as a heatsink to dissapate the heat.
All Wolf Eyes Guiders are anodised tactical black and have a 5 Year Warranty on the body.
Waterproof
Regulation
Wolf Eyes torches are regulated, meaning they don't dim or lose intensity like many other torches including other LED torches. The regulation has two advantages, it means the power to the LED is consistent, so the LED will be running at it's optimum with the battery being boosted as it is being depleted, the second advantage is you don't overboost the LED which can permanently damage it, this happens with torches not designed for rechargeable batteries or accumulators. Of the 50 minutes runtime of high intensity light this torch is capable of, the first 43 minutes is regulated, with a slight dimming in the last few minutes.
Australian Approved Charger
The Wolf Eyes Guider II LED Tactical Torch comes complete with rechargeable battery and Australian charger. We have noticed a number of torches on the Australian market with non approved chargers. The advantage of an Australian approved charger is that it is both safe and legal to connect to an Australian power supply, meaning it meets OH&S requirements and also your insurance is ok in a residential or business situation.
Rechargeable Batteries
The battery utilised in the Guider is the LRB168A (18650) rechargeable lithium ion battery. Utilised predominantly in notebooks, this battery provides large outputs (including rapid discharge high amp outputs) from a relatively compact package. So powerful is this battery that it powers the Tesla Roadster electric car (an electric car built on a Lotus Elise chassis with a 0-100kmh time of 3.9 seconds). One huge advantage of the Wolf Eyes Guider flashlight is that it has been built with these rechargeables in mind, rather than disposable CR123 batteries (which cost $10 each in shops in Aus). This means we can use the 18mm versions of the batteries which are 50% more powerful than the 17mm versions. Torches or flashlights designed to only fit CR123 batteries, such as the Surefire 6P or Surefire G2 (in fact most of the Surefire line) can only fit the 17mm version (available in our recharge kit), which means 2/3rds the power.
All Wolf Eyes batteries are protected, meaning they have a small computer chip built in to one end, this controls charging and discharging, designed to reduce the risks of powerful batteries. We have seen lithium ion batteries explode and would never sell an unprotected version.
As many are aware, most police departments in Australia or the Australian Defence Force do not generally supply batteries for their staff. So a rechargeable torch (or rechargeable flashlight, depending on your terminology) is both an environmentally sound decision but also an economic necessity. Some police officers have reported that their rechargeable torch has paid for itself in as little as 3 months when compared to their previous CR123 battery older style torch. With our rechargeable batteries you can top up at any time, no need to wait for the battery to run down, so you are always prepared for that critical mission.
Environmentally, rechargeable batteries are a winner. Like most quality lithium ion batteries, our rechargeable batteries are rated for 1,000 recharges under ideal conditions. Even if you took 500 recharges as a reasonable figure, each rechargeable battery you use would save 2,000 AAA batteries, 1,500 C cell batteries or 1, 000 CR123 batteries from landfill, a wothwhile saving (based on a 2 x CR123, 3 x C cell or 4 x AAA torch providing similar runtime). Even if the environment isn't your priority when purchasing a torch or flashlight, the financial saving is huge and as a bonus you get to feel good about the environment.
Cold Weather Performance
One of the huge advantages of rechargeable lithium ion batteries, besides their huge outputs, is the ability to operate in colder temperatures. Many have been frustrated by the loss of power in AA and NiMh batteries in cold temperatures. That is not a problem with Lithium Ion. To take the photos here, we turned a torch onto low, placed it in a tray of water in a freezer for 4 days till the water became an ice cube, then removed and photographed. The torch was on for the 4 full days in the freezer!
In the box:
1 x Guider body
1 x Fast charger
1 x LED lamp & regulator module
1 x LRB 168A battery
1 x Gift Box
Accessories
Batteries
Filters
(Filters are less effective on LED torches or flashlights than incandescent torches. If you are Police or Military email or phone for further options for your application)
Bezel
Chargers
This torch isn't 'just as good as a Wolf Eyes' - it is a Wolf Eyes!
You deserve it.
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$159.00
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