What's going on everybody it's Mike from Patriot Considerations here today I want to be going over the PID HC the high candela model It's the only one in the PID lineup from Hollison that they recently launched that I was really interested in the other one being a thousand Lumin's in around 22,000 candela This one being 800 lumens, but it's 42,000 candela so it's gonna have a lot more throw and a little bit tighter hotspot I really do like this light I do think that it is a good option and it is really driving competitors into a higher place in the market I will be showing you a little bit more about it. I'm gonna be showing some different B-roll and videos of comparisons between the X300 From X300U from Surefire as well as the TLR 7a Which is a very popular concealed carry light that I hope a lot more people switched to something along with this lines Simply because the horsepower different between the two different lights I hope you enjoy the video please stick around and if you thought it was useful go ahead and consider subscribing That's helped me out a little bit gives me a little bit of encouragement to make more videos kind of like this one Thanks today. I'm ruining the Hollison PID high candela So in the box you get The light itself and included 18350 rechargeable battery that is removable via the light head Inside the light body you will find Two springs you'll find one on the light head and then one of the body itself this helps reduce shock on the battery itself hopefully increasing life as well as trying to ensure that it does not flicker at all Under recoil you also get the included magnetic Recharging cable so if you have the light on the gun and you don't want to remove the Light head and take the battery out say it's on a nightstand or whatever and you just want to throw it on the charger at night sometime you can just clip that on there and Charge the battery up without removing it. I prefer to you know swap the cells out Quickly, but just being able to top this thing off, you know on your nightstand or whatever is actually a great idea I did check on the pins on the light body itself and they are not Live all the time there is a diode in there to keep them from Coming live there's some kind of circuitry to protect it so you don't accidentally blow the battery up or short and Cautify or something so I stuck screwdriver on there and it is protected the switches themselves are Inward paddle switches they are made out of metal. They are similar to the in-force style Inward pressure switches unlike the Surefire switches that go down or up or press inward these Press in towards the trigger guard fastening method just goes on the bottom just like that You have three different keys that are included in the box for different brands of lights the number one key that is in here Came on here and it is the one that works on blocks perfectly out of the box So use your Holison tool you can also use a flathead screwdriver unfortunately Unlike other lights in the market such as the Surefire X300UB. I don't have one the stream light TLR 7a or the TLR1 HL Those all have the provisioning to use a 9mm casing to To crack that screw loose unfortunately this one you probably won't be able to do that. It's too thin But any flathead screwdriver or you know knife blader whatever in a pinch will work But realistically you're probably not ever gonna have to remove this unless it's in an admin setting So it's not a huge deal to me The light body itself the light itself is actually very heavy compared to other lights on the market TLR1 HL unfortunately I don't have one with me right now, but I have the X300 Which is very similar in weight to the one HL this one weighs a good portion more I did not put them on a scale, but I would say in the neighborhood of probably about 20% more Not a huge deal breaker to me just something to take note The light body itself is very stout. It is made out of T675 aluminum as the Documentation says Very durable. I don't have any qualms with the actual build quality itself Back to the switches again real quick To press them in you have two different modes you can press and hold for momentary on and then release and it'll come off Or you can just click the switch and it will go to constant on Unfortunately the way they implemented the constant on feature I think it has a negligent discharge feature built into it to where if you click it too quickly It will not as you can hear here It will not actually come on if you click it too quickly I want to say it's probably around a 10th or 15th of a second If you do it too quick, it's it's not gonna work, but if you just you know give it a little click Just you know deliberately enough It will come on constant on every single time that is the method I prefer with this Unfortunately due to the inward Pressure you have to supply to the light to do a momentary on as well as The angle of the switches The momentary on feature just doesn't work for me because I feel like my grip is too compromised and I'm not gonna build a control recall very well So with that being said constant on feature not a huge deal I usually run my lights that way anyways just so I can get the proper, you know Thumbs for a grip that I like shooting with so much The output itself as you can see and multiple different videos is actually Quite what I would say quite decent the color temperatures some people did complain I've seen online about it being a little bit too cool further liking Saying it would distort colors me personally. I don't find that to be an issue. I don't really need A picture perfect colors what I need is contrast and this does provide a good level of contrast What you're trying to contrast is you know the the frame of a gun or the outline of a firearm of Some sort against the background and I think this light does that quite superbly. It has a very tight hotspot On a high-kendell model here With usable spill I will say that the spill could be a little bit better I can I understand you can only have the you know one or the other for the most part You can't have the best of both worlds you can't have you know x300 ultra flood as seen in some of these videos here As well as that super tight hotspot. It's just honestly with the size of the light head and the geometry There's only so much you can get away with because of physics so With that being said the light itself does offer ample throw as well as ample spill the kendella From what I see here. I would say is probably slightly underrated I think that this thing is probably pushing out a little bit more than 42,000 obviously that's a very subjective thing But from my experience using x300 turbos and other lights I believe this is probably more than 42,000 kendella I would say in this scene because of the lighting the cooler color temperature of the Hallson light actually was favored to your naked eye and to the camera Over the mch from cloud defensive the cloud defensive light is rated at 1200 lumens and 50 I believe it's 52,000 or 55,000 kendella um So the fact that that light got outperformed by an 800 lumens light from holason actually kind of surprised me So for the holson light there's two different types of modes you have low mode and high mode high mode 800 lumens 42,000 kendella the other one low mode is exactly half of that in order to change them you just press and hold For one second and it will cycle through them and you just stop on the one you wanted to go on So I'll just press and hold high mode. All right, honestly I prefer to just leave it in high mode all the time. I think switching from high mode to low mode is just dumb thankfully it's in a method to Run it on here to switch it you're not likely to inadvertently switch it to low mode I will say even mode is in low mode 23,000 kendella with 400 lumens that actually is a quite usable light Due to the amount of horsepower that has just got behind it. So it seems to run pretty well I have not shot with it yet. Unfortunately, I haven't got to the range yet I will be doing some night fire here hopefully soon with it And I will report back obviously this is just an unboxing and initial review I will be running this light probably through at least in other two or three thousand rounds before I get a chance to make another video on it as a follow-up The dimensions themselves they come in around right in between the TLR 1HL The x300 and the TLR 7a it falls in a happy medium is around the same critical dimensions of the TLR 1HL The 1HL has a light bezel that is the same as this light here And it is ever so slightly larger than the x300 ultra's light bezel I will say though the x300 ultra is significantly longer Which will impede on comfortable concealed carry especially if you're running like appendix inside the waistband um So if you are carrying this light this will probably be one of the more powerful more compact options on the market as we speak So the 1HL is significantly or slightly anyways, I should say wider because they will be using dual batteries parallel to each other As opposed to this using a single 18350 battery Real quick. I just wanted to touch on holster compatibility So I tried it with a couple different holsters. I only used the x300 Currently, so I had a ailinger rapid-force level three holster and with the helson pid it locks in both level two and level three Everything just fits just fine. You just had to adjust the tension screw a little bit I also use a fielster flood light for an x300. I didn't have one for TLR 1HL on hand But I imagine it will work fine Both of them use this very similar lockup I hope you enjoyed the video. If you did consider giving it a thumbs up If you didn't like it give it a thumbs down Let me know what to do wrong and I'll try to make it better for the next time Thanks. We'll see you later