VIRIDIAN X5L-RS Laser Sight - Tac Light Review
VIRIDIAN X5L-RS Laser Sight - Tac Light Review was created by jtallen83
I received the
Viridian X5L-RS
laser sight - tactical light I won in the raffle this week 
I won't get a chance to mount it on a rifle till I'm back home mid February but I've given it a good once over and started doing some battery life testing.
Please don't interpret any of my comments to mean I'm not grateful to have won such a neat piece of kit but I wouldn't feel right if I didn't provide the members here with an honest straight up assessment.
It comes with a tail dual switch, adjustment tool, velcro, battery, and a couple zip strips that all fit in a neat little tool box that has a 1913 rail section the light mounts to for storage.
The battery installs easy enough, just a push and 1/8th turn of the light lens and it comes off, slide the battery in and another push with an 1/8th turn on the lens and your ready to go.
I spent the first half hour learning all the settings, 8 different modes that are combinations of solid and strobe for the light and laser. Most are activated with a click on one or both of the two switches on the tail,either locking it on or only keeping it on while the switch is depressed. There is one position that is constant on activated by the selector knob on the back of the light but changed from laser to light by the tail switch. As if this wasn't enough options you can program the light and laser to either strobe or hold steady in all of the modes by holding the switch down for three seconds when in this knob activated position, whew! Hope I didn't confuse you as much as I did myself trying to explain that!
The tail switch has an 8 inch cord and the switches on it have a firm defined click to them, not loud but easily felt. The mode setting knob on the back is another story. The clicks are mushy and loose, the knob wiggles back and forth. It is very difficult to count out the positions when adjusting it so you have to eyeball the knob or just try it to see where it is at. This could cause you to light things up on accident.
The light housing feels solid and hefty. It is a combination of aluminium and a heavy plastic. Best I can tell the lens is some type of glass. Overall it would seem to be as durable as my TLR-1 or M6X.
It is about the same size as the TLR-1 and a good bit smaller than the M6X. The tail switch connection feels pretty firm but lacks the o-ring of the Surefire lights that use tail switches. The lack of O-rings is repeated on the lens- battery compartment connection. I have some trepidations about using this light in a wet environment but we shall see.......
I'll post some general pictures here and then start covering battery life and light/laser strength in further replies.There are more pictures on my profile page in the viridian folder.
I won't get a chance to mount it on a rifle till I'm back home mid February but I've given it a good once over and started doing some battery life testing.
Please don't interpret any of my comments to mean I'm not grateful to have won such a neat piece of kit but I wouldn't feel right if I didn't provide the members here with an honest straight up assessment.
It comes with a tail dual switch, adjustment tool, velcro, battery, and a couple zip strips that all fit in a neat little tool box that has a 1913 rail section the light mounts to for storage.
The battery installs easy enough, just a push and 1/8th turn of the light lens and it comes off, slide the battery in and another push with an 1/8th turn on the lens and your ready to go.
I spent the first half hour learning all the settings, 8 different modes that are combinations of solid and strobe for the light and laser. Most are activated with a click on one or both of the two switches on the tail,either locking it on or only keeping it on while the switch is depressed. There is one position that is constant on activated by the selector knob on the back of the light but changed from laser to light by the tail switch. As if this wasn't enough options you can program the light and laser to either strobe or hold steady in all of the modes by holding the switch down for three seconds when in this knob activated position, whew! Hope I didn't confuse you as much as I did myself trying to explain that!
The tail switch has an 8 inch cord and the switches on it have a firm defined click to them, not loud but easily felt. The mode setting knob on the back is another story. The clicks are mushy and loose, the knob wiggles back and forth. It is very difficult to count out the positions when adjusting it so you have to eyeball the knob or just try it to see where it is at. This could cause you to light things up on accident.
The light housing feels solid and hefty. It is a combination of aluminium and a heavy plastic. Best I can tell the lens is some type of glass. Overall it would seem to be as durable as my TLR-1 or M6X.
It is about the same size as the TLR-1 and a good bit smaller than the M6X. The tail switch connection feels pretty firm but lacks the o-ring of the Surefire lights that use tail switches. The lack of O-rings is repeated on the lens- battery compartment connection. I have some trepidations about using this light in a wet environment but we shall see.......
I'll post some general pictures here and then start covering battery life and light/laser strength in further replies.There are more pictures on my profile page in the viridian folder.
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Replied by jtallen83 on topic VIRIDIAN X5L-RS Laser Sight - Tac Light Review
Didn't take long to get the light duration test done. I went with 1/2 hour on and 1/2 hour off, made it a total of 1 hour 20 minutes before shutting itself off. It ran another 10 minutes after a break before going in to laser strobe mode just like the end of the last test. It did get pretty warm after 1/2 hour on but not enough to prevent handling it so no complaints there. It has a nice bright light so considering it uses only one battery I didn't think the life was to bad, I can't think of many situations that you would need to run it that steady unless you've lost your flashlight!
I'm sure looking forward to getting it home and checking out how it performs under .308 recoil
I'm sure looking forward to getting it home and checking out how it performs under .308 recoil
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Replied by jtallen83 on topic VIRIDIAN X5L-RS Laser Sight - Tac Light Review
UPS just dropped the Viridian laser off at my door, pretty fast service. Katelyn from customer service said they replaced the "board". All the functions check out. I think I'll zero it for the AR-10 and see how it does there, I'll be checking it regularly to make sure the battery drain issue has been fixed.
They did send three new batteries with it so I got something for my trouble
They did send three new batteries with it so I got something for my trouble
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