Saw a pair of subtronic 160 strobes for sale and the specs look good.

Does anyone of you guys use them and want to tell me how they are?

A thread on the subject here:

A couple of things stand out - built in battery pack or it is contained in the arm on newer models it seems, heavy and needs adapters to use fibre optics.

It's been quite a long time since I don't get in the forum. Anyway, I'm currently running a pair of Subtronic 160 pro fusion, my dive buddy is using a pair of plain 160 pro. The only difference between them is that the fusion includes a powerfull led light to make video, but it makes the strobe quite bigger. If i had to buy again I would buy the plain 160 pro. When I do video is with a gopro and it's enough to lit it up with the pair of chinese torches that I use to carry.

I already post a while ago a post about these strobes. They are reliable, powerfull and small enough to travel with them and make wide angle pictures against the sun. The only point that I don't like is the batteries, they are dedicated and quite a bit expensive, I learned to repair it on myself and I even manufacture my ones with 18650 cells which I can charge individually.

If you have to buy the batteries there are two options, or you buy an arm with the battery on the inside, which I don't like, in case of failing you lose for a while the arm and the battery. Or you can buy the normal battery which you connect to the strobe with an S4 connection and fit to the strobe with the neopren cover.

I only can speak right about the service, I have to send mines twice and they repaired it properly. As long as the service is located in Germany the shipping from Europe is cheap and I don't have to wait months for the strobes to be repaired.

So I would buy again. I attached two pictures so you can see the battery in the neopren cover and the battery that i manufactured.