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Sunoptic’s brightest LED headlight
The innovators at Sunoptic Technologies have launched their brightest battery powered LED headlight to date – the SSL-9500. The experts in surgical lighting have developed this state-of-the-art product in a bid to provide healthcare professionals with bright white light for optimum surgical performance.
The SSL-9500 headlight Sunoptic Technologies entered the surgical lighting sector more than 35 years ago, manufacturing in Florida, United States of America. The company is known for being a market leading specialist with innovative, quality systems in surgical lighting, cameras and fibre optic cabling.
The newest addition to Sunoptic’s portfolio is the SSL-9500 headlight - the lightest and brightest battery powered LED headlight in the range. The engineers at Sunoptic Technologies manufacture under ISO 9001 and 13485 certification standards, ensuring the highest quality products. Alongside its LED headlights, the company manufactures LED and xenon light sources, including the most powerful of all, the Titan X450.
The brightest headlight The SSL-9500 has been designed to provide a homogeneous spot of bright white light for true tissue colour recognition, allowing for optimum performance during surgical procedures. The battery powered LED headlight offers the freedom from being tethered
to a light source by a fibre optic cable, however, before now, this has usually come with the drawback of lack of light, particularly in ‘deep’ procedures. The SSL-9500 provides a hitherto unachieved 70,000 lux of light in a battery powered model at a working distance of 16”, brighter than a number of 300 watt xenon light sources, but most importantly the light is bright white.
Lightweight and comfortable The SSL-9500 comes with the RCS (Rear Cranium Support) headband, the lightest headband ever developed by Sunoptic Technologies (weighing 730grams), reducing fatigue some surgeons face while performing lengthy operations. Not only is the headlight light but it is also comfortable, the lightweight battery clips onto a belt or scrub gown by a holster, distributing the weight around the body for maximum comfort. Having minimal distractions in the operating room is an essential part of surgical procedures, and that is why Sunoptics has designed a cooling fan on the SSL-9500 that works quietly in the background, allowing surgeons maximum concentration.
The SSL-9500’s battery will last 2 hours 45 minutes on the full intensity of 70,000 Lux, however, at half intensity (still extremely bright), the battery will last upwards of 5 and a half hours. The product has an audio warning feature for when the battery gets low, and a replacement battery as standard, which can be easily replaced in seconds for a quick and easy transition - an extremely useful feature, particularly in lengthy surgeries.
The SSL-9500 also shines at a colour temperature of 4500°K. Colour temperature is an important feature for a surgical headlight. If the colour temperature is too low, the light may appear yellow and hazy, and if the temperature is too high the colour has a hint of blue. With a colour temperature
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