Here are my old Optonics (I've only just upgraded!!)
They still work perfectly!!

Jusst wondering whether anyone knows what they may be worth?

[patos]

Not worth an awful lot mate. The Delkim conversions are worth more but still, you're better off just keeping hold and using them. They are as good as anything else out there and you get that warm fuzzy retro feeling for free

Originally Posted by patos

Not worth an awful lot mate. The Delkim conversions are worth more but still, you're better off just keeping hold and using them. They are as good as anything else out there and you get that warm fuzzy retro feeling for free

yeah not selling them just wondering mate!!

Warm fuzzy retro feeling! Quality!!!

They are over 20yrs old lol!!

[Deano]

I had a set when i first started out early 90's they were old then..lol..mine were not that exact model and I woke up in the morning with the monkey climbers on the floor a few times as they werent very loud...lol....

[oliver reed]

As said,keep em mate...better still,frame them and when the kids are old enough to ask what they are,you can park them on your knee and tell them..."Well,when I was a lad.........."

Originally Posted by oliver reed

As said,keep em mate...better still,frame them and when the kids are old enough to ask what they are,you can park them on your knee and tell them..."Well,when I was a lad.........."

yeah quality!!

They are super loud when they have fresh batteries in!!
when they are running out they sound like they are drowning!!!!

[grubby pants]

I know it amounts to splitting hairs but either my memory is on the blink or you are mistaken about the age of your alarms.

I thought the Super XL’s were the last fling of Optonics in their original guise and they came out in early-mid 90s?

Bought my Super Compacts which were the top of the range of the un-converted Optonics in 87 and between them and the Super XL’s they produced the Magnatronic.


I stand to be corrected but I am sure XL’s were a fair bit later than 87?


Looking on Ebay my guess would be £10-£15 each.

[oliver reed]

Correct,the Super XL came out around '92 and I remember getting some after being bitten on the bum by the Daiwa sensitron...oh dear. The funny thing is,the XL's retailed at over seventy quid! Funny how things change eh...

Ah its all flooding back now,Solar carp ears,twitcher wheels,speaker covers,opti polo's....,tring to fit a battery in winter and having to undo those teeny weeny screws that you just HAD to drop in the grass...eeeee tha doesn't know tha's born....

[Jay&Silent Bob]

I have the Compact - HI Optonics are these any good and when did they first come out?


Cheers
JSB

Originally Posted by grubby pants

I know it amounts to splitting hairs but either my memory is on the blink or you are mistaken about the age of your alarms.

I thought the Super XL’s were the last fling of Optonics in their original guise and they came out in early-mid 90s?

Bought my Super Compacts which were the top of the range of the un-converted Optonics in 87 and between them and the Super XL’s they produced the Magnatronic.


I stand to be corrected but I am sure XL’s were a fair bit later than 87?


Looking on Ebay my guess would be £10-£15 each.

sorry I was out by 5 years

[netbustercarp]

Originally Posted by Jay&Silent Bob

I have the Compact - HI Optonics are these any good and when did they first come out?


Cheers
JSB

i remember getting 2 of these in around 1985 or 6.decent buzzer in its day.upgraded to the super compacts which ive still got.

[netbustercarp]

Originally Posted by amateurblanker

Here are my old Optonics (I've only just upgraded!!)
They still work perfectly!!

Jusst wondering whether anyone knows what they may be worth?

yeah probably 10-15 each,the delkim 1s are worth a little more.keep hold of them,may well be a collectors item in a few years.

[PJW]

The biggest mistake Delareed ever made was not allowing Delkim the rights to convert there optonics on a commercial liscence, may have helped them to still be in buisness today.

[netbustercarp]

we wouldnt have the new new delkims though would we?

[patos]

Originally Posted by netbustercarp

we wouldnt have the new new delkims though would we?

That would have been a result