Great value for the price, but not that bright
Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2024 | Rating: 4/5 | Best Sellers in Sports & Outdoors
ordered these headlamps for those early morning dog walks that my husky insists on waking me up for i got overnight shipping and they arrived almost fully charged so i put on one of them and headed out the door with my bundle of canine crazinessthe light worked great right out of the box its not particularly heavy and it didnt move around while we trekked through the predawn woods and fields the headlamps are well built of abs plastic and aluminum the elastic headband should adjust to just about any size and the controls are easy to usedont expect highend performance lhknl headlamps arent the ones you want to tackle denali or k2 with no way these are 1200 lumen lights maybe the combined output of all the lights might get close but my nitecore tup far outshines it even on the 200 lumen setting id estimate the output to be somewhere between 60  100 lumens that said the brightness and throw are more than adequate for tasks around the house like poking into dark attics or working on your car not that anyone seems to do that much these days the spot and flood lights are bright  even with few artifacts the red lights dont throw very far but should be useful for preserving night visionbattery life seems good though probably short of whats advertised i got over 5 12 hours on a full charge until the battery indicator was down to its last blinking light i can report that during that entire time the light never got more than moderately warm around body temperature that was a nice surprise but also points to the fact that this thing isnt cranking out hundreds of lumens i expect the light can run for about 6 hours with the max output spotlight which should be the most energy intensive i havent tried the high flood setting yet but thatll be next charging looks like it takes about 2 hours with a 051a chargerthe interface is straightforward and simple the one downside is that the light always starts in high spot mode theres no option for turning it on in the previously selected mode again i dont expect a highend user interface form whats basically a 10 lightthe product description says the light rotates through 60 degrees and thats true what it doesnt tell you is that it has preset positions 0 degrees 30 degrees down and 60 degrees down the hinge clicks in positively to each position and holds it once set but if you want an angle that isnt either 30 or 60 degrees youre out of luck with this headlampall in all im quite happy with this purchase i dont need to worry about having batteries on hand the light has plenty of oomph for typical tasks around the home and neighborhood and you get two of these for half the price of a nitecore or other premium brand