The lumens from these little bitty lights just keep getting more and more intense. How ’bout 360 lumens from a hands-free headlamp for under $100?
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Your hiking down the trail at night or spelunking and you ask Bob a question then,”GAHHHHH!!! I can’t see!”
Verry interesting!
I wonder what battery life is?
Merle
Battery life on high power is rated at 1.8 hours. That’s 108 MINUTES, only.
There’s a good review, here, although they review the 220-lumen model. Note that in the review they said that the unit gets HOT when used on high for over 1/2 hour, and that is the one making 35% less light!
http://light-reviews.com/blog/content/spark-st6-220-cw-headlamp-review-photos-beamshots-etc
My take on it: the technology of the Cree LEDs is so advanced, that making a headlight with way more power than you can use while projecting it from your head is not only possible, but now ordinary.
I think that this lamp gets into that category. It is so powerful that any backscatter at all will blind you (and backscatter is what you get with an orange-peel reflector), then you get a set of diminishing returns: more power, more backscatter. More backscatter, more power needed to see through it, etc, etc until you get to the point where you damage the eyes.
Except for a possible use as a tactical illuminator in combat (and do you REALLY want your combat light attached in front of your forebrain?), or hiking trails or possibly biking, all uses of headlamps involve the need for flood-dispersed light, and this one doesn’t do that well.
Hiking means that you MIGHT need a 50-meter beam, same with biking. This thing throws a 100-meter beam, but it weighs 5.35 oz, and the spare batteries which you WILL need will weigh more ounces, so it’s certainly NOT the most lightweight gear.
I’ve used headlamps for a number of years, going back to when they used a PR-2 flashlight bulb, then various Krypton bulbs. When LEDs came out, I got one that has a Krypton bulb for range (20-meter beam), and BOTH red and white flood-light LED arrays, and a rear red LED array. It uses 3xAA batteries. It’s a Garrity, and cost me less than $20. This is a USEFUL headlamp, for me. I plan no tactical combat with it, so I don’t need the huge beam.