Thread: Headlamp recommendations

Originally Posted by Tahr

Brian and I have these. Last forever and cheap as chips.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005...Cquery_from%3A

How far do they throw a good beam of light Tahr?

Remember that guy that spent a week solo in the Kawekas with this.... what a legend

Originally Posted by Trout

How far do they throw a good beam of light Tahr?

3 modes of brightness. Brightest is good for 25 yards or so I guess. Good for everything I do like finding my way home and looking for a shot deer.

I feel like the original Maxtoch was the best all rounder. No fancy shit, just one button. Handy red light and bright enough main light. Do any of the companies make one like this? I’ve still got one and it’ll be a sad day when that dies.
I had one of the Nitecores but bugger me the amount of functions on it drove me mad.

Yeah it takes a while to get the hang off the nitecore functions, like being able to get the function you want first time is a lottery until you spend a bit of time learning how.

Originally Posted by Roarless20

https://www.piercingthedarkness.co.n...s-rechargeable

These kickass for the price. Its what i run as my main light now.

I just received my one of these. Works great and quick delivery.

Sorted thanks peeps.
Cheers for the advice as always

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Originally Posted by JemO

Sorted thanks peeps.
Cheers for the advice as always

Don’t leave us hanging, what did you choose?

I've decided to get the cyansky HS6R


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Originally Posted by Lambie

Interesting comments about the wires pulling out, I was looking at how the cables are attached to my Fenix and they have good cable anchors where they go into the lamp and battery pack (see photo's), so I would think it's more lightly that the head lamp would be pulled off your head before the cables break, but I stand to me corrected. Attachment 263905

Mine was a Led Lenser; your Fenix looks much more robust in the wire connections. Still not sure I'd like it... cheers

I'll be the first to let everyone know if I have any problems, I have a very old Black Diamond (20+ years) that I can imagine the wires pulling out of, but the elastic headband gave up first.

Originally Posted by No good names left

I just received my one of these. Works great and quick delivery.

Love this light, but that USB C charging port took some finding. I eventually had to check the manual

Originally Posted by TimC

After having multiple led lenser units crap out on me I now run Fenix and had no problems.

yes I wont go back to LED Lenser all of them have crapped out with corrosion inside despite the fact I make sure I ran alkaline batterys - so reading this with interest to see who is using what

Maybe the led lenser everyone is mentioning is a newer light than the two I have been using for the last 15yrs plus...dunno.
I can chuck a pic up but my two have been faultless, I carry them in the 4wd for the camping trips so they don't get used continuously or every weekend though.

I had wondered why this H25LR has been selling so well for the past week, now I know lol. Glad everyone enjoys them.

Just thought I'd mention that the new Sofirn HS21 has replaced everything else I use. I plan on making a demo video, I've just been a bit busy.

The HS21 has a regulated driver/circuit board for high stabilised brightness. The spot beam measured 280m at turn on and then at 30 seconds for ANSI FL1 it's 261m on turbo. After the stepdown from turbo it settles at a very high 700 lumens and 170m range. Not many out there can hold 170m range for the entire run. It has 5 brightness levels for each LED mode of Spot, Flood, Spot+Flood, and Red. There's a single button on top for turning it on/off and changing brightness, and also a head rotary dial that changes the LED modes. Each LED mode uses memory, so basically set it once and no more holding and clicking switches. I have Flood mode set to medium and Spot mode set to turbo. Walking around the farm using the flood and then one rotation click of the head gets me spot turbo for a scan around, then back to flood medium. It's so easy and effortless. Red is very bright and holds its 100 lumen turbo level for 5 hours without reducing to a lower brightness (red photo on my website appears much darker than in person).

I sell it for $97.