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With camping in mind, and wild camping mainly.
What is needed is running time over uber strong illuminate the hillside lamp, so under 100lmns I would think.
It never really has to light much up. A few meters in front if looking for a place to wee, and when sitting by the tent, lights up enough to read, light up your immediate area, but not really project out, making you look like a lighthouse.
Last was a petzl but gave those away to the kids. Odd, 1 likes the modern petzl, but the other really loves my oldie with the gigantic lamp and battery pack.
No need for big power multiple settings either, as they're usually quite expensive and again the extra boost isnt really needed.
There no price limit really, I just like things be proper and do proper things without added bumpf.
Actually, I might look at another oldie. The output on those was great, again didnt really project out.
Other than that, whats the mob wearing on their foreheads 🙂
Knog Bilby will run for 14hours at 200 lumens or 105 hours at 25lumens.
I use Alpkit Vipers, longest run time is 115h
https://alpkit.com/collections/lighting/products/viper
They also do nice and small tent lights which last > 100 hours eg
https://alpkit.com/collections/lighting/products/bob
I'm with @footflaps on the Viper. Am rather taken with the fancy sensor which adapts the light output according to the distance that 'something' is in front of you (this feature may be available on other manufacturers' models too), but it also has several fixed output levels too, and flashing. It seems to run for ages on a set of rechargeable AAAs. Can't go far wrong for £20-odd.
Zebralight H600w. Runs off an 18650 battery. Best balance of runtime and power. I have many headtorches
Will run for hours or months on the same battery, depending on the setting
Anything with replaceable batteries will run until the heat death of the universe given sufficiently large pockets.
Can't beat a good head torch thread though. Watching with interest.
Runs off an 18650 battery
Best battery format for power/efficiency - they’re what electric car batteries are built from. CR123 cells are half of a 18650, but nowhere near as long-lasting.
Petzl Bindi - tiny, bright enough, rechargeable. 60 hours on lowest setting
https://www.petzl.com/INT/en/Sport/ACTIVE-headlamps/BINDI
Or, if you want something a bit more, erm, modern. The Petzl IKO CORE. !00 hours, but mad light for a 500 lumen headtorch. More flood than spot. Also rechargeable:
https://www.petzl.com/INT/en/Sport/PERFORMANCE-headlamps/IKO-CORE
Black Diamond does a couple of light, bright rechargeables too, I'd have said the Iota, but I think it's been replaced by this:
https://eu.blackdiamondequipment.com/en_GB/headlamps-and-lanterns/sprint-225-headlamp-BD620653_cfg.html
Personally I'd just get the Bindi. It's just about bright enough for running on smooth surfaces too if you feel like it. Ideal for bikepacking unless you really want to drag some oversized lumen cannon around for no obvious reason bar nostalgia 😉
Thanks for the suggestions, the alpkit looks commendable and I might still pick one of them up, but after a bit of looking, I'm thinking along the lines of the petzl Tikka XP2.
I think its an older lamp, but the 190h low @15lmn or 70h high @80lmn seems about right for sitting in camp. Has red too.
sry, missed that. il take a look at the black diamond.I know theyve god rep.
My current work headtorch is the up to date Petzl tikka. It is standard bright is plenty for most things and the extra bright setting is amazing for lighting up dark areas of the factories that it is my joy to have to go and work in, far brighter than the old halogen or xenon bulbs.
I guess battery life is limited at 3AAA batteries but for outdoors use this does everything you need, possibly not quite enough for regular mountain biking but possible as a get you home and much broight than my old (15 plus years) tikka XP that sits in my rucksack.
In terms of comfort the old petzl micro was once described as 'the best light for reading in bed' and it probably still is as the mellow yellow light is easy on the eyes and we have a couple of them knocking about still.
I am considering an LEB bulb for the old petzl zooms we have as they still work and I think led bulb with the big flat battery would last ages, but yet to be proven. Would be interested if anyone has done this.