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While other lamps have set brightness levels, the Spot 400 is instantly dimmable: Hold the large button to dim the light to the exact brightness you want.

#BLACK LIGHT SWITCH WITH STARS UPDATE#

The lumens-an update over last year's Spot 350-are plenty for technical predawn climbs where seeing detail at a distance is crucial. It’s not a unique story for the Spot 400, which became a quick favorite among our crew of testers for its best-in-test versatility, earning it an Editors' Choice Award. For one Washington-based tester, it was a sunset-to-sunrise standby, reliably giving him the light he needed throughout a summer testing blitz: bivying along the West Ridge of the Cascades’ Forbidden Peak, slurping down a bag of dehydrated pad thai or reading a book at camp. Test Results: After 10 long nights, five alpine starts and several summits, few headlamps would still be humming along like the Black Diamond Spot 400. Max burn time on lowest setting 200 hours

Best Headlamp for Running: BioLite HeadLamp 425īest All-Around Headlamp & REI Co-op Editors’ Choice Award Winnerīatteries 3 AAAs also compatible with BD 1500 mAh rechargeable (not included).

Most Versatile Power Source & REI Co-op Editors’ Choice Award Winner: Petzl Actik Core.

Best All-Around Headlamp & REI Co-op Editors’ Choice Award Winner: Black Diamond Spot 400.Test Resultsįor quick recommendations, check out the results of our round-robin here, or scroll down for in-depth reviews. The result? These seven lamps, which will serve every user and budget. We spent a season field testing more than a dozen models in all sorts of darkness. That’s why picking the right one is critical. These important tools help to lengthen your days outside, allowing you to have fun after dark and see places you couldn’t otherwise, and they serve as a safety net in case something goes awry. So what’s all this got to do with headlamps? Well, if you’ve spent any time browsing the shelves of an REI in recent years, you know Moore’s theory also applies to these trusty lights.īetween brightness, battery life, features and comfort, headlamps are the computer processors of outdoor gear-more powerful and affordable than ever before. And since 1965, computer scientists have affirmed that Moore was indeed correct. In other words, computer power would increase exponentially and cost would decrease as much. 151 Reviews 151 reviews with an average rating of 4.3 out of 5 starsĪt the dawn of the computer age, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore looked at the already-rampant advances in the microprocessor and theorized that going forward, the number of transistors packed onto a single circuit board would double every two years and that computer prices would halve in the sale time.

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