It will be my first headlamp this decade…
Have to dream up an activity to use it with.
Bicycling, spelunking, exploring crawlspaces, working on a car….
Here's some info I found at some other site ;) I would be more interested if the emitter were accessible and if it started in low mode first.
Looks fairly promising, nice job. I like the fact it has a top band. I have a few questions. • Can you describe the UI? • Is the brightness ramped linear or logarithmic? • Do you have access to the emitter, in other words does the head unscrew? • Do you have any accessories to make the beam more floody? • What is the lowest setting (it can’t be 120 lm with .01A)? • What is the beam profile (20/80, 70/120)? • Can you run unprotected batteries? • Does it have reverse polarity protection? • Is there a pocket clip option? Thank you in advance for answering the questions.
Hi Knight_Light,
Many thanks for your questions, good questions!
1. Press the switch to turn the flashlight on (High mode comes on first). *** With the flashlight on, click the switch once to access the low mode, double click the switch to access Strobe mode, double click again to access SOS mode, click once to turn off. *** With the flashlight on, press and hold the switch to ramp through the infinitely variable brightness system. 2. The brightness ramped linear. 3. The head screwed and unable to get to the emitter. 4. The headlamp itself is the orange peel reflector with large spot, and currently don't have accessories to make it more floody. 5. Yes, you're right, it is 120 lm at 0.3A 6. The largest angle of the orange peel reflector is 100°. 7. Yes, it could run with unprotected batteries, but protected batteries are more recommended. 8. Yes, it has reverse polarity protection. 9. Only have the headband.
The slider on that HC90 looks a little dicey. I’m curious how it stands up to real world use. This Crelant head lamp just uses the main button to get variable brightness. This only my second head lamp so I’m excited to see how it does. Someone told me not to buy the “unicorn” style head lamps but this Crelant just looks cool.
It’s a superb design and implementation. Nitecore really hit it out of the ballpark with the HC50. I think I will hold off on the HC90 until somebody confirms whether the slider is any good. Seems like maybe they outsmarted themselves with that one.
Yeah. Let PayPal take that risk. As far as I’m concerned, every one of these sellers is shady, even the better known ones. So I look at it as risk management.
Something weird is happening when I try logging into paypal via lastpass on this sellers site. It's telling me my password has changed and to confirm the change which it didn't because I logged in to my paypal account separately with my lastpass login. Anyone else??? This has never happened before. That said, I didn't end up buying anything..