I’m looking for a good headlamp with up to 2000lm.do you have any inputs?
It could take 2 18650 I’m not in for a light one but for work during end of the days like 5pm to 8pm. I can live with a heavy one and charge it every nights.
No trail need but a really good floody performing one.
There is the armytek wizard pro v3 with the xhp50 that does around 2000 lumens but dont know how long it can run before it gets to hot or if it have some sort of thermal stepdown.
1. do you have a good 1000lm headlamp?, You will probably be very happy with one.
Myself and many others on this site have 18650 headlamps from skilhunt, armytek, nitecore, and zebralight, etc and I can guarantee that 1000lm headlamps are ridiculously useful. in many cases 1000lm is actually too bright and you have to turn these down.
2, much more important that just lumens is the beam profile. If you are working with things within 5-40 feet of you, then a 800 lm pure flood will be more than enough. Maybe you need to spot things 100-300ft away, and need something with better throw, but in my opinion that throw, and the resulting hot spot in the beam make a light much less useful at close working distances. SELECT YOUR BEAM PROFILE CAREFULLY. Zebralight makes headlamps with every beam profile in many strengths ranging from 500lm to 1600lm so you can get exatctly what you want if you know what that is.
3. there have been many new headlamps out lately using the XHP35 or XHP50 LEDs these are ranging from 1200 to 2000LM (Nitecore HC33, armytek wizard pro v3, Acebeam H10, Zebralight H600, H600w, H600f, H600fw, H600fc, H600fd, H604, H604w, H604c, H604d)
as you can see zebralight has got you covered with all tints and beam patterns SELECT YOUR BEAM PROFILE CAREFULLY,
4. I am a huge fan of the skilhunt H03, extremely high quality, VERY affordable ( $30 with coupon ) and very floody. I can vouch for that as an excellent choice although I have absolutely nothing against the others mentioned which are reported to be just as good , and in some cases better.
I dont know what or where you gonna use this light
In my case, im very pleased with skilhunt h03, the tint, beam, color temp,the output, is well balanced
So unless you explore Son Doong cave, i think you will happy with skilhunt h03
I wish there was an adaptor so you just can take your good flashlight that have a e-switch and just remove the head and use the adaptor to screw that head on the headlamp.
Like just take the head of the Convoy L6 and put it on the headlamp using the adaptor and voilà, you just got a good headlamp.
Depends on what you work with but could an Astrolux MF01 mounted on a safety helmet thru the tripod screw hole be a option?
Then you could be safe and impress your coworkers. (Well they would be impressed by the light output, not how you looks)
It would be heavy but you would get much light…
Now I’m daydreaming about that adaptor thingy I want.
Only if I had the skills and equipment to do it.
The adaptor would just be the end of a steel pipe or similar with fitting thread’s for the MF01 that connects the negative to the driver.
On that other end of that pipe would I weld a steel washer that I drill holes for mounting a plastic brick or similar for insulation so it doesn’t short, and on that I mount something for connecting the positive to the driver. Connecting that to the pipe with some bolts and nuts and some glue or silicone.
On the pipe I weld some mount so it can fit any of those magical 50000 Chinese lumens headlamps.
Connecting the wires, seal it with some silicone, paint it black.
If the battery holder doesn’t support the right battry configuration then just fix that.
Of course the driver should have the NarsilM Ui so you could get the right output that u need.
And voilà a super headlamp.
Well. Would be easier if the good CNC workers where they make the MF01 could make me one instead so it actually happens…
Couldn’t resist. Bought another one so I could flip the magnet on one to do the dual setup.
Just hoping there are not some old tired hunter that thinks I’m a deer when I walk in the woods.