As I’m typing this about 1/2 the new posts here are for headlights worn on your head, and 1/2 for automotive LED’s. It seems like a good idea to have a forum for headlights/headlamps (worn on head) up in the LED Flashlight section. After all, alot of them are right angle flashlights. Another forum down here in Other LED Lights for Automotive LED’s
Yes sir. We do have some serious head lamp junkies on here. I don’t use them a lot but have a couple for when I need them. I hope nobody ever ask me to recommend one. I wouldn’t have the slightest idea what to suggest.
I do like reading the vehicle headlight post. I would like to put some in the wifes car. The only thing I really know about them are the dumb idiots that put them god awful blue tinted things in their 1980 pickup trucks around here and don’t even bother to align them properly. It’s not nice being blinded by 5000 lumens of head ache inducing blue light.
I agree though, it would be nice to have a section on them. I could just look at those sections instead of having to search. I don’t mind them in my recent post feed though. It’s not so bad.
Seems using headlamp or headlight for vehicles is region dependent. Maybe country dependent as well. I have heard both used depending on where the person I was talking to is from. I rarely if ever depend on Wiki-anything. Anyone can contribute to any subject and it gets printed.
Maybe the cause of the confusion is that in the beginning of vehicle lighting they used lamps as a headlight.
In those days a headlight was an independently functioning device.
They just put an oil lamp and later a carbide lamp on the vehicle.
That of course changed when vehicle headlights became a part of the vehicle, and became electrical, running off the engine dynamo and / or the accumulator.
Not sure how a flashlight came to be a light rather than a lamp though…
No idea why a flashlight has that “flash” word in it either…