Hi guys! I am looking for recomendation to buy a headlight to use when I sail with my sailboat. My preferences is a neutral or warm flood light with around 600 lumens and also a red light to use when I sail at night.
Thanks for your recomendation!!
Assuming this is for looking around and monitoring what’s happening on the boat. And maybe to the sides but not really very far out front.
I would look at the armytek C2 pro or the larger and slightly wider beam C2 pro Max. What they call warm is actually around 4000k. Designated with a W at the end of the part number.
What they call White designated with a C (cool) in the part number I think is up in the high 5000 range.
Avoid the max LR because it is much more throwy and not as wide of a beam.
The C2 pro has a 70° spot with the spill out to 120°.
The C2 pro Max has a hotspot at 110° and a spill out to 150°.
You do not see any sort of a defined spot it just blends very smoothly into the spill.
If all this sounds confusing, it is.
Especially when you try to compare these specs to other headlights that don’t give you any of this information.
When you go in looking for a specific lumen output but you don’t actually compare what the width of the beams are you’re not really comparing apples to apples. If you want a wide beam I think armytek wizards are slightly wider than most others.
If you really want red on the same light they do make a wizard C2 WR. Warm or white. It will not sustain the same levels of light output as the pro models. It does have four different levels of red output and the highest is pretty dang high.
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I am looking for a flood light between 4000k - 5000k to use when I fix something in my boat and the red light is because at night I sail in the dark but some time I need to use a red light. I usually don´t sail at night but I am planing to sail longer so I need a red light to move in the boat.
The armytek Wizard C2 WR is in my list:
- Wizard C2 WR
- Wurkkos HD50
- OLIGHT Perun 3
- SOFIRN HS21
Thanks for recomendations!
Skilhunt H200 . But why red light?
Thank you for your recomendation! I use red light to preserve my night vision, I mean after to use red light I can recover my night vision faster.
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The Sofirn HS21 has flood, throw and red light. I really like the combination.
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Skilhunt H200 is floody.. available with a great High CRI 519a 4000K LED (also 3000K or 5000K options), and it has red also.
note 3rd red arrow, I marked No Battery
order a pair of USB-C rechargeable 18650 batteries a la carte:
recommend the BL-133C battery as it has built in USB-C charging, so youre not limited to using the proprietary magnetic charging cable.
Suggest buying 2 batteries, so you can keep the light running, instead of being forced to stop using it when it is acting as a charger
2 caveats with this light,
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The switch button is raised. When the light is not in use, to prevent the button being pressed accidentally, suggest you make a habit of slightly unscrewing the tailcap, just enough to ensure the light switch is disabled.
Or you can use the Electronic lockout, which makes the switch button blink, which you may find useful as a locator light. Either strategy will prevent the light from turning on accidentally..
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I add an O ring to the clamp that holds the light, it tends to get loose otherwise, making the light rotate too easily:
(the light in the photo is a slightly different model, with no red, but the headband and clamp is the same.)
Advantage of Magnetic charging:
The Skilhunt uses a sealed Magnetic charging port.
It does not use a USB-C port with a rubber flap, so it is more waterproof than other lights.
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This, or try a 14500 combination: Wurkkos HD12 + Convoy T6 SFT25R.
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