What would you get if a Princeton Tec headlight made a baby with a Brinkmann headlight? This thing! The Defiant-branded lights are all rebranded Brinkmanns, but I've never seen this model before from Brinkmann. This is a six 5mm LED headlight, and it costs $13 at Home Depot. It's rated at 85 lumens. Nice to see that it uses FL1 standard for lumens count and runtime.
Here's the very Brinkmann-like instructions and warranty card...
The light runs on three AAA batteries in a carrier. Three Defiant-brand alkalines are included. Construction is really nice. It's not thin, shiny plastic like cheap headlights; instead, it's solid-feeling and has a very light texture (think Princeton Tec). The headlamp is a bit big (about 3-1/4" wide from switch to battery cap), but not too big as to be unuseable. The headstrap is typical Brinkmann quality: not super, but more than enough to get the job done. It's not a flow-through design; there's a space for each side. It adjusts to smaller than my ten-year-old daughter's head, and larger than my size 7-3/4 head (with a helmet on)...
Standard forehead pad. Why is the mount in a sideways I shape?
So you can blind yourself! Seriously, the light roates anywhere from just over your head...
...to right in your eyes...
The light is held in place (when you adjust it) with friction. No ratcheting system required. It's nice and stiff, but easy to move when you want to. A plastic lens protects the LED bulbs.
The switch. Press once for four white LEDs, then press again for two red LEDs. Press a third time to run off. You have to cycle through both modes to turn the light off.
I can't do beamshots until night, but the LEDs put out a very white light. No blue tint. Here they are out the front...
And the red...
Honestly, this is a great headlight. The quality and centering of the LEDs, the output (it looks to be every bit of 80-90 lumens), the construction, all feel really good. And for $13.
On Home Depot's website...
http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs...talogId=10053&productId=203138528&R=203138528
Here's the very Brinkmann-like instructions and warranty card...
The light runs on three AAA batteries in a carrier. Three Defiant-brand alkalines are included. Construction is really nice. It's not thin, shiny plastic like cheap headlights; instead, it's solid-feeling and has a very light texture (think Princeton Tec). The headlamp is a bit big (about 3-1/4" wide from switch to battery cap), but not too big as to be unuseable. The headstrap is typical Brinkmann quality: not super, but more than enough to get the job done. It's not a flow-through design; there's a space for each side. It adjusts to smaller than my ten-year-old daughter's head, and larger than my size 7-3/4 head (with a helmet on)...
Standard forehead pad. Why is the mount in a sideways I shape?
So you can blind yourself! Seriously, the light roates anywhere from just over your head...
...to right in your eyes...
The light is held in place (when you adjust it) with friction. No ratcheting system required. It's nice and stiff, but easy to move when you want to. A plastic lens protects the LED bulbs.
The switch. Press once for four white LEDs, then press again for two red LEDs. Press a third time to run off. You have to cycle through both modes to turn the light off.
I can't do beamshots until night, but the LEDs put out a very white light. No blue tint. Here they are out the front...
And the red...
Honestly, this is a great headlight. The quality and centering of the LEDs, the output (it looks to be every bit of 80-90 lumens), the construction, all feel really good. And for $13.
On Home Depot's website...
http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs...talogId=10053&productId=203138528&R=203138528
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