Black Diamond line -- your opinions

They have some interesting headlamps. Regulated incandescent along with LEDs. Seems like a good idea.

I'm looking for an additional headlamp. I like a single pack rather than a separate battery pack. And I like using LEDs most of the time, or under driven luxeons, with the ability to use incandscent when throw is needed.

What are your feelings about the BD products?

I like there product line. I have a Vectra IQ that I modded by using a Soliras 1A bulb and nimh batts. I also put writeright on the lens for smoothing out the artifacts. It did a nice job.

To me, this light has just about everything, like 3 levels incan, 3 levels led, all regulated. Lots of other cool features, too.

I switched from Petzl to Black Diamond some time ago. Been loving the Gemini Now that the new hybrids are out, I've been thinking about a Soliras, or a Zenix IQ. The IQ series have regulated output and a few other features. They have OK waterproofness.

I am dying to get my hands on a BD Spot. If someone would just buy one and review it I could return to normal life-functions until Christmas :sweat:

Front, looks nice...

Bending the backplate to pop the latch, felt like it was going to break

Battery compartment, no weather seals

The 'strobe' effect visible at med and low settings

Ok, thats one way to reduce the light output.
Not sure how long the shutter on my camera was open, 1 or 2 secs?
This is how motion looks on the wall...

Comments?

No water resistance? PWM dimming? I'm a little dissapointed.

very disappointing. Thanks for the pix. Sheesh.

opk well the battery pack on my moonlight has cracked in to places now so it is not even water resistant now if i drop it from een 6 inches the battery conections will bend and i have to fix it before the light will work again but its all good finally a product failure i have an excese to buy a PT eos

What is PWM?

Blingy25 said:

What is PWM?

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Pulse Width Modulation. Basically, by making an LED blink incredibly fast, it appears dimmer than if it weren't blinking. A few headlamps use this, while others (like the EOS) acomplish multiple brightness levels by lowering the current to the LED. Supposedly, the advantage to PWM dimming is that the LED maintains the same color tint in all brightness levels, while dimming by adjusting the current can cause the the tint to shift as the light gets dimmer (I think it usually gets greener?). The disadvantage to PWM dimming is that the fastter you move, the more noticible the strobing is.

At least that's my understanding.