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HP25R was provided for review by manufacturer. Here is an official product page.
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Stated characteristics
Headlamp comes into accurate paper box.
Package includes headlamp itself, 18650 battery, manual-warranty, micro-usb cable and a pair of clips to attach cable to headstap.
Battery case on the nape is connected with the front part by thick cable and is made of plastic, which is reasonable choice for cold weather and weight. After couple of hours spent in fridge cable is still flexible, like in normal room temperature.
There is regular green\red indicator. I like this pair of light-reflective stickers.
Rubber plug seals usb-port quite tightly.
Cover of battery box moves smoothly on threads and connects to it quickly and easily enough to replace battery right with headlamp on head.
Front part, lamp body, is made of aluminium. But at first time I thought that was plastic, to be honest. There is a small cover above buttons – great idea to prevent occasional activation.
What about LEDs – we have pair of white light Cree XM-L2 U2 with shallow OP reflector (strange decision for spotlight) and neutral light Cree XP-G2 R5 with TIR-optics for max flood
There is also small red light LED what i welcome in each headlamp.
Here is what i`ve seen after disassebling lamp body.
Heat transfer is simple for spot light – heat moves from back part of aluminum pill right to lamp`s body back side.
What about flood light – electronic board consumes heat and that`s it. Not a great idea to my mind.i think Fenix could make aluminus pill for XP-G as well. At least XP-G produces not that much heat in max mode.
I measured about 45 celcius both with and without back cover of lamp body (at spotlight max mode) . So looks like heat transfer works.
HP25R has 60 tilt mechanism with good fixation of angle.
UI
Simple, once you tried it a couple of times, you can easily get used to it.
There is no strobe, btw, only SOS. And red LED has the only blinking mode. I find this qiute bad idea.
Beacon white light, or red-white signal light will be a nice feature that we don`t get for some reasons.
Ok, 2 buttons at the top of front part of headlight are responsible for flood and spotlight.
To start sportlight you have to long press button with 4 parallel stripes and then adjust brightness with short clicks. If you want to check battery level, you have to quick press it. If spotlight blinks 3 times – there is more then 70% left. If red and white start to blink – 30-70%. If only red light blinks – less than 30%. If you don't turn indicator on, but red light is still blinking – battery is close to 0.
The same is for another button which is responsible for floodlight.
When light is on, quick press starts red light.
There is memory mode.
Luxmeter shows
XP-G : 4-36-147-404
XM-L2 : 260-872-2280-4480
I also checked Skilhunt H03F and got: 900lux in flood mode \ 2460 in spotlight mode. Both in max brightness. Just with and without light-diffusing cover.
I consider that 1000 lumen is nothing but a number. Amperage and temperature also tells me the same.
Yes, it still bright. But I don`t take "1000 lumens" seriously.
OK, see stepdown.
2,5hours of runtime promised for XP-G.
Quick decrease and then 1h40min at one level, then decrease again and 25 min at this level, then decrease one more time and 8 hours of working in this dim brightness.
Ehh, I hoped that 350 lums is mode that can get honest runtime in specification. But here we have quite less. Of course, battery with 3000-3500mah will performs a way better.
1.5 h promised for XM-L2
Quick stepdown once again for 1.5 hours, then 15 min at next quite bright mode, then 50 min in something "ok, I see what`s around" mode, and then falling to something really dim, I suppose that is something like 4-5 lums.
Here we see traditional difference between promised and real runtimes. But stabilization is ok, that`s is batter then workin in the same mode and then sudden signalization that there is 1-2 min left. Stepdown modes will let you to work or at least not to fall.
And here is the coolest feature of HP25R. It fully supports being powered via microusb-cable.
So you can remove battery, plug cable to 10 000 mah powerbank and you get huuuuge bonus to runtime. If this is 20000 mah powerbank – you can forget about darkness for days.
Fenix made a simple but great decision with this feature. It`ll help a lot outdoor, I believe.
Amperage:
XM-L2 U2 - 0.067-0.253-0.814-1.386A .
XP-G2 R5- 0.17-0.8-0.35-1.025A
There is no PWM shimmering in light, though I hear some buzzing sound in lowest mode of both spot and floodlights.
Floodlight is veery diffused, with no hotspot at all. Light temperature is good, convenient for eyes.
hp25r spot
flood
skilhunt h03f flood
spot
Spotlight is quite colder, have good throw to about 50 meters distance on max mode.
There are some video indoor, take a look at the end of youtube video
BTW, red light is quite dim. Just for 1-1.5 meters distance.
OVERALL
Yes, I like it. I had a chance to make some repairing work at home with this light on, and can say that it feels ok on head + spotlight is great for near field work.
+ comfortably feels on head.
+ 3 sorts of lights and good brightness modes.
+ micro-usb charging feature (that you don`t often meet in headlamps)
+ full support of working with external powersources!
- no beacon
- I don`t see 1000 lumens here. May be 700-800 for short time. Still bright, yeah. But not 1000.
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Stated characteristics
Headlamp comes into accurate paper box.
Package includes headlamp itself, 18650 battery, manual-warranty, micro-usb cable and a pair of clips to attach cable to headstap.
Battery case on the nape is connected with the front part by thick cable and is made of plastic, which is reasonable choice for cold weather and weight. After couple of hours spent in fridge cable is still flexible, like in normal room temperature.
There is regular green\red indicator. I like this pair of light-reflective stickers.
Rubber plug seals usb-port quite tightly.
Cover of battery box moves smoothly on threads and connects to it quickly and easily enough to replace battery right with headlamp on head.
Front part, lamp body, is made of aluminium. But at first time I thought that was plastic, to be honest. There is a small cover above buttons – great idea to prevent occasional activation.
What about LEDs – we have pair of white light Cree XM-L2 U2 with shallow OP reflector (strange decision for spotlight) and neutral light Cree XP-G2 R5 with TIR-optics for max flood
There is also small red light LED what i welcome in each headlamp.
Here is what i`ve seen after disassebling lamp body.
Heat transfer is simple for spot light – heat moves from back part of aluminum pill right to lamp`s body back side.
What about flood light – electronic board consumes heat and that`s it. Not a great idea to my mind.i think Fenix could make aluminus pill for XP-G as well. At least XP-G produces not that much heat in max mode.
I measured about 45 celcius both with and without back cover of lamp body (at spotlight max mode) . So looks like heat transfer works.
HP25R has 60 tilt mechanism with good fixation of angle.
UI
Simple, once you tried it a couple of times, you can easily get used to it.
There is no strobe, btw, only SOS. And red LED has the only blinking mode. I find this qiute bad idea.
Beacon white light, or red-white signal light will be a nice feature that we don`t get for some reasons.
Ok, 2 buttons at the top of front part of headlight are responsible for flood and spotlight.
To start sportlight you have to long press button with 4 parallel stripes and then adjust brightness with short clicks. If you want to check battery level, you have to quick press it. If spotlight blinks 3 times – there is more then 70% left. If red and white start to blink – 30-70%. If only red light blinks – less than 30%. If you don't turn indicator on, but red light is still blinking – battery is close to 0.
The same is for another button which is responsible for floodlight.
When light is on, quick press starts red light.
There is memory mode.
Luxmeter shows
XP-G : 4-36-147-404
XM-L2 : 260-872-2280-4480
I also checked Skilhunt H03F and got: 900lux in flood mode \ 2460 in spotlight mode. Both in max brightness. Just with and without light-diffusing cover.
I consider that 1000 lumen is nothing but a number. Amperage and temperature also tells me the same.
Yes, it still bright. But I don`t take "1000 lumens" seriously.
OK, see stepdown.
2,5hours of runtime promised for XP-G.
Quick decrease and then 1h40min at one level, then decrease again and 25 min at this level, then decrease one more time and 8 hours of working in this dim brightness.
Ehh, I hoped that 350 lums is mode that can get honest runtime in specification. But here we have quite less. Of course, battery with 3000-3500mah will performs a way better.
1.5 h promised for XM-L2
Quick stepdown once again for 1.5 hours, then 15 min at next quite bright mode, then 50 min in something "ok, I see what`s around" mode, and then falling to something really dim, I suppose that is something like 4-5 lums.
Here we see traditional difference between promised and real runtimes. But stabilization is ok, that`s is batter then workin in the same mode and then sudden signalization that there is 1-2 min left. Stepdown modes will let you to work or at least not to fall.
And here is the coolest feature of HP25R. It fully supports being powered via microusb-cable.
So you can remove battery, plug cable to 10 000 mah powerbank and you get huuuuge bonus to runtime. If this is 20000 mah powerbank – you can forget about darkness for days.
Fenix made a simple but great decision with this feature. It`ll help a lot outdoor, I believe.
Amperage:
XM-L2 U2 - 0.067-0.253-0.814-1.386A .
XP-G2 R5- 0.17-0.8-0.35-1.025A
There is no PWM shimmering in light, though I hear some buzzing sound in lowest mode of both spot and floodlights.
Floodlight is veery diffused, with no hotspot at all. Light temperature is good, convenient for eyes.
hp25r spot
flood
skilhunt h03f flood
spot
Spotlight is quite colder, have good throw to about 50 meters distance on max mode.
There are some video indoor, take a look at the end of youtube video
BTW, red light is quite dim. Just for 1-1.5 meters distance.
OVERALL
Yes, I like it. I had a chance to make some repairing work at home with this light on, and can say that it feels ok on head + spotlight is great for near field work.
+ comfortably feels on head.
+ 3 sorts of lights and good brightness modes.
+ micro-usb charging feature (that you don`t often meet in headlamps)
+ full support of working with external powersources!
- no beacon
- I don`t see 1000 lumens here. May be 700-800 for short time. Still bright, yeah. But not 1000.