High power headlamps at Jukola

[ifor powell]

Just got back from Finland were I ran in the Jokola Orienteering relay. This event had 1450 teams of 7 with the starting at 11pm so headlamps needed for the first 3-4 legs. So there were somting like 4500 high powered headlamps on show. I was running leg 2 for my team so I got to see the start and then people getting ready for the second leg in the warm up area.

90-95% of the lights are still the old 20W hallogen style, mainly Silvas although there are other makes. For the rest there was a scattering of Lupine Wilmas and a few Bettys. There were also Petzle Ultras and a new one to me the Mila Nova. There were also a few Hids although I am not sure of the make. There were less home mades than I would of expected I only saw 2 apart from mine, a 6 led afair similar to mine and a circular 7 led setup.

The Mila Nova was interesting as its quite similar to my homemade with 6 Leds which turn out to be rebels and square Ledil optics 4 giving a fairly wide 17 degree beam and and 2 44 degree ovals. For my homemade I have 6 Cree Q5s with 2 oval, two real spot and 2 diffuse optics.

I have uploaded some picures including some closeups of the Mila from the shop at the event.

Ifor

 

[lasercrazy]

The 2000 lumen claim for the nova is a flat out lie. That would be 333 lumens per rebel.

 

[hopkins]

I know under certain conditions you don't get the best shadows from
a headlamp when moving fast to avoid face-planting. I'm guessing that the
extreme brightness of orienteering headlamps helps the eye to compensate for that 2 dimensional affect.

 

[Jagge]

Right, Jukola is an amazing event. Here is one youtube video of the start.

My home baked P7 headlamp was used there for the first time. Maybe not the the only P7 headlamp there, but the ugliest looking for sure.