

No thanks.Ī head torch is a lot of components like the torch bit (reflector, lens, strap, battery box, switch, wires etc) - plus a battery - plus the LED/LEDs (i.e.

Won't be buying a black diamond headlamp in a hurry again. Perhaps American yotube reviewers think it's neat, but i don't find it useful. The last thing anyone wants to do, in the freezing cold, whilst trying to abseil off a route, swearing and cursing at their own ineptitude, is find that their headlamp is stuck in a mode which blinks happy birthday in morse code using a green LED and can only be returned to a useful state by holding down a series of unmarked buttons for a predetermined and totally forgotten length of time. I know it's clever to put computer chips in every single product, but it is a total waste of time. Please please stop making headlamps with complicated modes, which are accessed through holding down buttons in different orders and through different lengths of time. I hope you are readers of UK Climbing, spending your time digging through the mountains of arguments about the ethics of bolting and university clubs using popular crags to pick up small morsels of information about your products.
