Choosing A Head Lamp By Bulb

There are three major varieties of head torch bulb currently on sale, all with different advantages. The retro halogen bulb can shine the greatest distance, unfortunately they also use up the most battery. Because of this Halogen headlamps are becoming much less popular to most users. The amazing newcomer to the head lamp scene is the LED bulb. They require much less electricity, which means their batteries stay charged for a length longer. The disadvantage of the LED bulb is that they don actually light up as much distance as their halogen rivals, in spite of the fact that they often look brighter. So as a rule whether to use, LED or Halogen depends on the activity they are going to be used for.

 How to choose the head torch bulb you need

 I have already covered above, that the problem with an LED bulb is while it seems brighter than a halogen bulb, its beam will not cover as much of a distance. That said, an LED bulb is significantly more power economical than a halogen equivelant. It uses a lower amount of power to give out the same, or more, light. This is because its wastes much less heat energy than a halogen bulb. Ultimately a head lamp should brighten up your tent, not heat it!.

 The best headlamp to use depends on the activity it is to be used for. If the main use for your headlamp is so you can navigate a tent at night, read a map at in the dark, or even go for a short stroll after sunset, aLED headlamp is almost certainly what you are after. There are a number of adventure activities, like climbing or caving which are carried out at close quarters. Dispersed light is often really useful when doing these things.
 That said, many other activities need a much greater depth of vision. The drawback of LEDs is the length they can shine is pretty limited. Trying to find your tent in a massive field will be fairly difficult with an LED bulb head light. That ancient halogen headlamp you have lurking under the bed may be much better adapted!

 The possible solution to Halogen or LED lamp quandary is the hybrid. By having both bulb types in one shell, this tries to be the ultimate lamp. Brilliant! The ony problem is that whilst halogen bulbs use much more power than an LED, hybrids often lack the additional battery capacity to feed them. The simple solution is just to be careful. Only use the halogen function when you really need it. If you have a hybrid, so both types of head torch bulb, make sure you limit the amount of time it is switched to halogen!