There have been many times where having a light strapped to my forehead would have made life so much easier. I need to get one, but what...
I would be after something that would be good for working on electronics projects up close, like checking resistor color bands and joining wires/soldering etc. And also for example going up into the roof space of the house to work up there. The headlight I have been looking at is one of the zebralight's with a flood beam. But I do not know if the very wide flood beam might be too much. It would also be nice to see a bit further down into the roof space etc.
Well I can suggest something. I have a samsung galaxy s2 phone. Using a flashlight app the LED flash on the phone can be used like a hand held flashlight. Honestly the beam width on this I think would be enough for the type of work I plan to do with a headlamp. For example with the phone about 12" off a wall/floor I get a nice wide beam spill that is about 16" to say 20". Mr Tan says this works out at around 67-80deg. beam angle.
So this is not anywhere near the wide beam (120) of the zebralight. But again, do you really need such a wide beam anyway??? I am of the thought that a beam angle of 70-80 would be pretty good as a minimum.
I guess I am asking instead of a 120 beam flood and loosing throw. What about a headlamp with 80-ish flood beam but more throw ( put the difference of 40 degree beam into more throw).
Are there any headlight that are about 80-100 beam width, with no hot spot in the middle.
I would be after something that would be good for working on electronics projects up close, like checking resistor color bands and joining wires/soldering etc. And also for example going up into the roof space of the house to work up there. The headlight I have been looking at is one of the zebralight's with a flood beam. But I do not know if the very wide flood beam might be too much. It would also be nice to see a bit further down into the roof space etc.
Well I can suggest something. I have a samsung galaxy s2 phone. Using a flashlight app the LED flash on the phone can be used like a hand held flashlight. Honestly the beam width on this I think would be enough for the type of work I plan to do with a headlamp. For example with the phone about 12" off a wall/floor I get a nice wide beam spill that is about 16" to say 20". Mr Tan says this works out at around 67-80deg. beam angle.
So this is not anywhere near the wide beam (120) of the zebralight. But again, do you really need such a wide beam anyway??? I am of the thought that a beam angle of 70-80 would be pretty good as a minimum.
I guess I am asking instead of a 120 beam flood and loosing throw. What about a headlamp with 80-ish flood beam but more throw ( put the difference of 40 degree beam into more throw).
Are there any headlight that are about 80-100 beam width, with no hot spot in the middle.
