What's your headlamp of choice ?

I have a Zebralight H31- great lamp; I usually use it when backpacking as it shares the same CR123 as my Steri-pen
 
I've been using a UST Enspire with good results. The price is modest and the quality and features are good.

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I have a few headlights

Favorite is the Surefire Minimus Vision - smooth wide beam, variable brightness, nice warm tint - a great choice, and it lives in my EDC bag - a super simple to use light - just wind up the needed brightness (and if you twist it on/off/on/off/on/off/on it starts up in SOS mode too - a hidden mode that i only found through a post on CPF)

My Fenix HL50 lives on my nightstand - it too is a great light, but the pushbutton switch on the end turns it on in a bag too easily - best thing is it has an adapter sleeve bit, which converts it from CR123 to AA power - i actually use it a fair bit, because its easy to access.

Petzl Pixa 3 - a great industrial headlamp, not so good as an outdoorsy headlamp - its a bit bulky and heavy, but has three modes, with three distinct beam patterns, low is a wide flood close up beam with 12hrs runtime, medium is half spot/half flood and reaches out a bit further, with 6hrs runtime, and High is pure spot, with 3 hours runtime - it gets clipped to my tree harness when in the tree near sunset, and gets used when i am poking around in the roof, because it adjust from flood to spot, and i can throw it in the sink when i am done - it also has an ATEX rating, for hazardous environments (not that i need that any more, would have been handy 10 years ago though)
 
Best bet to prevent the Zebralight headlamps from turning on in your bag is to loosen the battery cap half a turn. Then it's just a quick turn back and a push of the button to turn it on when you need it.
 
BladeScout said:
The Princeton Tec Remix Pro was my favourite headlamp for a while.
I put headlamps to good use and the Remix had the features, that I like.
A very good lamp IMO apart from one thing. Sadly, the lamp has a design fault - even though I use my headlamps a lot, I still take good care of them. None the less, the hinge for the battery cover on the Remix is much too fragile. I was changing the battery at some point and the cover/hinge simply broke apart.
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Sure as sh*t....you guys were right!! Went to change the batteries in my Remix Pro for the first time a few nights ago and as I'm prying the latch open the plastic simply broke! I was even being careful with it but you do need some significant force to get that thing open so I don't think it was my fault. Whats worse is there really is no way to temporarily fix it so that the battery will stay in. I immediately called Princeton Tech the next morning and thankfully they were very nice, no questions asked just send it in and they will replace/fix. I should have taken a photo but it's already in the mail. Oh well. I still like the light for its brightness and simplicity though.
 
Too bad you lamp hinge broke, but good that P-Tec came through for you.
The Remix Pro is an excellent headlamp - too bad about the atrocious fragile hinge.
PrincetonTecs CS is awesome though.
I zip tied the hinge cover on my Remix Pro. Lamps works. Still annoying how flimsy and how easily the hinge broke though.
 
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