Energizer VISION HD+ LED Headlamp
How often have we all wished for a third hand while we’re working on a vehicle or doing something in the dark? Bathing a fastener in bright light helps me find the best angle from which to remove it when working in tight spaces. I also can’t tell you how many times I have dropped and lost a nut or bolt because I didn’t have two hands to work with because one was holding a flashlight.
Even if you don’t do much DIY work, this Energizer VISION HD+ LED headlamp should still be in your emergency blackout kit. You don’t want to have to be holding a flashlight while you navigate around your house in pitch darkness and try to figure out what’s going on while keeping children and animals out of the way at the same time. I keep one in my blackout kit, one in my pole barn, and one in my vehicle’s glovebox.
I use this headlamp every Saturday morning when I get up early before the sun to harvest certain produce for the farmers market. Even when it’s not on high mode, it lights up an entire raised bed (and then some) to allow me to see what I’m doing and still be able to work with my hands. It’s no problem using it in the rain if I have to, as it’s water resistant – just don’t submerge it in water.
Have you ever noticed pest damage on your plants and vegetables, but haven’t seen any butterflies, moths, caterpillars, worms, or beetles during the day? Walk your garden at night with a good light like this and you just might find the culprit looking back at you.
This headlamp provides 400 Lumens in high mode, which puts it into a league of its own compared to many other LED headlamps. There are five modes in all: high, low, spot, flood, and night vision red.
As a military guy, I appreciate the option of the red night mode. Red (as well as green) light still lets you see in the dark, but allows you to retain much more of your body’s natural night vision without needing to readjust your eyes to the darkness once you turn the light off compared with using a standard white light.
It’s pretty amazing how far flashlight technology has come in the past couple of decades, with LEDs in particular making the greatest impact. This little light puts out around three hours of superior light compared to much larger and heavier flashlights of the past that ran on multiple, expensive D-cell batteries and required periodic replacement of the incandescent bulbs.