Energizer VISION 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? Having adequate light is often the difference between finding hidden problems or not. 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 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 use this headlamp every Saturday morning when I get up early before the sun to harvest for the farmer’s 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.)

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 six modes in all: high, low, spot, emergency strobe, red, and green.

This light is charged by a standard USB charger, which is included. A full charge takes approximately four hours. Energizer also makes the same light in a version that takes three AAA batteries. Even with the ubiquity and low cost of AAA batteries, I recommend the USB model because it feels lighter when it’s on your forehead and you’ll always have a way to recharge it if you’re near a phone charger.

As a military guy, I appreciate the green and red night modes. Green and red 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 making the greatest impact. This little light puts out several 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.

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