- Ben from Snowys here folks today
with a Petzl Actik Core headlamp.
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So the Petzl Actik Core headlamp comes with
three different light modes on the front, a red light,
but most of all, most exciting of all
comes with rechargeable core battery.
So when you buy your Actik Core headlamp from Petzl
you get three things with it.
You get a little charging cable here,
you get the headlamp, obviously, attached to the strap here,
and the battery which will be contained inside here.
Now I want to show you this battery first.
So this can be used inside here, or you can
actually use three AAA batteries in there as well.
So you've got multiple power options.
But I just want to run through this first.
This is a rechargeable 4 1/2 watt hour,
1250 milliamp hour, lithium ion battery here.
And it's got little USBC charge port here.
So you don't have to worry about replaceable batteries.
You can just keep charging this one up here.
So we grab the cable that came with it,
which is just USBC cable, plug it into any USB output.
And then you plug USB, or sorry,
not USBC it's micro USB, into the battery here.
And a little light will come on to show that it's charging.
So as little indicator there, if it's red
it means it's on or it's charging.
When it goes green, it means
that the battery is charged.
So nice, light way, reusable way
to power your Actik Core headlamp.
Now, when you put it back in, you just need to
make sure you've got the orientation right.
So if we have a look at the top here, got a little
plus symbol here and a little minus symbol here.
That's got a line up with the
plus symbol in here and the minus symbol.
So see if we put this around this way
the plus and the minus down here don't match up.
We spin it around this way.
We've got the plus and the plus that match up there
and at the other end, the minus and the minus match up.
So that then clicks into place there, click it shut.
It's got a nice, actually easy to open function on this.
A lot of these headlamps were difficult to open
but Petzl's opening feature on that
is actually really easy and feels really secure.
And the headlamp's now ready to go.
Now, Petzl have made headlamps for many,
many years and the build quality
and simplicity and functionality of
them is just unsurpassed.
I reckon they're a great headlamp.
All plastic, all around plastic bracket on the back here
with a nice, positive pivoting function here
and a nice, wide, durable, stretchy headband
on the back here, which is adjustable.
So you've got this strip buckle here,
which will slide back and forward
to adjust it so you can fit it over
any size head or over the top of a beanie or hat as well.
Now, using it is really simple.
It's all one button on the top here.
It's three settings.
If we click it onto the first setting,
that goes onto a six lumen setting.
We can see we've got two different lenses on the front here.
This is a diffused lens, and this is
a more focused lens here.
So six lumens, that will run through around a 130 hours
and about eight hours of big distance out of that one.
If we keep scrolling or because I left that
on for a while, it turns off, but if I click that on
and then click it again, it goes to the middle setting.
Now that's a hundred lumen setting.
We can see that both lenses are now on.
So we've got both diffused
and direct light there about 45 metre beam distance
and about an eight hour run time.
And then we'll turn it off
and scroll through three times this time.
So 1, 2, 3, that's the brightest setting.
So we've actually got 450 lumens
of light out of that now 90 metre beam distance,
but you've only got about two hours of run time.
Now this will go into a reserve mode
when the batteries get low
and the run time comes right down
really low just to try and extend that battery life.
If I turn that off again and hold down on this button
now, we'll then flick to the red light.
So this little light here is the red light.
So night light option.
If we turn that, press twice, while it's on red light
we then go to a strobe mode
so we can leave that somewhere.
So we can, I dunno, find our way back
to the tent at night or easily find your headlamp
if it's flashing.
Hold it down again until the light flicks
onto the white light.
And we're back onto that white light setting there.
Now, furthermore, it has a lock function.
So if we've got it in there in our pack
we want to lock it out.
So the button doesn't accidentally press or turn
on and drain the batteries while in our backpack,
hold down on this for four seconds
1, 2, 3, 4, it will start flashing.
So we just saw that flash a few times
each time I press this, we can see it just flashes
in behind there, but the light's not actually going on.
So that's the lock function to turn it off
hold down for another four seconds
until the white light comes back on
and we're back into the normal mode there now.
That is the Petzl Actik Core headlamp.
I reckon this is probably one
of the best all around headlamps you can have.
It doesn't have a whole bunch of features to scroll
between, ambient, spot, different lumen settings.
It's just three settings - low, medium, and bright.
You don't have to think about all different functions.
Really good option for camping, hiking, outdoors
whatever you're at, whatever your use is for a headlamp.
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