- Howdy, campers.
Ben from Snowys today with this Silva Scout 2XT headlamp.
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This is a really affordable little headlamp
with a nice durable housing.
It's got a combined intelligent lighting system.
Simple operation,
perfect for any hiking or camping adventure.
Now, you probably know Silva for the compasses they make,
but they also made headlamps since about 1935,
and this feels certainly like a headlamp
that's been made by a company
that's got a lot of history or background
in making headlamps.
It's a really durable little unit.
It measures about five and a half centimetres
by four centimetres by about three and a half centimetres
and weighs about 51 grammes without the batteries,
about 84 grammes with the batteries,
depending on what type of battery you use.
And it's a ABS plastic housing on here
with a sort of rubbery sort of button on the top there.
Feels really well-made.
If I sort of squeeze this, nothing's moving,
feels like a nice, solid unit.
It's got an IPX5 water resistant rating
which means it can put up with jets of water from any angle.
So perfect for rain, heavy rain,
all of those sort of things, so any outdoor escapade.
While it's on your head, it's gonna be safe.
The batteries are contained within this end here.
There's a little tab on the bottom here,
we lift that up and it releases this flap on the end here.
Pivoting flap.
Now we've got three AAA batteries
that come with the head torch when you buy it
that fit in there,
and there's a seal that runs around the top here,
so when you push this closed,
requires a little bit of muscle to get that closed.
Clicks closed, and it seals in there,
which is what gives it that IPX5 rating.
Now it's got a nice thick band on it,
and there's sort of a rubbery strip
around the middle of the band here,
which stops it from sliding around on your head
and it's a really comfortable band, being thick.
Sits quite comfortably around your head
and that rubbery backing on it
stops it from sliding too much.
And the friction they've got on the pivot point here
is just enough so that you can pivot that
without this whole unit sort of tipping down,
so that works really well.
And not so much that it wants to drop down.
It sits nice and firmly.
So if you are running with it,
it's gonna sit reasonably firmly
up against your head there.
We'll have a look at the LEDs and the functions inside.
Now, they call intelligent light,
this little badge on the top here.
There's two LEDs in the front here
and they both operate at the same time.
There's only two settings.
You can't have one on or the other.
You've gotta have them both on.
This one here is a focused light,
this one here is a diffused light.
So you've got both focused and diffused light
when you turn it on.
And it's all operated by this button on top here,
so one press turns it on to the high setting,
which will give us up to about 30 hours of run time.
Press it again, goes to the low setting,
gives about 70 hours of run time.
If we hold it down,
and we'll quickly have a look at the front.
We can see just inside there there's a green light.
That's a battery indicator,
so the green light's telling us the battery's good.
Also has a little red light in the middle,
so if we hold down on the top button while it's off,
little red light in the middle comes on,
so you can use that for your night vision
or preserve your night vision.
Hold it down again, and it turns off again.
Now I wanna show you a little bit
about the light pattern that this gives out,
so if we have a look down here
on this grey panel we've got here we can see
we've got this focused sort of central point here,
and then the diffused light around the outside.
So those two LEDs are focused to a central point,
but it gives you both types of light there.
Now on that high setting there,
up to 350 lumens and about 65 metre beam distance.
I press the button again, it goes to the low setting,
which is about 50 lumens of light
and about 30 metres of beam distance.
So, just flicks back and forward between the two
so really simple operation.
You haven't got lots and lots of presses
to get to the setting that you want with this headlamp here.
So that's the Scout 2XT headlamp from Silva.
Affordable, really durable.
The Silva company's got a long history in outdoor gear,
so by buying one of these,
you're buying a really good quality headlamp
that's gonna give you years and years and years of use
and really simple operation.
Check 'em out online at snowys.com.au
where you'll find 'em at our lowest prices every day.
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