- Howdy campers and hikers,
it's Ben from Snowys here today
with a Silva 2RC rechargeable headlamp.
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This is a really durable little unit
with an intelligence lighting system,
a durable casing,
and a USB charging port on the side.
So you don't have to worry
about taking batteries with you.
Well Silva are well known for their compasses.
Not many people may know
that they've actually made headlamps
for a long time as well,
that go back to about 1935.
And this Scout series of headlamps
really epitomises the quality of the experience
they've got in making.
It feels like a really durable unit.
Now this weighs about 76 grammes.
That's including the integrated battery,
measures about five and a half centimetres,
by four centimetres,
by about three and a half centimetres.
And it's made with a durable ABS housing
on the outside here.
Made it really durable.
It feels like a nice solid unit.
The little pivot thing on the end here
has got a little Allen key through this
that's really well-made.
Now, it's got an integrated lithium iron phosphate battery
inside.
A thousand milliamp power,
one amp power battery inside.
And that's recharged by this cap over the end here.
Little tap on the bottom that we lift up,
and that flicks open,
and there's a micro USB port there.
Now you do get a cable that comes with the headlamp.
I don't have one here with me today.
You plug it in there,
and this little light here will light up.
Solid red means it's charging,
green means it's charged.
If it's flashing, it means there's an issue.
Hopefully that doesn't happen.
Now it has an IPX5 water resistance rating,
which means it can stand,
like light jets of water from any direction.
So it's really, really waterproof
for more than you would need
for your average hiking.
So walking in the rain.
This cap on the end here does have a seal
that runs around the inside here.
And that's got a nice firm closure on it,
so when that clicks closed,
it seals all the,
the little port inside the USB port
inside there from rain.
And you've got a nice water resistant waterproof unit,
so with the hiking in the rain,
camping in the rain or whatever,
this is perfect for use there.
Now, the band is really comfortable.
It's a nice thick band.
And on the back of it,
it's got this sort of,
rubbery sort of panel around here,
and that just stops it sliding around on your head
and it's easily adjusted,
if I can just find it,
by this panel here that just slides back and forth
to adjust it to your comfort.
And it feels really comfortable.
The band's nice and soft,
sits against your head
and when it's on your head,
that sticky sort of panel around the back,
it feels comfortable,
but it stops it sliding around.
And the pivot on the front here is firm enough
such that it doesn't drop down
when you move your head around,
but not so tight
that it pivots the entire band when you move it,
so it's actually quite functional.
So yeah, really well made
and quite comfortable to where,
if we go into the LEDs here,
they call it their intelligent light system so,
on the front here there are two integrated LED lights.
Oh LEDs, sorry.
That has a focus one on this side
and a diffuse light on that side,
and they both operate at the same time.
So you get both the fused and focus light
when you turn it on.
If you flick the torch on top of this,
it's just two settings.
So I press it once,
and that is going to give me
about six hours of run time.
If I press it again to low,
I'm gonna get about 25 hours of run time
before I need to charge it.
So it just scrolls between those two settings
and sort of hold it down to flick it off again.
You see the little green light in the front there?
Hopefully you can just see that,
which I'll show you again shortly,
but that green light is the battery indicator.
Green means it's charged,
red means it needs charging.
If we hold this top button down
while it's switched off,
we go to a red light mode,
so nightlight mode to preserve your night vision.
I'll turn that off again.
Now we'll see if we can see
that little green light in the front there again.
Just a bit of a green glow to say
that the batteries charged up enough.
Now, I just want to show you the light pattern.
If we just jumped down to,
I've got a bit of a panel down here
that I just want to turn it on
and show you how the light pattern looks with this,
what they call their intelligent light system.
We'll move it closer.
We can see we've got a spotter light in the middle here
and diffused light around the outside there so,
you can, this is what gives us our distance vision
and the diffuse light around here gives us a bit more,
sort of, peripheral vision.
But on that high setting there,
we'll give that 65 metres of beam distance
and 350 lumens.
We flick it to the low setting
and about 30 metres of beam distance
and about 50 lumens of light so,
I like the simple operation just between those two
and hold it down to turn it off.
So what that means,
the simple operation,
you're not flicking through some headlamps,
have a lot of different settings through the one button
and you end up pressing it heaps and heaps and heaps
until you find your setting you want.
This is just on low,
hold it down to turn it off again.
I think it's a really simple and functional thing,
and it's probably all we really need for the most part,
from a head torch.
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