Which Lucifer headlamp has the longest lasting power?

Our Lucifer X headlamp has the longest lasting power, at 10 lumens it can last for 1000 hours - 42 days straight! The Lucifer M6+ in 20 lumen mode also has a long lasting 200 hours.

What influences the light duration?

The quality of the headlamp and the way the intensity is regulated are the main factors influencing the light duration. Headlamps without regulation usually shine for a long time but their luminosity decreases very quickly from the start of the light as the batteries run down. The claimed luminous times of these simpler headlamps are often exaggerated and unusable after a few hours of shining.

More expensive, regulated lights, such as all of our Lucifer headlamps, regulate the glow consistently throughout the battery discharge. They also usually use higher quality (more efficient) LED chips, and the headlamp includes a voltage converter that transforms the excess voltage instead of burning it off. These advanced headlamps also usually use better batteries, typically higher capacity li-ion cells.

How do we specify the light duration for our headlamps?

We specify lumen time very strictly as the time before the brightness drops to 70% of the original value. This is much stricter than the ANSI FL/1 standard that other manufacturers report lumen times by. This is because the ANSI standard counts luminosity 10 times less than the initial luminosity as part of the luminosity time! Thus, such a headlamp can officially shine 1000 lumens, but after an hour it can only shine 100 lumens and still count this time towards the 1000 lm luminous time.

The Lucifer M6+ headlamp is our best-selling headlamp and has an extra long battery life of up to 200 hours. Many customers charge this headlamp once in a while and never manage to fully discharge it. Despite the long battery life, the M6 headlamp is lightweight and well suited for a wide range of sports and activities.

The headlamp also has a feature that will keep it from suddenly going out even when you are very low on power. On the contrary! The headlamp provides the user with many discharge warnings and even if the user ignores all these warnings and keeps on shining at high brightness, the headlamp will gradually switch to lower and lower modes before switching to the very lowest one in which the headlamp can still shine for many hours.

This headlamp is on the other side of the weight spectrum, but it is not extremely heavy either. It offers 6 modes, the lowest of which is 10 lumens and lasts a whopping 1000 hours.

The second lowest mode, VERY LOW, with 90 lumens of light, also offers an excellent 170 hours. The endurance is so high thanks to the six LEDs that operate at a very high efficiency, up to 200lm/W.