Recently, I’ve had a hard time finding headlamps around my house. My kids have been playing with some, others were left in drawers or at my friends house from hunting, so I decided to buy a few headlamps from eBay. The funny thing is, there’s a lot of repeats from various no-name manufacturers. The cost was low, so I decided to buy each unique type of Chinese headlamp that eBay had to offer to review, compare, and torture for your amusement.
This review compares 16 headlamps from eBay, 3 from my personal stock, and a couple from friends. At a high level, there are some important features that differentiate these headlamps:
- Battery: AAA, integrated, or li-ion 18650
- Number and type of LED lamps used: some had a dedicated high power LED and low power LEDs
- LED type: Most of the cheap headlamps came with a CREE XML T6 LED, better headlamps came with more power efficient LEDs
- Housing/Lamp aiming style
Here they are in order of claimed lumens. (take all lumen claims from Chinese headlamps with a heaping grain of salt)
- Super Bright Waterproof COB LED Headlamp Review
- Jetbeam HP35 Review
- 1200LM Super Bright Headlight R3 Review
- Super Bright Waterproof COB LED Headlamp Review
- Skywolfeye 1000 Lumen CREE XM-L Q5 LED Headlamp Review
- NiteCore HC60 Review
- Probe Shiny 5000 Lumen Diving Scuba Headlamp Review
- 5000 Lumen XM-L Headlamp Review
- Zoomable 8000 Lumen Headlight Review
- 1200LM Super Bright Headlight R3 Review
- Skywolfeye 15000LM 2X LED Headlamp
- Probe Shiny 15000 Lumen 3 LED Headlamp Review
- Skywolfeye 30000 Lumens 5X Cree LED Headlamp Review
