Red LED headtorches?

[sargey]

hello again

any recommendations on a budget red Led headtorches please, not after cheap and nasty, but dont want to spend too much, would rather keep money toward new eyepieces !

also how many red led's would be needed? would one be enough for general back garden observing?

thanks in advance

Nick

[rowan46]

get  the cheap and nasty ones they have a much dimmer light than the expensive ones if you can get them with the 2 position switch you are less likely to switch the white on by mistake. Although a red light is less damaging to night vision it still needs to be dim

[dwc]

Go Outdoors have a cheap one that has a red Vizor that drops down over the White light. So provided you leave the Vizor down it always comes on red. Downside is that you have to switch through 2 flashing settings before getting to the static light.

[hgjevans]

Another vote here for 'cheap and nasty' - I got mine from a local 'Trespass' shop for about a fiver, and it's absolutely fine. One red LED, two white ones, and a three-way switch - red to the left, white to the right, and the off position in the middle.

[rowan46]

Another vote here for 'cheap and nasty' - I got mine from a local 'Trespass' shop for about a fiver, and it's absolutely fine. One red LED, two white ones, and a three-way switch - red to the left, white to the right, and the off position in the middle.

thats the one I have  I got mine for 2-99 from aldi but of course they are only available a couple of weeks of the year

[Sirius Starwatcher]

Any cheap headband light works for me. I use an artists acrylic red paint to paint over the lense or pinch the other halfs red nail varnish

[ronl]

Yes cheap and cheerful work well, but make sure you can adjust

the tilt of the lamp, otherwise you have to keep straining your neck

to place the beam in the right position.

[Double Star]

£2.99 Morrisons.  Takes 3xAAA batteries.  Not sure Morrisons reaches down to North Cornwall though!

[LittleSkink]

Poundland (if they still have them) and nail varnish ?

[sargey]

Thanks everyone, see argos have one for 4.99, so will give that ago... Reassuring to know I didn't need anything too specific or expensive

Thanks

[glowjet]

Have a look at the Bay under Red light head torch, dual red and white for around a fiver free post

[jnb]

I picked up a pack of two led torches and a red / white head torch from homebase recently for £6. They are Rolson so not a bad make.

Specifically this http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rolson-61762-9-LED-Torch-Pieces/dp/B003VIW43O

[hgjevans]

 Not sure Morrisons reaches down to North Cornwall though!

I can confirm that they have made it as far as Dorset. Though, as anyone who has lived down in the south-west will know, that's still several days' journey from Cornwall, though some difficult, dangerous, and often uncharted territory.

[i might have exaggerated just a tiny little bit.  ]

[Scott]

thanks for the reminder... I need to get a spare for sgl10 that I can disconnect the white leds. wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of the dob mob

[RWB]

Hi I got mine at the local market for about £4.50  it says energizer on the band

has 2 white and 1 red which is well good enough to walk a round in the pitch black 

takes 3 AAA batteries and there is a hinge on the light unit

switch is left for red (just think port wine is red andport is left on boats )

   ma penneth 

Regards Robin