Whether you’re in the market for your first Head Torches purchase, or you’re looking to add to your collection, you’ve come to the right place to find the very best Petzl Head Torches of 2020. There is a lot of choice when shopping for Petzl Head Torches, to be precise we found 40 products in the category at Wiggle Online Cycle Shop. Then from the 40, we found that Petzl is the manufacturer of 10 of them. We’re here to make that shopping process much simpler for you by finding you the top Petzl Head Torches products to be found this year.
Discover more about Petzl Head Torches
As you’ve probably already noticed, there is tons of choice when you are shopping for Head Torches, but the good thing is, you’ve already decided that you’re looking to buy a decent brand like Petzl. So that just leaves you with the 40 choices that are available from Petzl. Take a quick look at the overview of our top picks for Petzl Head Torches to find out a bit more information on each.
1. Our Favourite – Petzl TACTIKKA¬Æ + Head Torches
Price: £28
Designed for activities where stealth is key (hunting, fishing, nature watching…), the TACTIKKA + headlamp offers a powerful 250 lumens of lighting. It features a very long burn time and great lighting versatility: proximity or focused lighting for movement, and red lighting to preserve night vision and ensure stealth. TACTIKKA + is a HYBRID headlamp that is also compatible with the CORE rechargeable battery. Specifications Light output: 250 lumens Weight: 85 g Beam pattern: mixed Energy: Three AAA/LR03 batteries (included) or CORE rechargeable battery (available as accessory) Battery compatibility: rechargeable Ni-MH Certification(s): CE Watertightness: IP X4 (weather resistant)
2. Petzl ACTIK Head Torches
Price: £26.99
The ACTIK headlamp offers 300 lumen brightness. Featuring a mixed beam, it is ideal for outdoor activities like mountaineering, running, hiking and backpacking. Red lighting preserves night vision and prevents blinding other members of the group. Its reflective headband helps you to be seen when a light is shone on it, and is equipped with an emergency whistle for rescue situations. ACTIK is a HYBRID headlamp that is also compatible with the CORE rechargeable battery. Specifications Light output: 300 lumens Weight: 92 g Beam pattern: wide or mixed Energy: Three AAA/LR03 batteries (included) or CORE rechargeable battery (available as accessory) Battery compatibility: rechargeable Ni-MH or lithium Certification(s): CE Watertightness: IP X4 (weather resistant)
3. Petzl TACTIKKA® +RGB Head Torches
Price: £35
Designed for activities where stealth is key (hunting, fishing, nature watching…), the TACTIKKA +RGB headlamp offers a powerful 250 lumens of lighting. It features a very long burn time and great lighting versatility: proximity lighting or focused lighting for movement. TACTIKKA +RGB also has red, green, or blue lighting to preserve night vision and ensure stealth. TACTIKKA +RGB is a HYBRID headlamp that is also compatible with the CORE rechargeable battery. Specifications Light output: 250 lumens Weight: 85 g Beam pattern: mixed Energy: Three AAA/LR03 batteries (included) or CORE rechargeable battery (available as accessory) Battery compatibility: rechargeable Ni-MH Certification(s): CE Watertightness: IP X4 (weather resistant)
4. Petzl CORE Head Torches
Price: £21.6
High-capacity Lithium-Ion 1250 mAh rechargeable battery guarantees high performance lighting for HYBRID headlamps: TIKKINA, TIKKA, ZIPKA, ACTIK, ACTIK CORE, TACTIKKA, TACTIKKA + and TACTIKKA +RGB, even at low temperatures. It recharges directly with the integrated USB port. The CORE rechargeable battery offers an economical and sustainable solution as the main power supply, or as a back-up battery. Specifications Weight: 23 g Certification(s): CE Type: batterie rechargeable Lithium-Ion 1250 mAh Recharge time: 3 h
5. Petzl TIKKINA® Head Torches
Price: £14.99
The TIKKINA headlamp offers 150-lumen brightness and a wide beam for proximity lighting. Simple, compact and with a long burn time, it is practical for outdoor activities like camping or trekking, or for traveling, and also for daily activities and projects around the house. TIKKINA is a HYBRID headlamp that is also compatible with the CORE rechargeable battery. Specifications Light output: 150 lumens Weight: 85 g Beam pattern: wide Energy: Three AAA/LR03 batteries (included) or CORE rechargeable battery (available as accessory) Battery compatibility: rechargeable Ni-MH Certification(s): CE Watertightness: IP X4 (weather resistant)
6. Petzl e+LITE Head Torches
Price: £18.95
Thanks to its carry case, it is always ready to use and can be stored with its batteries for ten years in a backpack, a vest, or an emergency kit, or used as a back-up headlamp. Its white or red, continuous 50-lumen lighting or strobe lighting helps you to be seen. The whistle integrated in the elastic headband allows the user to signal an emergency. Weighing only 26 grams, e+LITE is an ideal emergency headlamp. Specifications Light output: 50 lumens Weight: 26 g Beam pattern: wide Energy: 2 lithium CR2032 batteries (included) Watertightness: IPX7 (waterproof to -1 meter for 30 minutes) Certification(s): CE
What’s the best Petzl Head Torches?
Of course there are tons of different factors that can influences which product gets crowned as the best Petzl Head Torches, so the tips below will give you a good indication of the things to look out for when you’re shopping for your new Head Torches.
Check out plenty of reviews
Without doubt, reviews are your most valuable asset when it comes to shopping online. Reviews provide you with a level of genuine feedback that you simply can’t get from a retailer or a manufacturer. Brands of course always want their product to seem like they are the best possible option, so it’s important to get lots of unbiased feedback from actual customers. Reading reviews will really help you to get a good understanding of the quality, price, features and overall benefits of choosing one of the Petzl Head Torches products over another alternative. Customer reviews are the next best thing to actually being able to get your hands on the product and trying it for yourself. So spend the time reading through as many reviews as you can, both good and bad.
Run Price comparisons
Another very important aspect of shopping online for your Petzl Head Torches, is to make sure that you don’t just go-ahead and buy from the first retailer that you come across. Take the time to shop about and find the best deals going. Fortunately for you, we’ve done the hard work for you, finding the cheapest Petzl Head Torches around.
We’ve also run a bit of analysis to give you a good idea of how the prices of Petzl Head Torches stack up. As you can imagine there is a fair amount of variance in price when shopping for different options from Petzl, in fact the cheapest product we found in the Head Torches category was £9.95 yet the highest price of the 40 products was £309.99, and the average was £54.80.
It’s also worth looking deeper at the products from Petzl. The cheapest price in our scan was £11.45, whilst we found that the highest was £153.27 and the average £37.57.
Buy from trusted shops
It sounds obvious but make sure you are buying your Petzl Head Torches from retailers that you know well. We would of course recommend that you’re only shopping from big retailers. Our price comparison will only search for Head Torches products at trusted retailers like Wiggle Online Cycle Shop. The old rule of “if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is” works well even when shopping online. But there are of course bargains to be had still, for example we found our top pick, Petzl TACTIKKA¬Æ + Head Torches, was available at Wiggle Online Cycle Shop for just £28.
Don’t forget delivery costs
Delivery costs, whilst often minimal are important to factor into any budget that you’re setting yourself. It’s important to set yourself a budget or you can often find yourself spending way more than you had originally intended, so set yourself a budget before you get too involved in the shopping and make sure you factor in the extra money for any delivery costs that you might incur.
Warranty
The last piece of advice when looking for the best Petzl Head Torches is to look at any returns policy or warranty that is included with the product you’re buying. Even a 30 day returns policy and/or 1 year warranty can often be enough piece of mind. As you’re looking to buy from Petzl, you’re in pretty safe hands that you’re getting a great product, but nevertheless it’s still reassuring to know that you’ve got a warranty should anything go wrong with the product.
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