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Posted by Chip (Guest) on December 8, 2006 at 4:34:57 pm EST
In reply to Help! Need a lightweight LED lamp gift for my hiker sister posted by Hiker's Sister on November 30, 2006 at 2:17:04 pm EST

I've used Petzl Tikka/ Tikka Plus/ Zipka Plus all are exelent lights the only reason I've had so many is I lost two of them.
the Tikka can be a little hard to turn on and off becuase it uses a small switch and it only has one brightness setting but if your sister likes to keep things simple it is a great light I used mine for just under 1 year before losing it at summer camp and I never had any problems with it.
the Tikka Plus is pretty much the same but with 3 brightness settings, a strobe feture, 1 extra LED, it uses a rubber butten for switching between the different sttings and it can be pivited up and down for whatever angle will work best for the task at hand again just under a year of use before losing it once again at summer camp.
last but not least is the the Zipka Plus it is exactly the same as the Tikka Plus but it can not be pivited and instead of a regular head band it has a very strong litle string on a spring loaded coil wich is pretty cool but if your sister has long hair then it may not be ideal I speak from experiance as I have long hair however this is still my faveret headlamp so far beacuase... well mostly becuase the spring loaded head band string thingy is just realy cool and I've gone 2+ years without losing this one wich makes it the most long lived so far.
all of these lights are of the afor mentioned 3 AAA stored in the unit type and all wiegh less than 3 OZ you can also get different colared lenses for night vision and these lenses can be swaped out in 30 seconds with just a pocket knie of maybe realy tuff finger nails

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