User Review: Black Diamond Zenix IQ

Black Diamond Zenix IQ
Above: The current Zenix IQ, which may differ slightly from the version reviewed.

Reviewed September 21, 2007 by traildust

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I purchased one for work and this thing surpassed my expectations. I liked it so much that I ended up buying three more! One for hiking, one for my wife, and I bought another for my friend that goes hiking with me.
I tend to do lots of mountainous night hiking and I have been thankful for my headlamp to get me back home every time. The settings are perfect for levels of brightness you need. As mentioned before, the AA’s were the first selling point to me for commonality with my gps. However I would feel the same about this light even if it used AAA’s.

Ok, even pretty girls have a flaw… So my ONLY gripe about this light is the ON/OFF button. When I am climbing through Class 3 and wearing leather gloves the little button can be a challenge, BUT, like the pretty girl with a flaw, it’s still worth it!!!!!!!!

Other headlamps that I hiked with would sloooooowly die out with the ever gradual loss of light…what a pain in the arse on the trail! This thing will let you know when the batt’s run low when you are wearing it! The voltage/light regulation is so good that you will not notice ANY reduction in illumination. So as the batt’s run down to a certain level the headlamp will “blink”. The first time it happened surprised me and I thought somebody was messing with me and since I was hiking solo, I got the creeps and looked around to see some one with a flashlight, but nobody was there and I realized it was the headlamp letting me know to find the spare batt’s.

It does have an l.e.d. on the side for battery condition (green=good, red=bad) but you can not see this in use, so hence the “blink” of light while you are using it. This is great since I have the ability to get a hand held light and change the batt’s out for good ones.

By the way, the post from DtEW, you are good man, and do you ever know your stuff. As for the post from e l green, god I only wish that I was the guy that paid you ten bones for your light…I would have been laughing all the way down the trail!!!!!!

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