Petzl - Tikka Green

A comparison between the Tikka 350 and my old Energizer Vision 300 is the best review I could do here. Quick summary: buy the Petzl if you have to have a hard core climbing brand with minimalist styling, buy the Energizer if you want something easier to use at half the price.The Petzl Tikka 350 (Lumens) Headlamp is a premium product in terms of cost, form, fit & finish, and tech styling. My old Energizer Vision 300 lumen headlamp doesn't look as good, cost half as much, is easier to use, and has an extra feature I value a lot: a green light mode.I still can't get the Tikka to operate correctly even half the time due to it's confusing and non-intuitive single button system that's programmed to do different things depending on how long it's pressed and what it's ... MoreA comparison between the Tikka 350 and my old Energizer Vision 300 is the best review I could do here. Quick summary: buy the Petzl if you have to have a hard core climbing brand with minimalist styling, buy the Energizer if you want something easier to use at half the price.The Petzl Tikka 350 (Lumens) Headlamp is a premium product in terms of cost, form, fit & finish, and tech styling. My old Energizer Vision 300 lumen headlamp doesn't look as good, cost half as much, is easier to use, and has an extra feature I value a lot: a green light mode.I still can't get the Tikka to operate correctly even half the time due to it's confusing and non-intuitive single button system that's programmed to do different things depending on how long it's pressed and what it's last state was. Sometimes you turn it off when you want to increase the brightness or switch to red, and sometimes it wouldn't turn on (pressing too long? too short?). By comparison, the Energizer with two buttons is 100% simple and repeatable - press the on/off labelled button to control the white light, press the 2nd button to cycle through red, flashing red, green options. Petzl could have programmed the single button to cycle linearly through each of it's options. While they did include two useful features, a lock to prevent draining the batteries, and battery indicator, the usability issue was still a deal breaker for me. A headlamp is frequently used at the end of a long tiring day and should never be this hard to use!

The Petzl Tikka is a nice headlamp that has all of the premium Petzl features for a budget price. The battery cover has molded PVC that pairs it with the light when removed to keep you from losing it. The light has red and white lighting with the white lighting having 3 different levels of intensity and the red having one and a strobe feature. I would recommend this headlamp for recreational purposes only, as the beams of the two lights are not focused enough to see more than 5 years. Overall, nice headlamp!

I bought this after using the tikka for 8 years or so. My old one still works perfectly after being beat to hell and back and even put through the washer and dryer, but for $25 I figured I’d toss it in my cart to meet free shipping on the cabelas website. This one is actually as bright (250 lumens) as my old tikka, and seems every bit as durable. The only downside is it doesn’t have the red light but I don’t use that anyways since I am red/green colourblind so it’s a non issue for me. If you want the red light spring for the tikka, but can’t say enough how happy I’ve been with my almost decade old petzl as well as my new one so far. Even comes with 3 Duracell AAA batteries.