$19.95 - Black Diamond NightRay LED Headlamp (While Supplies Last)
A Steep and Cheap-class deal from Backcountry.com today (I think both sites are run by the same people anyway). The Black Diamond NightRay LED headlamp is marked down 50%, from $39.95 to $19.95 - starting today, 1/25/2007, and ending when current supplies are out. Hopefully supplies will last a while because the Backcoutry webstore says they have quite a few in stock, right now: “Quantity on hand: 946″.
Update, Feb. 6, 2007: Per our reader’s comment, the headlamp price is up to $27.95 (even with 505 of them still in stock). That price is still a 30% discount, but so much for the super-low price “promise”
The NightRay headlamp follows in Black Diamond’s tradition of making excellent headlamps. It’s light at 4.2 ounces, but the 5 LEDs and high-intensity should replace bigger and heavier traditional bulb headlamps instead of keeping this LED lamp just as a backup or ultralight. The 5 LEDs get 60 hours of burn time from 3 AAA batteries in a back-of-head battery-pack, giving the lamp good balance and better comfort than ultralight headlamps. The center LED is also focused with a separate lens to keep its light beam narrow and working for a longer distance than non-lensed LED headlamps.