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jmk451
Feb 14, 2019
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- 2016 Spot - 200 lumen spot, good flood light, good placement of red LED, one-button operation, BUT useless and annoying "PowerTap" feature that turns max brightness on while just handling the light.
- 2018 Spot - 300 lumen spot, better flood light, poor placement of red LED (shadowed one one side), one-button, still has abominable PowerTap.
- 2018 Cosmo - 200 lumen spot, retains flood and red LED placement from 2016 Spot, one-button, and NO PowerTap!
- 2019 Cosmo 225 - 225 lumen spot, retains good flood and red LED placement, nice two-button operation (one for brightness, one for mode, both for lockout), still no PowerTap :) BUT: single large polycarbonate window subject to scratches, poor lens on red LED leaves no center hot spot at all, making it disperse too much and become difficult to see beyond 2-3 feet (prior models of Cosmo have a mild hotspot in the center of the red LED that makes it more useful at distances of 5-10 feet—from my head to the ground, for example).
As for why I might prefer the Cosmo to the Spot (beyond the useless PowerTap), I prefer longer battery life to super-bright light, as I'm most often using a headlamp when it's, well, dark, and my eyes get used to dimmer light. All in all, if I could magically make a headlamp, it would pretty much be the 2018 Cosmo, but with the 2-button operation of the 2019 Cosmo 225 and the battery life of the Petzl Tikka (and maybe the actual waterproof operation of my old Princeton Tec Quad). In the absence of magical powers, I'll settle for the 2018 Cosmo.