Duracell LED Head Torch 450lm - 5 Light Modes

A 450 lumen LED head torch from Duracell, built around a compact pivoting light head carried on a wide adjustable band. The 450 lumen figure is printed on the pack and is the headline here: it is output meant for picking out the far end of a garden or the back of a loft, not only the ground at your feet. The pack also names five light modes, covering spot and flood white beams, a red beam, a green beam and a red flasher. The light head tilts on its mount, so the beam follows what your hands are doing rather than wherever your head happens to point.

Anything that needs both hands is where a head torch pays for itself: changing a wheel on a dark verge, tracing a cable under floorboards, reading a chart in a tent, walking a dog down an unlit lane or working through a power cut. The band is orange and black with a sliding buckle at one side, so it can be let out over a hat or a hood and taken back in for bare hair. Red light is the traditional choice when you want to see close work without dazzling whoever is next to you, and a flashing red mode is the one to reach for at the roadside.

Mode changes run through the single button on the top of the housing, set proud of the housing so it can be found with a gloved thumb. Duracell does not state a runtime, a battery type or an IP rating for this model, so none of those appear as figures here. Each unit is one head torch, with a minimum order of six sold in multiples of six. For a handheld beam to keep in the car, we also stock the Duracell 350 lumen focusing LED flashlight with batteries included.

How bright is 450 lumens in practice?

It is enough to throw usable light well beyond arm's reach, so you can read a lane, a hedge line or the far wall of a loft rather than only the few feet in front of your boots.

What do the five light modes do?

The pack names spot and flood white beams for distance and for close work, a red beam, a green beam and a red flasher, so you can pick the beam that suits the job.

Which batteries does it take, and how long does it run?

Duracell does not state the cells this head torch takes or a runtime figure for any of the five modes, so we quote neither in the table above.

Will the band fit over a hat or a hood?

The band is adjustable through a sliding buckle at one side, so it can be let out to sit over a hat or a hood and pulled back in for bare hair. No helmet mount is stated.

Is it protected against rain or dust?

No IP rating is stated by the manufacturer, so no level of water or dust protection is claimed. If you need a stated rating for wet work, choose a torch that prints one.