Using your PBS Headlamp

A headlamp earns its place in the first minutes of a dark, unplanned moment. Here is how to have the PBS Headlamp ready for that moment, and how to get the most from it once it arrives.

Before you need it

• Charge it. Charge the built-in battery over USB-C when it arrives.
• Give it a home. Keep it where your hand finds it in the dark: the bedside drawer, the car's glovebox, your kit bag.
• Check it with the rest. When you check your other supplies, switch it on and top up the charge.

Fit it

1. Put the headband on and adjust it until the lamp sits level and snug on your forehead.
2. Tilt the lamp head: down for work in your hands, up and forward for the way ahead.

Pick the right light

• Close work (a fuse box, a first-aid kit, a map): a lower brightness mode, so the light doesn't glare back at you.
• Moving around (a stairwell, a path, a roadside): the brightest mode, to see further ahead.
• Around other people at night: the red-light mode.

Three moments it's made for

• The power goes out at home. Both hands free to find the breaker, light the stove, or settle the kids.
• A stop on a dark road. Light on the wheel nuts, not in your teeth.
• Camp after sunset. Pitch, cook and pack without holding a torch.

One courtesy: angle the beam down when you're facing someone, so it doesn't shine in their eyes.

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