Petzl MYO XP
Price: £55
From: Lyon Equipment www.lyon.co.uk
Tested: Two months
Reviewed: Singletrack Magazine – Issue 39
Not a riding light, but why shouldn’t your camping, walking and exploring lights not make the most of advances in LED technology too? Running off three AA batteries, the Petzl MYO XP uses one bright LED to give a bright, white light with a diffuser to effectively give you spot and a floodlight options.
Though you could just get away with mounting the XP on a helmet, its real strength is off the bike. Used for camping and kept at the bottom of the ‘big day out bag’ it’s proved very useful. There are three brightnesses, plus flashing mode and a ‘Boost’ function with its own button. The head swivels so that you don’t have to keep angling it up and down your head while using it and there’s a flip-down diffuser to give you ‘flood’ or ‘spot’ options. With the diffuser out of the way, the beam is very penetrating and great for spotting missing trails in the woods while the flood option gives good enough light for cooking or walking. With the big battery pack, you get stunning run times of 70, 90 and 170 hours in each of the modes. That’s a lot of tent-bound book reading. There is a Tikka version for around £35 too if you want something smaller and neater, at the expense of run-time. It has a sliding diffuser instead.
The flip down diffuser does have one drawback in that the light catches the tip when in the down position rather like having a bright star right above your head… Hardly a massive failure.
Overall: Everybody, without exception, needs an LED headtorch. The Petzl MYO XP is one of the best.
Chipps
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Tis a good torch, I’ve got an Ultra which fits my piss-pot, it’s the schnizzle.
Yeah, I second that. Great headtorch. I got one a while back from http://www.facewest.co.uk
a review from Jan-08….
3x the price of the Alpkit Gamma with fewer features and similar spec.
http://www.alpkit.com/shop/cart.php?target=product&product_id=16345&category_id=25
I have an alpkit gamma and wondered how they compared. Any comments anyone?
I did 3/4 of a lap at Twentyfour12 last year using just one of these after my main lights died. It worked very well, considering it’s ‘just’ a little headtorch.
Ive used these extensivly for off road touring and fieldwork in the forests of madagascar and they are fantastic. Low power mode lasts for ages and they run really well on solar recharged batteries. Just got an XPR and am interested to see what the difference is.