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For my sins, I am on leave this week and subject to odds & sods repairs to my 190-year-old cottage. Yesterday found me under the sink in our bathroom replacing the outlet as the mechanism that controlled the plug had snapped. As always this was a tight, dark spot to get into. Off I trotted to the DIY store to get my bits and pieces (B&Q) and I bought a cheap £12 headset (Dial 95w LED white light).

Once I managed to open it and activate the batteries (no mean feat given the minuscule non-written instructions). It worked well enough. Job done, I took it off an noticed the shape and size of the torch head. I wonder...

I found a Meade red filter - offered it up (internal thread down) and tentatively screwed into the softish plastic. It neatly cut a thread on the material and sat there nicely secure. Wow, serendipity is wonderful. 95 Watt and lower LED on Image.

Oh, you if press 3 time the white LEDs flash - useful to attract attention in those AP Emergency situations - clouds, clouds run for cover! :animals-dogrun:
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That might work well helping to read atlases or star charts. Nice discovery.
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That's a great bit of ingenuity Tony to convert your headlamp into a red light too.

You saved yourself a lot of money as well.

I have a headlamp with mixed LED lamps of static white, flashing white and static red. The make is a Petzl and they are quite expensive though.

I would never have thought of doing what you did, so well done you.

I take mine out for moonlight walks in the Forest and for our skywatching to check our Planisphere or star charts (exactly as Michael just commented.)
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Thanks! That seems like a simple problem, yet we all seem to live with it. I'm sold. I can will see what I can find and report back.
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Nice mod Tony!
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