Poundlands 2015 LED headlight.04:33

Poundland seems to bring out a variant of this light every year. Like many of these head torches (flashlights) it has a strong resemblance to the earlier Petzl Tikka light.
Some versions of these cheap but very useful lights have been near flawless in their design, often exceeding the quality of the original Petzl version. But others fall a bit short.
This one is very useable, but has had some elements of economy applied. It doesn’t have the magnet, which means that it is quite a loose fit in the holder, and bizarrely the open end of the holder is pointing down so that gravity can liberate the torch at every opportunity it gets. Made somewhat worse by the power button pushing the torch out of the holder too.
Like many of these lights it has what appears to be the PCB from a bikes rear LED warning light in it, which gives it several rather useless flashing and chasing functions. Ideally it would just have turned on and off.
The adjustable elastic head strap is nice and wide at 1″ (25mm) and big enough to be comfortable even on my larger than average head. It feels quite comfortable with long use.
With three fresh AAA alkaline cells the LEDs are run at a combined current of about 86mA, meaning they are being driven at almost 30mA each with fresh batteries. This will progressively drop as the battery voltage falls. The quiescent standby current was not even measurable, which is a good result.
And then I inadvertently blew it up.