If your headlamp or nav station light is too bright, you don’t have to run out and buy a new one.
We found a cheap and easy solution: athletic tape. Sold in any pharmacy, or even in the supermarket, athletic tape used to tape ankles and elbows does an admirable job of diffusing the focused beams produced by common headlamps, and even by some fixed lights for navigation stations. Add more layers to get the right level.
- Some headlamps created a poorly focused beam that not only created glare, but was scattered.
2. Athletic tape produces a more diffuse and more useful reading light than do neutral filters.
