Petzl Tikka XP Headlamp

Posted on Friday 21 July 2006

Here is a Petzl Tikka XP headlamp. It appears to use an 80 lumen Luxeon III LED star emitter. This disassembly was not too difficult, but care must be taken when reassembling to prevent the destruction of the watertight seal.

Lets TIA!

Flip it over and rotate the light down to provide access to the battery compartment.

Open the battery compartment by lifting the latch out and sliding it back.

Get the batteries out to expose the screws.

This disassembly required a T6 Torx bit.

Take the screws out and proceed to the next step.

Remove the light cover the same way you removed the battery cover.

To make things easier, you might want to remove the headband clip.

This is where it gets interesting, as there is not really a isible way to seperate the halves now, and they still seem to be too tight to remove as is. Lets do what we can on the outside and remove the pieces there. The piece shown above is removed by lifting the plastic arm high enough to let it clear the lock, and once it has been lifted, you need to keep lifting while using another screwdriver to push it out. If you want, you can also remove the clear battery light seen sticking out in the picture above.

Oddly enough, the seal is what makes it so difficult to seperate the halves, but a little force where they join at the battery should be enough to get them apart.

Several pieces should easily come right out of the front half, like the lens and the buttons, which can be pried out.

We’re not really too sure as to what this little thing does, so if anyone knows please leave the answer or any guess in a comment.

The main PCB should just come right out now if you push out the locks shown above.


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3 Comments for 'Petzl Tikka XP Headlamp'

  1.  
    Oscar
    July 26, 2006 | 6:02 pm
     

    i bet thats simple to put back togther, i think i will have ago with mine :D

  2.  
    coondog
    November 8, 2006 | 10:18 pm
     

    I had a headlamp like this but it was a different brand well anyway it had 3 white LEDs and 1 standard bulb well the digital circuit thats inside the lamp died so i used the parts of my lamp for other things and i have a crank light that had this same circuit, died as well so i rigged it runs of 3 triple A’s

  3.  
    THE DOG
    September 26, 2007 | 12:57 pm
     

    That mysterious thing is probably a metal pellet that would be enclosed in the sealed case to act as a cayalyst to neutralize any hydrogen gas released from the batteries (for safety). I think they use platinum or palladium or a simlar metal if my memory serves. Flashlights that are sealed air tight often include that.

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