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Knog PWR Modular Lights and the Quokka Headlamp

A PWR flashlight is built to come apart in the middle. Take the head off and you are holding two pieces: a lighthead, and a power bank with a female USB port on its face. That split is the decision the whole range rests on — one battery body, and every other light made to mount on it. The lantern, the headtorch strap, the Bluetooth speaker and every lighthead take that same bank, which comes in small, medium and large. On this page a bank arrives inside something else: as the body of a PWR flashlight, or bundled with the headtorch, the lantern or the dock.

One Battery, Several Lights

Buying deeper into the PWR system means choosing along two axes: a brighter lighthead buys output, a bigger bank buys runtime. Take the head off at the end of the day and the bank works as a plain USB battery — the port on its face charges a phone or anything else on a cable, and the bank itself refills over micro USB from a wall charger or any powered port. A battery level indicator tells you where you stand before you pack.

Every PWR flashlight is rated for a minimum of two hours and can stretch to 40 depending on bank and mode. The flashlights are programmable through Knog's ModeMaker app; the lightheads carry programmable modes of their own and switch on, off and between them with a twist. PWR components are water resistant with the cap on, and the speaker is splash-proof.

What Each Piece Does

Flashlights come in four outputs — Seeker at 450 lumens, Camper at 600, Trekker at 900 and Explorer at 2,000 — and all four double as power banks, though only Camper and up join the modular system with twist operation and a touch-sensitive battery indicator. The Seeker is a standalone light. Every flashlight includes a wrist strap.

Lightheads sell separately for anyone who already owns a bank, arriving with a male-to-female USB cable and nothing else. The 600 and 900 lumen heads throw a concentrated elliptical beam and run roughly seven and five hours on a 10,000 mAh bank. A 1,000 lumen head sits in the same range, adding a spot beam and a glowing outer ring.

The remaining pieces are accessories for a bank you already have. The headtorch is a strap set, sold on its own or bundled with a small power bank. The lantern puts out 300 lumens, can be propped up, hung or held, and comes with a lanyard. The speaker is Bluetooth, carries about 25 m of sound range and 10 to 40 hours of playback, and works best on the small and medium banks. The dock is a charging station that keeps one bank full while the other is out with you.

Quokka Run: Molded Silicone, No Charging Cable

The Quokka Run is made the other way round: a single molded piece. The body is soft matte silicone that will not pull, tug or tangle hair, the LEDs sit behind a transparent shell, and the USB plug is part of the lamp, so charging means pushing it into a port with no cable in between. It weighs 49 grams and the band adjusts from 30 to 660 mm.

Three sets of LEDs — a spot beam, a wide beam and a red light — feed four modes. Combo is the brightest at 100 lumens and holds for about 2.5 hours; Spot gives 75 lumens, Wide 20 and Halo 12, and at the lowest of four brightness steps Wide lasts 46 hours and Halo 36. Range at the top setting is up to 40 m, the transparent body throws a halo that makes you visible to traffic from the side, and the lamp is rated IP65 against dust and water.