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Blukar USB-C rechargeable, 1200 mAh, stepless dimming, 8 modes review

A stepless-dimming rechargeable head torch that publishes its battery capacity and its mode count, and none of the four figures the category is compared on.

The bottom line The dimmer is the right idea and the specification sheet is almost empty. You are buying the feel of the thing, not a measurement.

What this listing puts on record

A USB-C rechargeable head torch with a COB emitter, stepless dimming, eight modes — five conventional and three driven by a gesture sensor — a 45° tilting head and a built-in 1200 mAh pack.

What it publishes

1200 mAh, over USB-C, cable included. The listing writes it as 1200mHA. That is the only hard figure in the whole listing.

What it does not publish

No lumens. No beam distance. No runtime. No weight. Four of the ten questions this hub asks come back empty, on a lamp whose selling point is brightness.

No IP code. The lamp is said not to fear damp environments. That is a sentence, not a rating.

No lock mode, and no chemistry for the sealed pack.

Before ordering

Stepless dimming genuinely is worth having — it is the difference between a lamp you can read by and one with three wrong settings. Just be clear that nothing here lets you compare it with anything else in this hub except the dimmer itself.

Availability

Selling between 10 € and 13 € across the German, French, Italian and Spanish Amazon stores when this page was checked.

It also sells on the American and British Amazon stores in the local currency, which the range above does not cover — that range counts euro stores and nothing else.

Every figure in this section is what Keepa returned on the day this page was last updated. Prices and offers change without notice.

Prices quoted in this text were read on 6 September 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.

What it does well, and where it gives way

Strengths

  • Stepless dimming rather than three fixed steps, which is the control that lets you sit at the level you actually need
  • Three gesture modes alongside five conventional ones, useful when your hands are full or wet
  • A stated 1200 mAh pack over USB-C with the cable in the box

Compromises

  • Publishes neither lumens, nor beam distance, nor runtime, nor weight — four of the ten lines here are blank for want of any figure
  • No IP code behind the claim that damp is not a problem, so there is nothing to compare with the IPX4 lamps in this hub
  • A red mode is named in the title but never located among the eight modes in the bullets

Specifications

Stated lumensNot published on the listing — the listing describes a brighter, wider COB beam without publishing a figure
Beam distanceNot published on the listing — the beam is called wider, with no metres given
RuntimeNot published on the listing — a longer lighting time is claimed for the 1200 mAh pack, with no hours at any setting
Standard quotedNot published on the listing — with no lumen, distance or runtime figure published, there is nothing for a convention to apply to
Regulated outputNot published on the listing — the lamp is stated to dim steplessly, which is the opposite question
Battery typeBuilt-in 1200 mAh rechargeable pack charged over USB-C, cable supplied — stated; the listing writes the capacity 1200mHA, and does not name a chemistry or say the cell can be replaced
IP ratingNot published on the listing — the lamp is said not to fear damp environments, and no IP code is given
WeightNot published on the listing — very light and compact is claimed, with no figure
Lock modeNot published on the listing
Red modeRed light — stated in the title; the bullets describe eight modes without naming which of them is the red one
Amazon referenceB09G6M8JLK (same reference on 6 Amazon marketplaces)
EAN0694026807448

What people ask before buying

How bright is it?

The listing does not say, in any unit, anywhere. Stepless dimming means the lamp has no fixed levels to quote, which is a fair reason for having no table of modes — but it is not a reason for having no maximum figure and no runtime.

Can it be used in the rain?

The maker says it copes with damp environments and stops there. Four rechargeable lamps in this hub publish IPX4 and one publishes two different ratings; two others, like this one, claim water resistance with no code at all. There is nothing to check this claim against.