Life Gear LL01Y LifeLight
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Life Gear LL01Y LifeLight
Customer Review: Good but LED lights make damages on my eyes
Summary: 4 Stars
Life+Gear Lifelight is great one. It works by Crank or AAA x 3.
Accessory are come with Audio input and Mobile phone charger. The mobile charger is for Nokia models.
Radio function is pretty good, and mp3 speaker is good too.
Siren is not that loud enough. Also in Life+Gear homepage's manual, NightLight is function as repelling mosquito, I'm curious about that. Directional compass is good idea.
What's not good?
LED is too bright. When I look at the lamp, they hurt my eyes.
I hope there's some kind cover sheet inside so that my eyes are protected.
Also LED lights are not bright enough for making my room bright.
I hope there's mirror inside so that they reflect each other to make my room bright enough.
In addition, it is not waterproof. NO GOOD!!
Note that they make Caution "Be sure to wind up minimum one minute for each re-charge."
Customer Review: Good for emergencies
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought 3 of these for work when they were a deal-of-the-day. It seemed like a good thing to have in case of a power outage on the evening shift. The radio is a good feature in case of earthquake or other natural disaster.
The quality is decent for the price. Not as good as the Eton ones sold by the Red Cross, but they're 1/3 to 1/2 the price so if it's just going to sit in your emergency kit, it's probably a good way to go.
It can run on 3 AAA batteries or a charge by the crank. It says a 1 minute charge will last 45 minutes. I'm wondering if this may be dependent on what features you use. I started to see the intensity of the LEDs decrease after about 5 minutes, but I would call them usable until maybe 20-25 minutes before I'd need to turn the crank again.
There are 3 sets of 3 white LEDs and you can have either all 9 on or only 3. There are also 6 red LEDs that flash. You can have them flashing instead of using the white lights. There is a nightlight feature (single LED on the side near the radio controls) and then the radio and siren. It also comes with a mobile phone charger that is labeled as a Nokia adapter. Packaging claims they will send you a free one if you log in to their website.
Hopefully we'll never have to use them, but it's nice to know they're there.
Customer Review: Great Product!
Summary: 5 Stars
Bought this product recently to take with me on camping trips. Overall, I am very satisfied with the brightness of the LED lights. On a recent trip to Joshua Tree, we used the LifeLight (in lantern mode) to illuminate our whole cooking setup. It's also good to know there are emergency flashers and a siren just in case anything goes wrong in the wilderness. I have relied only on AAA batteries to power the product to this point, although I did give the crank a try at home and it stayed lit for about 35 minutes or so.
I would definitely recommend this product!
Customer Review: Great for camping or blackouts.
Summary: 4 Stars
The light certainly is pretty darn useful especially for the price(I paid $15), but as good as some of its features are, some of its weak points are rather glaring in contrast.
First the strengths:
-It holds quite a bit of charge per cranks. A minute's worth of crank seems to give half hours worth of radio and/or light.
-The radio reception is fairly good though my first one had broken AM reception(Amazon promptly replaced of course). The volume level was surprisingly loud as well.
-The light level is adequate to get around in dark places. I wouldn't rely on it to walk along a cliff or anything, but it's good enough to keep you on path or find stuff around the house during black outs.
-Most of its features are actually useful. Light, radio, cell phone charger, and headphone jack to connect an MP3 player or likes are all fairly useful.
Few thing that could use improvements:
-The light, while adequate, isn't exactly great. Perhaps it's the limitations of the crank power, but I wish the light could be brighter. Or perhaps more useful would be to have a directional light option. LifeLight works as a lantern, so it's an omni directional light source. It would have been great if they could have put some extra light at the bottom to use as a flash light.
-I understand it's difficult to create and manage adapters for all the cellphones out there, but it was disappointing to find that my cellphone wasn't listed in the adapter list. My phone is about a year old Samsung, and I don't think there's any reason they shouldn't have an adapter for it. The list of adapters they had seemed to contain older phones mostly in quick glance.
-They certainly could have made the tuning dial for the radio a bit bigger. It takes a bit of surgeons touch to tune in to a station. They should have added the weather band to the radio as well. No reason it shouldn't be there.
-The construction certainly could be better, but it's not too bad for the price. I do wish they would make $40-50 version that is rugged and weather-proof.
-The siren feature seems a bit tacked on. I'm not sure if its loud enough to be any actual use. The flashing light could perhaps signal SOS also instead of just blinking.
Well, there it is. I'm quite happy with the purchase. It's versatile, useful, and cheap. It certainly could use some improvements, but so do most things.
Customer Review: Great lantern
Summary: 5 Stars
This lantern is very handy. Its bright and the radio reception seems to be pretty good. I was thinking of keeping one in my car for an emergency since I often forget to check my flashlight batteries.