Straplights

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This is for the first generation of Straplights with red light.

Lightstrip meant to attach to your shoulder straps using Velcro strips. There are two rows of flood lights 2.75″ long, top and bottom, with a double spotlight in the middle. The battery and switches are at the top. 13.5″ total. 2.9+ ounces.

It has five modes. Floods and spots together or each seperatly . Red flood and red flood flashing. It also has a small alternating red/blue light on the battery enclosure. No dim light.

Two buttons. The first runs through all the modes. The second button only operates a couple mods, but adds an on/off control by waving your hand in front of it. Exited yet,? No? Possibly for S&R or other emergency work.

Rechargable non replaceable battery. 1200lm

.The light itself looked reasonably durable and was fairly bright.

The Velcro was too small for my straps. It peeled off easily and I added “z” clips. There is a clip at the top. The Velcro at the bottom is meant to wrap around the shoulder strap adjustment strap and works well. Where it threads through the Lightstrap is questionable as to durability. It could be easily rigged if it failed using the same piece of Velcro.

The first big flaw was the floods were too high. Good if you don’t look down. They’ll blind you. I moved them much further down until they were mostly held by the adjustment strap. Kind of wrapped under my arm. Much better on the eyes. They illuminated the area around me very well. Being in the front, down low, close to the body, I didn’t feel the weight. I liked it. Enough not to return it anyway. The con was that the spots were too low and tended to point a bit downwards. The light was good. It could have been better with the spots up higher.

I do recommend it with a lot of asterisks. A good backstory. A business student in Utah. Looking at FB posts, he actually uses them. Maybe wait until the next generation arrives or see what competition may bring. Right now, I’ve seen nothing else like them. A hard no for many, iffy for others, some will like them. I can hear the laughter. I’m still iffy. I think a simple on/off with just floods would do me better. Then use a small flood for a headlamp or chest light.

Then use a small flood for a headlamp or chest light.

That should have read”use a small spotlight for a headlamp…”. Not “flood”.