Anyone Have Th RovyVon Aurora A5? I Just Received Mine And Love It!

First, let me say, this IS NOT a review! These are just my thoughts as I bought this with my OWN MONEY!

All the models of the RovyVon keychain lights are very cool but I had to try the Aurora A5. It has a translucent polymer body impregnated with glow material that glows in the dark and also has a side white reading light that the other models don’t have.

It also has a red LED in the side light that can be always on or changed to blinking and it is bright for such a tiny light. You also can order it with a UV light instead of the red but I went for the red.

This thing is pretty incredible for such a tiny light! RovyVon lists the high mode at 550 lumens and I would say it’s at least 500! You can access high immediately just by pressing the side activation button and when released, it turns off. Nice feature!

I have no experience with XP-G3 emitters but as a lot of people here don’t like them as with CW emitters they can have different tints and almost everyone here prefers NW or “warm”, (YUCK!), but I really like CW and this beam has no blue or green tints and is pure white and I like it!

Heck, I don’t care if when I go out into pure darkness and I turn on whatever light I have with me and my garden plant colors or anything else are not the correct colors or whatever, I just like to SEE things in the dark!

With 2 clicks you can access low, medium, high and of course, the silly strobe mode. The low is not as low as people like but I’m fine with 10-15 Lm’s. Sacrelidge, I know! It should be 1/2 to 1 Lm at the least! :slight_smile:

The polymer plastic body is strong and even the lanyard attachment end is thick and would not fail no matter what.

What can I say except this is an amazing, tiny and almost weightless light and even though it’s fairly expensive, it’s,…should I repeat myself? Yeah, it’s amazing!

I have the A3.

I agree; it's amazing, though expensive.

I won mine in a giveaway.

The flashlight is very small, and very bright for its size.

I'm glad I have aluminum because that material sheds heat the best.

Yeah, these things are great! I even bought a 2nd one in red aluminum. Too bad the metal ones don’t have the neat side reading/signal light.

I hv the A5 and love it, this thing is so tiny yet the amount of lights it puts out is simply amazing. I would call it a feature packed light. The GITD body is a nice touch.
Just wished it had longer runtime though. Maybe the low can be like 1 lumen to extend the runtime.

I have the A5 with the UV light. It’s an impressive light that falls short on a few things. To make this thing perfect I would do the following:

-Neutral white option
-Lower low mode (or addition of an additional firefly mode)
-Better UV emitter. I’m not sure if it’s due to being enclosed in a glow in the dark material but there is a lot of visible light from it and the UV portion seems to be either on the weak side or is just overwhelmed by the visible light.

Overall it’s an amazing little light that has earned a permanent place on my keychain. I have no complaints about runtimes, something this small is bound to have a short runtime. I have no complaints about durability, this sucker has already been through the wash and dropped on concrete and survived without any visible damage. I will definitely buy the next version if they address some of these concerns.

I have one of these lights as well and have been everyday carrying it in place of the Nitecore Tini. Overall, I really like this light. The lumens are incredible, the side LEDs are very useful and the luminous body really makes this light stand out. I agree that the runtime could be better, and perhaps a few more options for lower lumen modes might help with this. The side LEDs do run for upwards of 20h which is pretty good.

Whats the expected lifetime on the Rovyvon units?
I have an Aurora A5 with the glow in the dark body, purchased September 2019 and now the main light is dead as of December 2020.
wasn’t particularly heavily used, just lived on my car keyring and used from time to time when going to and from my car.
The unit itself is in very good condition physically, and the side lights still work

I have one running since 2018, another since 2019 and all work fine.
Did you try to charge it yet? Also, did it suffer any kind of damage (that you can see, near the front light)?

No visible damage anywhere - it was a good little light.
E-mailed rovyvon customer support and they asked for a purchase date etc - sent the requested information back - havent heard since ( although its the weekend)

I have the A1 in military green. I like that it wasn’t all shiny, heavy, with too many features. The only thing I would change is to make the rechargeable battery replaceable and to add a low “moonlight” to high/med/low.

Emailed them (rovyvon) sent proof of purcahse etc, and after the weekend they got back in touch - sending out a replacement :slight_smile:
The only other mini torch i have is a fenix UC02ss, but that is out of use for want of a couple of replaement rubber o-rings, its a twist head and without the o rings the head is loose to a point where it can easily come off - over time the o-rings wear and break.
so for want of two poxy small rubber o-rings the thing is un usable.
Ive tried asking fenix customer suppport for the size, or even replacements, but nothing.

I have A3 and A5 (red side light) and like them both very much.

I like that you can click-hold for Hi - release goes off.

Double click always starts in Lo (no not moon but still a nice low).

So basically instant access to Hi or Lo from off.

Never really have strobe getting in the way.

Wish battery was replaceable. Newer versions replaceable but with custom cell.

I’ve had similar issues with a few of my rovyvon lights. Great, fantastic lights in every respect except for batteries. I just don’t think the small batteries in those lights survive for very long. They have replaced a couple of mine but at this point I no longer believe I can rely on them and so they are being retired. Shame because I adore them otherwise, if they had a replaceable battery or one that lasts longer I would never be without one.

I’m a fan of RovyVon.
I have the A1 And the A8.
Also have the ES300 Nichia. IMAO the best EDC of a few I have (like 10 or more.)
Just clip it to your back pocket and you won’t feel it.
I’m thinking of refreshing with the A25, 28 or 29.
They have a module 600mAh. That can be bought apart. And, of course exchange it.
And maybe the small ones with 330mAh.
Mine are working fine thought. But I use ’em very little. We’ll see.
Cheers.

I bought the A23 too and it is rocking in my pocket everyday :wink:
Modded the LED (Luxeon V2 4000K) and the TIR (frosted TIR) and it looks much better now, though!
Having battery modules to replace the original battery is quite nice indeed! :wink: