Starry Light SA-22

Will you guys contact your sellers?
If so, let us know how they handle this and what their answer is regarding whole batch of theirs!

Wow....I was getting pumped up over this light...sure sorry to hear it has flaws out the gate.

UPDATE

It was the retaining ring; it wasn’t screwed in on mine either! I took a paperclip and screwed it down at work (not quite all the way, but enough to get the job done) and it threaded right on! It’s now screwing on and sealing properly. If you’re having trouble, be sure and check that.

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That's Great....hoping this one becomes a group buy soon!

I love a bargain as much as the next guy—but this light is already a great value IMHO.
Its just $24.99 from IS And others have reported using code “illumination”
for another (15%?) off , for $21.xx

Well, my cells may not have had a full charge (but I think they did), but I just now needed to recharge my Eneloops. I could see the beam dimming. So yeah, I’m thinking that 2 hour and 20 minute run-time is complete bullocks since I haven’t really used it that much. Wouldn’t be the first time the Fl-1 standard was wrong.

Anyone else done any testing?

Any of you lucky owners planning on doing a review of this light? It seems there is a mixed bag of comments concerning build quality and run time performance. The only forum that pops up on a google search is this thread here, so hands on experience with this light seems limited.

Someone is probably testing this light for proper review, given that folks from Blackshadow have sent one light to someone for review, Im not sure if its here at BLF or some other forum tho :D!

Does anyone know the best price on this with international shipping?

WallBuys (don’t like buying from them) has it for $27.85, is there anything cheaper?

I just want to play with it then I’ll probably give it away.

Id like to read proper review before buying it, more so, Black shadow said that someones got one item for review, so far no reviews!

One of my first posts on the board I mentioned I wanted an AA light that was small and bright. Someone said I needed an SA-22. Boy were they right! It’s bright as heck to me as a flood, but still can light up my back garage 80 yards out at night from inside my house through the window. I got mine from someplace called Illumination Supply or something like that. I wish it had a zoom to it, but it still lights up anything that is close enough for my old eyes to see. I’m sorry I don’t know enough, or have enough time to do one of your fancy reviews which I love, but it gets 5 of 5 stars from me for what it is. My only gripe is I wish it didn’t have dumb blinky and SOS modes.

- Joe

Any beam shots would be greatly appreciated! :bigsmile: I still can’t believe no one’s done a review on this light yet. Feels like it’s been talked about for a while now, even with some pictures of it standing next to the PA40, but no review… :_(

there is a simple solution, have one sent to Bort and he will do a review :bigsmile:

Maybe Calvin from IS will read this… :bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile: I would honestly love to see a full review of this light especially since there are already reviews of the PA40 and LD40. This would most definitely be the preferred choice for us budget folk if it gives comparable performance.

Still looking for the cheapest price on this with free international shipping.

Not keen to buy from Wallbuys as 3 out of 3 orders from them the lights were DOA.

Has anyone seen it for around $27.85 or cheaper?

IMPORTANT UPDATE:

After some serious consideration, I’d advise against buying the Starry Light without taking into account its major design flaw and one other thing; the light can work well, but odds are that you will have trouble with the head screwing on. Tonight, the 3rd - yes, third - straight unit I got and resold was bad. Only, this one was so bad that not even the retaining ring could be fixed. The threads were not made well enough for even one round of use. The guy went to re-fasten the head after charging the batteries and couldn’t get it. I thought it would be a simple fix, but I have it ready now to send back to I.S. for replacement. Calvin responded fast to the situation, but be advised that this item is not without its problems.

So if you get one like this and the retaining ring issue isn’t the cause, then you’ll still have a working light, but the head will just press on and not screw down—which means it may or may not stay in place during normal use and will just pull right off.

I really love this light, but this is a besetting and serious design flaw to be made aware of.

Another smaller consideration:* Runtime test in high mode was completed yesterday by me. You are looking at 27:56 seconds of stable high brightness on good nimh cells. After that, the light provides an additional 10 minutes of fastly diminishing output (diminishing thereafter to nothing). This was with my best (and only worthwhile Energizer cells). The Eneloops test has not been done (yet), but of the 3 people I sold these units to, all ended up recharging them with merely sporadic use—same as my Energizers when they were using Eneloops. So you can expect no more than, say, 40 minutes on high (far from the claimed 2+ hours).

Mild flickering issue also found: This was, however, a one-time thing and I can’t get it to do it again. Just FYI.

Ugh, thanks, Rusty Joe!

So much for all that excitement :D!

Wow..how disappointinig... ::(

Thanks RJ for the heads up.