Another useless Kickstarter light

That illuminated circle on your back makes a perfect target. Is that really a good thing?

On the positive side, I do like the idea of a “body” light that lets the user “wear” the cells in a larger (than typical handheld flashlight) case. But I think they lost an opportunity by only using 4 x 18650s.

I bet if you hand any who bought this thing
a MF02S or similar light
they will be very fast very disappointed

The backlight idea is quite innovative and sci-fi looking and they are using two XHP 70 in a zoomie lens so lots of light is lost inside it.

They should send a sample to someone here for a review! :smiley:

“Bummer of a birthmark, Hal…”

Reminds me of the Repulsor https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1484247498/repulsor-your-ultra-powerful-wearable-flashlight

And I thought a Q8 was big…

Wearing that thing, you’d look like The Octomom, that nemesis of The Spider Man who got fused with some lab stuff.

I’m amused by the idea of doing an arm’s length task like working on a car with 700 lumens.

Also, the form factor just strikes me as having so many drawbacks, from how it would be worn with a backpack to the fact that the light aims with movements of your shoulders, but not with your head, and only clumsily with your hands, I have to wonder if even the designers think it’s a good idea, or just one they can market effectively.

The Biolite looks ok from a skim of that page. The floody beam does look too wide, as someone else pointed out, a 69g headlamp does not need a rear battery pack, but it seems in the same ballpark as what Petzl and Black Diamond sell for a similar price.

I’m not interested, but I get why people who buy all their outdoor gear from REI would buy it. Selling 10,000 of them through a well-funded Kickstarter campaign doesn’t surprise. Biolite was an already established company that probably didn’t need Kickstarter to fund their light development, but I could see them trying it as an alternative marketing means.

I like how they market a flashlight that takes 3 18650s and you have to wear like a messenger bag as a universal light that’s good for everything. Yeah, sure, I’ll EDC that to my office job, no problem.

Hey, get 2 sets, and you could be like the Evil Robot that went on a rampage in “The RoboCop 2”. :laughing:

Kickstarter is scam heaven.
Basically all these crowd funded projects are nothing but scams.
I haven’t seen a single project that ended up delivering what was promised.
People either run away with the money, or make some crappy product that doesn’t look anything like the advertised prototype, probably for a fraction of the funds they received.

Same applies to all crowd funding and donation sites.

They need to be banned.
The idea is great, just like communism was, the problem is that it cannot be applied in the real world because of human nature.
It’s basic common sense. If you pay someone in advance he will not work as good as if you pay him after he completes the job.
And these sites are much worse than that because they attract genuine scammers.
Like people with agenda, who intentionally invest in some fancy marketing campaign with cool videos, pictures and stuff, to trick people into funding something that they won’t ever deliver.

The Reylight Ti Lan was a kickstarter as well as the Prometheus Beta QR and some FourSevens lights.

People know the risks going in and if they decide the reward is worth it, why should anyone get in the way of that?

Maybe they had the SBT90.2 before Luminus made it

Lol Dr Octopus….Octomom is a WAAAAAY different thing.

The “special LED circles” in this light are nothing more than circular chip-on-board lights similar to the one shown below. I bought one when they first appeared a couple of years ago. It is 12V DC and I think about 10W. It cost me a couple of bucks, certainly under $5. That would also explain why it needs four 18650 batteries to power the light. The center LED wouldn’t require more than one.

I certainly agree with the title to the original post. I don’t go to kickstarter unless someone posts a link. I’ve yet to see anything I would waste a single dollar on.

I heard it both ways…

kickstarter is scam heaven.
These type of sites should be banned.
It is a proven fact that if you give people money before they do the work, they just run away with the money.

Oh really? So you’ve personally tried or seen all the Kickstarter projects and can testify that what you say is true?

I’ve participated in several Kickstarters and have gotten more or less what was promised. There have been and likely will be scams on Kickstarter and I wouldn’t never dispute that but to say they’re all scams is 100% bullshit.

I agree.

Although there are scams on Kickstarter, there are also many legitimate projects that wouldn't exist without the platform.

As always, be vigilant to try to avoid the scammers but know that not everyone is trying to scam you.

This is true. I’ve got several in my profile that have been delivered. There’s also several that got cancelled. I’m one of the few thousand that got my coolest cooler though. Unlike 25,000 other people.

probably mixing up intensity with total light

candelas vs lumens

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