Solar powered, supercapacitor LED Ecolight

[Photon]

Has anyone tried this light?

Solar powered, supercapacitors (no batteries). They claim 60 Farad (!) at 4.6 Volts.

I haven't seen this light reviewed in CPF yet.

Thanks,
KR

 

[jeffosborne]

Wow, 30,000 charge cycle lifetime on one of those super capacitors! And a 'lightning fast' charge, too. I will say that 50 lumens for their high-mode is on the weak side of LED efficiency, for one watt. But this light reminds me of an expensive high end super-cap. light I've been reading about, made for LEO's. It is not solar charged, though. Thanks for showing us this light! Jeff O.

 

[DM51]

Moving this to LED Flashlights.

 

[Mockingbird]

BrightGuy carries this light too.

 

[Skyeye]

I'm not saying this flashlight is not the way of the future, but IT"S SO DARN UGLY!!!! Let em put the guts into something like a maglite and perhaps they will float! I think $44 is too much even with the hot technology. :eeew:

 

[eyeeatingfish]

That does seem interesting....

 

[richardcpf]

That's a neat idea but those flashlights are pretty useless in an emergency due to low runtime and brightness..

Would be nice if they added an extra rechargeable high power li-ion battery, like an 18650 to make it an hybrid. If the ecolight gives less than 1 hour runtime with an 1 watt emitter, the charge it holds is less than a AA battery, less than 1 watt. Lets say if they added 2 18650 inside, that would add nearly 15 watts of power and this means +15x runtime.

You could get 4 minutes rapid charge to get 45 minutes of light (super caps), or a longer full charge (li-ion) to get 12 hours of light. I should make one myself and get it patented. "Hybrid supercapacitor solar emergency flashlight"

 

[dirtech]

Ditch the 100% recycled plastic and use recycled aluminum cans. Great idea though and I may have to get one if the design is ever made not so ugly.