Imagine a flashlight small enough to attach to your keychain, but with three powerful LED lights, and it never needs batteries! This is the Solar Flashlight Keychain. A small solar panel on the back of the flashlight converts light to energy to power the bright LED lights. No cranking or shaking needed. Even ambient light is enough to keep this tough flashlight shining brightly! On your keychain, always ready! Size 2 ½ ” x 1 ½ “x ½ “.
Product Features
- Solar panel converts sun or ambient light to recharge
- 3 hours of operation after 30 minutes’ exposure to light
- Three bright LED lights
- Easily fits in pocket or purse
- Never be without light again!
CAUTION: This Item is a Scam! As observed by other users, this product is a “SCAM”! The solar panel is built into the product, but there are no electrical connections to charge the two CR2032 batteries. But this is a good thing as the batteries are NOT “rechargeable!” Although the solar cell will produce the needed 6V to charge the batteries (In direct full sum), I highly doubt that the claimed of 3hrs use from 30min in bright light is possible. The lights are merely 3 LED’s run from 2 CR2025 button cell batteries and will not last you beyond that. This product does not belong on Amazon’s Marketplace and the item should be removed from the Amazon Store.Refer to the review by Samuel Clemens for his take on the product. Better yet look how many 1 Star ratings there are compared to the total reviews. 1/4 of all reviews are bottom of the heap.The majority of the 4 star or 5 star ratings are from people who have not used their product long enough to find out that it WILL fail on them in the near future.
Solar panels are fake – they are not connected to the board I have ordered 2 of these flashlights.One worked right away & the 2nd one did not. Since they are so cheap and not worth sending back I opened a non-working one and found out that:solar panel is not connected to the circuit board in any way – there are no places to even solder them together, so these are not solar flashlights!This “solar” panel is just a piece of glass with a grey matrix just like the real solar panels have…and, of course, one of the battery contacts was not soldered at all. After fixing it with my soldering iron the light started working.I took apart my old light that I had for 5-6 years and sure enough solar panel was connected to the circuit board via 2 wires.So, you have 50/50 chance that they will work at all and 0 chance that they will be recharged by the sunlight.
great little light but on-off mechanism changed This virtually weightless (less than an ounce) solar powered 2 bulb LED light is perfect for keeping next to the bed or for emergencies. Plenty of light for walking outside in the dark. Ambient or natural light will charge it. Full charge lasted at least an hour without diminution in light before I cut it off. The switch slides on-off; no need to keep it depressed for light. I had a hand-held crank-type 3 bulb LED but mine simply wouldn’t hold a charge for more than 10 minutes after 1-2 minutes of cranking. I suggest not keeping the solar light in a glove compartment (or other perpetually dark storage) if you might need it at night unless you remember to place it in the light periodically to charge.UPDATE DEC. 31, 2011I’ve used this occasionally at night inside our home to avoid waking others. I let it discharge completely a couple of days ago, turned off switch and left in direct sun about 5 hours, then turned back on. 21 hours later (not a typo) it was still lit and, although diminished, still put out enough light to see 6-7 feet ahead and about 4 feet side-to-side – enough to find your way in the dark. Mine has only 2 led, not 3 as the current one, so presume this is an updated model. A remarkable bargain!UPDATE JAN. 14, 2012Just received 4 of the updated model with 3 bulbs from niceEshop in China. The on-off switch now requires constant pressure to keep the light on. The switch has been moved to the flat back (opposite side to the solar panel) so that pressing the on-off button may also cause slight pressure on the solar panel as well. The former 2 light model had the on-off switch on the side and it slid back and forth, staying where you placed it, so the light stayed on or off without continuous pressure.The new model is about half as thick and about 20% shorter; i.e. substantially smaller and lighter. The light is brighter and more focused (about 30% less dispersed) than the old.All in all, still a neat little light. I’m guessing the redesign for compactness necessitated the change to a new on-off mechanism. Just be sure you like that change. I don’t – so lowered to 3 stars from 5.
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