hello hello thanks for tuning in today we're going to look at the halo
xt multi-use flashlight by four patriots
if you haven't seen my other video on the four patriots power cell click the link above
this is a multi-use flashlight that has a compass powerful magnet window breaker
and a steel blade seat belt cutter so this is designed to stay in your car with you and as
we can see here it's solar powered says dual usb charger and there's our address and phone number
that's basically all you see on the box so let's get the actual flashlight out here
all right as we can see it's a decent size fits in the hand well
it's got a lanyard here with an adjustable strap
and also a little tension bead this does have a quick disconnect here so you can disconnect it
has a small solar panel here with a led indicator to indicate that it is charging there's your power
button and there's a plastic piece that comes over this that i guess would protect this from
turning on it was packaged like that i'm not sure if you keep it and use it but you can
it's got some little knurled grips in there you got the compass on one side
there's your magnet your window breaker your seat belt cutter flashlight looks like one cree
led and it has a neon ring on there that glows in the dark if you unscrew the cap here
you reveal the power port and it's got a usbc charger and a regular usb
output click the button and the blue light indicates that it is ready to put out power
this is rated at 2 000 milliamp hours i believe uh i was only able to get about half of that out
about a thousand milliamp hours which is still pretty decent uh for an emergency situation
uh but they do rate it at 2000 so it is a little under spec
i could only get about a maximum of 0.75 amps drawn it before this was shut down internally
so i'm going to assume there's about an 18650 battery in there so at 0.75 amps you should be
able to charge most devices at least a cell phone to get an emergency call out excuse me
uh it's it's got a decent heft to it it's it's head heavy up here because of all
the equipment on there um we'll go through the features of it so if you press it once
the flashlight turns on and this flashlight is extremely bright
if you press it again it dims down press it a third time you go into strobe mode
and you press it the last time and it goes off so has four different modes and you can see
in there and i'll cover it for a second so that we can see the ring glow
let's see there it does have a glowing ring
other than that you have some more features here on the side which i like
because this can kind of be used as like a flare or some type of signaling device so you'd have to
long press it and there you go it turns on
click it again and it dims just like the head of the flashlight one more time and it's off
if you long press and hold then you go into red strobe and this is what i was talking about you
can set it on like the side of the road if you're broke down or something press it again
and it goes into just a flashing mode and one more time and it's off so short press
and again these are very bright i'm very impressed with the lighting
all right so in the next video or next slides you're gonna see some tests that i went through
i tested out the compass the seatbelt cutter and the glass breaker like i said i didn't go through
the uh long test of testing this output like i did on the four patriots power cell but i only
did get about half of the rated milliamp hours out of here about a thousand uh and a .75 maximum
draw on the amperage before it internally shut down and was not putting out any more power
so let's go look at those other videos of testing out everything else
all right we got my satellite watch here we're showing north 0 to 1 degree we're
going to set the halo xt compass down and we're going to see if it will read
and as you can see it is pointing in the general direction of north tap it a few times to make sure
and we do see it rotating back around
you got to have it on a fairly even surface for it to work right
because it is on a little pin in there but it seems to be extremely accurate
and as you can see the compass went right back towards
the direction of the watch which is facing north we'll do it one more time
and that was me shaking it and give it a tap to make sure it's going to center
and like i said it's on a little pin so sometimes
from jotting it around that pin might not be perfect and just
there we are it is fairly accurate
you can see it goes right back to north all right at least we know the compass works well
all right we're going to test the glass breaker out on a beer bottle
i don't want to smash one of my windshields so i'll just try it on this real quick
see what happens i got it in a box so i don't want to make a mess let me get this thing
situated against the wall here you can see the glass and we'll see what happens
wrap this lanyard around my hand so don't lose the darn thing
all right give it one good whack
oh and it worked so that thing pretty much shattered the glass instantly
um minimal little marks on the metal there at the end but as you know
beer bottle glass is pretty pretty decent so i have no doubts that this will shatter a windshield
all right we're going to test out the super strong magnet they claim on the side here
and it does it holds the flashlight
so
it's sliding down because paint here is smooth but it definitely uh definitely grabs on
all right here we have a standard automotive seat belt and on the halo xt we have a seat belt cutter
so let's see exactly how well this thing cuts i have it strapped into a vise so this would
be simulating like the seat belt got locked down on you in the car and you had to cut yourself out
all right i cut pretty easy as you can see it cut right through that so seat belt cutter does work
okay as you've seen the test videos everything worked properly
the compass is fairly accurate the window glass breaker shatters a beer bottle very easily so i
have no doubt that it will break a window in a car the seat belt cutter cut through extremely easy
the flashlights are bright you have several different options the only downside i'm
not going to list as a downside because it still will get you emergency power is this
little charging port here what i've noticed is a lot of these are rated at
about half the same thing with that power cells about half a little more than half now that could
just because i was trying to draw down over an amp but it will get you emergency power to make
a life-saving phone call if you need it so i think this is a good device to keep in your car
and have just in case of emergencies and the little solar cell here don't expect it to power
the charger or anything like that over any short period of time this is a very low wattage panel
maybe one watt or so but it will produce enough power to charge up the flashlight to get you to
go around at night for a little while so overall i do recommend this product and it will be a good
tool to keep in your car in case there's an emergency thanks for watching please subscribe