Thanks for tuning in, this is The Sweet
Cyclists and today we are
reviewing the Magicshine Eagle F3 which
is a 3,000 lumen LED bicycle headlight.
So here we have the Magicshine Eagle F3
packaging in front of us, you can see it has a
nice container you could
travel with that has the Magicshine
logo imprinted. Lets go ahead and take a look
inside, it's actually shared with some of
the other models. It seems to be their
new trend. If we pop this open
you can see pretty well put together
with custom cut foam. Let's go ahead
and take a look at some of the
components. This is the light head you can
see this is a 3,000 lumen Eagle F3 that uses
four Cree LEDs. It is a
slightly older model, I think it was
released around 2015 but you can still
find it on different websites. As I said
it has four output modes and what's really
cool about this is that they invested
more money in the actual lens. The
bottom LEDs to function as a
floodlight.
It's a more dispersed beam and the
top two are spotlights. In hybrid
mode you can run all of them at
the same time. You have a battery
indicator with two basic button, one to
power it on and off and modes the other one to
switch the power setting.
This is a long hold to turn it
on and off or switch between the
different beam pattern modes. So really
nice, this is a big light too.
The other thing they provide with these is
the little remote control, I never quite
understood the point of this. Typically
you have the light mounted on your
handlebar and then you'd have this
mounted right next to it, so I don't
quite get it.
This is too bulky to run as a
headlamp so don't quite understand why
they include it. Now you have the normal
battery charger, this has a nice little
LED indicator light here. It goes from
red to green to indicate when it's done
charging. One thing to point out is all
these plugs are 4-plug orange. Magicshine
currently seems to have two versions a
black one and then orange plug version,
this is a little more secure. You can see
it can only be connected in
one way, this is also this will limit
your choices with battery
interchangeability so be aware of that.
The coolest thing about this I think is
the mount, this is an over the stem mount
it's called the Talon design
because it kind of folds.
It is similar to the
Monteer 1400 light with a
simple click in and push down.
It is pretty nice, another thing I like
about it is that it is a over the stem
design that frees up space on
your handlebar. It is nicely put
together and folds. The
coolest thing about this light is that you
get the biggest battery Magicshine
sells. This is a
10.4 amp battery and has four
lithium ion batteries inside and
it is unique to this light. This
is really big, if we look at the mount
you just pull up and lift out the mount
itself. You can actually use your bottle
cage holder if you have an extra one on
your bike or you can use the straps.
The base is metal and not a thin
plastic, with a nice little rubber
orange rubber piece underneath to
prevent frame damage. You can
either strap it in or bolt it in, it's a
really nice unit it makes it really easy
unlike all the straps where you have to
remove it and add it
this is you'd simply drop it in place
and that clicks in. Then you pull
back to lift it so real easy to use.
They also provide a bunch of accessories
with this light, you can see we have the
adapter for the America plugs for the
charger, I believe is an extension cord
if you want to mount it differently. You also
get a bunch of different options in
terms of the mounting. This is what
I've been using on my bike seems to fit
a standard diameter
road handlebars. I'll show you how that
goes together in a second, you get a
couple more options with that for
different sized bars so really nice for
them to include everything and really nice
packaging. Here's one of the straps so
well put together.
With the battery
plugged in let's take a look at the
output itself and the usability. Like I
said you have two buttons and three
different modes. Unfortunately there is
no flashing mode which is
nice kind of for city riding. Basically
two unmarked buttons here one to power
it on then we get the LED indicators.
You can even tell on
camera this are very bright, it's
distracting especially when
you have it mounted on your bike. I wish
these were a little bit dimmer but the
thing is you have five
indicators. Once you hit probably the
second or third bar you should really
consider charging. There are three basic
modes on here right now this is the
diffuse mode and you can kind of see the
beam here how its wide if I click the
left button it will switch the mode. This is
the hybrid mode so this is with all four
LEDs on you can see really bright. You
get the spot you get the diffuse.
Again if I do a spot you can see
this is a nice kind of round spot light
so this is great for longer distances
and again now if we go hybrid so this is
a diffuse hybrid you can see the
difference more now. Within each mode
you have five different settings: low,
medium, high and then medium low and
medium high as well.
The lowest setting I found is
not very useful especially
on dark roads. I wouldn't really
recommend it unless you're riding the
city with lights, I usually stick with
level two or higher as usual with Magicshine
the highest setting is
really bright. Unless
you're really riding in caves or
something, I found it it's
overkill. So easy to use there also think
another thing to point out is you have
the side visibility indicators
here, you can see some of the light gets
diffused to that sign indicator and it's
great for site visibility.
I think
it's very different than some of the
other lights, which is I'm not sure why
maybe this is a rebranded or something
but compared to the other lights of
where it's usually just a head unit. The
Eagle F3 is more of a complete package. You can
see it set up on my road bike,
it's a little bit of a
in mess due to the external battery pack.
That's a different battery pack from
the compatible light.
The Eagle F3 looks really good on the
bike with the over-stem mount, it fits
really well keeps it out of the way from
your hands and makes a lot more usable
than some of the other larger lights.
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Now let's take a
look at the comparison here, we have
hybrid flood and spot next to each other.
On the high setting you can see it's
pretty bright too, it's pretty distinct
with each light mode. The spot is more
focused, the flood is more dispersed
and the hybrid gives you both.
In terms of pros and cons I think the
over-stem mount is
really nice I really like it compared to
the other kind of rubber bands that come
with it. It gives you more real estate
on the handlebars to place your hands.
Now the con of this is this is really
large light it's a large form factor a
large battery. If you're a weight weenie
that's not a light for you. The other Pro
is the great light output, at 3000
lumens even at the lower settings this
is more than enough for commuting or
off-roading. The con is that it doesn't
actually have a strobe mode which is
strange. It has three different modes the
spot, hybrid and the flood mode but it
doesn't actually have a blinking mode.
With four LEDs if you would think
they can at least blink maybe one or two
and keep the other constant. The other
pro this is the largest battery pack
that comes with Magicshine. The con is
battery indicator lights are
distracting, those LEDs are
too bright especially in the darker
roads. They're in your eye at
that angle. I'd recommend covering
them up. With the pros and cons out of
the way, let's give the Eagle F3 a rating.
I'd give this a 9.5 out of
10. It's a really awesome light, great
light output it's a pretty large form
factor. The only which thing I really
wish it had was the blinking mode which
is great for city riding but I think
another great Magicshine light. Thanks
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