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reviewing the Moon Sport Canopus Pro 6000 lumen mountain bike headlight.
The Canopus is the second brightest star in the sky which is why Moon Sport has named their new
Canopus Pro after it. With 6000 lumen of output the Canopus Pro is the brightest headlight moon
sport currently offers and a 2000 lumen upgrade from the existing Canopus model. In terms of
packaging you can be very simple you have a nice fabric zippered case which actually serves as the
packaging for it and a little cardboard sleeve with the yellow and black color scheme that Moon
Sport is known for. All the specs are printed right on here and you can see an overview of the
features on the back. We'll go ahead and take out the packaging and go over the full specs.
Retail price on this is $439.99 so quite expensive but you do get 6000 lumen of verified output.
This features their Variable Lumen System which allows you to actually ramp
up or down every single mode's lumen output to exactly what you want so highly customizable.
In order to achieve such a high lumen output obviously you get a big battery pack so this
is a 10000 milliamp battery. It's a wired setup so the headlamp itself is quite light
and then the battery pack can be mounted on your frame. You have a wired remote as well
so you can easily trigger this from somewhere more convenient
and it uses a USB Type-C connection for charging or charging other devices with the power bank
so nice modern interface. In terms of what comes with it obviously you can see quite a lot
the case itself is really nice you have this foam cut out and inner pocket
it's a great way to store everything. In terms of what you get you get obviously the
headlamp which is quite nice aluminum body the battery pack you can see quite large this is the
BS-S6 the largest one they currently offer the wired remote with that USB Type-C interface on it.
You get a USB Type-C cable which is nice to see so you can use this to charge other
devices directly from the power bank. You have a helmet mount which is a simple velcro attachment
and then this GoPro to Garmin adapter which you can then connect to the headlamp.
Two velcro straps to connect the battery pack to your frame
an extension cord if you want to do helmet mounting as these cables are fairly short so you
can put the battery pack in your jersey pocket. You even get an out front mount which is quite cool
so this is what you can put on your handlebar and then put the light in front of your stem. You can
see a simple plastic construction it is dual sided if you get the dual side attachment it's offered
separately and then just two bolts to attach to your handlebar. Also a standard USB-C to USB-A connection so
if you have a standard usb port you can charge the power bank using this and then two little stickers
for Moon Sport. Now let's take a look at the weight of the light setup. So the headlight portion itself
that comes in at 210 so fairly heavy but it is an all metal design.
The battery pack with the associated velcro straps to connect it to your frame that's 510 grams
you have the USB-C remote which is pretty lightweight just a little plastic with the
connector that's only 12 and then finally the out front mount with the little spacer and the
hardware on it this is just a plastic construction that comes in at 42 grams.
Moon Sport refers to this design as their air vent cooling system and it makes it
have a very distinct look. So you can see these cutouts in the housing they actually extend all
the way through so very cool looks like a batman symbol almost from this angle. You have four leds
on front you have two spot beams in the middle and then two flood beams on the side and you
can see they're just slightly wider reflectors so wider beam and the combination gives you a nice
balanced beam. The headlight itself is quite large and at 200 grams it is fairly heavy too
so not something you want to really wear on your head as it would weigh you down but otherwise you
can see the four leds are in here a thin design here so really designed to keep it cool.
Then the two button interface on top on the bottom you have a standard Garmin mount which
is great to see here it's not some proprietary design that requires adapters instead it's a very
common Garmin style so two tabs line it up with your mount and then rotate and then you can see
very secure no real play and there's tons of aftermarket adapters and mounts available so
you can put this almost anywhere or use the included out front mount. On the rear you have
a USB Type-C port as well so you can use this to actually use the wireless remote and that's a nice
feature you can actually move the buttons closer to your handlebars or your grips for easier usage.
The battery pack is quite cool too so it's very large and that's what you need with these higher
powered lights. That's a big downside to a lot of the amazon lights which claim to be
6000 or even more lumen output but then come with these little dinky battery packs that
aren't able to really give it the power it needs. With this it's 10000 milliamps
so very large and you can actually use this to charge other devices so it can be used as a power
bank so you get more utility out of it. It mounts to your frame using these little rubber mounts
and these offsets that allow you to wrap the velcro
right through it so very simple design and quite secure on the front. You can see this
is the connection to the headlamp and it actually is keyed you see that little indentation on top
which does unfortunately mean you need to line it up exactly when you want to put it in there
is an arrow to help with that but it's almost all black so it's very hard to see. It would have been
nice if this was colored or had a little raised indentation to make it more obvious otherwise
when you're plugging it in you kind of have to play around until you get the right position.
To check the battery status on here you actually have a little button and it's a little bit hard to
see here but there's three leds visible right now. There's five available you can't actually see the
spot it would have been nice if they were more obvious but they've almost hidden them behind
this transparent cover so the fourth one would be on the left that would indicate 100 charge
and then there's a right led here that would indicate if you're charging another device. So
using this Usb Type-C port you could either charge this or charge your cell phone or other devices
when you're not riding. Now let's go over the user interface of the Canopus Pro. Moon Sport
has thankfully kept it pretty simple you have two buttons on top and then two led indicators.
The top one indicates that we're connected to the power and then the bottom one illuminates to help
you understand the battery status. So double blue means we're about 75 percent blue green would
indicate 100 percent there's blue red and then blue flashing red to indicate that you're in a
low state. There's only two buttons here so pretty simple to use for constant modes so once you power
it on by just simply pressing the top button you can then cycle through the different modes.
Thankfully flash in constant modes are separated so you don't have to accidentally go through it.
Then with every mode you have VLS so if you go to the low setting you can actually re configure
this by holding the bottom button and then vls means it'll actually ramp up flash at the lowest
go all the way up flash to indicate that's the highest and then ramp down. So wherever you let
go that button that is the lumen output of that mode so you can essentially customize this without
using an app or third party software so it's quite nice and lets you really get exactly the mode
order that you want. There's also four flash mode so if you hold the
top button for three seconds which is a little bit confusing because at first it turns off.
You can see now we're in flash mode so there's sos there's standard on off flash there's even a night
flash you can see low high. Then in any mode you double press the top button and you get boost
mode which is the full 6000 lumen so pretty simple to understand and thankfully unlike Magicshine
which tends to do 15 plus modes here you just have eight options and then VLS to really customize
it and you don't have to worry about which leds active because they're all active at the same time.
Now let's take a look at the output modes of the light now they have fairly generic names
like mode one two three and that's because you have VLS so you can rearrange these to
change them to low medium high or do whatever you want as each mode is configurable independently. Boost
mode is obviously the coolest one with the double click you have 6000 lumens and an hour and a half
runtime which is pretty impressive and it's only possible because you have such a big battery pack.
Flash mode has quite a few options like a day flash a night flash and you can see with
day flash it goes low low and then very high and again you can change all these.
With moon sport you also get the sos feature which you probably should save for real emergencies.
Here you can see some riding footage with it handlebar mounted it's fairly heavy
so you do probably want to keep it on the handlebar and the low setting at least the default
is pretty dim so you want to save that for urban settings and then use the medium or high ones.
There's big jumps in all the modes at least in the pre-programmed settings so it's really easy
to tell what you're actually in. The beam pattern itself has a nice balance between a spot beam
and then a flood beam so you can see that dense center section which really lights the road up
and then it tapers around you to let you see around you it's a good combination and great for
mountain biking especially you're doing downhill sports and need the speed you can always double
click go in boost mode so really nice features and even in the fog here it really cuts through.
Now let's compare the Canopus pro with some other lights on the market. Here we have the Rigel Power
the light we recently reviewed as well a little more intimidating looking with the six led setup
but you can see this is an all-in-one design so the battery pack is integrated in here
that means it's a lot heavier and bulkier so not something you obviously want to put your helmet.
It takes up quite a bit of space even on your handlebars that's a big advantage of a wired setup
you're able to have all this power without having a single design so you can actually separate this
put this on your frame and then have a lighter weight headlight. The other thing about the rigel
power is that it has their dot matrix display which is really confusing so it has different
patterns indicate what mode you're in and unless you're looking at the manual it doesn't really
make any sense. So it's nice i didn't put that on the Canopus so this is just too confusing to
really use and it's a lot simpler here because all four run at the same time while on the rigel power
you can actually do different ones for each mode so it complicates things. Other all-in-one designs
are a lot smaller. They have a single battery this is the Magicshine RN 1500 really snazzy color
schemes with the anodized finish which looks quite cool but obviously a lot less bright it's
only 1500 lumens. Single led so not as large of a beam but more compact and great for commuting.
The main comparison here is the Magicshine this is actually the 8000S but they also have a 6500S
which is closer to the 6000 output of the Canopus Pro. You can see the Monteer is bigger
so it is a larger lens with these five led design big spa ones here and then the flood ones on the
bottom well it's a little bit more compact you can see Magicshine has gotten the actual headlight a
lot smaller compared to the Moon Sport but this one obviously has more heat dissipation
versus this more more compact design. But it would have been nice if they were able to pair down
the headlight itself to be a little bit lighter because you can actually helmet mount the Monteer
while this one is a little bit too heavy at almost half a pound. The Magicshine battery packs are
similar. This one is actually has more power the moonsport one has more power but same design you
have the velcro kind of slots in here. USB-C bank functionality on both. What I like about the Magicshine
one is the leds are a little more obvious you can see what is actually available while the Moon
sport one they're hidden behind that translucent cover so you can't really tell where the LEDs are. The nice thing
about the Magicshine is you can actually disconnect as you can see here the connection to the headlamp
and then it has a little rubber cover while the Moon Sport it is permanently attached so
you can't actually remove it so it makes a little bit more bulky as a power bank.
Now let's go over the pros and cons. What we like about it is as an aggressive design these little
heat fins cut into the housing give it a really great look and it's all metal so it feels premium.
You also have long run times things a big battery pack and a bright and well distributed beam.
Some of the cons for the light is the fact they do have a wired remote instead of a bluetooth remote
and the battery cables are keyed for a specific angle which makes a little
frustrating to use as it's really hard to see the arrow indicator. It's all black
would be great if they had a color or made it more generic so you just slide it in at any angle.
Finally the battery status is a little bit confusing you can't actually see all the leds
on the battery pack so you just have to know there should be four when it shows you two.
Taking everything into account would give the Canopus pro an 8.8 out of 10. It's a bright and
stylish headlight. Thanks for watching this review. Don't forget to like and subscribe.
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