one of the things that i missed most when i moved out of my condo
and purchased my home was the inline lights that i had both in my closet my master bedroom
and a light under my sink when i got my new place neither of those had lighting but i didn't want to
actually do any wiring myself because well i don't trust myself to do that and i'm cheap and didn't
want to pay somebody to do that for me enter this hello i'm wanderer001 and this is a review of what
is classified as an led closet light there are lots of different ones on amazon i will have the
link for this one down in the description area because well there are lots to choose from and
this is a review of this particular model because well again there are lots of them out there
so for this particular one this did come in a two pack which was great because well i got to put one
in my closet and then put one under my sink so what we're looking at with this particular one
you are looking at a light strip that is 13 inches long just shy of one inch in width and has a depth
of a half an inch it is made of aluminum which makes it nice and lightweight it has 52
pure white leds which run about 6000 kelvin to 6500 kelvin and offers 300 lumens so
obviously leds operate in lumens as opposed to wattage because well times have changed
there also is a motion trigger right there so you can set this for two different modes you can set
this for an always-on which looks like that and i realize this is not going to be super expressive
because it is a bright room so you have always on or you have motion sense now when you first
turn on the motion sense it will work regardless however after you first initiate it it needs to be
dark-ish in order for this to actually motion trigger but if you're keeping this in a closet you
don't have to worry about that because well the closet is going to be dark-ish the motion sensor
has a field of view or degree range of 120 degrees which is not bad for what you're going to be using
this for now if we come along to our one end here r1 n has our activation switch whether it's
on off or g g is for motion sensing don't know why they called it that but that's that on
is for always on coming across to the other side you have your micro usb charging port
now the beauty of this is is that it runs on rechargeable lithium ion batteries it has a 1500
milliamp rechargeable battery in it now with that internal battery it takes about three hours
to charge and when when you plug it in you get a little red light at the end letting you know that
it's charging however the one thing that i don't appreciate when you first plug it into charge is
all the leds turn on and if you're looking down at it it can blind you because i've done that
a couple of times after three hours of charging which isn't terrible uh you will see a green light
there indicating that it is done charging now having a lithium ion battery that is rechargeable
is beneficial in that one it can replace things like this which is again another motion sensor
but this uses double a batteries and is nowhere near as bright as this so i put a couple of these
around my house but my parents in particular who used a lot of these went crazy and got lots and
lots of these to put in closets under you know this is a very versatile uh piece of equipment
now to actually attach this where you want it there is a thin strip of metal that you can
put put in place and then you have adhesive tape that comes as part of the setup my suggestion
would be and it's going to cost you a little extra would be to go out and get some 3m command strip
backings and use those instead because one of the big complaints that i saw with a lot of
the people who had this is if they tried to take that metal backing down and move it somewhere else
the adhesive tape that comes with these types of things kind of peeled the paint
so get yourself some 3m and you can move it around as much as you want
so with that said the question is well how does this look in actual operation well let me show
you what it looks like inside of my closet when i go and open my door and go to grab something
now the thing with this particular light is that instead of just coming on it actually builds up
to being fully on and then after 20 seconds of not detecting any motion it dims itself down
so that's rather nice than harsh light off harsh light off it gradually brings you up
to that fully illuminated state now the question is how long can something like this last well
the website says that if you leave it on it will last for four hours now i've had two of these one
of them is in my kitchen the other is in my closet i purchased these back in february and i have to
say the one that i put up in my closet that just turns itself on and off when i go in there i have
not had to recharge that as of yet the one under my sink well because of testing and so forth i've
had to recharge it probably two or three times at this point so one of the things that i found out
is leaving this on the motion sensing overnight especially my cats walk in and out of the kitchen
because their food bowls are in there and that kind of chewed through the battery because it
would turn itself on and then turn itself off and they would constantly be walking back and
forth so just know that 120 degree field of motion is good unless you have small kids or pets that
are going to constantly be turning this on and off so the question is how much does this cost
and again i got a two pack of this and keep in mind again even with buying the
command strips after the fact this is still going to be cheaper than paying for an electrician
and these are more versatile in where you can put them so with that said this is the two pack
actually cost me 33 which isn't terrible now there are other manufacturers out there that might be
slightly cheaper or slightly more expensive they might offer different types of features but this
is a review of this particular one i've actually been really happy with it i like i said i missed
having that light in my closet and definitely over my sink and i didn't want to have to do any wiring
so this fit the bill perfectly so is 33 dollars worth it for you only you know for sure
but i could say for myself it has been a great purchase and has met all of my expectations
wonderfully so with that said i have been wanderer001 if you have any questions or
comments please feel free to leave them in the area below and as always thanks for watching