Thanks for tuning in today we're going to be reviewing the Magicshine Allty 1500s LED bike
headlight [Music] The new Allty 1500s that we have here is one of the latest additions to the Allty
lineup. It updates the Allty 1500 with a bunch of new exciting features. Packaging wise you can
see very simple you just have a cardboard box a nice black print with the orange coloring
that matches the Magicshine logo and then this nice glossy representation of the headlight. You
have basic specs printed on the back and then this nice rigid cardboard design that almost feels like
a cell phone design so you can see the top slides out if we go ahead and open this up we'll go over
the specs. Retail price on this is $109.99 so still pretty affordable. You get 1500 lumens of output
just like the product name would suggest. You have a removable 5000 milliamp battery which is really
cool. It's a cartridge style battery they'll let you actually replace it or upgrade it if needed.
You get a wireless remote which is really similar to the Monteer wireless remote and then you have
the OLED screen which lets you actually see the current battery status directly on here.
It is also customizable by the Magicshine app so you can rearrange the modes adjust the brightness
and even switch the order so pretty cool features here.
As far as what comes with the light if we open up the box you have this nice foam cutout
then a little hidden compartment underneath. You get the handlebar mount so this is their standard
strap and bolt design it's one of the mounts I don't really like as you have a bolt so you have
to make sure you line that up and it does require a tool the first time you install it. USB type c
charging cable which is really nice to see so very modern interface you can reuse your other cables.
Instruction manual three additional different length straps so this will handle everything
from an aero bar to a mountain bike and bar to commuting bar so you can easily swap that out here.
You get that Allen key for the first installation
then we have the wireless remote so two button design and you use a simple velcro strap to attach
it to your handlebars. Now let's take a look at the weight of the headlight, so the headlight by itself
that comes in at 153 grams the wireless remote with a little velcro strap they're both pretty
light so it comes in at only 18 grams and then the handlebar mount with the shorter default strap
that is 16 grams [Music] The Magicshine Allty 1500s takes the previous Allty 1500 to the next level
with multiple hardware and software upgrades. Visually the light retains that elongated
rectangular design that the Allty lights had before. It has a nice metal top body so this helps
dissipate some of the heat with a little heat fins here then a separate plastic piece underneath it.
Basic branding here with matte shine on top and then Allty 1500s. This has a dual lighting design
so you have a focused LED on the bottom of this and then a DRL on top which you can see is this
COB LED strip that is horizontal so what this means is you get nice daytime visibility with that
top light and then you have to have different flash modes or turn off the bottom entirely.
You can also see because of the Dual element design this whole front section actually extends
downward a little bit so it protrudes underneath the mount so it gives it this unique appearance.
You can also see that you have this raised lens so it actually protrudes a little bit
and that gives you side visibility so even from side angles you can still see the light.
In terms of the optics of the light you can see very simple you just have
a cone beam so nothing fancy here no beam cut off and no diffusers.
The really cool thing about this light though is you finally have the removable battery
so you can see on the back there's this little tab if I push down on that and then push forward
against the lip you can see this whole thing will slide out. This is a 21700 battery which is
5000 milliamp capacity so you have a battery cell on the inside and then they wrapped it around
with the charging port. It's not as versatile as a
standard battery cell which you can just swap in you still have to buy this for Magicshine
but once you have it it's very nice and as long as Magicshine keeps providing these in a couple
years if this battery were to die you can easily just swap it rather than buying an entire lighti.
The charging port is also built into the tail of the battery so you can see you can charge this
whether it's installed or not installed on the light so very simple and cool design. You have a
very big rubber gasket too so you can see nice and thick not sure if you won't get any water
protrusion push it back in and locks into place. Note it is very hard to take this off as you don't
have much leverage and the first time you take out the batteries very hard so you might want
to use a tool to kind of get in there and give you a little bit more leverage. Underneath this
you have a standard Garmin quarter turn style mount it's actually molded directly in the base.
It's pretty simple so it's quarter turn so you just rotate and it locks it has these two raised
tabs with the corresponding slots on the mount so very common mount style. You can use the handlebar
mount that's included not our favorite because it has this bolt design and requires a tool to
install and uninstall. Instead I'd recommend getting an out front mount Magicshine has
plastic and metal variations so you can see same puck with the raised Groove so you rotate it in
and then you can place the light right in front this is also a non-directional light which means
you can place it upside down and not have any issues with that as it just has a simple cone beam.
It does place the button on the bottom which is one downside but it does keep it out of the
way you can put your computer right on top. The other cool thing about this is the OLED screen
unfortunately on camera it's all flickery so you can't really see what I'm seeing here but you get
the battery status on top percentage battery remaining and then after a few seconds it will
go to the actual time remaining so very cool. Then on the bottom it tells you the Lumen count
so as I switch the modes it'll actually update and because you have the screen it's a lot less
confusing so you know exactly how much battery you have left. You don't have to interpret colors
and you can also see some of the other features like the lock instead of being confused why
is the light not turning on you can see if I lock the computer by holding I lock the light
by holding it for three seconds it will actually show a lock icon so that's a really nice feature.
Now I can lock it for transportation and I know exactly why it's not turning on
if you do a three second hold again it will unlock it.
The user interface is also very simple you have this nice rubber button underneath that
so it is not backlit again because you have all the battery status on the screen.
A hold turns the light on and off that three second hold turns the lock mode on and off
and you can see if I do the long hold again it's unlocked now. If I do a little bit of a hold it'll
turn on you have five different modes from the factory. A single press cycle through them
they've separated the flash and then the constant modes which is really nice so if you're riding you
can switch the intensities without hitting flash. A double press goes to the flash mode
and then a single press within the flash mode switch between the two options
then double press again to go back to normal modes so pretty simple and easy to use. You
can also use the app to enable the sleep mode as well as the smart mode and smart
mode the bottom LED is shut off during the day based on ambient light sensor and then
the sleep mode will use a motion sensor to turn this off after five minutes of non-use. [Music]
The Allty 1500s has five modes to choose from we have three constant modes low medium and high
and you can see the run times correspondingly adjust as you go higher in the output.
High gets you the full 1500 Lumen with three and a half hour run time. There are two flash modes a slow
flash which is 500 lumens of zero and then the quick flash which is the same but gives you 31
hours of runtime. During the daytime here you can see the smart mode where you only
have the DRL it's not particularly bright but it keeps you visible and great for urban settings.
Here you can see some riding footage the beam has a nice standard cone style optic so you can
see nice sharp hot center in the middle and then a wide beam. On the camera it looks a lot darker
than it really is but in the full 1500 mode it's a very bright light you can see it does have no
anti-glare design so you will blind people coming against you so you want to be careful with that.
Otherwise really easy to use and I really like the screen on here you never have to guess
how much battery you have it's always there so you just peek over and you can look at it
so really nice feature and very easy to use. We found the medium mode to be pretty good for most
instances while the high mode is great for the really dark stretches of road if you're going
a lot faster you can also fully customize this using the app which is a nice feature. [Music]
Now let's take a look at the Magicshine app with this app you can actually customize the
light output modes and then enable the sleep mode or the smart mode. The app is pretty
clumsy which is why it has such a low rating on the App Store. So you can see the left side you
have four options my device scene version upgrade and contact us as you can see the capitalization
is kind of all over the place and UI structure is very weird so once you go to my devices you'll see
the light with this kind of coding. You click that and then you can see it says Allty 1500s here
and shows the temperature which is a little bit strange the light's not even on and then the
battery status as high. It says scene one, scene one is really profile one and right now with nothing
on here it defaults to the factory five modes you have low medium high and then the two flash modes.
Here I can click add and you can see it actually jumps to this little UI so now I can adjust the
brightness which is really cool so a nice simple rotational design adjust the brightness and then
set the mode. You have constant and SOS flash mode you have flash and then the other icon
which is a little bit confusing is a quick flash. So you can see a little bit different
but you can customize which one you want you can actually set the speed
of the flashes you can just set the mode and then the brightness.
Then you can add another mode which is called a level so it really should be profile and then
mode options. Then you can set whatever you want. What I found is the once you set these modes
the double click it's a little bit weird so you don't get that two menu option now you have a flat
menu. So you can see you get a basic our summary of each case and then you can add as many as you want
if you don't like it you actually have to expand it and then press delete. You can also create
multiple scenes or profiles which is kind of a cool feature so if you had a urban setting or
a mountain biking setting you could set that up here with a flight it really doesn't make that
much sense as you only have a single LED but if you have multiple LEDs it does make sense
but again the UI is just a little bit odd to figure out how to add the device or levels. It's
not that obvious you have to go to scene and then add scene then you can set up say mountain biking
and then there's really no confirm you just have to press back and now I have another scene.
It's not very obviously even how to enable it so you have to hold it and that's a
delete but anyway it's very confusing there's really no reason to use that too much I would
say really the main purpose of this one is to set up the smart mode which is this checkbox here and
then the motion sensor with sleep mode. So you can see with the smart mode it'll actually disable
the bottom LED and you'll just get the DRL with the motion one will turn off after five minutes
so two kind of cool features I do recommend using the smart mode if you want to do just keep the
DRL for daytime and otherwise the sleep mode is nice but it's easier just to turn it off. [Music]
Now let's compare the Allty 1500s with other lights on the market. We actually have its bigger brother
the Allty 2000 so you can see very similar light this one is larger because it has two LEDs and it
produces 2000 lumens of output but otherwise very similar form factors. You have the protruding body
the cartridge style battery with this one it actually is a little bit thinner
but you can see it's much bigger and it has a locking mechanism rather than the single
button slide out design. So that does mean you need a tool to take it in and out but it's probably a
little bit easier to take on and off rather than trying to get your finger in here otherwise really
similar design. It's nice to see a more affordable variation of this light with 1500 Lumen output.
Within the Allty series you actually have a lot of options here we have their little Allty 400
so you can see almost identical same lens no DRL you just have the one LED
and you can see Garmin style mount and very compact as it only has 400 lumens.
You can also get beam cutoff variations that are very simple or similar looking you have the
ZX Pro here so this actually has an anti-glare lens so you can see when it's underneath there
you don't see anything and you have this beam cut off. So it is directional and it won't cause glare
but very limited in output as it's not nearly as bright as the 1500 Lumen options due to the
StVZO restrictions but same body with an internal battery rather than removable. The higher output
variations is the RN 1500 for whatever reason the Magicshine doesn't call it Allty even though they look very
similar. This is the really cool colored options so you can see this one's anodized red simple
single button interface and single LED so you don't get the cartridge or the DRL so I really
like about the 1500s you get the DRL of the Allty 2000 but at a more affordable price point.
There are other lights on the market we have the Trek Commuter Pro so a similar price as
well but this has a beam cut off so you can see the lens here has the LED on top with this big
reflector you can actually control a taillight as well so you can control the Bontrager taillights.
So you can turn them on and off at the same time but no screen and a little bit simpler
design with a different mount so we do like the fact that Magicshine uses Garmin as very generic.
When it comes to removable batteries Fenix is probably one of the best lights out there
because they simply reuse their flashlight design and you have a spring-loaded tail cap
with the battery right on the outside. So very simple and because I use a generic
cell you can go to the store buy this and then swap it in rather than the specific
cartridge which requires you go to Magicshin so that's one downside of using the
cartridge rather than more generic cell but let them actually have more control over it.
Reelight also has the Lux so this also has a
tail cap design so if I take this out you can see same thing. It has a little battery cell 18650
that simply goes into place with a very simple single button interface and led design so both
of these are more like flashlights while these have a little more bike specific features.
The Knog Blinder is also an interesting option so this is a Blinder 900 yeah four
LEDs rather than the one with the DRL so a little bit different beam
style but integrated battery no OLED screens. So the nice thing about Magicshine
is that you get a lot of cool features you don't typically get with the bike light.
Now let's go over the pros and cons for the Allty 1500s. What we like about it is you have a DRL
light it's a nice feature that always keeps you visible during the day or night. You also have a
removable lithium-ion cartridge style batter which is a really nice feature so you can carry two
batteries if you're riding really far or you could always replace it if you have a damaged battery.
You also have an intuitive and crisp OLED screen so you don't really have to guess how much battery
you have. You can always just look down and you can see the estimated remaining time the Lumen
count for your current mode and the battery status. The main cons for this light is the
fact they have a very confusing app in fact I wouldn't really recommend using the app at all
as the default modes are more than sufficient. It's also difficult to remove that cartridge battery
there's not a lot of leverage just a little bit of a tab and a raised section so the first time
you take it out it can be very difficult. Taking everything into account would give
the light a 9.3 out of 10. It's a full featured headlight you get USB type-c removable battery
and an OLED screen the only thing you're really missing here is a nice beam cut off. Thanks for
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