Thanks for tuning in this is The Sweet
Cyclists and today we're going to be
doing a full product review for the
Magicshine Seemee 60 LED taillight.
This is a part of the new exciting urban
cycling products and it's a all-in-one
bicycle taillight. If we go over the
specs you can see it's a $34.99
dollar taillight, so not too
cheap not too expensive. It is IPX6
waterproof so that means you can do wet
weather commuting with no issues and
it's composed of a grid of COB LEDs with
up to 60 lumens of output. Now you can
see here it's a pretty bright light, it
also features a smart sensor which has a
couple nice features. It has auto idle
detection, vibration detection and
acceleration to throw the light in a
panic mode or automatically turn off. The
light also has up to 5 hours of battery
life on lower settings and can do a
steady mode and two blinking modes.
One constant and a one less constant so
it's a pretty competitive package
especially for the taillight market.
With that let's now go over what
comes in the box. I've everything
laid out here, you get the slick
packaging. Having bought Magicshine
products over the years it's a
big step up in terms of industrial
design and product design. You see it's
really good packaging, and they look great on
a shelf. You get a user manual which is
obviously not too useful. You get a micro
USB to USB cable for charging and a great
thing about this is you should have
plenty of these already so you can leave
these on the office at home.
One interesting part is that you get multiple
mounting options, so if we go here we can
see we get a clip style mount for a
backpack and both of these mounts you
can see it has a 90 degree locking
mechanism. It's threaded so
you drop it in, rotate and then clicks
in. It's great for mounting on backpacks
or saddlebags.
The cool thing is it also comes
with a standard seatpost
mount. This is a rubber mount and features
the same 90-degree locking
mechanism here and
a flexible rubber mount that uses
a ubiquitous rubber straps.
This requires no tools and is easy to install
and remove. With the rubber strap
design you can use the different
mounting points to either go larger or
smaller, depending on your seat post.
What's really cool about this is that
it also features two
options. You can see I
already have the one of the adhesive
attached to the mount.
It's a little adhesive backed rubber piece
you attach to the back of the seatpost mount.
You can see it has two profiles, one is
designed for a standard round seatpost
and the other one is designed for an
aero seatpost. You can see with the
aero seatpost it's more
aggressive to wrap around the
trailing edge of an aerodynamic seatpost
which have a sharper trailing edge.
What is great about this is that when you typically
buy a light for your aero bike I'll
flop around so if you were to put
this one on there it would kind of pivot
around and not be very secure. This
one is more aggressive and should
hold it better. Both of them are
very easy to install you just
place it on the rear of the mount.
Now lets go over the fit and
finish of the Seemee 60 Magicshine taillight.
This is a all-in-one design with a
built-in non-removable
USB rechargeable. It has a
compact design, if we bring out the ruler
you can see the dimensions. This is about
one and a half inches in each direction
where the thickness is about 3/4
of an inch. I wish it was thinner but
with all-in-one design it's
a nice design and you won't really notice
the thickness. You can
see it's a grid of LEDs, if I
turn on the light you can see the
uniform light distribution.
You can also see that
the beveled edge
on the tail light portion. With it
turned on, you can see you have more than
180 degree visibility which is what they
advertise so the light reflects off the
beveled edges. This gives you
better visibility. In terms of
interaction you get one basic button on
the side, and this button actually lights up
when you're charging too. It will go
green or red to indicate that it's
fully charged or charging there's no
battery indicator. Unfortunately you
can't tell otherwise. To switch the modes
it's simply a long press to turn
it on or off, and short press to change brightness and
a double press to change the mode. You have low, medium, and
a high brightnesses and double click to
into the different modes. You can see
this is the panic mode when I shake
it. If I double click again to switch
modes there are three total modes: a constant,
double blinking, and then a constant
blink. I'll turn it off again, the USB
port is on the back so you have to
remove from the bike and it has a nice
waterproof cover. So the fit and
finish I think feels pretty good.
It feels like a nice product, and the seams are really
tight. I'm not a big fan of the
chrome finish, it'd be great if they offered
different colors options
or maybe a rubberized anodized finish.
Now if we compare this to
a Plane Bike taillight
which has the more typical
tall and narrow form factor and a similar rubber
mount you can see this is quite a bit
smaller but a wider. If we look at
the Planet Bike light
it has a more common design
that you would have had before. You can
see this is quite a bit smaller and one
nice thing is with the built in battery
although it's not removable
it allows for a cleaner
design. Compared to traditional taillights
that have AAA batteries you can just pop
the cover off and replace, they add a lot
of bulk to it.
You can see it is almost half the size
here because there's no batteries to
remove but overall I think design wise
it's a nice more modern take on the tail
light. With the compactness and the
brightness it's a good great
option.
Additionally Magicshine has another
taillight they sell with
their wired
headlights combos.
I believe this is a 1 watt
while this is it 2 watt. This is a wired
version so you get a lot of wire bulk
and have to route.
You can see they've
improved it quite a bit, this is the
older rubber band this is a rubber band
that comes with the Seemee 60 so you can see
a lot more durable more options on
mounting by adding more in spots in
between.
It is a great product improvement and
compared to their own products you can see
this one while smaller didn't provide
180 degree visibility because the edges
are blocked. This is actually
more compact as it doesn't have a
battery built in you'd you'd actually
tie that into your external battery pack
but otherwise same size which is a
surprise.
Let's first look at the idle
feature which automatically puts the
light into a hibernate mode if there are
no vibration or acceleration. You can see
after about one minute the light goes
into a hibernate mode a light tap turns
the light back on to the previous
setting. That's a great
feature to conserve battery at stop
signs or when you park the bike.
The other feature is what I call the
panic mode which puts the light into a
temporary high output flicker mode when
it detects vibration or acceleration.
This mode is designed to attract
attention to you but as you can see is
very sensitive.
Now we're gonna look at the light output
of the taillight. There are three modes:
constant a blinking and a non constant
blinking. For each of these modes there is
a low, medium, and high setting. On the left
you'll see the rear view and on the right
you'll see the side view. As we cycle
through the different modes, and at the end
of this I'll show you a comparison for
each of the low, medium and high for each of
the modes side-by-side.
All right now that we've gone
over the design, mounting and the
output let's do the final score.
For the pros and cons, I think as a
pro the small form factor of the
all-in-one design is really great and
what I don't like about that is that
unfortunately means you have no battery
indicator or replaceable battery. The
mounting options I think are great
you don't typically see mounts for
aero seatposts, as well as the round seatpost
options. The simple adhesive
design and the rubber band design
are really durable with no tool removal
and installation on a bike.
I don't like the stylized kind of chrome
surround, but I really wish they offered
different colors. It would be a great
way to earn a little more profit with
detachable versions or different
colors you could purchase directly.
Another pro I think is the output,
with maximum 60 lumens this is a
really bright light can be used both during
the day or night. As a con I think the
smart sensor is a little too sensitive
as you can see when you move it around
it's really easy to trigger so typically
you won't get the advertised five hour
battery life because even on low you'll
end up in panic mode quite a bit. Now
that we've done the pros and cons, it's
time to give this thing a rating. With
the Magicshine Seemee 60, I'm gonna give
it an 8 out of 10 and I think they're a really
solid all on one taillight. It's great
not to have the bulky wires or external
battery packs. I don't I'm not gonna give
it a 10 out of 10,
because I think it has a couple flaws
that could improve if it were a little
thinner and the design was a little bit
better. A battery indicator would
be really great because with USB lights they
tend to just die on you to and go
from 100% to 0% which is a little
frustrating. Overall I think it's a great
showing from Magicshine and a
perfect light for commuting daytime
or riding at night. Thank you
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