hello I am wanderer001 and this is my review of the taotronics TTD l1 3b that's LAN I know this
isn't the normal setup I'd film in it's not as bright as I would like it to be but this
is where this particular desk lamp lives it is in my basement in my wife's crafting corner and
this was a purpose bought lamp because we needed something to fit just over here there's a cabinet
so we needed something that could fit in here that articulated and had a decent level of brightness
so we ended up choosing this because it was on a lightning deal at one time so we picked it
up what you're looking at is a lamp from base to the farthest point here when this is folded shut
of 15.8 inches tall the light portion here is 13 inches long and the base itself is 7 inches in
width now aside from being an Arctic articulating desk lamp it also has a USB port on the back now
the USB port I did test and it gets four point seven six volts out and 0.98 amps I tested it
trying to charge my pixel to phone off of the back of it and while it's not going to charge it
super quickly it's going to give you at least you know something so that the phone does not die or
whatever you have plugged in there if you have something that needs less power you'll be able
to at least power it through the back of that but also because there is that port in the back if we
close that completely and tilt this back you'll notice that it does not go all the way back
because it cannot go past where this port is and I'm gonna open that back up as I mentioned before
it is articulating where it will lean forward and back but it also spins thusly and the LED light
also articulates so we can kind of put this into any shape that we want which is really good for
her because she can bring it in closer for some of for more finite crafting things the light portion
itself can rotate left and right 90 degrees and then up and down meaning closed to this position
of 135 degrees and the base can swivel 45 degrees so it's not a hundred percent movement but it is
good enough that you can like I said put it where you would like it now the base itself is slightly
rubberized so it does kind of help it stay in place but you did see me having to hold the
base when I was trying to really kind of maneuver it back here you will also see you will see the
included power cable which is just shy of being five feet long which for the most part will get
you where you need this to be if it's further away from a power supply the lamp itself is adjusted
using a touch-sensitive panel here at the bottom you can touch different brightness settings or you
can drag your finger across there is a quick max setting which just tapping that will bring it all
the way up to its max brightness and then pressing I'm sorry touching the power button brings it down
to its lowest setting you do need to touch and hold the power button for it to actually turn
itself off and once you turn it back on it will remember the last setting that you had it at so if
I have it at just one shy of the brightest setting and then power it down and touch the power back
up it will go back to that setting however if you unplug the lamp and move it and then plug it back
in by default it turns itself to the halfway setting and then you know once you adjust it
again it will remember that now the light itself has five color temperature settings and seven
brightness levels the light itself has a maximum of four hundred and ten lumens now let's check
out some of those different color temperatures tapping just above here is an icon that looks
like a coffee mug and a book tapping it is the brightness changes the color temperature as you
can see it gets warmer as we continue on now the one thing about this I wish is that it would maybe
dim itself quickly and then pop because the next setting is all the way back up to the brightest
way so if I had it on this warm temperature and I was working my way up I might not necessarily want
it to jump right to this brightness setting so this is an LED lamp so the question then becomes
how much power does it use well when idling meaning it's just often sitting there it uses
between 0 to 0.5 so almost negligible starting at the max brightness setting because max breaks
maximum maximum brightness is what you're going to care about at the bright white we're gonna call it
setting it uses 6.3 watts of power on the cool setting it uses 6.0 watts on the midway point it
uses 5.7 watts the warm setting uses 5.1 and the warmest setting uses 4.7 so all in all power usage
wise it's not terrible for what you're getting again this isn't going to be the brightest lamp
there are other options out there for that however for me the important part was being
able to articulate this however my wife needed and one of the interesting features that I like is the
fact that it can close itself up rather nicely and yes I still have it on but I could turn that off
really quickly but it just folds itself away rather nicely so if she doesn't need the lamp
because there is a window right behind me and if it's in the daytime you get a decent amount amount
of light coming out of that obviously not right now but this can tuck itself away when not needed
so of course the next question is well how much does this cause well this is an older model lamp
I believe it's a 2018 version obviously it came up on the lightning deal so I picked it up on the
lightning deal I was able to get it for $23 normal retail is thirty there's a newer version of this
but that's gonna be more expensive so if you could find this lamp between twenty-five and thirty
dollars it's it's a decent buy like for what I got it for it does what I needed and granted my video
situation here isn't the best but hopefully this gave you an idea of what the taotronics TTD l1 3b
looks like functions like and power consumption would be like so maybe you'll find that useful
in determining if this is something that you would like I have been waderer001 if you have
any questions or comments please leave them in the area below and as always thanks for watching