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the Lazer Universal LED helmet tail light.
Helmet mounted tail lights are an ideal way to ensure you remain visible in low light conditions.
With a high mounting location helmet lights are visible even in dense traffic. The Lazer
Universal LED tail light is one of Lazer's new helmet tail lights that's designed to directly
work with their lineup of KinetiCore helmets as well as any helmet using a simple velcro strap.
Packaging is very simple your cardboard box basic specs on here and a nice little graphic around it.
Lets go ahead and take out the box and go over these specs. Retail price on this is $34.99 it
has a 40 lumen maximum output and is good for up to 54 hours of runtime that includes five
different output modes to choose from as well as an integrated motion and light sensor. It also has
a magnetic charging cable which makes charging really simple as you just have to get it close.
It's a direct attachment for the KinetiCore helmets with a simple rectangular mount.
In terms of what comes with it you get a generic velcro strap
and this is great for any helmet you just slide it in lock it in place.
You get the special proprietary magnetic charging cable and you can see just get it close and it'll
start charging as well as a little guideline that gives you the lumen output and runtimes of
the different modes. Now let's take a look at the weight of the taillight. So the taillight by itself
this is all you need if you have a KinetiCore helmet comes in at 20 grams they also have this
very light velcro mount which actually doesn't register on our scale so it's less than a gram.
Unlike Lazers previous helmet-mounted tail lights this is not a model specific design.
Instead it uses a new rectangular mount which is available on all the KinetiCore models.
You also have a velcro mount which can be used on any helmet
you just wrap it through your vent. It's a very interesting design it looks like a usb
type-c port with the rectangular shape but you can see this basically has a flexible design
so when you put it in here and rotate it'll actually expand and then lock into place. So it
is quite secure even though it has a very simple design and then you rotate it 45 degrees to unlock
it so it's a nice feature so you don't have to keep replacing your LED every time you switch up
your Lazer helmet. The downside is it's not as well integrated so this actually sits out
side of the shell of your helmet instead of being flushed inside one of the vents
but again the advantage is you can keep using this and you can use this with any helmet now.
It has a simple rectangular mount design that looks quite cool and the LED itself consists
of multiple surface mounted LEDs. You have to hold the button for a few seconds you'll see it flash
and then turn on you can see four LEDs inside a very simple translucent reflector that is red
and then you have five different modes to choose from. What's cool about this tail light is it has
a lot of tech features so you have a couple constant modes that don't leverage any sensors.
You have the constant high you have a pulsing you have a eco pulse and then you also have that other
mode and you saw it flash over here this is the move mode so if motion is detected then it will
turn on but if you let it sit then eventually it will turn off by itself and go into a standby mode
until you move again. It's a pretty cool feature it takes about 30 seconds or more you see it now it's
off. If i move it goes back to fast flash. The other mode leverages both the motion sensor and the
ambient light sensor so you can see right now it looks like it's off but if i were to cover it up
you can see now it thinks it's dark and moving but again. If i let it sit it'll automatically turn off
so pretty cool feature you can just plug it in and forget about it. You can manually turn it off
of course so if you hold it you will see that bottom LED indicate that it's now shutting off.
You t want to do a manual turn off for a better battery life as standby mode does
require a little bit of power. The one downside to this design is that it does use a proprietary
a magnetic charging port which is kind of cool because it is easier but it doesn't mean you
have to carry that cable around and if you lose it you'll have to purchase a replacement instead
of a more generic usb port. Here we have two of Lazers KinetiCore helmets. We have the CityZen
which is their urban version you can see the connection port here it really looks like a
usb port. If you didn't know what it was because it has the same shape but again you plug it in rotate
and then it locks into place and then really easy to use but you can see it does stick out
which helps with the side visibility so if you do turn it on it is more visible from higher angles.
So when it's on you can see because it sticks out and not sitting inside one of these little vents
that it is more visible. It's also available on their road cycling helmets we have the Strada here
and again nicely concealed because it just looks like a little port and it's black
right next to the belt so you can plug that in lock it into place and again great for extra
visibility. So especially if you're in traffic this is so high up that it can complement your
tail light and then make sure you're still visible over cars or any obstacles in the way.
There are five different output modes of the taillight you have a constant
boost mode which gives you 40 lumens safe mode which is a pulsing mode and good for 54 hours.
You have a third mode which is called pulsing and that has 20 lumen output and lower run time.
Move is a fast flash and automatically turns off when you stop moving and nighttime mode will also
turn off during the day or when you stop moving and uses a pulsing pattern. As you can see here
the taillight has great visibility it's not as bright as other tail lights on the market so
it's not daytime visible but during the night the high monitoring location gives you a very
unique illumination pattern and thanks to the protruding design you have great side visibility.
So if you ride in urban settings or low visibility it's a great addition to your current light setup.
Now let's go over the pros and cons for the Universal LED tail light. What we like about it
is that it's a very clever mounting solution. It's compact and it's directly integrated into a lot
of the KinetiCore helmets. We also like the fact that there's integrated sensors that maximize the
runtime so you can get the most out of the battery. Also you can easily swap this between helmets
especially if you have a Lazer KinetiCore helmet or by simply removing the velcro mount. Some of the
cons for the light is the fact that it does use a magnetic charging cable which means you have to
keep track of the cable and carry it with you if you want to charge the light in multiple locations.
You also have a confusing delay when you turn the light on and off which is something you have to
sort of get used to. We're also surprised that it doesn't use a COB LED design instead it uses
surface mounted LEDs which doesn't have quite as uniform as an illumination pattern. Taking
everything into account we give the Universal LED a 9.1 out of 10. It's a nice smart helmet
light with a clever mounting solution. Thanks for watching this review don't forget to like and
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