Customer Reviews

EverLife Flashlight

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The EverLife flashlight is a good flashlight to have handy for an emergency such as those unexpected blackouts. You will always have a working flashlight wihout dead batteries or burnt out bulbs which you can use to find your other flashlights/batteries/bulbs and/or candles/matches.

However, don't expect these to replace the flashlights you have now since the constant shaking that is needed to keep them bright really isn't practical for most tasks like reading or doing outside work.

30-45 minutes of shaking produces between 1 and 2 minutes of bright light and up to 5 minutes of useable light or enough to guide your way in a dark hallway. After that they just produce a dim glow and will require more shaking. However, if you shake the larger one and don't turn it on it will retain the charge for when needed. I'm not sure how long, but after 3 weeks mine is just as bright as when initially shook. The smaller one seems to loose it charge quickly. After about 3 days it is almost dead and needs to be shook again.

EVERLIFE IS LITTLELIGHT, November 22, 2005
Reviewer: AGNAZZO (Tampa, Florida United States) - See all my reviews
LIVING IN FLORIDA I BOUGHT TWO OF THESE EVERLIFE FLASHLIGHTS. THE PARTY THAT SAID THAT THESE FLASHLIGHTS ARE CHARGED UP DURING SHIPPING IS SUFFERING FROM SHAKING OF THE HEAD. IT TAKES AT LEAST A MINUTE OF SHAKING AFTER DELIVERY BEFORE THE FLASHLIGHT IS GIVING OUT ITS MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF LIGHT WHICH IS VERY LOW. AFTER THAT TO KEEP IT OPERATING MORE SHAKING IS IN ORDER. THE ILLUMINATION WHICH IS VERY LOW COMPARED TO OTHER BATTERY FLASHIGHTS DIES OUT VERY RAPIDLY AND NEED ADDITIONAL SHAKING TO KEEP IT GOING. THIS FLASHLIHGT TO BE FAIR MAY COME IN HANDY DURING A HURRICANE POWER FAILURE. LED FLASHLIGHTS THAT USE BATTERIES ARE FAR SUPERIOR TO THESE SHAKING FLASHLIGHTS.THE BATTERIES LAST A VERY LONG TIME DUE TO THE LOW POWER THAT LEDS OPERATE AT.

First, the good: the flashlight works as advertised. Shake it and light comes out one end.

Second, the bad: the flashlight's design is screwy. Instead of placing the LED bulb inside some sort of reflector setup, as in every other flashlight you've probably ever used, the LED is mounted on a tiny circuit board suspended in body. This means that much of the light leaks through the side of the body instead of being directed out the front. Also, the normal protective lens from a normal flashlight was replaced by a magnifying glass - to serve in place of the "missing" silvery reflector, I suppose. The result is a beam that's neither well-focused nor evenly diffused.

Still, it really does work. Although I wouldn't use one to replace a normal flashlight, it makes an OK emergency backup.

This one was a knock off version you have to hold the button down the hole time during use and I believe the offical one had a swich to click on or off also I seemed to get a headache after shaking it or it could have been the Msg in a Dairy Qeen foot long hot dog I ate at the same time.