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Rayovac BRSLEDPEN-B Brilliant Solutions LED Pen Light (Colors may Vary) | 
 enlarge | Brand: Rayovac
Category: Home Improvement
Buy New: $5.26
New (2) from $5.26
Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 2300
Media: Tools & Hardware
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 6.5 x 3.2 x 0.8
MPN: BRSLEDPEN-B
Model: BRSLEDPEN-B
UPC: 012800506613
EAN: 0012800506613
ASIN: B000VK6ZGM
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| + | Super bright LED with focusing lens never needs replacing | | + | Handy pocket clip | | + | 1AAA battery included |
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Product Description
Features: Super bright LED with focusing lens. Uses 1AAA battery (included). Aluminum alloy construction. LED lasts 100,000 hours. Handy pocket clip. Lifetime Warranty.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 7
 Rayovac BRSLEDPEN-B Brilliant Solutions LED Pen Light May 15, 2009
Dan Chiariello (Lakeland, FL USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
A light-weight, compact, well-built pen light. Small but very bright spot. A handy little light for work, hobbies and just about anywhere you need to shed a little light on the subject. Easy to hold in your mouth for those times you need 3 hands. I'm going to order 2 more for myself and will also probably give them away as Christmas stocking-stuffers.
Inexpensive little pen light with surprisingly good regulation May 22, 2010
NLee the Engineer (Nashua, NH)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have tested several LED flashlights before, including the MAGLITE 2-AA Mini LED, Rayovac BRSLED2AA-B Bright Solutions, Energizer Aluminum 2xAAA Pen light (PLED23AE), and Dorcy 41-1218 2AAA Pen Light. They all share a common problem: the LED brightness is strongly dependent on the battery voltage. Full brightness is only achieved when using a fresh set of alkaline cells. As the battery voltage drops, brightness also falls rapidly. This is very disappointing because I prefer to use rechargeable NiMH cells instead of disposable alkaline cells, but not if I can only get 50% brightness.
This Rayovac BRSLEDPEN-B LED Pen Light is cheaper and smaller than all the other LED flashlights above. It uses only one AAA cell instead of two. Yet surprisingly, it gives out the same brightness whether I'm using alkaline or NiMH cell. I measured its input power and found that it consumes nearly the same power as the battery voltage drops from 1.8V down to 1.1V (see my Customer Image for charts).
When powered by a NiMH AAA cell (1.25V), this pen light consumes about 120mA. I have tested the run time using an 800mAh cell. The light output is consistent for the first 6 hours. Only after 6.5 hours the light becomes noticeably dimmer. This run time is very reasonable for a 1xAAA pen light. Note that other LED flashlights may claim some outrageous run time such as '100 hours', but that number is misleading because the light becomes barely visible towards the end.
The only 'shortcoming' of this Rayovoc pen light is: since it is so tiny, it can be easily misplaced. At the present price (around $5), I intend to pick up another one or two just in case. I will do it when I need to stuff my Amazon shopping cart to $25 - to qualify for super saver shipping. That way, I can tell myself that the light is FREE!
[Update on June 23, 2010]
I received my second Rayovac pen light and its case is blue (the old one is grey as pictured). The light beam from the new one is whiter and brighter. So I guess there is an element of luck involved.
Holds Up! January 24, 2010
Tomasina M. Covell (Kalamazoo, MI United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
It's not fancy, it's extremely well designed and reliably robust at a very fair cost, looks as if it should have a AA size battery rather than the AAA at first. I paid about $2.98 plus MI sales tax at a Mijer store going on about 3 years ago never thinking it would hold up to the amount unscrewing the switch end for frequent Ni-HI battery changes and the many tens of times a day of on off cycles I put the switch through. Its still working as flawlessly as a decent ballpoint pen would, and just that simple too. It's jumbo looking LED, not super white, just a very bright white-blue. I have with me around the house all the time and another to take with me on my medical rounds. I'll always be trying out fancier and more expensive LED penlights but very basic one is totally worthwhile.
Gotta have a pen light! January 7, 2010
A. Moore (Hot Springs National Park)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This pen light was great, until it fell in the toilet. I guess I really liked it because I am ordering another one when I finish publishing this review!
 A decent pen light for the money June 9, 2010
J. Montgomery (Great Lakes)
As a vessel Captain, I'm always needing to look at paperwork, information cards, I.D's and peering into nooks and crannys around the boat. This penlight has main body actually made of metal, which means it should hold up better than the cheapie all plastic ones. The brightness of the smallish light area is good for close up work, but less so for illuminating broad areas where a full size flashlight is a better choice. The only problem I've had is with the push button switch. After a while, it did not turn the light on -- unless I jiggled the button a little. Removing the switch end and pulling the contact spring out a little seemed to fix the problem. Apparently, that little bit of stretching of the spring gave it a better contact and did the trick. Don't pull it too far or it may break and totally disconnect with the switch mechanism -- about 1/4" pull did it for me.
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