Discover the power of illumination with the Aurora A8 USB-C Keychain Flashlight. This 4th generation device is the perfect tool to light up your life, with three unique functions – amber ( the amber light is used as a warning signal to indicate a potential hazard or change in situation, and to prompt individuals to take appropriate action.) and red/blue warning lights. Enjoy the freedom knowing you can light your way, no matter where your adventures take you! The TINI 2’s most impressive feature is an OLED screen with real time information on lumens, runtime and battery level, that’s controlled with two buttons. And it still weighs just 21.5g.

The beam has a visible hotspot and in high mode has 580 candela of intensity equating to 48m of throw. I did find the user manual confusing, but that’s partly because they are a few variations of this light. You can choose a brighter cool white 6500K SST-20 650 lumens main LED that I have or a 5000K Nichia 219C LED with a higher CRI but only 420 lumens. And then you have a choice of side lights – either UV, red and white that I have, or amber, red and blue. It’s no secret that I love these little Aurora keychain lights. If you need UV, this is a fine option. USB-C charging is a great update, too. Long Review The Big Table RovyVon Aurora A8 keychain flashlight After our fans repeated calls and long-awaited, in 2022, RovyVon finally brings the USB C charging port to the aurora series. Powered by a 330 mAh Li-Po battery, the upgraded A7 can be fully charged in one hour through the USB C charging port, it also supports USB C to USB C charging. If you press the mode button with the torch off the display shows the exact battery voltage of the built-in battery with a graphical display too. And it shows the memorised mode you last used and if you’re in Daily or Demo mode. The battery voltage may not mean an awful lot to many, but a lithium-ion battery is fully charged at 4.2V and empty at around 3.0V.

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I charged up the RovyVon Aurora A8 and turned it on in high mode. After about a minute, it started dimming as expected but still remained plenty bright for general use. The bezel gets a little warm but not uncomfortable. I set the timer and went about doing other things. The documentation said I should get one minute at high plus another 90 minutes at reduced brightness. After about 75 minutes, the red LED came on indicating that the light’s internal voltage was low. The OLIGHT i1R 2 Pro comes with a keyring already installed, a USB-C charging cable and a user manual. It has a built in 130mAh Li-ion battery and you unscrew the body of the torch to access the USB-C charging port. A full charge takes around 100 minutes – the small charging LED changes from red to green when it’s charged. Its CREE XTE LED has a cool 7088K colour temperature with a CRI of 73, but mine was very neutral with no nasty green tint you often get with cheap torches. It will also run off an alkaline or NiMH rechargeable battery. The manual forbids a battery with a voltage higher than 3.6V so you shouldn’t use a Li-ion 10440 battery in this torch either.

It’s very easy to use – the power button turns it on and the mode button just above changes mode from a 1 lumen ultra low, to a 15 lumen low, to a 65 lumen medium and a 200 lumen high. 500 lm turbo mode There are so many Aurora lights! Specifically, the RovyVon Aurora A8 keychain flashlight comes in some emitter option versions. The front emitter is available as Nichia 219c (seen here) in 5000K with 90CRI, but also a higher-output Luminus SST-20 at 6500K. The side emitters can be red/UV/warm white (as seen here), or amber/red/blue. Price In any mode and when the light is off holding down the mode button takes you to the momentary 500 lumen turbo mode until you let go. When the light is off holding down the power button will take you straight to the 1 lumen ultra low mode. In turbo mode you’ll get 2000 candela which equates to 89m of throw which isn’t bad for a mostly floody beam.

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Despite its small size, the RovyVon Aurora A8 G4 has an impressive 330mAh battery. This means that you can get up to 72 hours of runtime on the lowest setting, or up to 1.5 hours of runtime on the highest setting. And thanks to the USB C rechargeability, you can easily top up the battery whenever you need to. Finally, the RovyVon Aurora A8 G4 also has three auxiliary side LEDs, which provide additional lighting options. These include a UV light, which is useful for detecting counterfeit money and other hidden markings, a red light, which helps preserve your night vision, and a 4000K warm white light, which is great for everyday use.

With a fully charged battery I got 172 lumens which slowly dropped to around 150 lumens after 5 minutes, and 108 lumens after 23 minutes – a little better than the manual’s 50% of initial output after 23 minutes. But the output is not regulated – it’s dependent on the voltage of the battery. 180 lm high mode When charging, a status LED lights “breathing” blue – meaning a slow fade-up/fade-down flash. The LED glows green when the light completes charging. If you try to turn the light on when the battery is below acceptable voltage, the LED lights red. It’s worth noting this is also based on the ANSI standards and only requires the equivalent of moon light illumination or 0.25 lux on distant objects which isn’t very much. You can divide this throw by 4 for a more realistic distance measurement. Again, the TIKI is not bad for its size with a good combination of throw and flood. Before we get into the performance, let’s go over how this thing works. Remember, it has a main light with four intensity levels, a sidelight with two intensity levels and flashing, and a UV mode, also on the sidelight. All of this is operated with a single push button. It’s a simple torch to operate, but it’s disappointing there’s no direct access to turbo – you need to switch the torch on and cycle up the modes. And the 5 lumen eco mode is too bright to be a true moonlight mode – for night adjusted eyes 1 lumen is usually enough and doesn’t disturb anyone if you’re getting up in the night.

Momentary on: with the light switched off, press and hold for Turbo mode of the FRONT LED, and release to turn off. One of the most convenient features of the RovyVon Aurora A8 G4 is its USB C rechargeability. This means that you can easily recharge the flashlight using any USB C cable, which is the same type of cable used by many modern smartphones and other devices. This makes it easy to keep your flashlight charged and ready to go, no matter where you are. It’s the lightest torch in this roundup at just 15.4g. In fact if you take the supplied keyring off it weighs an impressive 12.6g and it can still be attached to your keyring though the end hoop. I’ll have dimensions for all the torches in the roundup on screen as I discuss their build and weight. I measured the main front OSRAM P8 LED as 5346K with a CRI of 69. iPhone 13 Pro torch – measured at 15 lumen

But my favourite keyring torch is the RovyVon A8 – it has nearly every feature I want and enough lumens for outdoors too if I don’t have anything else on me. Typically around the hotspot of the beam is a less bright ring called the spill. If there’s no hotspot the torch is said to have a floody beam which is more useful for close work – if you have enough lumens. An example of an almost all flood beam is the torch function on your phone. A couple of minutes later, the light shut off. That’s not exactly the 90-minute total expected runtime, but it is close enough for me. They claimed a one-hour charge would completely recharge the light. I plugged in the light and in only 45 minutes, the charging LED went from breathing blue to green. Nice! In high mode the TIKI has an intensity of 1260 candela which equates to a throw of 71 metres. This refers to how focused the torch is – so how bright the hotspot is in the middle of the beam. OLIGHT don’t specify the exact LED used but I measured its colour temperature as a very cool 7251K without any noticeable unpleasant tint and with a CRI of 77.

The RovyVon Aurora A8 G4 has a polycarbonate body, which is both lightweight and durable. This makes it easy to carry the flashlight with you wherever you go, without adding a lot of extra weight to your EDC gear. And because polycarbonate is a tough and resilient material, you can be confident that the flashlight will be able to withstand regular use and abuse. I measured a CRI of 85 for this white auxiliary LED with 22 for R9, a colour temperature of 4392K and a tint of 0.0056 Duv. The lower the CCT the warmer the light. What you’re after here will come down to personal preference, but generally values of 4000-5000K are preferred by most people for EDC torches providing less harsh, natural lighting. Seeing a display of the mode you’re in with real time information on how long you have left is just brilliant. From 60 hours in ultralow to 56 minutes in 200 lumen high mode. Turbo mode has up to 15 minutes but has temperature regulation and will step down when it gets hot. Like the Nitecore TIKI the modes are very well regulated and all the modes up to 200 lumens stay very constant. And I got at least the full 500 lumens in turbo for around 2 minutes before it started getting warm and dropping its output. Which is plenty since you need to hold your finger down the whole time anyway. The white MATCH CA18 LED provides 441 candela or 42m of throw – it’s a very floody beam with not much of a hotspot and is more useful for close work.