[Review] RAYUS A10 WRB (MultiLED & Multicolor XP-L/XP-E/XT-E / 1x 18650, 2x (R)CR123a)

RAYUS · January 23, 2015, 8:45am

Hi Sherbona

Thank you so much for sharing your impression with people, your suggestion is really appreciated too, I will forward to our engineer for their reference.

Wendy

Sherbona:

My new A10-RGB arrived today… I bought it from TechToolSupply on sale last week. Free laser engraving was offered at the time so I figured I might as well get that with “Red Green Blue” (in case I get any other A10s! ). The day I ordered they emailed/called me to make sure I didn’t mean for the “Red Blue Green” to be just as an order comment, very cool for them to check with me. The light shipped out the very same day, with tracking. It arrived on time, double-boxed (good quality outer box, with the product box securely inside). My first time with TechToolSupply leaves me with a good impression.

On to the light. Not much I can add to the above review. The price is not ‘budget’, but then again the light is high quality; threads, finish, function are all great, very solid feel.

From the product description I wasn’t sure what special modes the A10 RGB would have since this one doesn’t have white. The A10 RGB’s special modes are:
1: Green Strobe Alternating equal intervals of fast and not-as-fast flashes. I’m guessing maybe 16 and 8hz. (I tried to count/time, but really this is just a guess).
2. Green SOS
3. Red and Blue alternate ‘police’ flash. Since I’m not in law enforcement I won’t be using this mode. Compared to the red/blue 5mm led flash of Nitecore’s Chameleons and SRT7, this one is much more realistic. Would be good mounted on a police bike I guess.

My wishes for this light

COLOR MIXING! It would be cool to have ‘in between’ colors available; Red > Yellow > Green > Cyan > Blue > Purple > Red etc… (I have to sometime try that DrJones color driver or other special ones I read about here at BLF). But then again maybe the emitters are too far apart for colors to get mixed.

2. ‘Context sensitive’ colors for the special modes. By this I mean, if special modes are accessed from Red mode, then have the first two special modes use Red (Red Strobe, Red SOS) and then maybe the 3rd be that Red/Blue police mode. If accessed from Blue, then have the first two special modes use Blue and the third could be say Blue/Green alternate. And if accessed from Green, then the first two would use that color and the alternating one could be Green/Red (‘Santa mode’ haha).

3. Red blinky mode so I can use as a (bright!) backup taillight for my bike.

4. Bigger head with 4 color / RGBW as mentioned above.

Summary:
I really like the A10 RGB so far, lots of fun. Good color quality, intuitive UI. I’ll probably be in the non-special modes most of the time. I can see myself getting one of the other A10s at some point.