Klein X79 Klein-Bright Remote Area Lighting System

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Product Feature

• Sixteen (16) bright, powerful 1-watt Luxeon LEDs mounted in an aluminum heat sink
• Nine (9) hours of life at maximum output tailing off to low light level at hour 17
• Light diffuser can be mounted to change the beam from a focused spot to a diffused beam
• Retractable aluminum pole extends to a height of 83-Inch, assembles in minutes and stores inside the case
• 1 Sealed Lead Acid (batteries included)

Product Description

Klein-BrightTM Remote Area Lighting System (RALS)

Klein X79 Klein-Bright Remote Area Lighting System Review

I purchased this through a company on the web (not Amazon) and I was thinking about selling it on Ebay. I have it in the garage in the event we have a power outage, a hurricane, etc. To date, we've not had any power issues and it's been living next to the bags of dog food, laundry baskets and empty ice chests. I pull it out every few months to "charge" it...but it has seemed to hold a charge well and there's probably nothing more than topping off. Being a lead acid device it never hurts to top it off.

This was designed and built by Pelican and it was part of the Pelican RALS configuration...as best I can tell their first generation (before they dropped the weight by 10 lbs...and before they redesigned the unit entirely). The configuration I have has two 12 volt outlets on the back of the case which can be utilize without opening it. The two 12 volt outlets are of the cigarette lighter design with a rubber cover over each of the outlets. The newer generation has a power port where you can charge the entire unit without opening the case, but this isn't with my unit.

The good is that it's well built and designed. It uses what appears to be Bogen / Manfrotto (camera gear) hardware to mount the light as it's essentially equipment I've used in the television and film industry for lighting equipment. The pole is housed in the Pelican case lid and you attach the base as well as the light holder onto the pole and mount the entire pole assembly on a mounting plate affixed to the lid of the case. The mounting plate is very well mounted, as are all the items inside the case.

The light head is comprised of several rows of what seems to be 60 lumen LED assemblies with a removable clear diffuser so as to allow the light to be...well, diffused or spread out... The power cable is permanently attached to the light with a strain release and there is an on off switch at the base of the light head.

The description I read made me believe there were different power settings. There aren't... It's full bore until the battery starts to drop. If you want a longer run time you can do what I do and use a 12volt car jump box (the boxes with a battery and two jumper cables and a cigarette lighter) to operate the light head if you need a longer run time.

The Pelican case isn't anything to sneeze at either as I have 4 or 5 of these already which I use for all sorts of things from camera equipment to misc. gear. They're rugged, they have wheels with a pull up handle and it can take whatever abuse you can throw at it along with being watertight. The cases alone generally sell for $100-$150, but this one has a battery, battery charger, and other misc. equipment in it so it's pretty much going to be what it is for the life of the unit.

I honestly think you could get out cheaper if you purchased a hand-held 12volt light, such as a "trouble light" with a 12 volt cigarette lighter cord and you plug it into a car jump box. I've done this with one of these light heads (I had another light head that was separate and I used it with the jump box). This was lighter, but no real ability to mount the light up high like the enclosed pole will allow.

The bad is that the whole thing is heavy. It probably runs full bore for about 9 hours and the extension pole doesn't seem like it would take a great deal of abuse (you certainly couldn't lean on it and it seems like it would be an issue if the light head...which is fairly rugged and somewhat heavy...was mounted in the wind).

Would I purchase it again? No... I do fire and rescue and it's really too much trouble to lug around. We have light towers on the trucks and I have some fairly powerful flashlights. At home I have mounted emergency lights and I have 8 of the DeWalt fluorescent type. I hang them up whenever we have a problem with a storm, the 18 volt batteries run the lights for about 4 hours and they take 1 hour to charge up when you get the generator fired up.

Since I already have this, it's probably too heavy to ship if I do sell it on Ebay and I'm going to have it in the garage in the event we have an outage, etc. It will light up a room somewhat like a regular overhead (generally) and it is a really heavy duty configuration.

I'm writing this not to tell you not to purchase it. You may have an application which is perfect. Generally these were marketed for about $900 - $1000 originally, but I think they were rebranded with the Klein name. I have purchased probably 30-40 Pelican cases over the past 30 years and I can tell you they're keepers. One I'm using right now is about 20 years old and it still carries fairly expensive and sensitive equipment just like the day I purchased it. (Your gear is only as good as the case you carry it in...too many folks take short cuts and they wonder why their equipment was damaged...)

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