ASR Outdoor Emergency Motion 3 LED Dynamo Squeeze Action Handheld Flashlight - No Batteries Needed

You can keep this in your bedside drawer or auto trunk for a vary long time without worrying about battery corrosion. It will be ready to use no matter how long you have had it. Even a weak, older person or child will have no problem using this.

If you purchased one of these scam devices, initiate a return immediately!I wanted to purchase a dynamo powered flashlight, with no batteries whatsoever. At the time of my purchase (and while I am writing this review), this product is listed as, "ASR Outdoor Emergency Motion 3 LED Dynamo Squeeze Action Rechargeable Flashlight - No Batteries"Perfect. It claims to be what I want. I found some similar ones for a much lower price, bulk packs where they were not much more than a dollar each, but reviews with pictures showed that those had non-rechargeable button batteries. I figure this one, at nearly ten dollars for one is probably going to actually be what it claims. Nope! This one is just as much of a scam as it $1 ones, but at almost 10x the price. After the performance seemed suspiciously like a battery powered flashlight — nice and bright (for a cheap button cell powered flashlight) when flipping the switch to the "on" position, without having having squeezed the dynamo pump at all — I decided to disassemble the flashlight.Sure enough, I find that when the switch is in the "off" position, the dynamo is connected to the LED's, providing a brief output of light when squeezed, but when in the "on" position, the dynamo is disconnected from the circuit, and instead the LED's are powered by three AG10 button cell batteries.Just to give the benefit of the doubt and see if maybe these things that look like alkaline batteries, and are labeled like alkaline batteries, and don't appear to be connected to the dynamo in a way that would allow them to be charged, might in fact be capacitors, charged by the dynamo (a device like this would likely have a capacitor, if it was not a scam), I briefly shorted the positive and negative surfaces, which would discharge a capacitor, and then checked the voltage. 1.54 Volts.Imagine my (lack of) surprise to find that the thing that looks like a battery, including being labeled like a battery, turns out to be a battery. And no, that's not a rechargable type of battery.

i bought them for my grandchild an she love it

Their is a slight but noticeable diffrence in this one compared to some others that come in the bulk. Don't know if it's a supply thing or cost but it has served me well but it is very fragile and probably won't survive long if you leave it in your back pocket.

Squeeze all you want and the light doesn't stay lit longer than a second.

Smarter people than me can address the principles involved. I love that my kids can connect their actual work (squeezing) with the amount of light available. Also, kids love flashlights! Full stop.

I got this for my daughter who is always leaving her light turned on while she sleeps. She dropped it, and the switch inside got dislodged, then she squeezed the charger handle and the little wire got tangled in the moving parts and broke. I am good at fixing these kinds of things, so I took it apart only to discover there are what looks like two watch type batteries, and a 2 way switch. I do not see how this could charge those batteries, as the circuit from the batteries seems isolated from the charging circuit. When the switch is turned off, the "batteries" no longer turn on the light, and the charging circuit will (as long as you keep squeezing the handle) turn on the light. It was turned on for about 3 days when I was informed about the problem with the switch, and the lights were already very dim. Once I get it fixed, I will verify if it ever really charges back up.

For a cheap flashlight, this thing performs. My husband and I were surprised to find this flashlight still shining in my car after being left on for several days when my toddler flipped it on without us knowing. We hadn’t even “charged” it yet, it was straight out of the package.