RovyVon Aurora A8 Small Multifunctional Torch USB C Rechargeable, 5000K High CRI, 420 Lumens EDC Keyring Torch with Magnetic Clip and Socket (White+Red+365nm)

Product Information

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’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. With a Eneloop battery it weighs just 19.6g and you can see its size on screen. Like the Ti2 it has just one mode – tighten the head to turn it on. 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.

Momentary on: with the light switched off, press and hold for Turbo mode of the FRONT LED, and release to turn off.

Design and features

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 The torch has a IPX8 rating with the USB-C port well protected by the screwing mechanism and o-ring, but it does mean you can’t use the torch whilst it’s charging like the other rechargeable keyring torches. There’s a rubber flap covering the USB-C charging port and it charges from flat with a USB-A to USB-C or a USB-C to USB-C cable in 1 hour 45 minutes. Like the TIKI you can use all the modes even whilst it’s charging.

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. 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 higher the CRI or Colour Rendering Index the more accurately you’ll see colour. Sunlight and traditional incandescent lighting have a CRI of 100 for the most faithful colour reproduction. But anything over 80 is good and over 90 is considered excellent. I used a spectrometer to measure both this overall CRI value and also the R9 value which I’ll show on screen when I refer to CRI.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. The Duv value represents the tint of the LED. The closer this value is to zero the better, if you want perfectly neutral lighting with no tint. Less than plus or minus 0.006 would be considered neutral. A more negative value, often with a rosy tint depending on colour temperature is usually considered preferable to a positive value often resulting in an undesirable green tint. 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.

The Ti2’s beam has 600 candela of intensity which equates to 48 metres of throw. It’s a decent mix of flood and throw for a keyring torch. Moonlight is great for a nightlight. Low is plenty bright to see a menu in a dark restaurant. Medium is a good, general-purpose flashlight. High is surprisingly bright for such a little flashlight. The beam is well-focused and can shine a long way at its brightest. 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. The beam has a visible hotspot and in high mode has 580 candela of intensity equating to 48m of throw. It has two modes – half tighten the head for the 5 lumen low mode with 12 hours of runtime, and fully tighten the head for the high 180 lumen output with 23 minutes of runtime until it reaches half this initial output.The RovyVon Aurora A8 G4 is designed to provide a more focused beam of light, which makes it ideal for tasks that require precision and accuracy. The flashlight has a maximum output of 650 lumens, which is more than enough to light up a room or illuminate a path in the dark. You can choose 6500K cool white or 5000K neutral white with high CRI (>90) as you prefer. The cool white LED is for high brightness that can illuminate a relatively larger area, and the neutral white LED is for people who like warm light and it benefits from a high CRI that renders the color as close as it is under natural light. 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. 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! The RovyVon Aurora A8 keychain flashlight is another in the long line of Auroras, but it offers USB-C charging and more! Read on for testing! In turbo mode you’ll get 2000 candela which equates to 89m of throw which isn’t bad for a mostly floody beam.