EUROTOOL Quasar Led Lighting System for Optivisors | ELP-558.00

This light kit is a truly excellent addition to your Optivisor. The LEDs provide a white, daylight balanced light, and because there are six of them spread out across the visor, your work is evenly illuminated with few shadows. If you buy a complete Optivisor kit, as I did, with this light kit and the accessory loupe lens, there is a minor difficulty you have to watch out for when you install everything. Do not fully install the light kit with the one-way push pins until you attach the accessory lens. The screw shaft that comes on the lens is not long enough to pass through and accommodate the thickness of the LED bezel. The Quasar light kit comes with a longer screw and you have to disassemble the lens assembly, with its spring and tension nut, in order to install the longer screw. The screw on the lens replaces one of the four plastic push pins and be sure to adjust the spring tension nut first for proper pivoting friction, before you install and tighten the nut on the inside of the visor. If you've got it right, the lens easily pivots in or out of your line of vision and stays in place without being jammed up. I was a little put off by negative comments from other reviewers about this light kit's battery pack being too heavy for and weighing down the visor. I'm glad I ignored them because I did not find it objectionable at all. Even my petite girlfriend, who uses the Optivisor for z scale model work, did not find the weight objectionable at all. I followed the instructions that came with the kit, not bothering to extend the electrical wires, and was quite satisfied. If you have any soldering skills at all, it's quite easy to splice in an extra length of small speaker wire, should you ever desire to move the battery pack to the rear clamp band and not on the pivoting visor frame. Try it as is, I think you will like it.

I've had the Quasar kit for more than seven years now. I use it primarily for hobby purposes, as a miniature painter and occasional electronics work. As a 49-year-old dude, I simply must have magnification to work these days, and without ample light there's little point to my Optivisor (mine has the 2.75x magnification - the DA-7 lens). The bottom line is that the Quasar kit supercharges the biggest benefit of the Optivisor: eye strain relief. Now, about what others have said about 1) the odd choice to position the heavy-ish 2-AA battery pack on the Optivisor itself and 2) the low-rent velcro strap: both criticisms are on point. But both are easily remedied, if you have even the slightest idea of how to do something for yourself in the world of wires/electronics, or know someone who does. You can get the battery pack off the Optivisor fairly simply: replace the short run of wire from the frame to the battery pack with a longer wire. While you're at it, include a quick JST-style disconnect so you don't even have to think about the battery pack when you don't need lights. With a longer wire, you can put the battery pack in your pocket or on your desk -- when you need it. Do I hold this shortcoming against the designer of the Quasar? Absolutely not. No other light I've seen does such a great job illuminating my entire work area without casting shadows. It's an unbeatable benefit. I'll put up with crappy velcro if I have to to get it. Now that I think about it, though, maybe I should go see what kind of wire I have handy...

Update: This headlight is not aligned with your sight-line through the magnifier. The magnifier lens is angled and so this is too but it should be angled downward. The effect is the spot your looking at is in the penumbra and is dimmer. I’ve shimmed mine by 1/8” at the top but it isn’t enough, it needs to be 1/4” at least. Original: As everyone else has stated this thing is a little kludgey, amateurish even, but the worst part is easily fixed - discard the velcro strap, peel off the velcro sticker and tape the battery box to the headset arm with a couple of turns of good quality (3M) electrical tape. This makes it solid, secure and confidence inspiring. I could not live with the thing wobbling around as I try turning it off and on. It’s simply too much of a hack. I also really don’t care for using plastic pins to hold the led frame and lens to the headset so I used #6-24 SS screws instead, I just don’t tighten them up too much because the led frame is not contoured to the profile of the headset and too much torque on those screws will distort things as they are forced together, this is probably why they supply pins instead of screws. The LEDs are about the right brightness and the distribution around the eyes is perfect. It’s so functional I cannot see a way to improve on it other than changing the battery type. Well, SMD leds and a more sophisticated frame design would make it lower profile and possibly ease cleaning the lens which is made a little more difficult by the frame being in the way. But they’re not making bazillions of the things and they aren’t going into outer space so it’s a case of better is the enemy of good enough. I have parts on order to see about converting this thing to use a LIPO battery instead of clunky AA’s but in fact it’s not terrible as it is. Yes I’d like the battery box to weigh half as much but it’s usable and not overly noticeable. Also I run the risk of creating something out of the Back-to-the-Future DeLorean sketchbook with a bag battery, power converter, toggle switch and wiring distributed around the circumference of the headgear. Overall I like it, I’d just like it a lot more for $10-$15 off the price. I use my headset sometimes for hours on end so over time I have taken to resting the band on the back of my head instead of actually as a band around my forehead but this does pull the plastic edge up against my forehead. I used an x-acto knife to cut away material until that doesn’t happen making it perfectly comfortable.

Quasar Lighting System is a must for anyone with the Optivisor magnifier. Fairly easy to add to your Optivisor and once you "see the light" you'll be spoiled with how magnified things are always well lighted. Just turn the switch on (or off to conserve batteries). These lights are plenty bright for any needs, lighting up whatever you look at. Warning ! Never look at the lights directly. I sometimes use these lights as a flashlight in a pinch. The down side to these lights are once installed it becomes more difficult to change out your different size magnifier lens but not impossible . So if you rarely need to change your lenses you're good to go. Over all an excellent light for these visors.

I've got three Opti-visors. One I keep in the garage, and two are in my hobby room with different magnifications. I've had lights on all three, the Quasar on one visor, and two different, cheaper lights on the others. The other two lights have all been replaced with Quasar LED lights...I just ordered the last one today. I like the distributed light of the Quasar rather than the single beam of light from the other systems. With the Quasar, my viewing area is fully illuminated with no shadows...not always the case with the others. The battery pack straps securely to the visor, and doesn't move once it's strapped on. Yes, the battery pack is on the visor, not the headband...but I prefer that. Some people have commented that they don't like the weight of the battery pack being on the visor. But I don't feel that's an issue. Since the pack mounts on the visor very close to the pivot point, I just don't notice it very much. My other lights had long wires between them and the battery. The wires were annoying, and I wound up having to zip-tie the extra to the head band. And the battery packs clipped onto the band but didn't hold very tight, so I had to wrap rubber bands around them to keep them from flopping or sliding on the band. That's not an issue with the Quasar. And finally, the batteries last a long time compared to the other lights I had.

The Optivisors are optically outstanding, but often you need more light. Putting LED's all the way around each eye is an excellent design; it is far and away better than a headlamp. But I have ordered three of these LED lights, and two of them lights have major switch problems. I can't return the new one because they fasten on with one-way push-in plastic rivets, which are easier than the little bolts that Optivisor uses, but are not re-usable. You have to cut them off. Cheapest switch in the world, I am sure they could change to a more durable one. Update: I took mine apart, seeing that other commenters have done that, and the flaw is obvious. It's not the fault of the switch, it's how the switch is soldered into place. Or in my case NOT soldered. Anyone who has soldered electronics is familiar with terminals: plated metal directly connected to a circuit board or battery holder on one end, and a hole in the other end for connecting a wire. You pass a wire through the terminal, crimp it in place, then solder it with a drop of rosin-core solder. You do NOT try to solder one terminal directly to another teminal. It doesn't work, and it especially doesn't work if the thing being soldered is a switch, which will endure mechanical forces without a flexible wire to protect the solder joint. This product tries to solder one switch terminal directly to an adjacent battery holder terminal holder. Never gonna work reliably, and in the unit I just disassembled, the joint was cold soldered anyway. Pitiful :).

Very bright, even light that lights up my work area and work piece without glare. LED bar, in itself, is lightweight and fits satisfactorily with the provided pins. The rest of the device needs improvement, and is rather poorly made of cheap materials. First, a stingy section of low quality wire connects the light bars to the battery pack. For just a little bit more, a much higher quality section of silicon wire, of longer length could be used for this connection. The battery pack and switch leaves a LOT to be desired! Honestly, I have seen higher quality assemblies in dollar store toys and devices! The switch is intermittent, at its very best. The metal contacts and springs are of the lowest quality, cheapest, and softest metal that will fail rapidly. The plastic case is low quality plastic that will break very quickly. The switch is utter garbage. The whole assembly appears to have been assembled by a young child with rudimentary tools. For what is being changed, someone is making a killing on this! Obviously, this was contracted to the very lowest bidder in China. When I can get the LEDs to remain on, the light is very good and useful. The battery pack could stand to either be relocated to the back of the headboard or off of it entirely, because the weight causes the Optivisor to tilt to the side. Mine came missing the screw for the battery pack and the long screw for mounting my Optiloupe. No way to email the seller, and I am unable to chat or call from where I am located. Great idea - poorly executed.

What I like: Light fixture attaches easily, and does not change the feel or usability of the visor. The added light really, REALLY makes a difference. No more shadows, no squinting - really a large benefit. The color temperature is perfect (in my opinion). What I don't like: The battery pack harness, as others have mentioned, is too short to allow for positioning the pack at the back of the headband where it will have minimal impact. The good news is that it is very easy to stitch in a longer harness. The on/off switch is of poor quality compared to the rest of the unit. After a few dozen on/off cycles I have noticed that the light flickers a bit as the switch loses contact (when it should be on). Lightly tapping the switch or turning off/on always - for now - corrects this issue. When the switch fails I'll just replace it with a better one. Neither of the negatives come close to outweighing the positive effect of the extra light!

This was a gift for a friend who has macular degeneration. She reports that it allows her to shine powerful light on her cooking, her books and her knitting and she is very pleased with the improvement in her vision.

The lights are very bright.

Pretty bright and certainly way better than the Optivisor offering if lots of light is what you want.

A bit fiddly to attach but provides bright light at focal point. It makes fly tying easier for my old eyes.

S in talle facilement. La lumière est de très bonne qualité.