Olight Gober Safety Flashlight Review

Olight released the Gober Safety flashlight, which is a USB-C charging light offering white, red, green, and blue output! Read on!

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Official Specs and Features

Here’s a referral link to the Olight Gober Safety flashlight product page.

Versions

There’s only one version, but it’s available in three body colors. There’s orange (seen here), green, and black.

Price

All three versions sell for $26.96 but seem to be unavailable at the moment. They could be sold through. Here’s a Shareasale link to the Olight Gober Safety flashlight product page.

Probably more important in this wave of Olight products is the Olight Baton 3 Pro. I reviewed one, and can highly recommend it!

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Short Review

Of course, I love that this little light is orange – that’s a win for me. It’s even the right orange. If you need something in this category, then this is probably a great item. I can imagine this being great on a dog’s collar, as an around-camp light for the kids or to hang as decoration or nightlight. For much else, this light might be straining to meet your needs.

Long Review

What’s Included

• Olight Gober Safety flashlight
• Charging cable (USB to USB-C)
• Pocket clip mount
• Screwdriver
• Manual

Package and Manual

[manual forthcoming]

Build Quality and Disassembly

The Olight Gober Safety flashlight is a largely (“mostly”? completely?) plastic light. The build is kind of interesting – it’s really two completely separate lights built into one center connection. This connection has a hanger.

The two lights can be operated completely independently. In fact, they must be operated completely independently. They have separate switches and no common controls.

Olight includes this tiny screwdriver. What is this a screwdriver for ants!?

Size and Comps

Weight: 1.41 oz (40 g) (Exclude the carabiner)
Length: 1.5 in (38 mm)
Width: 1.5 in (38 mm)
Height: 1.97 in (50 mm)

If the flashlight will headstand, I’ll show it here (usually the third photo).  If the flashlight will tailstand, I’ll show that here, too (usually the fourth photo).

Here’s the test light with the venerable Convoy S2+.  Mine’s a custom “baked” edition Nichia 219b triple.  A very nice 18650 light.

Also seen above is the Olight Gober Safety flashlight beside my custom-engraved TorchLAB BOSS 35, an 18350 light.  I reviewed the aluminum version of that light in both 35 and 70 formats.

Retention and Carry

I’ll call it “two ways” for carry of the Olight Gober Safety flashlight. First, and built-in, is the D-ring you can see on the right of the photo below. This doesn’t come off, except in the sense that the two lights may be removed from the center piece.

Next is the accessory “pocket clip” (though I would call this more of a lapel attachment, but maybe I’m just posh?). The Gober (or the light parts of the Gober) attach to the clip and the base in the same way.

Power and Runtime

Each of the lights has a built-in LiPO battery. Olight states this a 240mAh – it’s unclear if that’s per side or if it’s total of 240mAh. (It’s almost certainly 240mAh per side.) That should provide a quite reasonable runtime based on the low levels available from the Gober.

The shortest runtime stated is 11 hours, and that appears to be for any of the steady modes. There are four steady modes: White, Red, Green, and Blue.

Charging

Each light half has a USB-C charging port. In order to access this port, you must remove the light from this keychain base.

Olight includes a charging cable. It’s a very short USB to USB-C cable.

I won’t say it’s a pain to remove the lights from the base in order to charge, but it’d be neat to have one charging port for each that could be accessed while the lights were on this keychain base.

Pulse Width Modulation

This chart is for the steady white mode. There’s no PWM, which is great.

Here you can see a “baseline” – a chart with almost no light hitting the sensor.

Then there’s the Ultrafire WF-602C flashlight, which has some of the worst PWM I’ve seen. It’s so bad that I used a post about it to explain PWM! Here are multiple timescales (10ms, 5ms, 2ms, 1ms, 0.5ms, 0.2ms) to make comparing this “worst” PWM light to the test light easier. That post also explains why I didn’t test the WF-602C at the usual 50us scale.

User Interface and Operation

Each of the light parts (the “top” and “bottom” as it were) is controlled separately, and each have their own e-switch.

The switch is fine. It’s clicky and has a very low action.

Here’s a user interface table!

State	Action	Result
Off	Click	No result
Off	Hold	On (Mode Memory)
On	Click	Mode advance (White > RGB mix > Red > Green > Blue)
On	Double-click	Iterate steady and blinking output for that color
On	Triple-click	SOS in red
SOS	Click or double-click	Previous mode

LED and Beam

As far as I can tell, there’s no indication of what emitters are used in the Gober. I can say that there are four types though: white, red, green, and blue.

I would guess that the emitters are RGB emitters; white appears to be on the same pad.

Conclusion

What I like

• It’s orange!
• Great utility as an around-the-house or kid-friendly light
• USB-C charging
• Simple user interface

What I don’t like

• USB-C charging only accessed with the light isn’t mounted on anything

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