What Happens at Olight's Secret Fan Event

Okay, so that is 25,000 lumens, but we'll get there. First of all, I want to tell you about last weekend. I was down in Houston for Olight's O-Fan Day. And if you've never heard of it, it's their yearly customer appreciation event. It's part product launch, part meetup for people who own more flashlights than any reasonable person needs. I say that with love. I am one of those people. So this video is going to be two things. First, I'm going to walk you through what the event was actually like. Second of all, I came home with some toys and they actually sent me some of their product ahead of time to test out as well. And I've been carrying them long enough to have some opinions about them. So the Oclip 2 Ultra, the Arc Pro Ultra, and the Marauder 3. I'll spread those reviews throughout the video. Specs first and then what I actually think about them. This was Olight's fifth in-person O-Fan Day and they timed it for National Preparedness Month. And that definitely tracks. Their whole thing is being ready before you need to be ready. Now, like I said, they sent me some of these products ahead of the release. And one of the things that I got my hands on first was the smallest thing that they launched. So let's start there. This is the Oclip 2 Ultra. All right, so specs first. And they did give me a commemorative O-Fan Day version of this with its own colorway, which I absolutely love. So we have two of them here to talk about today. The Ultra is a clip light that's under three inches long and under three ounces. The flood puts out about 580 lumens and there's a separate spotlight that goes about 450 lumens with a throw of about 130 meters. That's what this guy is right here. So yeah, it's all switch selectable. And it's also got a red light, which is essential in my opinion for a clip light. And it also has UV light too. So if you push and hold this, you can walk through all the different settings. And if you double tap on it, you get the UV light, which is awesome. So Olight says that's an industry first to have that packaged within the same emitter as the red light. So imagine this, there's two LEDs on the same emitter chip, and one is UV and one is red light. So that's an industry first they're saying, which is pretty cool. The UV output tops out at about 800 milliwatts. The big change is the joint here. So the head tilts 115 degrees and the clip spins a full 360 and both hold wherever you leave them. They are very well designed. The clip grabs anything from up to about 14 millimeters and it has five brightness levels plus beacon and strobe. Runtime goes from a little over an hour on turbo up to 144 hours on the lowest setting, which is like their moonlight setting. It's IP66 rated, it's drop tested to two meters and it's rated to survive that. And it charges by USB-C right here or by Olight's magnetic cable. Which is my favorite, it's just the most satisfying to use that one. But I do think that the USB-C charges faster than the magnetic cable does. Okay, so let's talk about price. It's 70 bucks or 95 for the premium version that comes with a little charging dock, which is really cool. The 1000 milliamp mobile charging dock shows the battery level of either the dock or the light, which is a very cool thing. So you can have your little charging dock with you wherever you go. Now, I don't have one in front of me, but the original Oclip, you'd clip it on and it would point it whatever it wanted to point at. Usually your chin or the sky and the dual joint actually fixes that. This thing is really sweet, it's very, very stable. So what you pointed at, it's going to stay pointed at that. And that's a big enough reason for the upgrade right there. For me, I'm a huge fan of the red light for moving around at night without blinding whoever's next to me in the tent or around the campfire. And I do love a good flood light for cooking. And you can also get that spotlight going for some surgical stuff, working on a tent stake or something like that, where you don't want to light up the entire campsite. You just want to do like some fine detail work, then the spotlight is available right there. Now, the downside for me maybe is the price. $70 is a lot for a clip light and the turbo doesn't last super long, but I mean, that's to be expected on a light this size. I mean, it is very small. But that being said, this is now my favorite clip light that I own. This has replaced for me the Parin 2 Mini, which I used to use exclusively as my headlamp around camp. The Parin 2 Mini is a wonderful light, but it's kind of, this is kind of showing its age. The strap is kind of getting loose a little bit. So for me, the new light for me is going to be this one right here. Now, I am going to be curious to see how this performs in the winter time, because I do a lot of winter camping. So we'll see how that performs. Now, let's see if we can do the real test. The real test is this. Can it survive the glove test? So if I clip this on my hat and I reach up, I can turn on the light. Oh, that's cool. It survives the glove test. It's a little bit tricky to find that little button, but hey, it does work. I can do that. Not really able to select anything with the selector switch. It's just a little too bulky, but hey, I can turn it on and off. So there we go. Glove test, passed. The big reveal of the day was a new line called the ArcTac. It's the flat ArcPro shape, but it's built for tactical use. There's a two-stage tail switch that jumps straight to turbo spot or flood mode without cycling through the modes, and a shortcut button that goes to strobe or whatever you program it to, which is pretty amazing. It's up to 1800 lumens and 215 meters of throw. The ultra version also adds a green laser. So they packed a whole bunch of stuff into this thing. It is an amazing tool for law enforcement, especially. So they also debuted a new aluminum alloy on the ArcTac Ultra. It's about 7% harder with 11.5% higher yield strength than their last one. Now, I spent many years in mechanical design, so a slide about yield strength is unfortunately exactly my kind of slide. So yeah, I really enjoyed all the nerdy talk about the material, and it seems like an amazing material. OAL2 is what they're calling it, and it's phenomenal. It's not out yet, but it will be very, very soon. Now, ArcTac isn't out until later this year, so they wouldn't let me bring one home with me, which was a real disappointment, but I assure you I'm gonna be getting one as soon as it's available because it is amazing-looking light. And the magnetic clip system that they figured out for it is absolutely rock solid. You can literally grab the thing and try to pull it off of a vest, and it will not come out unless you push the two little side buttons, and you can do that with big gloved hands if you need to. So they've really put a lot of thought into the ergonomics of that. So yeah, here's a little clip from the show floor with that on it. All right, so we gotta check this out. This is really, really cool. This is a magnetic mount for the ArcTac. Look at that. That's awesome. What they did have ready was a new color for a light I already liked. So the Arc Pro Ultra now comes in this beautiful amber-orange. Now, the Arc Pro Ultra isn't new, but it just got a new amber-orange colorway, and Olight used this dual anodizing process for it. It's a first for them to do it this way, and they say it's up to twice as scratch-resistant as their usual finish. Now, I'm not gonna test that with a knife because I love this light, and I'm not gonna scratch it up on purpose, but I believe them. I just, I trust them. They've got some really cool materials, and they're doing really amazing work with this anodizing now. They've stepped up their game. It looks so clean and professional. All the little chamfers around the edges are pristine, really super sharp looking. Absolutely love it. So the specs on this. It's a flat EDC light with four light sources, a 1700 lumen flood running Olight's own EIP-1 LED. It's an 800 lumen spotlight as well that reaches 205 meters, and a 365 nanometer UV light, and a green laser. And you can combine those in seven different ways. The body is Olight O-aluminum, which they say is about 1.73 times harder than standard 6061-T6. Built-in 2000 milliamp hour battery, which gets you about two weeks on moonlight mode. So if you drop it down to the lowest setting, you get a very, very long runtime with it. It charges in about an hour and a half by USB-C, which is super nice they include that, or three hours on the magnetic charger. It's IPX7 waterproof, and it runs right now for 129.99. Pretty good price for such an amazing, beautiful light. I love it. It's gonna replace my Arkfeld in my collection of everyday use. So yeah, love this light. A plus on that. Oh, and we gotta do the all important glove test on it. So they have like a recessed button on here, but yeah, it works. It works with the glove. So winter time, I'll be able to take this with me. So the flat shape is the whole reason to own this. You know, it's very low profile. It rides in a pocket like a phone, and you almost forget it's there until you absolutely need it. To be fair, 1700 lumens is a turbo number. So you get about three minutes of it before it steps down to around 520. That's normal for a light this size, but you should know it going in. The laser mostly keeps a cat busy. You know, how often are you gonna use a laser except maybe to point something out to someone else from a distance, I guess it's useful. But the UV is actually what comes in handy. And I really appreciate that they have that in here. As for the orange, I like it more than I expected to like it and for an outdoor reason as well. If you drop a black flashlight in the leaves at dusk, it's just gonna be gone. But an orange one, you might actually find that. So think about that when you buy gear. One thing that was really interesting to me about the Olight O-Fan Day show is I've never been to one, but when I walked in, you could just tell there's an energy in the air. Like everyone was super excited about it. And I thought, you know, that these are gonna be like people kind of siloed off or whatever, but it was actually like a really cool community like they've know each other from online talking about flashlights. It's like super nerdy and really awesome, but it goes beyond the flashlights. They really know each other as people, which is really cool. So there's a community there. And that was what surprised me about O-Fan Day. We actually shared a meal together. They set up these huge tables and we were able to have a nice dinner together. They catered an amazing meal. They gave out awards for community members and the staff was so welcoming and nice. So if you ever wondered about the people behind Olight, they're amazing, wonderful people. And so now for the finale, and this was also the heaviest item in the building. The Marauder 3 is Olight's flagship searchlight. The last full-size one came out in 2020 and it did 14,000 lumens. Now this one does 25,000 lumens from a ring of 16 LEDs in a body, roughly half the size of their big X9R. There's also a dedicated spotlight that does 1500 lumens and reaches a kilometer. So you can run flood, spot, or you can run both at once. The battery is built in at 31900 milliamps. which is 118 watt hours. The USB-C port charges both ways at 30 watts. So it doubles as a power bank, which is what super shocked me and really is very compelling about this light. Olight says it will recharge an iPhone 17 about six times. There's a small display that shows you the estimated time remaining, which is amazing. I absolutely love this. So at its full power here, it's rocking at about 3.1 hours. And at its lowest setting, which is this guy right here, like their moonlight setting for this light, it'll run for about 14 months. It unlocks with a touch-sensitive dial, but you can still unlock it by rotating the dial if you're wearing gloves or if your hands are wet, which we'll test in a moment. It's drop-rated to one meter, which is pretty impressive for how heavy this is. And it's waterproof up to two meters. It weighs in at 1.85 pounds. And the price is currently at $369.99. It comes in black, midnight blue, which is this beautiful blue here, or orange. And let's be honest about what this is. This is not a backpacking flashlight. It's almost two pounds. I mean, it lives in your truck or at your base camp or in the closet for when the power goes out. And honestly, that's probably the best use case for this. A kilometer of throw is fun, but a flashlight that can also charge your phone for a week while you're in an outage or something like that is extremely useful and compelling. The 25,000 figure is a burst. Independent testing has it holding around 3,000 lumens of flood for hours, which is still ridiculous. The battery isn't replaceable, though, which kind of bugs me on a light this expensive. But they do say it's an EV battery. It's an EV car battery, which is really interesting to me and kind of cool to think about that this isn't using the conventional cells that you normally see in lights like this. That's how they got it this small, is they use an EV car battery cell. And I mean, 370 bucks is a lot of money, but if you actually use this for a power bank, as well as a light for base camp or your RV, or you have a big piece of property you wanna be checking out frequently, then this is absolutely perfectly priced, I think. So I can't wait to test this out in wintertime to see how that EV car battery holds up in cold weather, but I'm assuming it's gonna be great. I did talk to a guy at the booth there, and he said that he thought it would do quite well based on the testing that he was aware of. So that's kind of fun. I know a couple of our early test models have gone into very cold cave environments, been underwater, and they've all come out just beautifully fine and worked no problems whatsoever. That's sick, that's awesome. Some of the more harsher testers have not been able to break it yet. Oh yeah, it's hard. Sounds like a challenge, okay. That was OFan Day 2026. It was a great event, and the team treated everyone so well. It really did feel like a family there. Granted, a family of nothing but super flashlight nerds, but definitely a family. If I had to rank them for how I actually used the gear, I think the Oclip goes on every trip for me. The Arc Pro is gonna stay in my pocket like an everyday carry, and the Marauder is probably gonna go in my go bag in my car because it's just gonna be there for when I need it. I think this is an amazing tool. So all right, so comment below which light you think you would use and be most interested in. I'm curious to hear your thoughts on Olight's new products. I hope you found this useful, or at least entertaining. We'll see you later.