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Ruff Wear The Beacon Safety Light
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Ruff Wear The Beacon Safety Light

Item # 771107

$13.00

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This Ruff Wear beacon creates a halo of high-visibility red light around your dog for safety in low light and after dark.

  • Visible from up to a half mile away, the beacon uses four LEDs shining in four directions to provide visibility from different angles
  • Compact, sturdy design is light, water-tight and easy to use—simply clip to dog's collar, harness, pack or PFD
  • Features fast flash, slow flash and continuous shine modes
  • Can also be used as a personal safety beacon while hiking, jogging, biking and boating
  • Includes two replaceable lithium coin-cell batteries

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Item 771107

Ruff Wear The Beacon Safety Light Specs

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Weight1.5 ounces
Dimensions1.5 x 1.5 x 1.2 inches

Ruff Wear The Beacon Safety Light Customer Reviews

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2.5

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Aug

21

2008

(3 of 3 customers found this review helpful)

 
4.0

Pretty decent

By Chuck Norris²

from Pa

Pros

  • Bright
  • Different light settings
  • Good battery life
  • Rugged

Cons

  • Hard to change batteries
  • Not waterproof
  • Thick

Best Uses

  • On a dog in the dark

Best of the dog lights I've seen. My dog (1.5 year old Black & Tan Coonhound ~ 65 lbs) doesn't seem to care that it's there at all. The 3 different light settings are nice, but I tend to just keep using the "always on" instead of one of the 2 blinkies because it's always moving around my dog and his tags anyway and tends to look blinky because of that. Battery life is good - changed the batteries after 1 hour of use 5-7 times a day for two months (300+ hours of total use). Light output was still good, but not as bright as a fresh pair of batteries, so I changed them out. Could have kept them in longer if I needed to. With a fresh pair of batteries the light is so bright that the ground around my dog glows. My light got a little dodgy after my dog played in wet grass one night; now it seems to go off randomly if he shakes it around A LOT (playing vigorously with other dogs). The battery is hard as heck to change - you have to pry off the back cover, but don't use anything sharp or pointy because you risk injury if your grip slips (which it can do!). I believe the item could also be a tad thinner than it currently is - there seems to be a tad more plastic & open space inside than necessary. Item can be attached with either a keychain ring or a clip, but the clip doesn't seem too tight to me, so I just keychained it onto my dog's collar to make sure. Overall I would recommend it and would buy another, but I look forward to the company's next redesign.

Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

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Nov

26

2008

(2 of 2 customers found this review helpful)

 
1.0

Ruffwear can definitely do better

By snowdogs

from Ontario Canada

Pros

    Cons

    • Low Quality

    Best Uses

      First off I'm a huge fan of ruffwear. My dogs have the backpacks, lifejackets, collars, leashes, beds, travel beds, etc.. You name it and they practically have it. I think ruffwear makes exceptional quality gear for dogs, and I'll continue on as a customer. This is the only product that ruffwear makes that doesn't make the cut for me. I bought two, one for each dog and after very little use they stopped working. So I figured maybe i somehow left the battery on or whatnot. New batteries didn't seem to do anything so ruffwear sent me 2 new ones which was great of them. I thought the problem was done with. But the two new ones just turn off on there own. They've just shut off while my dogs were in a large dog park late at night. So I wasn't impressed. Yesterday on a night walk with my dogs within 15mins one had shut off 3 times on its own with nothing touching it. And the other ones battery was very very low for no reason.

      As for the pro's about it, I do like the look and size of it. When it is working properly it's quite a safe little gadget for city walks at night, or camping. If only it could work properly. cheers.

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      Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend

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