EURO TOOL (ELP-558.00) LED Light Attachment for Optivisor

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.

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.

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.