The Syslite is a new offering from Festool for this autumn, apparently in short supply due to its popularity in Germany. I have had it for a day on site so any observations are short term. Apologies for the lack of inline images, hopefully you can view the attached pictures.
Firstly it comes in a nice bag which is made out of the latest (thinner) festool material, the same stuff as the new/latest rail bags. I hadn't expected a protective bag and it looks like it would survive well in a glove compartment or footwell.
The unit can be charged by mains or car charger (both supplied), another nod to the auto side of Festool.
The back has a sliding cover with a flexible hook attached, you have to remove this to clip on an exterior battery. The hook is very large and the connection is a ball joint so it's very flexible. There's a connector for a camera tripod in the base.
It can be powered by the BPC or BPS series batteries, which slide onto the back. I've tried it with my NiMh BPC packs from the c12 and one fully charged gave a couple of hours 100% light. The batteries do not charge the internal battery and only the external battery powers the light whilst it is attached.
It's a very powerful and white/neutral light, in fact it's quite unpleasant to look at or get caught in the corner of your eye, because of this I found it useful to put it on top of a pile of systainers pointing towards the ceiling, and it's powerful enough to lighten a gloomy room in that position. You can see from the attached photo the quality and quantity of light this gives off, it's very powerful.
I liked having it on the whole time but the batteries will not last a whole day, probably not what it is for anyway but it certainly helps in the grey English light, I'm hoping that after a full (2 hour charge) it will last a bit longer tomorrow. It's as usual a better product than I had envisaged but still it needs to be given the price. I've included 2 photos showing the difference it can make to an unlit cupboard.
I've included one last picture of it hanging from the workstation where it can easily blind you if you accidentally look at it.
I'm sure a lot of people will be picking these up in case they ever need it, and it will come in very handy if you ever need to look under the bonnet on a winter evening. It does have an auto leaning in design and I can see it being a perfect product for mechanics as you get a lot of light and very little heat, the 30% output function could come in useful to protect your eyesight if you use this as an inspection lamp.
Firstly it comes in a nice bag which is made out of the latest (thinner) festool material, the same stuff as the new/latest rail bags. I hadn't expected a protective bag and it looks like it would survive well in a glove compartment or footwell.
The unit can be charged by mains or car charger (both supplied), another nod to the auto side of Festool.
The back has a sliding cover with a flexible hook attached, you have to remove this to clip on an exterior battery. The hook is very large and the connection is a ball joint so it's very flexible. There's a connector for a camera tripod in the base.
It can be powered by the BPC or BPS series batteries, which slide onto the back. I've tried it with my NiMh BPC packs from the c12 and one fully charged gave a couple of hours 100% light. The batteries do not charge the internal battery and only the external battery powers the light whilst it is attached.
It's a very powerful and white/neutral light, in fact it's quite unpleasant to look at or get caught in the corner of your eye, because of this I found it useful to put it on top of a pile of systainers pointing towards the ceiling, and it's powerful enough to lighten a gloomy room in that position. You can see from the attached photo the quality and quantity of light this gives off, it's very powerful.
I liked having it on the whole time but the batteries will not last a whole day, probably not what it is for anyway but it certainly helps in the grey English light, I'm hoping that after a full (2 hour charge) it will last a bit longer tomorrow. It's as usual a better product than I had envisaged but still it needs to be given the price. I've included 2 photos showing the difference it can make to an unlit cupboard.
I've included one last picture of it hanging from the workstation where it can easily blind you if you accidentally look at it.
I'm sure a lot of people will be picking these up in case they ever need it, and it will come in very handy if you ever need to look under the bonnet on a winter evening. It does have an auto leaning in design and I can see it being a perfect product for mechanics as you get a lot of light and very little heat, the 30% output function could come in useful to protect your eyesight if you use this as an inspection lamp.
