UnderLight is a battery powered motion activated LED accent lighting strip. Read my hands-on UnderLight review with photos and video.
About UnderLight
UnderLight is a battery operated motion-sensor LED accent lighting strip that can be chained together with other UnderLight units. The product website is buyunderlight.com, which was first registered in September 2014. The screen shot below shows how the product website looked in April 2017.
Claims & Features
- Easily installs anywhere
- High quality low wattage LED light strip
- Motion activated On/Off
- Set distance & sensitivity parameters with swiveling motion detector
- Connect additional UnderLight units to a single power pack
- Battery operated LED lasts for months
Cost
UnderLight costs $14.99 + $5.99 P&H for a total of $20.98. Each unit comes with (2) 12″ inch UnderLight strips, a power base, a swiveling motion sensor, and a 90 degree elbow connector.
As of this writing, this offer is not available in stores.
UnderLight Review
If you’ve followed As Seen on TV products over the years like I have, you’re certainly familiar with the long line of quick and easy light solutions that have been pitched in the past. Everything from Insta Bulb to Bulb on a Rope to Underlight have offered easy ways to provide light in areas where it isn’t typically available.
Underlight consists of two lighted LED panels, a swivel sensor, a battery compartment, and an elbow connector. To install Underlight, you simply pick out your location, and then attach the panels and the battery compartment with the included two-sided tape. If you want to go around a corner, you can use the included elbow connector. There are two buttons on Underlight: The on/off switch and the light timer, which sets the light to stay on for either one or five minutes. The included contents of Underlight spans just over 27 inches in length.
I chose a few locations around my home where I wanted to try Underlight and decided on a large mirror in my living room. It mounted easily to the bottom of the mirror and the battery compartment stuck firmly to the wall. It was then that I realized that the light sensor required almost total darkness in order to work. Because my living room is always somewhat illuminated, I realized I had to move Underlight to a darker location.
The next location I tried was my bathroom, which is in usually very dark most of the time. Here, I mounted it behind a small cabinet and aimed the motion sensor at the door. That way, when I entered the bathroom, Underlight would (hopefully) turn on. Fortunately, Underlight has performed excellently in this location. I only wish that I could set the light to about 2 minutes, because one minute doesn’t always seem quite long enough, but five minutes is overkill.
What I have learned is that you need two things in order for Underlight to perform as expected: Darkness and motion. There is no real way to have it act as accent lighting in a room with existing light, unless you block the light sensor somehow. Because it requires motion and darkness to work, it seems more like a motion-activated nightlight to me.
Overall, I do like Underlight in the location I now have it, although it would be nice to have a few more options regarding the timer and light sensitivity. Be sure to watch my full video below to see Underlight in action.
Alternatives
A few months ago I noticed advertising for a product called Motion Brite (review), which still has an active website as of this writing. There are numerous other options online, such as this rechargeable motion sensing LED light by OxyLED, which is an Amazon best seller with high consumer ratings.
Video Review
Below is my full Underlight review, as discussed above.
Television Commercial
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