Nitecore VCL10 car charger.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/I'm usually very good at reviewing and highlighting products that I find useful, but sometimes things fall through the gaps.
One such product is theNitecore VCL10 car charger. I've had this for a few years, and I've overlooked it because it lives in my car, and I always forget to bring it indoors.
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"Not another car charger!" I hear you say. After all, I do like my car chargers.
But this is a car charger that I keep in my car less for charging -- although it's a decent enough charger -- but more because it's a great safety tool to have when I'm out and about.
Before I explore what's special about the Nitecore VCL10, let's look at what it offers as a USB charger.
OK, so a pretty decent single-port USB charger.
But wait, there's more!
On one end of the VCL10 are white and red LED warning lights.
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A single button is used to switch between the white work light and strobing red safety light.
Red strobe light in action.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/Built into the VCL10 is a photodiode light detector that can sense the change in ambient lighting and alter the flash of the red warning light from 1 Hz (1 flash per second) to 10 Hz (10 flashes per second) if an approaching vehicle is detected.
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