I bought this product to potentially backpack with on my hammock set-up. Well, I got the chance to use it at our cub scout Adventure Camp outing earlier this week. I read all of the reviews, good and bad before buying this product so I would be prepared with its durability and practicality. Superb product. Extremely long for what I needed, but perfectly fine, I will find uses for the length as I become more accustomed to it. While the on/off button on the bottom can easily be turned on by accident in your pack or on the counter while packing up and waste your batteries, it made it VERY easy to turn on and off through my hammock's bug net while I was camping. I read someone said it wasn't waterproof as it may have claimed it was, but you wouldn't believe Mother Nature put that to the test this past week! Goodness, just minutes after we finished setting up our unit's tents (and me my hammock), the skies opened up and with thunderous booms and I swear Niagra Falls of rainstorms; system after system for the next 3-4 hours. Our campsites were flooded and our tents SOAKED (except my hammock and my items under the ridgeline tarp, of course)! No worse for wear, the scouts and parents dried out that evening as best we could and we continued on with our camping trip. Not only did the roll and spanned length of lights still work that evening though the paracord sheath was soaked, it continued to work each evening of the campout- the whole rest of the trip. I even had it on for over 10 hours on night 3 because my young son wanted it on. Grade A, top notch work guys! I would love to see a 9 or 10 ft length of this exact product, with the bulbs closer together along the string if possible, available for those of us who try to count packed weight on trips and only need the length of our hammocks. Also, I would have ordered a natural or warmer white (not straight-up yellow, but a softer white light) if it were available rather than bright white for my eyes as I struggle with migraines often (I used to live by bright-white lights only because I'm an artist and I love seeing more accurate, vibrant colors in everything around me). The overall brightness amounted to a low glow enough to see my stuff, but not bright enough to read by. I may double- or triple-back the strung length of my hammock in the future to get more light from it. Perfect so as not to detract the nighttime experience from other campers under the stars... or if anyone was trying to sleep). I am extremely impressed and happy with this product and look forward to improvements if and when they consider newer or different versions of it. Those are my thoughts and suggestions and I hope it helps others with their purchase.
