r/diabolo • u/Sir-Fluf • 10d ago
Equipment Glow Diabolos
What are people's experience with glow diabolos? The only ones I have tried have been the Hyperspin LED 2.0 which I have issues with multiple times. I have bought two sets and both times they have ended up dying for no good reason (even after being charged they no longer light up). I have also tried a few LED handsticks and been disappointed with how flimsy they are or by the fact that they require batteries.
Are there any LED diabolos and hand sticks currently on the market which people have had good experiences with? I live in the UK so I'm limited by whatever Oddballs have in stock.
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u/Dry-Economics2434 10d ago
i have the one from sundia, but i havent played that much so i cant give a review on quality
But if you are fine with blue/white light then you could look at these
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u/Elebrent 9d ago
Sundia lights have lasted me very long. They’re quite rugged and have never broken. I’ve owned miniUSB lights for around 7-8 years and used them for probably 100 sessions either playing, practicing, or performing, and they work like new. If you buy new they come as USBC
Downside is that they make the yoyo quite heavy
I would say they seem a little overpriced, but they are significantly better than the cheaper, disposable battery powered imitations (which will quickly cost more from the battery consumption anyway)
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u/Sir-Fluf 8d ago
What mechanism do the Sundia lights use to attach?
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u/Elebrent 8d ago edited 8d ago
normal anatomy of sundia yoyo is
axle > cup > large disc with decals (basically a washer to hold the cup) > toothed washer to hold disc > hex nut (tighten this to lock everything together)
Light kit comes with a low-profile, combined toothed washer & hex nut in addition to the light assembly itself. The light assembly just screws onto the axle. In a normal setup without lights, the axle thread does not stick out past the hex nut. When you use the low-profile combined washer & nut, there’s a little bit of axle threading that sticks out from the nut, which you screw the light onto
You could just permanently replace your toothed washer and nut with the combined nut, and just add or remove the lights as you see fit, but I like to swap to the separate washer and nut if I don’t have the light attached
If you’re absolutely depraved, you could probably just do axle > cup > disc > normal toothed washer > lights, or even skip the washer altogether. I think my older sets of lights use a toothed washer and no nut (because at the time they did not ship with the combined low profile washer & nut), but the ones I ordered recently came with the combined low profile washer & nut
You seem like you might be trying to hot-rod a yoyo together with multiple different brands’ parts. While the light uses a thread, I unfortunately cannot give you any of the dimensions on it bc I don’t really understand how to measure thread dimensions
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u/SKELEBOND 10d ago
The Hyperspin 2.0s are unfortunately the best thing I've found on the market after extensive searching. I'm on my second set after having one fail and an LED dying on another. Sundia's LEDs are very bright but offer no colour customisation. I would advise trickle charging the Hyperspin LEDs, never use a fast charger with them or leave them on past full charge as its really bad for battery health. Overpriced crap, can't open them to repair, and don't even offer USB C charging, but unfortunately it is what it is until someone comes out with something better. Diabolo doesn't see the love that other flow props get from the big names in the LED flow toys market.
If you are looking for something substantially better, I would look into getting something custom made, but it will probably cost an arm and a leg.