We’ve had a great response from those of you offering to help with the GravityLight trial. Thank you!
There are respondents who have offered their support in getting feedback on GravityLight from over 27 different countries – not to mention the feedback we hope to get from pledgees who requested a light.The map below shows the range of locations that people have offered to help us trial GravityLight in communities with minimal access to electricity and using kerosene lamps for light.
On the production side, we are continuing to commission injection molding tools for production.
Below are photos of the tool for the sprocket, which the strap runs around [right] and the multi-action injection molding tool for tool for the one-way ratchet, which enables the strap to rewind when lifting up the ballast bag [left].
Bought-in components are now en route to the factory and our final wave of tooling will be started over the next few weeks. About this time we also aim to share what Jim and Rob have been working intensely on: now that the production engineering detail is complete, they will be able to show us what GravityLight will look like in this first production run!