Bon ChargeMini Red Light Therapy Device

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Twelve-LED battery panel in an iron case, sold with a travel case; its first generation peaked at 7.5 mW/cm2 at 6 inches.

$299

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Usability

Usability

Usability Score
A Pocket Panel Its Owners Use, With No Timer

The Mini is a 5.9 by 3.7 inch battery panel with twelve LEDs at 660 and 850 nm in an iron housing, sold with a travel case, with a $50 stand sold separately. Light Therapy Insiders, a market-wide tester holding a Bon Charge code, read its first generation, the BLUblox Hive Mini, at 7.5 mW/cm2 at its brightest point at 6 inches, a peak rather than an average and on an earlier build, so light output is not scored against Bon Charge's stated 100. FDA lists it as a lamp exempt from premarket review, with no 510(k) and no safety listing, so it scores 2 on verification. Reddit owners and three testers like its portability and price, and the testers fault the missing timer and the battery. It is $299 on boncharge.com.

PROS
  • Peaks published at 660 and 850 nm
  • Iron housing named
  • Battery with a 2-hour charge
  • Travel case and goggles included
  • Easy to take anywhere, per two owners
CONS
  • No timer or auto-off, per three testers
  • Stand costs $50 extra, and holding it tires the arm
  • First generation peaked at 7.5 mW/cm2 against over 100 claimed
  • First generation's battery ran 1 hour 45 minutes
  • Battery life stated as 5,000 hours
  • 1-year warranty

The Mini is Bon Charge's palm-sized battery panel, 5.9 by 3.7 by 1.6 inches and 1.6 lb in an iron housing, carrying twelve 3 W LEDs at 660 and 850 nm. It charges in 2 hours, comes with a travel case, a USB charger and goggles, and is held over the treatment area at 10 to 30 cm or set on the Mini Stand, sold separately for $50; Bon Charge states no timer and no session length for it. It states over 100 mW/cm2 with no distance or instrument, and its spec tab gives a 5,000-hour battery life. Bon Charge's warranty covers it for 1 year from delivery.

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Brand-level

Bon Charge is the trading name of BLUblox Pty Ltd of Osborne Park, Western Australia, founded in 2017 as BLUblox by Andy and Katie Mant and renamed Bon Charge in 2022. FDA lists BLUblox as an exporter of devices made by others: GUDID records name Sunglor Technology Co., Ltd. of Shenzhen as the maker of its panels, Mini, blanket and both masks, and Light Tree Ventures Europe B.V. of The Hague as the maker of its cap. It sells direct from boncharge.com and ships US orders from abroad. Amazon US lists no Bon Charge light device, only three reseller listings for its glasses with 0 or 1 rating each, and no US retailer sells its light devices with a review file of their own, so those two pools are blank on every row. Its Trustpilot profile, under the blublox.com domain, reads 3.7 from 1,659 reviews, 73 percent five-star against 21 percent one-star; Bon Charge claimed it in September 2020, invites reviews and replies to 67 percent of negative ones. Complaints there and on Reddit cover late deliveries, unanswered email, store credit only on orders bought with a code of 25 percent or more, and returns and warranty claims shipped to Australia at the buyer's cost. The BBB holds no file on the company. FDA's recall and adverse-event databases hold no Bon Charge entry, and a federal class action filed in Delaware in January 2025, King v. Bon Charge, concerns its marketing text messages. Bon Charge pays creators 15 percent through an ambassador programme, so most write-ups of its devices carry a Bon Charge code or link, and each is named with its tie where it is used. The review widget on boncharge.com is first-party and counts in no pool, nor do Bon Charge's own channels, its ambassadors' and advisers' posts or The Chalkboard Mag's partnership pieces; Nick Engerer's and Dr Carrie Rigoni's reviews count nowhere because their sites carry codes for competing brands. Every Bon Charge red light device carries a 1-year warranty from delivery, and items may be returned within 30 days at the buyer's cost. On this row three pools are populated, each reading the Mini itself, YouTube in its first generation.

Additional information

Specification: Bon Charge Mini Red Light Therapy Device

Red Light Therapy Specifications
Device Type

Handheld

Wavelengths

Near-infrared (800-880 nm), Red (620-680 nm)

Irradiance Claimed

100-149 mW/cm2

Irradiance Measured

Not measured

FDA Status

Registered or listed only

Safety Listing

None verifiable

Power Source

Battery

Session Length

Not published

General Specifications
Warranty

1 Year

Dimensions

5.9 x 3.7 x 1.6 in

Weight

1.6 lb

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