The Amble Is Discontinued by Both Companies That Sold It
206 lumens, the only completely documented safety listing on this site, and no support path from anyone.
The numbers
- Output: 206 lumens at full, 3500 K, CRI 83
- Illuminance: 151 foot-candles at 12 in
- Power: 3 to 11.5 watts, on an 18 W wall transformer with a 9 ft cord
- Dimming: 100% down to 20%, continuous
- Safety listing: ETL, to UL 153, UL 8750 and CSA C22.2 No. 250.4
- LED life: over 60,000 hours
- Mounting: freestanding base only. No clamp, no grommet
- Warranty: 5 years or 15 years, depending which company sold you yours
Verdict
Not a pick, and the reason is that nobody sells it any more. LightCorp has dropped it from both its catalogue and its store. ESI’s website now redirects every URL to an empty page. What is left is clearance stock at a handful of dealers, with no manufacturer standing behind it on either side.
That is a shame, because on the one check this site cares most about, the Amble is the best-documented product I have written about. Its safety listing is named in full, with the standards it was certified against, on the manufacturer’s own sheet. Nothing else here does that.
LightCorp made it. ESI sold the same lamp.
The Amble is a LightCorp product, from Light Corporation of Grand Haven, Michigan, designed by Stephan Copeland and launched around 2016. If you found this page looking for a Fellowes lamp, that is not a mistake on your part.
ESI Ergonomic Solutions sold identical hardware under its own AMB part numbers, and Fellowes bought ESI in November 2017. So the same lamp reached buyers through two companies, under two catalogues, with two sets of paperwork. What I cannot tell you is the legal shape of that arrangement. No document I found says whether it was an OEM deal, a licence or a private label, and I am not going to guess at it.
Three variants exist. The Classic is the plain lamp. The Performance adds USB charging and an occupancy sensor. The Designer adds a lithium ion battery good for about six hours off the cord. In the ESI catalogue those are AMB-CLSC, AMB-PERF and AMB-DESI.
The warranty depends on who sold you yours
Same lamp, two answers, and the difference is not small.
Fifteen years reads better than five until you notice what it covers. Structural parts on a desk lamp are the arm and the base, and those do not fail. The LED driver and the transformer do, and the ESI channel gives them one year against LightCorp’s two to five.
If you already own one, the term you have depends on the invoice, not the lamp. Find out which company it came from before you need to know.
The only safety listing on this site that is documented properly
I have spent this week finding that manufacturers publish safety marks badly or not at all. The Amble is the exception, and it is worth showing what good looks like.
LightCorp’s own cut sheet says the lamp is ETL listed, and then names what it was certified against: UL 153 for portable luminaires, UL 8750 for LED equipment, CSA C22.2 No. 250.4, and FCC Part 15 Class B.
That is a body, a set of standard numbers, and a document from the company that made it. On the desk and the lamp I looked at earlier this week I had to trace the listing to a component maker or a dealer spec feed. Here it is simply printed where a buyer would look.
One thing worth stating so nobody goes looking for it: BIFMA publishes no standard for task lighting. If you see a lamp advertised as BIFMA compliant, that claim has nothing behind it, because there is no lighting standard to comply with.
206 lumens is the number to sit with
That is the full output, and it is modest. For comparison, a 60 watt incandescent bulb puts out around 800. The Amble is a task light in the strict sense, meant to put 151 foot-candles onto the twelve inches of desk directly under it rather than light a room.
For reading a document or working with your hands that is enough. If you wanted one lamp to make a dim corner usable, it is not, and at what these were selling for that matters.
It runs 3 to 11.5 watts, dims continuously to a fifth of full, and the Performance and Designer versions shut themselves off after thirty minutes with nobody at the desk. The mount is a rocking base with three positions. There is no clamp and no grommet fitting, so the footprint on the desk is not optional.
What is wrong with it
Discontinued by both companies that sold it. Source: LightCorp’s own catalogue and store, where it no longer appears, and esiergo.com, which redirects every URL to an empty lander. Neither company published a discontinuation notice. It simply went.
The warranty depends on the invoice. Source: LightCorp’s cut sheet against a dealer in the ESI channel. Five years on the fixture and two on the supply, or fifteen years structural and one on the LED. Same lamp.
206 lumens for the money. Source: LightCorp’s cut sheet. At the prices these sold for, that is a lot of paying for the sensor and the industrial design rather than the light.
Freestanding base only. Source: LightCorp’s cut sheet, which offers three base positions and no other mounting. There is no clamp and no grommet option, so it takes desk space it cannot be made to give back.
No support path on either side. Source: what neither manufacturer publishes. A five or fifteen year warranty is worth what the company honouring it is worth, and one of them has stopped selling the product while the other has stopped having a website.
The battery version is the hardest to find and the first to die. Source: the dealer that stocks the other two lists the Designer as not available to purchase. A lithium ion cell in a discontinued product with no parts channel has a fixed lifespan.
Who it fits
Buy one only if you find clearance stock, you want a small dimmable task light with a sensor, and you accept that you are the support department. Check whether the seller is a LightCorp or an ESI channel dealer, because that decides your warranty. In the US the surviving listings run from roughly the low $200s to the low $400s.
Otherwise look at something current. Fellowes still sells the Glimor, which publishes the same standards string this lamp does, right down to UL 153 and CSA C22.2 No. 250.4. The Fellowes Lily is also still made, and its listing is real even though Fellowes does not print the standard numbers for it.
Questions people ask
Who makes the Amble task light?
LightCorp, of Grand Haven, Michigan, designed by Stephan Copeland. ESI Ergonomic Solutions sold the same hardware under AMB part numbers, and Fellowes bought ESI in 2017.
Is the Amble discontinued?
Yes, by both. It is gone from LightCorp’s catalogue and store, and ESI’s website redirects to an empty page. Neither issued a notice. Clearance stock is all that remains.
What is the difference between Classic, Performance and Designer?
The Classic is the plain lamp. The Performance adds USB charging and an occupancy sensor. The Designer adds a lithium ion battery good for about six hours away from the cord.
How bright is it?
206 lumens at full output, putting 151 foot-candles on the desk at twelve inches. That is a task light, not a room light.
Is it UL listed?
ETL rather than UL, and yes, properly. LightCorp’s cut sheet names UL 153, UL 8750, CSA C22.2 No. 250.4 and FCC Part 15 Class B. It is the most completely documented safety listing of any product on this site.
Can it clamp to a desk?
No. It has a freestanding rocking base with three positions, and no clamp or grommet option was ever offered.
What is the warranty?
Five years on the fixture and two on the power supply if LightCorp sold it. Fifteen years structural and one year on the LED and transformer through the ESI channel. Check your invoice.
Is it BIFMA certified?
There is no such thing, and it would not apply anyway. BIFMA does not certify products, and it publishes no standard covering task lighting.
Sources
- LightCorp, Amble cut sheet (PDF), the source for the 206 lumen output, 3500 K, CRI 83, the 151 foot-candles at 12 in, the 3 to 11.5 watt draw, the 18 W transformer and 9 ft cord, the dimming range, the 60,000 hour LED life, the three base positions, the five year fixture and two year power supply warranty, and the full ETL listing with UL 153, UL 8750, CSA C22.2 No. 250.4 and FCC Part 15 Class B
- Madison Liquidators, Amble Performance, the source for the fifteen year structural and one year LED warranty in the ESI channel, and for current stock on the Performance against the Designer being unavailable. Checked August 6, 2026
- Fellowes, ESI transition, the source for Fellowes acquiring ESI Ergonomic Solutions in November 2017
- LightCorp product catalogue and desk light store, checked August 6, 2026 for the Amble and not containing it
- BIFMA, standards descriptions, checked for any standard covering task lighting and containing none
- Availability and prices checked August 6, 2026 at Ace Office Systems, Madison Liquidators, Solutions M3 and eBay. The band quoted spans the surviving US listings. Ace Office Systems shows the lamp on its product pages and Sold out on its collection page, so its listings are treated as unreliable
- The legal relationship between LightCorp and ESI, the mains input voltage, any manufacturer height-range figure, and any formal discontinuation notice were searched for on both companies’ sites, in the cut sheet, and across the surviving dealer listings, and were not found