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This is the L50 Sol, a powerful 95 CRI right-angle flashlight from FireFlies, it reaches 1900 lumens on the 3500K variation, has a Lume X1 Boost driver, tail magnet, frosted lens, and an anatomical angled button.

• My opinion:

The L50 Sol is a flashlight that I really liked, all the FireFlies I already made review of were pretty good, they just had small things that I disliked. This one isn't much different, it's an awesome flashlight and I loved the angled button design, it's really much more comfortable to press than most other right-angle flashlights button designs I tested. I really think this flashlight will be a great addition if you like right-angle flashlights. I think it could have a battery tube just a little taller and accept button top and protected cells with USB-C this would make the light much more versatile!

• Pros:

- Lume X1 efficient driver

- FFL5009R 95CRI LED very rosy

- Angled button (easier to press when holding the flashlight)

- Awesome moonlight mode

- RGB AUX light that can be used to find it in the dark

• Cons:

- Poor quality Headband

- Doesn't accept button top or protected cells

- Turbo steps down fast, but this is expected on a high CRI high power flashlight like this.

 

• Box contents [9th picture]

- L50 Sol

- Headband

- Lanyard

- Extra O-Rings

- Stainless-steel clip

- Stainless-steel ring

- User manual

 

• Price

The L50 Sol is currently priced at $59.00 on FireFlies Official Website. The Desert Storm MAO and Astral aluminum are $62.00 and the Void White version is $65.00.

 

• Body and build quality

Colors/Material Options: The L50 Sol is available in 7 different anodizing colors: Navy Blue (featured in this review), Matte Black, Magma Orange, Ember Red, Desert Storm MAO, Void White and Astral Aluminum. There are also 2 versions, one with reflector (featured in this review), and one with TIR Lens.

Material: The main body is fully made of 6063 aluminum alloy, more durable and resistant than common 6061 alloy. The bezel is made of Stainless-steel with a PVD coating. The clip is made of stainless-steel.

Main body: The main body has knurling on the battery tube for better grip, the head has small grooves foe heat dissipation.

Headband: The headband quality is bad comparing to the flashlight, it's a generic headband you can find on AliExpress. It's usable but it could be way better, considering the flashlight has an awesome quality, the headband doesn't fit the quality level.

Threads: All threads are trapezoidal and anodized, so mechanical lock is present on this flashlight by untwisting the head of the flashlight.

Clip: The flashlight comes pre-installed with the lanynard hole ring, but you can easily remove the tail cap and swap it for the included stainless-steel clip.

Tail stand and rolling: The flashlight body is cylindrical but has flat surfaces on the head that stop it from rolling much. The flashlight tail and head stands.

Magnets: It has a strong magnet on the tail cap that is user removable, so if you don't like magnets you can untwist the tail cap and remove the magnet. The magnet is capable of holding the flashlight in almost any position if the metal surface is thick enough. [10th picture]

AUX lights: The L50 reflector version has RGB AUX lights in the button, it does not feature AUX on the lens as other FireFlies models. The RGB AUX light is controlled by Anduril and can be used as a battery indicator and also to help find the flashlight in the dark, one of my favorite features. [11th picture]

Buttons: The L50 has a single e-switch to control the UI. The button is pretty good as usual from FireFlies, this one is a little special though, because the button is placed on an angled surface on the head, making it very anatomical to press when you are holding the flashlight.

Battery contact: Contact is made with the battery by two Beryllium-copper silver-plated springs. FireFlies uses silver on the plating because it has better electrical conductivity than even copper. [12th picture]

Bezel: The bezel is pretty small on this flashlight and is only for protecting the lens from scratches. It is made of smooth black PVD coated stainless-steel.

Water Resistance: It has IPX8 water resistance rating. The waterproofing is made by O-rings on the threads and on the lens bezel.

Size Comparison: On the left is the FireFlies X4 Stellar (21700), on the middle the L50 Sol and the Convoy S2+ on the right. [13th picture]

 

• Weight and size

Weight:

- Without battery (with SS clip): 63.0g

- With battery (Vapcell F38): 110.7g

- Battery (Vapcell F38): 47.8g

Size: 97.6mm x 27.2mm x 21.5mm

 

• Battery, runtime, and charging

Battery: This flashlight is powered by a single non-protected flat top 18650 cell, it is recommended to use a battery with higher than 10A CDR, I just had the Vapcell F38 laying around, so I tested with it (it has 10A CDR, so using a higher CDR battery may make the flashlight even brighter, as the battery is on the limit CDR when using turbo). [14th picture]

Battery Indicator: The flashlight has battery indicator on the Anduril UI by flashing the main light to the correspondent battery voltage and also a color battery indicator that can be toggled on the RGB AUX on the button.

Charging: This flashlight doesn't feature charging on the main body.

 

• Modes, Runtimes, Throw, Candela:

Modes: This flashlight features Anduril, so you have many brightness levels and modes to choose from, if you don't like the factory ones you can also configure the brightness level on Anduril and have the levels you want.

Turbo: The flashlight has a very powerful turbo with 1900 lumens on the 3500K variation, especially for a 95 CRI LED, but it gets hot Really fast, so be careful.

Moonlight: Moonlight is amazing, like other FireFlies I've tested, it reaches about 0.1 lumens, very dim and awesome for night time.

Blinkies: One of the coolest things about Anduril is it´s blinkies modes, I really love that “Candle mode” and the “Lightning”! You can choose from a wide variety of blinkies and even configure their brightness, have fun with it!

Advertised specs: This version with the FFL5009R 3500K emitter has a maximum of 1900 lumens on turbo. Unfortunately, FireFlies doesn't provide full information about all the brightness levels and Emitter options, it only provided information about the FFL5009R 5000K that was collected by 1Lumen.

Throw: FireFlies advertises this version (FFL5009R 3500K) having 190m of throw on the Turbo mode.

 

• Emitter, reflector and CRI:

Emitter: This L50 Sol has the domeless 6V FFL5009R 3500K (Rosy) emitter, it's a pretty good emitter with quad-die (similar to the SFT70), comparable to the loved Nichia 519A! The beam has a very beautiful rosy tint, even more rosy than my 519A 5000K Dedomed. I loved this emitter from FireFlies, it's floody but still has some throw to it. [15th and 16th Picture]

Lens: This flashlight has a special type of glass lens, it has a "frosted" glass, making the beam more uniform and eliminating artifacts, it loses some throw due to it.

Reflector/TIR: It has an Orange Peel (OP) reflector that makes the beam floody, but with a nice smooth hotspot that can throw light.

Beam profile: The beam shape is very floody with a smooth transition to the hotspot. [17th picture]
Left: Convoy S2+ - 519A 5000K DD
Right: L50 Sol - FFL5009R 3500K (Rosy)

CRI: The FFL5009R has crazy good CRI, reaching 95 Ra, comparable to high CRI monsters like the Nichia 519A and SFT40/70 3000K. The R9 value for this LED is insane, reaching 97!

 

• Beamshots Camera settings:

- 18mm lens 1" F8 ISO800

- (The trees at the back are at a distance of around 80m-90m as I was a little closer than previous beamshots)

[18th picture] – L50 Sol 3500K - G7 Level (1900lm - Turbo)

[19th picture] – L50 Sol 3500K - F6 Level

[20th picture] – L50 Sol 3500K - E5 Level

I always try to match what my eyes can see on the beamshots, so camera settings may vary.

 

• Driver and UI

Driver: The L50 Sol uses the Lume X1 Boost driver, a very respected driver that I already tested on other reviews and loved it. No flickering, just constant brightness on a very efficient driver.

UI: It uses Anduril 2 UI, I will not elaborate much on it, as it's a very customizable UI and it would extend much this review.

Low Voltage Warning: The battery indicator and the main light will also blink when the battery level is too low.

Reverse Polarity Protection: This flashlight has low voltage protection so you will not damage the flashlight easily by inserting the battery the wrong way.

Temperature Control: It has automatic real time temperature control, by default when it reaches 45°C (113°F) it will lower the brightness to prevent driver and LED damage. This can be changed on the Anduril UI, but be careful not to damage your flashlight by setting the stepdown temperature too high.

Lockout: It features electronic lockout on the Anduril 2 UI, by clicking the button 4 times the flashlight will lock and only moonlight will be available for use; and also, mechanical lockout by slightly untwisting the head.

 

A special thanks to Ivy and FireFlies for sending this flashlight for me to review!

*I am not being paid to do this review, everything here is my honest opinion.

Thank you for reading my review <3

 

This is the Wurkkos DL04, a jellyfish-shaped diving light rated with IP68 for 100m underwater, with RGB and neutral white (3000K) light and a 16340 800mAh battery with USB-C charging.

• My opinion:

 The flashlight is fun and not much expensive, it's main purpose is to be a signal light, though it can light up things near you and serve as a small lamp when it's dark. It seems decently water-proofed and the USB-C port being on the battery helps with that.

• Box contents [8th picture]

- DL04

- Lanyard

- Keychain carabiner

- 4x extra O-rings

- USB-C to C charging cable

- User manual

• Price

The DL04 is currently priced at $19.42 on the Wurkkos AliExpress Store and $16.99 on the Wurkkos Official Website.

• Body and build quality

Colors/Material Options: It's only available in aluminum alloy with a "Silvery" anodizing.

Material: The main body is made of an aluminum alloy and the diffuser it made of a hard thick matte plastic.

Main body: The main body is very simple and a solid piece, there aren't any button/holes on the main body other than where the diffuser screws on.

Threads: The main body threads are anodized and the flashlight will only turn ON if the light is fully tightened, the UI uses this feature to cycle between modes.

Tail stand and rolling: The flashlight can only tail stand, as the head is round. It rolls a lot as there are not any grooves on the main body to stop it.

AUX lights: The DL04 is kind of a really big AUX light. [9th and 10th picture]

Buttons: There are no buttons on the flashlight, the UI is fully controled by tightening the main body into the diffuser.

Battery contact: Contact is made with the battery by a gold-coated spring on the tail cap (main body) and a flat brass button on the driver.

Water Resistance: This flashlight has the IP68 rating with 100m of water resistance. To achieve this the flashlight has double O-rings on the thread, so if one of the O-rings fail, the other one will be there to hold the water outside.

Size Comparison: On the left is the Armytek ELF C1 USB-C, on the middle the DL04 and the Convoy S2+ on the right. [9th picture]

 

• Weight and size

Weight:

- With battery: 56.8g

- Without battery: 37.5g]

- Battery (Wurkkos 16340): 19.2

Size: 37.8mm (Dome diameter) / 23.4mm (tail diameter) x 64mm (total height)

 

• Battery, runtime, and charging

Battery: The DL04 is powered by a 16340 Wurkkos branded battery with 800mAh of capacity, it's a decent capacity for it's size. The battery has a USB-C port near the top of the flashlight, with a charging indicator on the top of the cell. [11th picture]

Battery Indicator: The flashlight will flash a color everytime it's turned ON to indicate the battery level as it follows:

Flashing color	Battery level
Green	100% - 60%
Yellow	60% - 30%
Red	< 30%

Charging: It has a USB-C charging port on the battery as I commented before, charging is kinda slow, as it only charges at 5V 0.4A taking about 2h30min to fully charge. The slow charging is probably to preserve the battery and prevent overheating on the small driver.

 

• Modes, Runtimes, Throw, Candela:

Modes: The DL04 has a total of 10 modes, them being: warm (3000K) white; green, red, orange, blue each one also having a flashing mode and RGB rainbow mode.

Mode	Brightness (lumens)	Runtime
Warm White (3000K)	9.5	14h50min
Green	5.4	30h43min
Red	1.9	30h
Orange	3.6	23h49min
Solid Blue	1.7	31h25min
Rainbow	-	26h
Flashing Green	-	58h31min
Flashing Red	-	57h25min
Flashing Orange	-	45h
Flashing Blue	-	60h

Throw: The flashlight is mainly for short range flood illumination, so it throws almost nothing, as it's pourpose is more of an indicator.

 

• Emitter, reflector and CRI:

Emitter: This flashlight uses the SK6812 emitter, it's a RGB + warm white emitter, usually used in LED strips for decoration.

Reflector/TIR: The DL04 has a dome diffuser that resembles a jellyfish when the flashlight is turned ON.

CRI: The CRI is standard 70 from what I could find about this LED.

 

• Driver and UI

Driver: Wurkkos does not say which driver it uses, but I did not see any PWM while testing it, so I assume it is a regulated driver.

UI: The UI is pretty simple, but as there are no buttons on this flashlight, it's kind of slow to cycle between modes. To cycle modes you must untwist the diffuser from the body to disconnect the driver and quickly tighten it again to make contact. If you do it fast enought the flashlight will turn ON in the next mode.

Low Voltage Warning: When the battery charge is too low and the light is turned ON, it will blink 3 times every 3 minutes to indicate the low voltage. If the voltage is too low the flasghlight will turn OFF automatically.

Temperature Control: The flashlight does not heat up in normal conditions, so I assume it does not have any kind of temperature control.

Lockout: Lockout is only present by unscrewing the diffuser from the main body, turning the flashlight off.

Blinkies: Every solid color has a flashing mode and the rainbow mode is also present.

 

A special thanks to Wurkkos for sending this flashlight for me to review!

*I am not being paid to do this review, everything here is my honest opinion.

Thank you for reading my review <3

 

This is the Convoy M21K, a "small" light cannon that will light up everything you want, this setup has the LHP73B 4000K with a 20A buck driver, USB-C charging and more!

• My opinion:

The M21K is a pretty useful, powerful and fun flashlight to have. I really recommend getting it with the LHP73B LED, I loved the 4000K tint! This flashlight is an absolute light cannon, it will light up everything pretty far with the 10A and 20A modes, even the normal modes are pretty bright. The moonlight is awesome for a light so big like this, very dim with similar brightness as other 1 lumen moonlights. I really doesn't have much to dislike on this flashlight, I really just hope it had AUX lights, especially for finding it in the dark, this could easily be made as the flashlight already has LEDs on the button to indicate the charging state.

• Pros:

- Super powerful (6000 to 8000 lumens)

- LHP73B LED has an awesome nice tint

- USB-C charging

- Stainless-steel bezel by default

- Great thermals

• Cons:

- No battery level light indicator

- No light to find it in the dark

- USB-C rubber cap gets in the way when trying to connect the cable

 

• Box contents [10th picture]

- M21K

- 21700 Battery (bought separately)

 

• Price

The M21K with LHP73B is currently priced at $34.12 in Convoy Official Website. The Amprius 50Q battery adds $6.01 to the order in the flashlight.

• Body and build quality

Colors/Material Options: The M21K is available in aluminum alloy with 4 anodizing colors: Black camo, Green camo, Blue camo (featured on this review) and standard black. This Blue camo is absolutely fantastic, the design is so cool!

Material: The main body is entirely made of an aluminum alloy, probably 6061-T6 or something similar, Convoy does not specify it.

Main body: It's full of knurling and grooves, this makes the flashlight have a nice and grippy body, and have better temperature dissipation.

Threads: All body threads are squared, the tail cap threads are anodized, this means this light has mechanical lockout by untwisting the tail cap a little bit, the head ones are not anodized.

Clip: The flashlight doesn't come with a clip, but a screw on clip can be installed on the holes on the tail cap.

Tail stand and rolling: The flashlight can both head and tail stand, it rolls a little, but the rolling is stopped by grooves on the head part.

AUX lights: The M21K has a red light in the button to indicate charging, but the light cannot be be used as an AUX to find the flashlight in the dark or other uses.

Buttons: It has a single e-switch to operate the flashlight, covered by a black rubber cap.

Battery contact: Contact is made with the battery by a flat button on the driver and a thick nickel plated spring on the tail, to support the 20A maximum current this light is rated.

Bezel: The bezel is made of stainless-steel and easily removable by unscrewing it to access the LED.

Water Resistance: The flashlight does not have an IP rating, but I consider most Convoy flashlight IP68. The M21K for example has O-rings on all threads including the lens and bezel.

Size Comparison: On the left is the Convoy M21A, on the middle the M21K and the FireFlies X4 Stellar on the right. [11th picture]

• Weight and size

Weight:

- M21K with battery: 284.5g

- M21K no battery: 215.1g

- Battery (Amprius 50Q): 69.4g

Size: 55.1mm (head diameter) / 31.0mm (tail diameter) x 141.7mm (height)

 

• Battery, runtime, and charging

Battery: The M21K is powered by a single 21700 cell, it must have at least 20A CDR, it only accepts flat top batteries, button tops doesn't fit inside the battery tube. Simon was kind and sent an Amprius 50Q for review with the flashlight, this is a tabless cell, so it has lower internal resistance and a longer lifespan than traditional tab cells. [12th picture]

Battery Indicator: You can access the voltage check by clicking 5 times the main button, the main light will blink and show the voltage. Unfortunately the red/green light on the button cannot be used as a battery indicator.

Charging: The flashlight has USB-C charging on the main body, it is protected by a rubber cover. Used USB-C cables with a thin connector, because the rubber cap can be on the way sometimes. The red light will turn ON while the battery is charging, when it's fully charged the light will be green. [13th and 14th picture]

 

• Modes, Runtimes, Throw, Candela:

Modes: The flashlight comes by default on the smooth ramping mode, where only moonlight, turbo 10A and turbo 20A are pre-set modes, by clicking 6 times on the main button you can go to stepped mode, where you have 4 pre-set modes to cycle from. I don't have the measurements for the exact lumen count of the modes, but comparing to other flashlights the first mode seems about 50 lumens, second mode around 500, third mode around 1000 and the fourth mode around 2000-3000.

Turbo: This flashlight has two turbo modes, the 10A mode is on the 4 modes cycle, and can also be accessed by double clicking the flashlight, it's very bright and actually takes some minutes to start heating up, and lasts around 2 minutes with around 2000-3000 lumens before a major stepdown. The 20A turbo is even brighter, Simon says theoretically it has 6000 to 8000 lumens of the LHP73B rated, but it gets hot REALLY fast, in just a few seconds you can fell the head becoming warm, that's why this mode is only acessible momentairly.

Moonlight: Moonlight is actually pretty good on a big flashlight like this, usually these big powerful ones have a super bright moonlight, but this one is similar to the 1 lumen moonlights of my other flashlights.

Blinkies: This light features "Strobe" mode by triple clicking the main button.

Throw: This flashlight has amazing throw while also having a large hotspot, this is due to the amount of lumens it push + the 3**°** TIR lens, I've tested it to throw at least 400-500m but couldn't get good beamshots of it.

 

• Emitter, reflector and CRI:

Emitter: This M21K setup has the LHP73B LED, the SFT-90 LED is also available, the emitter is way better than I expected, the tint is awesome! It's very creamy and has some rosyness to it, loved it. It is a pretty floody LED, but with the 3**°** TIR lens it throw a lot. [15th and 16th Picture]

Reflector/TIR: The M21K comes with a big 3**°** TIR.

Lens: There is a hardened AR (anti-reflexive) coated glass lens in front of the TIR.

Beam profile: The beam has a very concentrated hotspot, but still manages to have a lot of flood on the higher brightness settings, it has some artifacts if you go wall hunting. Picture taken at 2m away from the wall with 18mm lens [17th picture]

CRI: The LHP73B is standard 70 CRI as far as I know, but the color looks so good on this 4000K emitter that I belive it may have slightly better CRI and R9 levels than most emitters.

 

• Beamshots Camera settings:

- 18mm lens 1" F8 ISO800

- (The trees at the back are at a distance of around 100m)

[18th picture] – M21K LHP73B 4000K - 20A Turbo

[19th picture] – M21K LHP73B 4000K - 10A Turbo

[20th picture] – M21K LHP73B 4000K - 4th mode ("high")

I always try to match what my eyes can see on the beamshots, so camera settings may vary.

 

• Driver and UI

Driver: It uses a 20A Buck constant current driver, so you have around 60W of power on this little monster! The driver is pretty good, has powerful brightness modes and also a very good moonlight.

UI: The UI is pretty simple. A single click on the button turns it ON/OFF, double click goes to turbo, double click + hold goes to 20A turbo. Holding the button while ON will change brightness. Triple click goes to strobe. Quadruple click activates tactical mode (you can only access 20A turbo momentairely. Quintuple click goes to battery check. 6 clicks change between the smooth ramp brightness and stepped brightness.

Low Voltage Warning: When the battery voltage is too low, the flashlight main light will start blinking and the red button LED will turn ON.

Reverse Polarity Protection: The flashlight is protected against inserting the battery with the wrong polarity.

Temperature Control: This is a big flashlight with big heat dissipators, so it will sustain the higher modes for a better amount of time than most flashlights, except for the 20A mode thant will heat up fast like crazy. It has temperature control, so when the driver hits 55°C the light will start to dim down to prevent driver and LED damage.

Lockout: This flashlight features eletronic and mechanical lockout (by unscrewing the tail cap a little). To access eletronic lockout you must press the main button 10x, the main light will blink to indicate.

 

A special thanks to Simon and Convoy for sending this flashlight for me to review!

*I am not being paid to do this review, everything here is my honest opinion.

Thank you for reading my review <3

 

This is the Wurkkos HD04 flashlight, a small flashlight with rotating head, glow in the dark plastic body, high CRI flood 4000K emitter, throw cool white LED and RGB!

• My opinion:

The HD04 is a very fun and useful flashlight, I am glad this flashlight has useful features for a nice price, as some recent Wurkkos flashlights have disappointed me, the HD04 is not one of them. I could only suggest to use the SFT25R on the "throw" cool white emitter, as this would increase a lot the throw distance. 

• Pros:

- 4000K 90 CRI floodlight

- Buck driver

- Potted USB-C

- Smooth RGB ramp

• Cons:

- TIR can be scratched easily

- The black body almost doesn't glow in the dark

- Doesn't use a standard battery type (14500, 10440...)

 

• Box contents [8th picture]

- HD04

- Lanyard

- Keychain carabiner

- USB-C charging cable

- User Manual

 

• Price

The Wurkkos HD04 is currently priced at $25.99 on the Wurkkos Official Website

• Body and build quality

Colors/Material Options: The HD04 has an aluminum head with gray anodizing, it is available in 3 plastic colors: cyan, white and black (featured in this review)

Material: The head part is made is made of 6061-T6 aluminum, the main body is made of clear plastic.

Main body: The main body is entirely made of clear plastic, it's very smooth, with there only being a small knurling near the edges. The main body has a Glow in the dark feature, the plastic has a powder that glows in the dark when previous charged with luminous energy, like sunlight, it's not very bright though, the main reason is probably the black plastic.

Clip: The clip is also made of plastic and has rubber ends for better grip. It's obviously not as resistant as a metal clip, but the plastic one seems pretty resistant as it's pretty thick.

Tail stand and rolling: The flashlight has a rectangular box shape, so it will stand on almost every position, it does not roll.

AUX lights: It features a RGB light that functions as an AUX light and also a battery indicator when you press the button. The RGB light cannot be used "always ON" to find the flashlight in the dark, but the main body glows in the dark. [9th to 12th picture]

Rotating head: The flashlight head can rotate 180° horizontally and 95° vertically, this is good especially when you combine this with the magnetic tail, so that you can get light where you need without holding the flashlight with your hands.

Buttons: The HD04 has 2 buttons, both of them being e-switches with aluminum caps on top of it. One of them is to turn the flashlight ON/OFF and the other one for changing the illumination mode (Cool white, Warm flood white or RGB).

Bezel: This flashlight has no bezel, so be extra careful with scratches.

Water Resistance: It has IPX6 ingress rating, the water-proofing on the main body is made by a rubber gasket that goes around all the perimeter of the plastic body, the head hinge has o-rings to prevent water ingress. The main body can be easily accessed by removing the 4 screws on it.

Magnets: The tail of the flashlight has a big magnet, it can be easily removed by unscrewing the 4 screws on the main body. [13th and 14th picture]

Size comparison: Here is a size comparison, on the left it is the Armytek ELF C1, on the middle the Wurkkos HD04 and on the right the Convoy S2+ [15th to 16th picture]

• Weight and size

Weight:

HD04 total weight: 55.8g

Size: 34.0mm (length) x 24mm (width – biggest width with clip) x 71.0mm (height)

 

• Battery, runtime, and charging

Battery: The HD04 uses a single LiPo battery with 600mAh, the capacity is OK, not awesome, but also not bad. It does not use a easy to replace size as 14500 or 18650, but rather a more specific format. [17th pícture]

Battery Indicator: You can access battery indicator by clicking on the mode button while the flashlight is OFF. The RGB light will turn ON and indicate the battery level is it follows:

Color	Battery level
Green	100% - 75%
Flashing Green	75% - 50%
Red	50% - 25%
Flashing Red	< 25%

Charging: It has a potted USB-C port on the head at the opposite side of the LEDs, charging does not take too long, taking around 1h20min to 1h40min using a 5V1A power source. [18th picture]

 

• Modes, Runtimes, Throw, Candela:

Modes: The HD04 has 6 modes on the Cool white "throw" beam, 4 modes on the 4000K "flood" light and a smooth RGB ramp, the advertised specs are as it follows:

Cool White "Spotlight" light:

Mode	Brightness	Runtime
Turbo	750 - 260 lumens	1 min - 1h20min
High	375 - 260 - 150 lumens	5min - 35min - 150min
Medium	110 lumens	4h
Low	10 lumens	38h
Moonlight	1 lumen	86h

4000K "flood" light:

Mode	Brightness	Runtime
High	450 - 150 lumens	3min - 1h30min
Medium	100 lumens	2h50min
Low	10 lumens	29h
Moonlight	1 lumen	75h

Throw: The flashlight is rated to throw about 120m with the cool white beam, it actually is useable for like around 80m, SFT25R probably would make a much better throw on this flashlight, but 80m is acceptable.

 

• Emitter, reflector and CRI:

Emitter: The main cool white emitter is SST20 in 6500K, the 4000K emitter is not stated, but it is stated that it is 90 CRI. This SST20 6500K emitter has a little bit of green/yellow tint on lower brightness levels, on higher ones it gets more of the blue tint; the 4000K LED is good and neutral, has a little more of a yellow tint than my 4000K 519a flashlights, but it seems to be very good.

Lens: The flashlight does not have glass lens in front of the TIR.

Reflector/TIR: It has a smooth TIR on the cool white LED, a beaded TIR on the RGB light and a beaded/frosted TIR in front of the 4000K white.

Beam profile: The cool white beam has a defined hotspot with a smooth transition to a dimmer spill. The 4000K beam and RGB have a very floody beam, with the RGB having a lot of artifacts when pointing it to a wall from up close. [19th and 20th pictures]

CRI: The cool white emitter is standard CRI, but the 4000K flood emitter is claimed to be 90 CRI

• Driver and UI

Driver: The HD04 uses a constant current buck driver, so expect a constant output for almost all the runtime of this flashlight! Very good to see Wurkkos using regulated drivers on their flashlights. I didn't notice any PWM on my tests.

UI: The UI is pretty simple to use, one button is the "light button" and will turn the flashlight ON/OFF, and, if ON, holding it will cicle through the brightness levels, double click goes to turbo - double clicking again goes to moonlight, triple click (Cool white only) goes to strobe. The other button is the "mode button" it will access battery check if pressed when the flashlight is OFF, and, if ON, pressing it will cycle between: cool white - RGB - 4000K white.

Mode Memory: The flashlight will memorize the last mode, brightness setting and RGB color used, except "Turbo" or "moonlight".

Temperature Control: When the flashlight gets too hot, the output will be reduced to prevent driver and LED damage.

Lockout: Lockout can be accessed by holding both buttons at the same time until the main light flashes 2 times, same for unlocking. While locked the cool white low can be accessed momentarily by holding the light button (not the mode one).

Turbo: The cool white turbo has 750 lumens, a nice output for this tiny light. The 4000K has only 450 lumens, could be more, but this brightness is still good.

Moonlight: The moonlight modes are decent, 1 lumen is nice to have when needed, thought it seems to be a bit brighter than 1 lumen.

Blinkies: The cool white mode has strobe by triple clicking, and the RGB mode has solid color flashing, rainbow, red/blue flashing and slow rainbow fading, all accessed by double clicking while on RGB mode.

 

A special thanks to Wurkkos for sending this flashlight for me to review!

*I am not being paid to do this review, everything here is my honest opinion.

Thank you for reading my review <3

This is the Wuben X4 a multi-purpose EDC flashlight with a lot of features, side neutral white/RGB AUX, brightness ramp with a dimmer rotating switch, mode sliding selector, USB-C charging, tail magnet and more!

• My opinion:

The X4 has a lot of good features condensed in a single flashlight, in fact it has so many features that it confused me sometimes, the X4 is not perfect, as it tries to do everything in a small body, but it has many useful features that for those that like multi-feature flashlights will like, especially if you want to carry a single light for everything. In my opinion 4 cool white emitters on the main beam is too much, it could have a single throwy emitter like the SFT-25R and red/UV emitters to add more useful features to the package, or even add some warm/neutral LEDs to the main beam and let you select a throwy or floody beam on the main light, the side neutral white emitters are pretty good and have a nice tint, very good for doing up close work.

I think I would trade the rotating dimmer for more water resistante, as, for me, the dimmer is more of a gimmick than actually useful, as it will probably fill with dust in the future and makes the light less water resistant. The tail switch feels good to click, but it could be used to actually turn the flashlight ON instead of only momentary.

• Pros:

- Useful battery indicator

- 3 types of illumination options

- Nice tint on the side neutral white emitters

- Tail switch with easy and fast access to "Turbo" and "Strobe"

- Accepts protected/unprotected button-top/flat-top batteries

• Cons:

- TIR not protected by glass

- Mode slider selector turns the light OFF when changing modes

- Main cool white emitters have a slightly green tint]

- Dimmer is not much precise

- IP65 rating

 

• Box contents [8th to 9th pictures]

- X4

- 21700 Wuben protected Li-ion battery

- Wuben lanyard

- USB-C charging cable

- User manual

• Price

The Wuben X4 is currently priced at $49.99 in Wuben official store

• Body and build quality

Colors/Material Options: The X4 is available only in aluminum, with 3 anodizing colors: White (featured on this review), Grey and Black.

Material: The main body is entirely made of 6061-T6 aluminum alloy, with what I suppose to be standard type II anodizing.

Main body: The main body has a lot of smooth areas, there are some screws on the button side.

Clip: The clip does not have the strongest grip, but it will hold the flashlight well. The clip is held by 2 Allen screws on the main body.

Tail stand and rolling: The X4 can head/tail stand and does not roll.

AUX lights: It has RGB lights and 4000K white light as a side light, the light is very diffused. It's possible to adjust the brightness of the white light, but not of the RGB as it can only cycle between the 7 colors available and blinkies. The RGB light cannot be configured to be always ON and help to find the flashlight in the dark. [10th to 11th pictures]

Buttons: This flashlight features 4 buttons, one standard e-switch to turn the flashlight ON/OFF, one tail button for quick "tactical" access, one slider mode selector button, and, one of the highlights of this flashlight, the rotating button for changing brightness level/RGB color. The slider mode selector button is kind of annoying, because if you try to change modes when the flashlight is already ON, it will turn OFF the flashlight, also, the rotating brightness selector is not much precise and sometimes you need to move it a lot to start changing the brightness, this is helpful to prevent accidental changes on brightness though.

Battery contact: Contact is made with the battery by 2 gold-plated springs. I usually prefer springs for battery contact because they absorb impact if the flashlight is dropped and protect the driver/LED.

Bezel: The bezel is a little higher than the TIR lens to help prevent scratches.

Water Resistance: It has IP65 ingrees rating, this means that it can withstand jets of water, but cannot be submerged; the main water-proofing is made by a rubber gasket on the tail cap held by pressure of the tail cap lock, the bezel also has O-rings and also on the lens.

Magnets: The tail cap has a strong magnet to hold the flashlight horizontally and vertically. [12th picture]

Size comparison: FireFlies X4 Stellar (21700) on the left and Convoy S2+ (18650) on the right. [13th to 14th pictures]

 

• Weight and size

Weight:

-With battery: 141.4g

-Without battery: 91.7g

-Battery (Wuben 18650): 49.8g

Size: 34.1mm (length) x 26.4mm (width – with clip) x 96mm (height)

 

• Battery, runtime, and charging

Battery: The Wuben X4 comes with an 18650 Wuben branded battery ABE3400 with 3350mAh of capacity. The battery is protected as it is 69.0mm tall, around 4mm taller than usual 18650 batteries. Non-protected cells can also be used on this flashlight. [15th picture]

Battery Indicator: It features battery indicator on the side RGB LEDs! To access it you must select the side light or the main throw light on the mode slider selector and, with the light OFF, hold the main e-switch for 1 second. The RGB light will light up and represent the battery level as it follows:

Color	Battery Level
Solid Blue	≥ 90%
Flashing Blue	90% - 40%
Solid Red	40% - 15%
Flashing Red	≤ 15%

Charging: The X4 features USB-C charging on the main body, the USB-C port is hidden below the mode slider selector, to access it you need to slide the selector all the way to "moonlight", then the USB-C port will be accessible. It has an input of 5V 2.4A and is expect to fully charge the battery in 2.5h. The red RGB light will turn ON when the flashlight is charging, and when fully charged the blue light will be lit. The USB-C charging cable actually has the Wuben logo, which is not common for flashlights to come with the brand name on cable, as usually the cables are generic, this one at least has the brand name. [16th to 17th pictures]

 

• Modes, Runtimes, Throw, Candela:

Modes: The X4 main light has a smooth ramp, so the only pre-defined brightness levels are "Turbo" with 1500 lumens, and "Moonlight" with 5 lumens (Which is not an ideal moonlight in my opinion). The side white light has also a smooth ramp with "Turbo" having 100 lumens and "moonlight" 1 lumen. The RGB lights have a locked brightness at 10 lumens.

Turbo: This flashlight turbo has around 1500 lumens, very bright, gets hot fast thought, around 30 to 40 seconds before major stepdown.

Moonlight: Moonlight is also present on this flashlight, but it has around 5 lumens, which is too bright for a moonlight mode in my opinion. The moonlight is not bad, and has no PWM, but it's too bright.

Blinkies: It features some flashing modes, as tactical strobe on the main cool white light by triple clicking, red-blue/yellow/green flashing and also RGB flashing.

Advertised specs:

Main Cool white light (FL1 Standard)

Mode	Brightness level (lumens)	Runtime
Turbo	1500 lumens	40s - 3h
Moonlight	5 lumen	285h

*I noticed a stepdown at around 40 seconds of Turbo.

Side light (FL1 Standard)

Mode	Brightness level (lumens)	Runtime
Neutral White (Turbo)	100 lumens	8h
Neutral White (Moonlight)	1 lumen	720h
RGB	10 lumens	70h
RGB Blinkies	10 lumens	250h
Multi-color flashing	10 lumens	185h

Throw: The flashlight is tested to throw 205m on the FL1 standard, by my testing it could reach 100m but was not that bright, so I assume it could hit around 150m with the light still being useful, decent for an EDC flashlight with so many features.

 

• Emitter, reflector and CRI:

Emitter: Wuben, sadly, does not specified the emitters anywhere I could find, and I also couldn't recognize the LEDs. For the main cool white beam, it seems to use 4 of the same tiny LED, each with a type of TIR optic; they have some green tint, especially on lower levels, not the worst I've seen though, it's only slightly green; they are all turned ON at the same time, you cannot choose which turns ON. The neutral white lamp and RGB lights have a plastic diffuser in front of it, making them super floody. [18th Picture]

Lens: The TIR is not protected by glass lens.

Reflector/TIR: It has 4 TIR optics on the main white beam, one beaded for a floody beam, two being on the sides for a better flood illumination and one large clear TIR for throw.

Beam profile: The hotspot is not a perfect circle from up close if you go wall hunting (lol), but with some meters it appears more pleasant, the transition between the hotspot and the flood area is smooth. Around the flood circle there are artifacts only visible if you point it at a wall from up close. [19th picture]

CRI: All the LEDs seem to have standard CRI.

 

• Beamshots Camera settings:

- 35mm lens 1" F8 ISO800

- (The trees at the back are at a distance of around 100m)

[20th picture] - X4 - "Turbo" (1500 lumens)

I always try to match what my eyes can see on the beamshots, so camera settings may vary.

 

• Driver and UI

Driver: The driver is not stated anywhere, but certainly it is a regulated driver, as the LEDs have no PWM and I didn't notice output drop when the battery level dropped.

UI: The UI has a lot of buttons to press, the main e-switch is for turning the flashlight ON/OFF; the tail "tactical" switch goes to momentary turbo by clicking it, double-clicking it will go to strobe mode; the mode slider selector if for... well, selecting the mode you want, from top to bottom: moonlight - main cool white beam - side neutral white/RGB - lockout; and the rotating dimmer is for changing the brightness level.

Low Voltage Warning: Yes, the battery indicator will flash red when the battery charge is too low.

Reverse Polarity Protection: It features reverse polarity protection, so don’t worry if you insert the battery by the wrong side.

Temperature Control: The brightness output will drop significantly when the driver reaches a hot temperature around 55°C (131 **°**F).

Lockout: The light features lockout on the mode selector, the flashlight will not turn ON when the lockout mode is selected.

 

A special thanks to Telma and Wuben for sending this flashlight for me to review!

*I am not being paid to do this review, everything here is my honest opinion.

Thank you for reading my review ❤️

 

This is the Acebeam UC3A, a tiny flashlight powered by a single 10440/AA battery, with dual SST-36F 6500K LEDs, a flood AUX 5000K/RGB light, tail magnet and much more!

• My opinion:

The UC3A is a pretty fun flashlight for EDC, I think for it's size it could have used 14500/AA batteries, as this would add more than double the runtime, but 10440/AAAs are okay too. The main cool white LEDs are quite powerful, but the "high" mode can only last some seconds as the flashlight will heat very fast.

The side AUX light is pretty good to use as a tiny lamp when you need it, it's not super powerful, but enough for lighting up a small room in the dark. The RGB modes are cool and useful, but cycling them is not great in my opinion, including the "flashing" modes on the 2-click cycle made it take more time to get to the mode you want, I think it should have been hidden behind a 3-clicks maybe.

Overall it's a pretty nice flashlight, but it lacks some features I think would improve it, like battery indicator, glass in front of the TIRs, a more easy to cycle RGB UI, and, of course, a dimmer moonlight mode; it's on sale right now for almost $9 discount!

 

• Pros:

- Dual fuel feature (can accept 10440 cells and AAAs)

- The "High" modes of RGB are much brighter than advertised

- White Neutral AUX light can be useful

• Cons:

- Main LEDs Moonlight is too bright at around 4 lumens

- The AUX lights UI is a bit annoying

- No battery indicator

- The output with AAAs is much dimmer

 

• Box contents [9th picture]

- UC3A

- Acebeam 10440 Li-ion cell with USB-C charging

- Keychain ring

- Lanyard

- USB-C charging cable

- Instructions manual

 

• Price

The Acebeam UC3A is currently discounted and priced at $26.20 on the Acebeam official store. The normal price is $34.90.

 

• Body and build quality

Colors/Material Options: The UC3A is available in aluminum with 3 anodizing colors: Black, Olive Green and Orange. (This review features the orange version).

Material: The main body of the flashlight is made of aluminum alloy 6061-T6 hard anodized, type 2 anodizing.

Main body: The main body is very smooth; there is only knurling on the tail cap to make easier to unscrew it. The head is held on the body by 2 Allen screws.

Threads: The threads are trapezoidal and anodized; this means this light features mechanical lockout by untwisting a little the tail cap.

Clip: The clip is made of PVD black coated stainless-steel and already comes attached to the main body by 2 Allen screws on the opposite side of the buttons.

Tail stand and rolling: The UC3A can head/tail stand and does not roll easily.

AUX lights:  This flashlight features AUX lights on a diffuser tube located on one of the sides of the flashlight. This tube produces a very diffused and floody light that reaches 270°, serving as a small lamp. Apart from 4000K white light, you can access 3 main colors (red, green and blue) in solid or flashing mode, and also a police flash and rainbow mode. [10th to 12th pictures]

Buttons: The UC3A has 2 buttons, the top one turns ON the main SST36f LEDs, the lower one turns ON the AUX/flood light. If one of the lights is already ON, pressing the other button will override it and turn the other light ON.

Battery contact: Contact is made with the battery by one tiny gold-plated spring on the tail cap and a gold-plated button contact on the driver.

Bezel: The flashlight bezel is made of aluminum and anodized on the same color as the main body, the TIR lens are recessed only a little bit, so it’s prone to scratches.

Water Resistance: It has IP68 ingress rating, so it's resistant to water submersion around 2 meters for 30 minutes. It seems to be decently sealed, the bezel has 2 o-rings to prevent water ingress, the AUX diffuser has one O-ring and the tail cap also has a tiny O-ring; it seems to be decently sealed.

Magnets: The UC3A has a tiny magnet on the tail cap, which is strong enough to hold the flashlight horizontally or vertically on metal surfaces. [13th picture]

Size comparison: Manker E02 III on the left and UrFlamp E8 on the right. [14th picture]

 

• Weight and size

Weight:

-With battery: 62.0g

-Without battery: 53.2g

-Battery (Acebeam 10440): 9.0g

Size: 31.1mm (length) x 19.6mm (width – with clip) x 71.3mm (height)

 

• Battery, runtime, and charging

Battery: The UC3A is powered by a single 10440 Li-ion cell, it comes with a protected 10440 Acebeam Li-ion battery with 400mAh and USB-C charging! The capacity is not the best in the world, but good for 10440 batteries. This flashlight has the Dual Fuel feature, so you can use 10440 cells and also AAA batteries (Alkaline, NiMH…), the light does not reach the maximum brightness though, so it’s mainly for emergencies. I personally love dual fuel flashlights for the option to use other types of battery if your main one has no charge. [15th picture]

Battery Indicator: There is no battery indicator present on this flashlight, there is a charge indicator on the battery top.

Charging: There is no USB-C port on the flashlight body, instead the charging port is located on the 10440 cell. Charging is pretty quick as the battery is only rated for 400mAh.

 

• Modes, Runtimes, Throw, Candela:

Modes: The Acebeam UC3A has 4 modes on the main SST36f white light, them being: moonlight (4 lumens), low (80 lumens), medium (210-30 lumens) and high (900-400-90 lumens), and also features a strobe mode. The UC3A does not feature mode memory, and this bothered me a little, but I guess some people may like it this way.

Main Cool White LEDs advertised specs (FL1 Standard):

Cool White (Modes)	Brightness [Lumens]	Runtime [Hours-Minutes-Seconds]
High	900-400-90 lumens	15s-14min-26min
Medium	210-30 lumens	30min-1h
Low	80 lumens	1h50min
UltraLow	4 lumens	23h
Strobe	900-400-90 lumens	15s-25min-1h

The side AUX light has a lot of modes, all of them except of the red-blue flash and rainbow, have low and high modes: Neutral white, red, green and blue. The RGB colors have also a blinking mode.

Auxiliary LEDs Advertised specs (FL1 Standard):

*The High modes of the AUX lights seem way more bright than the 2 lumens/1 lumen advertised.

Neutral White (Modes)	Brightness [Lumens]	Runtime [Hours-Minutes-Seconds]
High	35 lumens	3h
Low	2 lumens	23h

Red (Modes)	Brightness [Lumens]	Runtime [Hours-Minutes-Seconds]
High	1	6h
Low	0.5	18h
Flashing High	1	17h
Flashing Low	0.5	53h

Green (Modes)	Brightness [Lumens]	Runtime [Hours-Minutes-Seconds]
High	2	6h
Low	1	18h
Flashing High	2	17h
Flashing Low	1	53h

Blue (Modes)	Brightness [Lumens]	Runtime [Hours-Minutes-Seconds]
High	1	6h
Low	0.5	18h
Flashing High	1	17h
Flashing Low	0.5	53h
Red-Blue flashing	-	23h
Rainbow	-	4h

Throw: The flashlight is not focused on throw and is mainly for EDC and close up work, it has around 85m maximum throw FL1 standard on the cool white LED, so it is pretty floody and will not throw far, but this is actually the purpose of this flashlight.

 

• Emitter, reflector and CRI:

Emitter: This flashlight uses 2x Luminus SST-36F 6500K LEDs for the main cool white light, I didn’t notice any green tint at all on it, it has that classic blueish tint of cool white LEDs though. The neutral white/AUX RGB emitters are not listed and I assume they are generic LEDs; the neutral white seems to be very clean 5000K, I didn’t notice any green or blue tint to it. [16th to 17th pictures]

Lens: The lenses are not made of glass, the TIR lens is directly in contact with the outside world.

Reflector/TIR: The TIR lenses on this flashlight make the beam slightly focused but still very floody, good for close/medium range uses.

Beam profile: The beam has a slightly focused hotspot with a nice amount of spill. [18th picture]

CRI: Standard 70 CRI for the cool white LED

 

• Beamshots Camera settings:

- 18mm lens 1" F8 ISO800

- (The trees at the back are at a distance of around 100m)

[19th picture] - UC3A - High (900 lumens)

[20th picture] - Flashlight off

I always try to match what my eyes can see on the beamshots, so camera settings may vary.

 

• Driver and UI

Driver: The driver type is not stated directly, but none of the lights has PWM, so I can assume it has a buck constant current driver. The output with AAA batteries is much dimmer, and when you cycle through modes sometimes it gives a brighter flash and dims down after.

UI: The UI is very simple to understand and use, each button turns ON a type of light, the top one is for the main cool white light, while the “RGB” button is for the neutral white lamp and the RGB AUX lights. If any of the modes is ON, clicking the button to access the other illumination type will override it.

For the main cool white light: One click on the top button to turn ON/OFF. Holding the button from OFF is the only way to access “moonlight”, holding the button from ON will cycle between “low” – “medium” – “high”. Double clicking will go to “high” instantly. Triple click will go to “Strobe”.

For the AUX light: One click on the top button to turn ON/OFF. Holding the “RGB” button will cycle between “low” – “high” on the color you have selected. Double clicking will swap the color following: “Neutral white” – “red” – “flashing red” - “green” - “flashing green” – “blue” – “flashing blue” - “Red/Blue flashing” – “Rainbow”. Holding the button while the light is OFF will access the “low” mode.

Mode Memory: The flashlight does not have mode memory, it will always turn ON in “medium” for the main cool white light, and “neutral white – high” for the RGB AUX.

Reverse Polarity Protection: The battery has low voltage protection on the protection circuit inside it.

Temperature Control: The flashlight will dim the light to a pre-defined brightness level if the temperature reaches hot temperatures. This is made to prevent LED and driver damage.

Lockout: It features lockout, to lock the flashlight you must hold the cool white light button for 3 seconds, the “moonlight” mode will turn ON, and this is normal. When locked, if you press the button the AUX light will blink red and green to indicate it’s locked. To unlock simply hold the same button for 3 seconds again.

Turbo: The “turbo” on this flashlight is simply the “high” mode with 900 lumens.

Moonlight: The moonlight mode is not the best in my opinion, as it has around 4 lumens, for me it’s too bright. I wish it had the 4 lumens mode on the normal cycle (4 lumens mode) – “Low” – “medium” – “high”, and the moonlight mode was dimmer, like 1 lumen or less.

Blinkies: This light has strobe mode on the main cool light, and some solid flashing colors, red/blue flash and rainbow mode.

 

A special thanks to Chris and Acebeam for sending this flashlight for me to review!

*I am not being paid to do this review, everything here is my honest opinion.

Thank you for reading my review ❤️

This is the Armytek ELF C1 USB-C in cool white with the "PCB" emitter. It has a nice tint in the cool white beam, USB-C charging, amazing moonlight mode, matte rubber-like anodizing, one of the highest water/impact resistances I've seen on a flashlight, lamp mode and much more!

This is a repost, because I didn't like the format of the previous review, so I went back to the old one with the "th picture" to help find the picture about an specific topic, and, for some reason, some pictures didn't got uploaded to the original post.

• My opinion:

This flashlight is really awesome and super high quality, I was surprised at how good the anodizing and built quality are. The LED is also pretty good and powerful, especially as it has a beautiful tint for a cool white LED. The moonlights modes are also pretty dim, making them perfect for using at night. One of the things that caught my attention the most was the extremely good resistance ratings this flashlight has, 10m underwater and 10m impacts is awesome resistance, as it's fully potted you don't have to worry much about damaging it.

I really don't have much to criticize on this flashlight, it's almost perfect on everything it does. It's one of the few flashlight I can recommend without hesitation, awesome flashlight.

• Pros:

- Awesome clean cool white (around 5700K)

- Great water and impact resistance (10m underwater and 10m drops)

- Fully internally potted components and USB-C port

- Battery indicator and state indicator (helps find it in the dark)

- Type III hard anodizing with a matte rubber-like texture

- Very high quality headband

• Cons:

- The flashlight holder on the headband seems fragile

- Memorizes moonlight modes*

 

• Box contents [10th picture]

- ELF C1

- Armytek Headband

- Stainless-steel clip

- USB-C charging cable

- Extra O-ring

- Warranty cards

- Instructions manual

 

• Price

Coupons:

- LMP15

The Armytek ELF C1 USB-C is currently priced at $55.00 on the Armytek official store.

• Special features (Lamp mode): The ELF C1 can operate in what they call “lamp mode”. It is essentially using the flashlight without a battery and connected to a power source. To access this mode, you only need to remove the battery and connect the USB-C cable with a powerbank or even a phone charger. On “Lamp mode” you can only access Firefly1, Firefly2 and Main1 (low). A useful feature, especially in emergencies, but not the feature I liked the most.

• Acessories: The headband is superb quality, no complaints on it, feels very high quality and durable and also has a nice design. The flashlight holder on the headband is made of plastic and I think it could be more resistant, it seems a little fragile, but holds the flashlight well. The stainless-steel clip is very sturdy and useful and is kinda deep carry.

• Body and build quality

Colors/Material Options: The ELF C1 is only available in aluminum with a black type III matte hard anodizing. The ELF C1 is available in cool and warm white. The version featured in the review is cool white.

Material: The main body is made of Aluminum, probably 6061 or 6063, Armytek does not specify it. The bezel is made of stainless-steel. The button and USB-C are covered by yellow rubber covers.

Main body: The main body is very clean, there is not much knurling because the anodizing is already matte and has a rubbery feel on the hands, this already makes it very grippy, even without knurling. The anodizing is so hard that it can file my nails a little when I try to scratch it. The only “Knurling” are 2 rings on the battery tube to secure the clip in place.

Threads: The threads are trapezoidal and anodized; this means this light features mechanical lockout by untwisting a little the tail cap. [11th picture]

Clip: The clip is made of stainless-steel and attaches to the battery tube very tight.

Tail stand and rolling: The ELF C1 can easily tail stand and also head stand as the LED is on the side. The flashlight does not roll much because it has some straight sides on the head, they serve to accommodate the clip better.

AUX lights: The main button has AUX lights under the yellow rubber cap, it’s not RGB, it can light up green, orange and red! The AUX lights serve to indicate the battery level, which is a must-have feature for most flashlights IMO, but it also can show a temperature warning if the flashlight is too hot. It also has a feature they call “state indicator”, in which the AUX LEDs will blink every 4 seconds, even when the flashlight is off, indicating the battery level and helping find the flashlight in the dark even if it’s not turned on. [12th picture]

Battery level indicator:

AUX (flashes)	Battery Level
Green (every 4s)	>25%
Orange (every 2s)	25%-10%
Red (every 1s)	<10%

Temperature indicator: Is also featured in this light and I explained it more on the "Temperature Control" section.

Water Resistance: It has IP68 ingress protection rating, a lot of flashlights have this rating, but the ELF C1 has a big difference, most flashlights are tested to be 1m or 2m underwater for 1 hour, the ELF C1 is tested to be in 10m submersion for 5h! This is absolutely AMAZING water resistance. The USB-C is covered by a yellow rubber cover, but it is also internally potted to prevent water ingress even without the rubber cap.

Impact Resistance: I usually don’t talk much about impact resistance, but this flashlight Is advertised to have all the components internally potted, and to resist 10m impacts! This is awesome impact resistance.

Buttons: The ELF C1 has a single e-switch that is covered by a yellow rubber button.

Battery contact: Contact is made with the battery by 2 gold plated springs, this makes the flashlight more resistant to impacts as the springs absorb the shock and prevent it from damaging the driver and battery. [13th picture]

Bezel: This flashlight has a smooth stainless-steel bezel, it is not easily removable and I could not get it open, apparently, it’s sealed to prevent water ingress and also to prevent opening it.

Magnets: It has strong magnets on the tail cap. [14th picture]

Size comparison: Manker E05 II on the left and Convoy S2+ on the right. [15th picture]

 

• Weight and size

Weight:

-With battery: 79.4g

-Without battery: 55.5g

-Battery (Armytek 18350): 24.0g

Size: 32.9mm (head diameter) / 24.3mm (tail diameter) x 78.7mm (height)

 

• Battery, runtime, and charging

Battery: The ELF C1 is powered by a single 18350 Li-ion cell, the package includes an Armytek branded cell with 900mAh, and they say it’s made by leading manufacturers (e.g. Samsung, Sanyo, Sony, Molicel…). Any 18350 can be used, just be sure it meets CDR requirements. [16th picture]

Battery Indicator: The flashlight features battery indicator on the main button AUX. It will blink every 2 seconds if the flashlight is ON, and you can enable a “always ON” battery indicator which blinks every 4 seconds when the flashlight is OFF, this is called by them “state indicator” and also helps to find the flashlight in the dark.

Charging: Charging is pretty easy on this flashlight as it features a potted USB-C port on the opposite side of where the LED is. A yellow rubber cap covers the USB-C, but it’s fully internally potted for maximum water ingress protection. [17th picture]

Low Voltage Warning: The AUX light will blink red when the battery voltage is too low, also the main white light will be flashing.

Reverse Polarity Protection: it features reverse polarity protection, so don’t worry if you insert the battery by the wrong side.

 

• Modes, Runtimes, Throw, Candela:

Modes: The ELF C1 has 6 brightness modes total. It has a FANTASTIC 0.11 lumen moonlight mode, I wish it was just a little bit dimmer, but it’s already pretty good, it also has a secondary moonlight mode with 2 lumens which is also nice. The turbo mode reaches around 1000 lumens and is very powerful.

The advertised mode specs are as follows:

Mode	Brightness (lumens)	Runtime
Turbo	1000-530 lumens	4min-52min
Main3 (High)	500 lumens	1h11min
Main2 (Medium)	220 lumens	3h
Main1 (low)	40 lumens	15h
Firefly2	2 lumens	192h (8 days)
Firefly1	0.11 lumen	1440h (60 days)

Throw: The flashlight is pretty focused on being a floody light, so the beam is very wide and the hotspot is very diffused, still it manages to throw a good 70-100m.

Mode Memory: The ELF C1 memorizes the last mode used, including “Firefly” modes and “Turbo”. I think it should not memorize “Firefly” because you already have a simple shortcut to it, by holding the main button when it’s OFF.

Turbo: Turbo mode reaches 1000 lumens for around 3 to 4 minutes before it heats too much and steps down to prevent driver and LED damage, they advertise after 4 minutes it still maintains 530 lumens. Very powerful for such a tiny light.

Moonlight: It has 2 moonlight modes that are called “Firefly1” and “Firefly2”. The first one is absolutely fantastic, it has around 0.11 lumen and lasts 60 days always ON, it’s pretty dim and awesome for not blinding yourself at night. The second firefly mode is also pretty good, I prefer the first one, but it’s also pretty nice to have more options.

Blinkies: It has no blinking mode, which is a good thing IMO, it’s a work light, not a tactical one.

 

• Emitter, reflector and CRI:

Emitter: The LED is pretty good, Its cool white, but has no blueish or greenish tint, just a clean cool white. It seems to be around 5700K, not the usual 6500K, also CRI looks to be better than most cool white flashlights I own. Armytek does not state which LED it’s used on the ELF C1, they call it “PCB” on their website. However, it’s been found by other enthusiasts that it actually uses the Samsung LH351D , probably in 5700K. It’s an awesome LED and a real upgrade from most brands that use way “worse” emitters with low CRI and blueish/greenish tint. Previous versions seem to have used the Cree XP-L emitter. [18th picture]

Lens: The TIR lens is covered by anti-reflexive coated hardened glass.

Reflector/TIR: It features a floody beaded TIR lens in front of the LED.

Beam profile: The beam is very floody and doesn't have a well defined hotspot, perfect for close up work. [19th picture]

CRI: The Samsung LH351D emitter in 5700K can be 70 or 80 CRI, which isn't the best CRI, but really better than most cool white low CRI LEDs most brands use.  

• Beamshots Camera settings:

- 18mm lens 1" F8 ISO800

- (The trees at the back are at a distance of around 100m)

[20th picture] - ELF C1 USB-C - "High" mode

The ELF C1 is not a throwy flashlight, it's for close work, so it's impressive that it can throw at around 100m.

I always try to match what my eyes can see on the beamshots, so camera settings may vary.

 

• Driver and UI

Driver: The driver is not stated anywhere I could find, but I’m sure it’s something pretty good as well. Probably a high-quality buck driver. It would not make sense to make a flashlight with this outstanding quality and use a bad driver.

UI: The UI is pretty straight forward. One click turns it ON/OFF. When it’s ON you can hold the button to cycle between the main modes (low, medium, high). From OFF if you hold the main button it will go to Firefly1 mode of 0.11 lumen, if you keep holding it will go to Firefly2 of 2 lumens, keep holding and it will go to the main modes. From ON or OFF double clicking will access “Turbo” with 1000 lumens.

Timer mode: You can also activate a timer to keep the flashlight ON for a determined amount of time, to do this unscrew the tailcap until the light turns OFF and while the flashlight is off, press the button and tighten the tailcap while keeping the button pressed until the main light starts flashing. After this you have 3 options to choose:

1 click - 2 minutes

2 clicks - 5 minutes

3+ clicks - 10 minutes

The flashlight will blink the amount of clicks you made to confirm the action. To disable this and go back to normal mode unscrew the tailcap until it disconnects while the flash-light is off, press the button, release it and screw in the tailcap.

State Indicator: The state indicator will blink every 4 seconds and indicate the battery level when the flashlight is OFF, helping you to find it in the dark. To active it ]unscrew the tailcap a little bit while the flashlight is off, press the button and keeping the button pressed, screw the tailcap back in. The flashlight memorizes that you enabled this mode.

Temperature Control: This flashlight features active real-time temperature control, few flashlights actually feature this, as it’s way more complicated and expensive to do than normal temperature control; the flashlight will always measure the temperature of the driver when it’s ON and it will dynamically adjust the brightness to prevent overheating. The flash will also indicate when the flashlight is getting too warm, around 58°C (136.4°F) by flashing the main button AUX in orange 3 times every 2 seconds, at critical levels it will flash red 3 times every second.

Lockout: The light features only mechanical lockout by untwisting the tail cap a little. There is no electronic lockout.

A special thanks to Anastasia and Armytek for sending this flashlight for me to review!

*I am not being paid to do this review, everything here is my honest opinion.

Thank you for reading my review ❤️

This is the Armytek ELF C1 USB-C in cool white with the "PCB" emitter. It has a nice clean cool white beam (with nice CRI), USB-C charging, amazing moonlight mode and Turbo, matte grippy anodizing, amazing water and impact resistance, lamp mode and much more!

• My opinion:

This flashlight is really awesome and super high quality, I was surprised at how good the anodizing and built quality are. The LED is also pretty good and powerful, especially as it has good CRI (90 CRI and 50 R9) and a beautiful tint for a cool white LED. The moonlights modes are also pretty dim, making them perfect for using at night. One of the things that caught my attention the most was the extremely good resistance ratings this flashlight has, 10m underwater and 10m impacts is awesome resistance, as it's fully potted you don't have to worry much about damaging it.

I really don't have much to criticize on this flashlight, it's almost perfect on everything it does. It's one of the few flashlight I can recommend without hesitation, awesome flashlight. Congrats Armytek!

• Pros:

- Awesome clean cool white (5700K and nice CRI)

- Super water and impact resistance (10m underwater and 10m drops)

- Fully internally potted components and USB-C

- Battery indicator and state indicator (helps find it in the dark)

- Very resistant type III matte anodizing

- Very high quality headband

• Cons:

- The flashlight holder on the headband seems fragile

- Memorizes moonlight modes*

 

• Box contents

- ELF C1

- Headband

- Stainless-steel clip

- USB-C charging cable

- Extra O-ring

- Warranty card

- Instructions manual

 

• Price

Coupons: “LMP15”

The Armytek ELF C1 USB-C is currently priced at $55.00 on the Armytek official store.

 

• Special features (Lamp mode): The ELF C1 can operate in what they call “lamp mode”. It is essentially using the flashlight without a battery and connected to a power source. To access this mode, you only need to remove the battery and connect the USB-C cable with a powerbank or even a phone charger. On “Lamp mode” you can only access Firefly1, Firefly2 and Main1 (low). A useful feature, especially in emergencies, but not the feature I liked the most.

• Acessories: The headband is superb quality, no complaints on it, feels very high quality and durable and also has a nice design. The flashlight holder on the headband is made of plastic and I think it could be more resistant, it seems a little fragile, but holds the flashlight well. The stainless-steel clip is very sturdy and useful and is kinda deep carry.

• Body and build quality

Colors/Material Options: The ELF C1 is only available in aluminum with a black type III matte hard anodizing. The ELF C1 is available in cool and warm white. The version featured in the review is cool white.

Material: The main body is made of Aluminum, probably 6061 or 6063, Armytek does not specify it. The bezel is made of stainless-steel. The button and USB-C are covered by yellow rubber covers.

Main body: The main body is very clean, there is not much knurling because the anodizing is already matte and has a rubbery feel on the hands, this already makes it very grippy, even without knurling. The anodizing is so hard that it can file my nails a little when I try to scratch it. The only “Knurling” are 2 rings on the battery tube to secure the clip in place.

Threads: The threads are trapezoidal and anodized; this means this light features mechanical lockout by untwisting a little the tail cap.

Clip: The clip is made of stainless-steel and attaches to the battery tube very tight.

Tail stand and rolling: The ELF C1 can easily tail stand and also head stand as the LED is on the side. The flashlight does not roll much because it has some straight sides on the head, they serve to accommodate the clip better.

AUX lights: The main button has AUX lights under the yellow rubber cap, it’s not RGB, it can light up green, orange and red! The AUX lights serve to indicate the battery level, which is a must-have feature for most flashlights IMO, but it also can show a temperature warning if the flashlight is too hot. It also has a feature they call “state indicator”, in which the AUX LEDs will blink every 4 seconds, even when the flashlight is off, indicating the battery level and helping find the flashlight in the dark even if it’s not turned on.

Battery level indicator:

AUX (flashes)	Battery Level
Green (every 4s)	>25%
Orange (every 2s)	25%-10%
Red (every 1s)	<10%

Temperature indicator: Is also featured in this light and I explained it more on the "Temperature Control" section.

Water Resistance: It has IP68 ingress protection rating, a lot of flashlights have this rating, but the ELF C1 has a big difference, most flashlights are tested to be 1m or 2m underwater for 1 hour, the ELF C1 is tested to be in 10m submersion for 5h! This is absolutely AMAZING water resistance. The USB-C is covered by a yellow rubber cover, but it is also internally potted to prevent water ingress even without the rubber cap.

Impact Resistance: I usually don’t talk much about impact resistance, but this flashlight Is advertised to have all the components internally potted, and to resist 10m impacts! This is awesome impact resistance.

Buttons: The ELF C1 has a single e-switch that is covered by a yellow rubber button.

Battery contact: Contact is made with the battery by 2 gold plated springs, this makes the flashlight more resistant to impacts as the springs absorb the shock and prevent it from damaging the driver and battery.

Bezel: This flashlight has a smooth stainless-steel bezel, it is not easily removable and I could not get it open, apparently, it’s sealed to prevent water ingress and also to prevent opening it.

Magnets: It has strong magnets on the tail cap.

Size comparison: Manker E05 II on the left and Convoy S2+ on the right.

 

• Weight and size

Weight:

-With battery: 79.4g

-Without battery: 55.5g

-Battery (Armytek 18350): 24.0g

Size: 32.9mm (head diameter) / 24.3mm (tail diameter) x 78.7mm (height)

 

• Battery, runtime, and charging

Battery: The ELF C1 is powered by a single 18350 Li-ion cell, the package includes an Armytek branded cell with 900mAh, and they say it’s made by leading manufacturers (e.g. Samsung, Sanyo, Sony, Molicel…). Any 18350 can be used, just be sure it meets CDR requirements.

Battery Indicator: The flashlight features battery indicator on the main button AUX. It will blink every 2 seconds if the flashlight is ON, and you can enable a “always ON” battery indicator which blinks every 4 seconds when the flashlight is OFF, this is called by them “state indicator” and also helps to find the flashlight in the dark.

Charging: Charging is pretty easy on this flashlight as it features a potted USB-C port on the opposite side of where the LED is. A yellow rubber cap covers the USB-C, but it’s fully internally potted for maximum water ingress protection.

Low Voltage Warning: The AUX light will blink red when the battery voltage is too low, also the main white light will be flashing.

Reverse Polarity Protection: it features reverse polarity protection, so don’t worry if you insert the battery by the wrong side.

 

• Modes, Runtimes, Throw, Candela:

Modes: The ELF C1 has 6 brightness modes total. It has a FANTASTIC 0.11 lumen moonlight mode, I wish it was just a little bit dimmer, but it’s already pretty good, it also has a secondary moonlight mode with 2 lumens which is also nice. The turbo mode reaches around 1000 lumens and is very powerful.

The advertised mode specs are as follows:

Mode	Brightness (lumens)	Runtime
Turbo	1000-530 lumens	4min-52min
Main3 (High)	500 lumens	1h11min
Main2 (Medium)	220 lumens	3h
Main1 (low)	40 lumens	15h
Firefly2	2 lumens	192h (8 days)
Firefly1	0.11 lumen	1440h (60 days)

Throw: The flashlight is pretty focused on being a floody light, so the beam is very wide and the hotspot is very diffused, still it manages to throw a good 70-100m.

Mode Memory: The ELF C1 memorizes the last mode used, including “Firefly” modes and “Turbo”. I think it should not memorize “Firefly” because you already have a simple shortcut to it, by holding the main button when it’s OFF.

Turbo: Turbo mode reaches 1000 lumens for around 3 to 4 minutes before it heats too much and steps down to prevent driver and LED damage, they advertise after 4 minutes it still maintains 530 lumens. Very powerful for such a tiny light.

Moonlight: It has 2 moonlight modes that are called “Firefly1” and “Firefly2”. The first one is absolutely fantastic, it has around 0.11 lumen and lasts 60 days always ON, it’s pretty dim and awesome for not blinding yourself at night. The second firefly mode is also pretty good, I prefer the first one, but it’s also pretty nice to have more options.

Blinkies: It has no blinking mode, which is a good thing IMO, it’s a work light, not a tactical one.

 

• Emitter, reflector and CRI:

Emitter: The LED is pretty good, Its cool white, but has no blueish or greenish tint, a very clean cool white. It seems to be around 5700K and not 6500K and CRI looks also very good. Armytek does not state which LED it’s used on the ELF C1, they call it “PCB” on their website. However, it’s been found by other enthusiasts that it actually uses the Samsung LH351D 5700K! It’s an awesome LED and a real upgrade from most brands that use way “worse” emitters with low CRI and blueish/greenish tint. Previous versions seem to have used the Cree XP-L emitter.

Lens: The TIR lens is covered by anti-reflexive coated hardened glass.

Reflector/TIR: It features a floody beaded TIR lens in front of the LED.

Beam profile: The beam is very floody and doesn't have a well defined hotspot, perfect for close up work.

CRI: The Samsung LH351D emitter in 5700K has 90 CRI and 50 R9 rating.

 

• Beamshots Camera settings:

- 18mm lens 1" F8 ISO800

- (The trees at the back are at a distance of around 100m)

The ELF C1 is not a throwy flashlight, it's for close work, so it's impressive that it can throw at around 100m.

I always try to match what my eyes can see on the beamshots, so camera settings may vary.

 

• Driver and UI

Driver: The driver is not stated anywhere I could find, but I’m sure it’s something pretty good as well. Probably a high-quality buck driver. It would not make sense to make a flashlight with this outstanding quality and use a bad driver.

UI: The UI is pretty straight forward. One click turns it ON/OFF. When it’s ON you can hold the button to cycle between the main modes (low, medium, high). From OFF if you hold the main button it will go to Firefly1 mode of 0.11 lumen, if you keep holding it will go to Firefly2 of 2 lumens, keep holding and it will go to the main modes. From ON or OFF double clicking will access “Turbo” with 1000 lumens.

Timer mode: You can also activate a timer to keep the flashlight ON for a determined amount of time, to do this unscrew the tailcap until the light turns OFF and while the flashlight is off, press the button and tighten the tailcap while keeping the button pressed until the main light starts flashing. After this you have 3 options to choose:

1 click - 2 minutes

2 clicks - 5 minutes

3+ clicks - 10 minutes

The flashlight will blink the amount of clicks you made to confirm the action. To disable this and go back to normal mode unscrew the tailcap until it disconnects while the flash-light is off, press the button, release it and screw in the tailcap.

State Indicator: The state indicator will blink every 4 seconds and indicate the battery level when the flashlight is OFF, helping you to find it in the dark. To active it ]unscrew the tailcap a little bit while the flashlight is off, press the button and keeping the button pressed, screw the tailcap back in. The flashlight memorizes that you enabled this mode.

Temperature Control: This flashlight features active real-time temperature control, few flashlights actually feature this, as it’s way more complicated and expensive to do than normal temperature control; the flashlight will always measure the temperature of the driver when it’s ON and it will dynamically adjust the brightness to prevent overheating. The flash will also indicate when the flashlight is getting too warm, around 58°C (136.4°F) by flashing the main button AUX in orange 3 times every 2 seconds, at critical levels it will flash red 3 times every second.

Lockout: The light features only mechanical lockout by untwisting the tail cap a little. There is no electronic lockout.

 

 

A special thanks to Anastasia and Armytek for sending this flashlight for me to review!

*I am not being paid to do this review, everything here is my honest opinion.

Thank you for reading my review ❤️

This is the UrFlamp E8 keychain flashlight in “Glacier blue”! A powerful tiny flashlight with 800 lumens, USB-C charging, RGB LEDs under the main button and more!

• My opinion:

The E8 is a good keychain flashlight, it’s very bright with 800 lumens on turbo, and easy to use, has the lockout feature, USB-C charging for convenience and RGB for fun. The USB-C is potted and it has IP65 ingress protection rating. The battery has a decent capacity with 400mAh, the RGB colors on the main button are fun and very bright, I wish they also served as AUX lights and it were possible to set them to be always ON very dim. The high mode could be brighter, I think 200 or 300 lumens would be better than the 130 lumens it delivers on high.

 

• Pros:

- Turbo mode reach 800 lumens (for 30 seconds)

- The Glacier Blue color is pretty nice and has texture

- RGB light is bright

- Decent battery capacity

- Tiny and easy to use

• Cons:

- High mode could be brighter (only 130lumens)

- Clip is not much strong

- IP65

 

• Box contents [8th picture]

- E8

- Stainless-steel clip

- Keychain ring

- Charging cable

- Instructions manual

 

• Price

The UrFlamp E8 Glacier blue is priced at $23.99 on the UrFlamp official website. The White version is $21.99 and the black version is $19.99

 

• Body and build quality

Colors/Material Options: It’s only available in aluminum, probably 6061, but it’s not stated, and there are 3 anodizing color options: Black, White and Glacier Blue (shown on this review).

Material: The entire flashlight body is made of aluminum with a nice cyan/blue anodizing, the main button is made of clear plastic, the clip and keychain ring are made of stainless-steel.

Main body: The main body is entirely texturized with these ice-like cracks, you can feel them with your finger, this gives It a special look and a nicer grip. The button is also texturized and has concentric ring shapes so your finger doesn’t slip too easily.

Clip: The clip is not the strongest because of its design, but the flashlight is also not heavy, so the clip slips off if there is too much movement. [9th picture]

Tail stand and rolling: The flashlight can tail stand, but the tail area of contact is small, so it can fall easily. It has a squared shape so it does not roll.

AUX lights: The are RGB AUX lights on the flashlight beneath the main button, they are pretty strong for a tiny flashlight like this and, also serve as a battery indicator and you can also turn the ON with one of the 7 colors it has: Red, orange, yellow, purple, cyan, blue, green. They don’t stay lit to help find the flashlight in the dark. [10th picture]

Buttons: The E8 features a single e-switch on the top part of the flashlight, the button is made of clear plastic and it has RGB LEDs under it.

Bezel: The flashlight has a tiny thin bezel in front of the lens to protect it from scratches.

Water Resistance: It has the IP65 ingress protection rating with the USB-C being potted, the website says IP68 and the manual IP65, but I believe IP65 is the correct one, as usually tiny flashlights like this one have lower water resistance. The USB-C is covered by a metal slider which you need to slide for accessing the USB-C, it does not protect from water, just from dust.

Here is a comparison with 2 flashlights of similar size, on the left the Manker E02 III and on the right the Sofirn SE1. [11th and 12th picture]

 

• Weight and size

Weight: 26.1g (battery included)

Size: 53.8mm x 22mm x 13mm

 

• Battery, runtime, and charging

Battery: The E8 a battery with 400mAh, a nice battery for such a small flashlight. It’s not stated which type of battery is uses, I believe it to be Li-ion.

Battery Indicator: The LEDs under the main button will flash for 5 seconds each time the flashlight is turned on and indicate the battery charge as it follows:

Battery level	Light
90-100%	Solid Green
40-90%	Flashing Green
15-40%	Solid Red
<15%	Flashing Red

Charging: The E8 features USB-C charging on the main body, it is protected against dust from an aluminum slider cover, and protected from water by being internally potted to prevent water ingress inside the flashlight. It doesn’t take long to charge as the battery is not high capacity, it takes around 1 hour. When charging the AUX LED will be lit red, when the charge is over it will light up green. [13th to 14th picture]

 

• Emitter, reflector and CRI:

Emitter: The SE1 uses 2 OSRAM P8 LEDs they produce incredible 800 lumens, but it steps down very quickly, it’s a very uncommon LED but I actually liked it, it’s very powerful in a tiny flashlight like the E8 and has almost no green tint, producing a clean white beam. [15th Picture]

Lens: The lens is made of glass and seem to have an anti-reflexive coating.

Reflector/TIR: This light uses 2 tiny reflectors, I think they are probably made of plastic, but I couldn’t tell.

Beam profile: The beam is not the cleanest, there are some visible artifacts around the hotspot and, depending on the distance you are using it, it’s possible to see the 2 hotspots. Not my favorite beam, but also not much bad. [16th picture]

CRI: The LEDs have standard 70 CRI.

 

• Modes, Runtimes, Throw, Candela:

Modes: The SE1 has 4 white light main modes and 3 RGB modes. The “low” mode is advertised to have 1 lumen, but I think it actually looks brighter, so not an ideal moonlight-like mode. The Turbo mode Is actually quite impressive, with 800 lumens! It steps down very quickly, around after 30 seconds.

Advertised specifications:

Modes	Brightness (lumens)	Runtime
Turbo	800-200 lumens	35s+54min
High	130 lumens	90min
Medium	50 lumens	4h
Low	1 lumen	50h
RGB	20 lumens	3h

Throw: The throw is actually decent for this tiny little guy, 100m ANSI/NEMA FL1 with 2503cd. It actually doesn’t get usable this far, but still decent.

 

• Beamshots Camera settings:

- 24mm lens 2" F8 ISO400 WB: daylight (5200K)

There was some fog on the day I made the beamshoots, sorry for that.

[17th picture] - E8 6500K - Turbo (800 lumens) mode

I always try to match what my eyes can see on the beamshots, so camera settings may vary.

 

• Driver and UI

Driver: The driver is not specified, but from what I´ve tested it seems to be a good driver, probably buck. I did not see PWM on any mode by testing.

UI: The UI is very simple and good for a keychain flashlight.

From OFF:

-1 click turns it ON, another click turns it OFF, holding the main button cycles between low-medium-high, double click goes to turbo

-double click goes to turbo, another single click turns it OFF.

-Holding the button lights up the RGB light, holding the button again will cycle between the colors, double click makes the RGB light enter blinking mode.

-Triple click goes to the “police strobe”

-Quadruple click locks the light.

 

Low Voltage Warning: It has low voltage warning; the light will blink and turn off.

Thermal Regulation: The flashlight will dim down the brightness when the flashlight gets too hot.

Lockout: The E8 features lockout, a very important feature for a keychain light. To lock the flashlight, you must quadruple click the main button, same to exit lockout mode.

Turbo: The Turbo is quite impressive on this flashlight, 800 lumens is powerful for a keychain flashlight, as expected it doesn’t last long and steps down quickly.

Moonlight: This flashlight has not a specific “moonlight” mode, but the “low” mode is said to be 1 lumen, I actually believe it’s brighter than 1 lumen, but it’s not that bad. A dimmer mode would be better though.

Mode memory: The flashlight memorizes the last white light mode used, except “Turbo”. The RGB color is also memorized.

Blinkies: This flashlight features the police red and blue strobe and RGB blinking.

 

A special thanks to UrFlamp for sending this flashlight for me to review!

*I am not being paid to do this review, everything here is my honest opinion.

Thank you for reading my review <3

This is the Sofirn SE1, a new tiny flashlight made by Sofirn. It has 300 lumens, 395nm, a little RGB ring light, magnet on the bottom and charging with a USB-C potted port.

 

• My opinion:

The SE1 is not a bad flashlight, I think it had a lot of wasted potential. The white light could be brighter and have more options of tint/CRI, the UV should be 365nm as the 395m UV it has is almost useless for most people. The battery should have a higher capacity and the RGB modes more mode options, as I said in the review, it could have a feature where it’s always ON in a very dim setting to help you find the flashlight in the dark. I wished it worked like the Anduril AUX lights, on which you can almost fully control them. The USB-C being potted and water resistant without a rubber cover is a great improvement I hope more Sofirn flashlights receive, also the accessories it comes with are kind of cool, but really only the plastic clip and the keychain ring are useful for me, the other ones are just gimmicks. The SE1 is not a bad light, I think the general public may like it, but from an enthusiast point of view it could be MUCH better.

Also, I disapprove a flashlight brand not stating which LEDs and components they use, this can be used to make a flashlight with bad components and hope the consumers don’t notice it.

 

• Pros:

- Potted USB-C port

- Tiny and light

- Magnetic bottom

- Useful plastic clip

• Cons:

- PWM on the “moonlight” mode

- The RGB ring light is very limited

- Unknown LEDs

- Non replaceable battery

- low-capacity battery

- No other CCT or CRI options

 

• Box contents [9th picture]

- SE1

- Magnetic plastic clip

- Wristband

- Charging cable

- Keychain ring

- Beaded chain

- Instructions manual

 

• Price

Edit 1: New Aliexpress coupon available: SE1NEW AliExpress coupon: SE1NEW1

The standard kit (shown in this review) is currently priced at $19.77 and only the flashlight $22.36 on Sofirn AliExpress official store. On the Sofirn official website the standard kit is $16.99 and only the flashlight is $12.99.

• Body and build quality

Colors/Material Options: Sofirn SE1 is available in Aluminum with 3 colors: Blue (shown in this review), orange and silver gray. A copper SE1 was also available for limited time.

Material: The SE1 is made of 6061 aluminum and has a slightly matte anodizing. The magnetic clip is made of plastic and has rubber ends to have a better grip when clipped on, wristband is made of an elastic material.

Main body: The main body is pretty simple and compact, a magnet is located on the opposite side of where the button is, a potted USB-C port is located on one of the sides and the lens and LEDs are located by its side.

Tail stand and rolling: The flashlight can stand on all sides, and does not roll as it has a box-like shape.

AUX lights (RGB mode): The main button has a light ring around it. There are only 4 modes to choose from: The “rainbow” mode; solid red; “breathing” in which the colors alternate by dimming down and a police red and blue flashing. It would be so much better if it was possible to choose a color to be lit very dim when not using the flashlight, just like Anduril AUX lights, because the way it is on the SE1 makes it not be practical, maybe you can have fun with it, but I don’t see it being much useful. The ring light also serves a battery indicator every time the light is turned ON, this is a good feature to have on any flashlight! [10th and 11th picture]

Buttons: There is a single button on the flashlight, it is an e-switch, it can be easily clicked by accident so it’s recommended to lock the flashlight when not using it.

Magnet: The magnet is strong to hold the flashlight easily on metal surfaces. [12th to 14th pictures]

Water Resistance: The flashlight has IPX5 water ingress rating! The USB-C has no rubber cap, the USB-C is internally potted to prevent water ingress, a very low water ingress protection rating.

Here is a size comparison with the Convoy S2+ on the left and the Manker E02 III on the right. [15th picture]

Accessories: Plastic magnetic clip, it feels kinda solid and has rubber on the ends to grip better [16th picture] and wristband with plastic clip [17th picture]

 

• Weight and size

Weight: 21.2g

Size: 30mm x 30mm x 14mm

 

• Battery, runtime, and charging

Battery: The battery is not replaceable and is only 140mAh, the capacity could be better, 140mAh is a very small capacity, especially when lights of a similar size and cost have double or triple this capacity. Usually, the batteries on these non-replaceable tiny flashlights are not Li-ion, to extend the battery life, but Sofirn has not stated which type of battery the SE1 uses.

Battery Indicator: The SE1 has a battery indicator light around the main button! The battery indicator will flash every time the flashlight is turned ON, it works as it follows:

 

RGB ring color	Battery level
Solid green	75-100%
Blinking green	50-75%
Solid red	25-50%
Blinking red	<25%

Charging: This flashlight features USB-C charging on the main body, as I stated before, the USB-C port is potted and there is no rubber cover on the USB-C, so be careful with dust. It charges really fast, but this is due to the battery being low capacity. When the flashlight is charging the RGB light around the button will be lit red, when charging is over it will light up green.

 

• Modes, Runtimes, Throw, Candela:

Modes: The SE1 features 3 types of light, the main white light, UV 395nm and the RGB ring light. The white light has 4 brightness levels: moonlight (2 lumens), low (15 lumens), medium (75 lumens) and high (300-75 lumens). The UV light has a single brightness level with 120mW. The RGB ring light has 4 modes, but the power is not stated; the ring light is not super bright.

Mode	Power	Runtime
High	300-75lumens	1min-41min
Medium	75lumens	44min
Low	15lumens	3h35min
Moonlight	2lumens	10h24min
UV light	120mW	33min

*The RGB ring runtime is not specified

Throw: The white light is advertised to reach at high mode 76m. There is a defined hotspot on the white light, so it can manage to throw light at small distances.

 

• Emitter, reflector and CRI:

Emitter: So… Sofirn does not state which LEDs the SE1 uses, that’s a very bad move in my opinion, as it could have any LED. The main white light is cool white and I can confidently say it’s low CRI because some colors look odd with this light. The UV is not stated too, but they say it’s 395nm, so it’s not “real UV”, it will not make fluorescent things glow nearly as good as 365nm and I think there is no use for it other than curing resin. The RGB ring light is also not stated which LED it is, but it’s RGB and seems alright, no complaints with this one other than the lighting modes being very limited. [18th Picture]

Lens: There seems to be no glass in front of the TIR, it seems like the TIR plastic to me.

Reflector/TIR: The white and UV lights are under a tiny TIR lens; the white light has a throwy TIR and makes a defined hotspot; the UV light has a totally floody beaded TIR.

Beam profile: The white light is floody but still has a slightly defined hotspot. The UV light is totally floody. [19th picture]

CRI: The flashlight seems to have low CRI.

 

• Beamshots Camera settings:

- 24mm lens 2" F8 ISO400 WB: daylight (5200K)

[20th picture] - SE1 (high) 300lumens

The tress at the back are around 50m away - It is kind of bright for a tiny flashlight, but this is due to it having a tiny hotspot.

I always try to match what my eyes can see on the beamshots, so camera settings may vary.

• Driver and UI

Driver: The driver is also not stated, so I assume it to be a FET. Also, I noticed PWM on the “moonlight” mode with my camera, I didn’t notice PWM on other modes.

UI: The UI is very simple, from OFF:

- one click turns ON the white light, another click turns it OFF, holding the button will cycle between the modes.

- double click turns ON UV, another click to turn OFF.

- holding the button will turn on the RGB ring light, another click turns it OFF, double click cycles between the 4 RGB modes: “Rainbow”, solid red, “breathing” and police flashing.

Low Voltage Warning: The flashlight will blink and turn off when the battery voltage is too low.

Reverse Polarity Protection: -

Thermal Regulation: The flashlight dims down ON turbo after it gets hot, this is to prevent driver and LED damage.

Lockout: One of the most important features of these tiny flashlights is the lockout feature. This flashlight has lockout and it’s very easy to access it: triple click goes to lockout, the white light will blink 2 times to indicate it’s locked, triple click again to unlock it.

Turbo: The flashlight “Turbo” is actually the high mode with 300 lumens, it does not have a shortcut to access it, so you have to cycle through all the modes to get to it.

Moonlight: This flashlight features moonlight mode with 2 lumens, but I think it’s too bright, in my opinion moonlight modes should be 1 lumen or less. It also has PWM on the moonlight mode.

Blinkies: The only blinking mode on this flashlight are the RGB ring “breathing” and the police flashing.

A special thanks to Sofirn for sending this flashlight for me to review!

*I am not being paid to do this review, everything here is my honest opinion.

Thank you for reading my review <3

Look how tiny and cute this 18350 is!

I've been liking a lot this flashlight so far. The LED is cool white, but has a beautiful tint! It has a nice matte anodizing, it feels kind of like rubber.

I will test it and soon post a review of it.

This is the FireFlyLite X4 Stellar, an Anduril 2 flashlight with all the main enthusiast features you would want! A fantastic flashlight with many features done almost perfect. This one has 4 FFL351A LEDs in 5000K with 95 overall CRI and 90 R9, it comes with a Lume X1 Boost driver, USB-C charging with the best designed USB-C cover I’ve ever seen, AUX LEDs, tail magnet and much more!

• My opinion:

The X4 Stellar is really an almost perfect flashlight in my opinion, especially for enthusiasts. It has almost every single feature you would expect on a good flashlight, and it does every single one of them almost perfectly! One of the features that caught my attention the most was the USB-C charging port. It is the most awesome I have ever seen, the magnetic USB-C cover is easy to open and it closes automatically when you remove the charging cable, it doesn’t make the flashlight more water resistant though, but the USB-C port is already internally potted to prevent water ingress. The AUX LEDs are pretty good, but I wish they were brighter on the high brightness setting. This is a flashlight I can recommend without fear to you, if you don’t care for paying a bit more than budget flashlights.

I have to confess it was also hard to find things I disliked on this flashlight, the main ones being the lack of a more throwy TIR on the box, the X4Q 15-degree clear TIR lens would pack a punch on this thing; and the beaded TIR are very hard to swap, because the suction cup doesn’t work to remove them, it took me some time to swap the TIR the first time.

 

• Pros:

- Almost perfect “moonlight” mode

- FFL351A LED is pretty high CRI (95 CRI, 90 R9) and has a beautiful tint

- USB-C fully potted and water resistant

- USB-C magnetic cap is very convenient

- Button AUX is independent to the TIR AUX

- Efficient Lume X1 Boost driver

- Very customizable

 

• Cons:

- No throwy clear TIR option out of the box

- AUX LEDs could be brighter on high setting

- Beaded TIR is a little hard to swap

**- ***Turbo steps down fast, but this is expected on a high CRI high power flashlight like this

• Box contents [10th picture]

- X4 Stellar

- Extra 15-degree TIR lens

- Stainless-steel clip

- Stainless-steel lanyard ring

- Lanyard

- Extra O-rings

- Instructions manual

 

• Price

The X4 Stellar (2025 version) is currently $67.00 on the FireFlyOutoor official website! (not an affiliate link)

 

• Body and build quality

Colors/Material Options: This X4 Stellar is the “Timber Green” version, but it’s also available in “Navy Blue”, “Ember Red” and “Matte Black” on the Aluminum version. It’s also available in Titanium and Copper.

Material: The main body is made of 6063 Aluminum, it’s more resistant to corrosion and impact and more durable than the more common 6061 alloy. The bezel is made of stainless-steel with a smooth and shiny black “Multi-coated Black Diamond PVD” coating! The clip and lanyard ring are made of regular stainless-steel.

Main body: The battery tube has big squared shaped knurling with round edges, a more aggressive knurling than usual on flashlights, but it gives a nice grip to the flashlight. The head part has big heatsink “holes” for better heat dissipation, there are two bulges, one where e-switch is, the other where the USB-C port is. The tail cap is very simple, it can be unscrewed and a magnet is inside, on the threads a lanyard ring or a clip can be installed.

Threads: The head threads are squared; the tail cap threads are trapezoidal. Both are anodized.

Clip: The clip seems to be a new version, my X4Q Comet came with the original version, which is the one on the X4 Stellar pictures on the Fireflies website, but mine came with the 2-way clip, which I think is a little better than the original one.

Tail stand and rolling: The flashlight tail stand easily and is very stable because the tail cap Is solid and flat. It doesn’t roll much on a desk because the button and USB-C port bulges prevent rolling a lot, a clip or lanyard ring can be installed to prevent it even more.

AUX lights: The X4 Stellar has amazing AUX lights, they are RGB and you can control their brightness level and turn it off or into blinking mode. The AUX lights are located on the TIR lens and on the main button, the TIR ones are RGB and you can customize them, the button one is a fixed color and will also light up red when charging, mine came with a cyan AUX light on the button. It’s separate from the TIR ones, other than the X4Q which had a shared LED color with the TIR LEDs, this means the X4 Stellar button AUX will remain ON even if the flashlight is turned on, unlike the X4Q which turns off together with the TIR AUX. The AUX brightness mode is shared, so the button will be off if you turn the AUX off, low if you set the AUX to low brightness, and so on. [11th picture]

AUX Light comparision: The one at the back is the X4 Stellar, and the front one is the X4Q Comet [12th picture]

Buttons: The button is the same as most FireFlies flashlights, the nice e-switch covered by a stainless-steel black smooth PVD coated button! The X4 Stellar comes by default with the normal non-raised ring, which is actually slightly raised above the button, but not enough to prevent most accidental activations. The raised ring comes by default on the X4Q Comet, and you can also order it separately or ask for it to be installed for free when placing an order at FireFlies.

Bezel: The X4 Stellae bezel is an EDC type bezel, no protruding ends on it, only really small round cuts around the bezel. It’s made of stainless-steel and has the same nice smooth black PVD coating as the button.

Battery contact: Contact is made with the battery by 2 nice springs, one on the head driver, the other on the tail cap. Both of them are Beryllium-copper springs silver plated for better electrical conductivity.

Water Resistance: It has IPX8 ingress resistance rating! I have to say, the X4 Stellar looks even more water resistance than the X4Q, especially on the bezel/lens part, it has 4 O-rings on there.

Size Comparison: Here is a size comparison with the Wurkkos TS26 on the left and the FireFlyLite X4Q Comet on the right. [13th picture]
As you can see the X4 Stellar is smaller than the TS26, almost the same size of the X4Q Comet, and it features USB-C charging, this adds a bulge on the opposite side of where the button is though.

 

• Weight and size

Weight:

**-**Without battery: 100.8g

-With battery (Molicel P50B): 170.9g

-Molicel P50B: 70.0g

Size: 107.1mm (length) x 36.2mm (head diameter - on button) x 27.5mm (tail diameter)

 

• Battery, runtime, and charging

Battery: The X4 Stellar is powered by a single 21700 battery, it has a 40W maximum power, so it is recommended to use a battery that has at least 15amp CDR; I used the Molicel P50B on the tests. 18650 cells can also be used, as long as they have a compatible CDR, I recommend getting an adapter to avoid the 18650 from rattling inside the tube if you do so. [14th picture]

Battery Indicator: It features battery indicator, both the Anduril blinkie mode “battery check” and the colored battery indicator from the AUX LEDs! Pretty nice. I think a good battery indicator is essential on every flashlight.

Charging: X4 Stellar features USB-C charging, and it’s one of the best I have ever seen on a flashlight! The charging is rated to 10W maximum for fast speed charging if needed; if the cell is below 3V it will start the charging with 100mA only, to preserve the battery and guarantee a good life span; also, when the battery is almost fully charged it will charge it very slowly for the same reason. If the flashlight is charging for more than 10 hours it will automatically stop the charging to avoid damage to the flashlight. The main button AUX LED will light up red when charging and will turn itself OFF when the charge is complete, it will also start blinking if the battery is inserted incorrectly. [15th picture]
The USB-C port it internally potted to prevent water ingress and the outside USB-C cover is magnetic and goes in to place automatically when you remove the charging cable, this prevents dust and other debris from going into the USB-C! One of the best designs I’ve ever seen!

 

• Modes, Runtimes, Throw, Candela:

Modes: This flashlight features Anduril, so you have many brightness levels and modes to choose from. These are the factory settings my flashlight came with (estimating the brightness by comparing to other flashlights I have): A1 is the “moonlight” mode, it has very close to 0.1 lumens, the B2 mode seems to have around 10 to 15 lumens, other modes will be increasing the brightness level until it reach the maximum of 2800 lumens (5000K version).
I will not enter into more detail on it because Anduril has a ton of options and it would extend much the review.

Throw: The 30-degree lens it comes with is pretty floddy, the 15-degree TIR too, but a little more throwy. With the standard 30-degree TIR it can achieve up to 265m as advertised by FireFlyOutdoor. I think this flashlight should have also come with a clear 15-degree TIR the X4Q comes with, because both lens the X4 Stellar comes with are pretty floody.

 

• Emitter, reflector and CRI:

Emitter: This X4 comes with the FFL351A high CRI LED in 5000K, it’s an emitter especially made for FireFlyLite! It’s available in several CCTs, but the main ones available on the X4 Stellar page are 1800K, 2700K, 3700K, 4000K and 5000K. All versions are high CRI (95 CRI). The lower the CCT less lumens it will generate. The SFT25r LED is also available with 4000 lumens. [16th Picture]

Lens: It comes with a glass lens double AR coated and it’s advertised to be 98% transmittance.

Reflector/TIR: It comes pre-installed with the 30-degree beaded TIR, and an extra 15-degree beaded TIR is also included on the box. Both options are pretty floody, I think it should have a clear 15-degree option on the box like the X4Q Comet for a more throwy option.

Beam profile: The beam profile with both TIR lens Is very floody and homogeneous, no artifacts or donut holes, nothing. The hotspot is more defined on the 15-degree but still blends very smoothly with the outer spill. [17th picture]

CRI: All main FFL351A LED main options offered on the X4 Stellar page are 95 CRI with most of them being above 90 R9.

 

• Beamshots Camera settings:

- 24mm lens 2" F8 ISO400 WB: daylight (5200K)

There was some fog on the day I made the beamshoots, sorry for that.

[18th picture] - X4 Stellar 5000K - Turbo (2800 luemens) mode

[19th picture] - X4 Stellar 5000K - G7 mode

[20th picture] - X4 Stellar 5000K - F6 mode

- The trees at the back are around 100m distance, I could measure with more precise tools so now I have a more precise distance.

I always try to match what my eyes can see on the beamshots, so camera settings may vary.

 

• Driver and UI

Driver: The X4 Stellar comes with the Lume X1 40W constant current “Boost” driver! This driver is very efficient and high power for a tiny flashlight like this. I see no major downsides with the driver and it’s a pretty good driver.

UI: As I mentioned before, this flashlight has the Anduril 2 UI, so you have A LOT of options and customization to make, have fun! It uses a single e-switch to control the entire flashlight and customize to your liking!

Low Voltage Warning: Yes. Both from the battery indicator and the main light will also blink when the battery level is too low.

Reverse Polarity Protection: Yes, the flashlight is protected against reverse polarity, so inserting the battery the wrong way will not fry the flashlight so easily.

Thermal Regulation: The X4 Stellar has active automatic thermal regulation of the Anduril 2 UI, a pretty efficient and safe thermal regulation.
*The thermal regulation can be configured, so be careful to not mess with the thermals.

Lockout: It features electronic lockout on the Anduril 2 UI, by clicking the button 4 times the flashlight will lock and only moonlight will be available for use; and also, mechanical lockout by slightly untwisting the head.

Turbo: The Turbo mode has 2800 lumens on the FFL531A 5000K version of the X4 Stellar, it’s pretty powerful and, of course, produces a lot of heat, especially as it is high CRI, so it doesn’t maintain for too long and the flashlight will become hot fast as expected. Mine lasted 30 seconds until I noticed a stepdown. You can configure the thermal regulation to allow more time on turbo, but be careful as you can reduce the life span of the LEDs and even damage the electronics if you don’t do it correctly.

Moonlight: The moonlight mode on this bad boy is also nearly perfect, constant very low, close to 0.1 lumens output and no flickering or PWM. The FireFlyLite moonlight is currently the best moonlight I have tested so far, so if you like moonlight modes, or “Fireflies” modes like me, this flashlight is perfect for this purpose.

Blinkies: One of the coolest things about Anduril is it´s blinkies modes, I really love that “Candle mode” and the “Lightning”! You can choose from a wide variety of blinkies and even configure their brightness, have fun with it!

A special thanks to Ivy from FireFlyOutdoor for sending this flashlight for me to review!

*I am not being paid to do this review, everything here is my honest opinion.

Thank you for reading my review <3

I am loving this flashlight, and I think most of you will too! I am working on the review of this bad boy, I will post it soon, hope you like it!

This is the Brinyte PT16A, a flashlight totally focused in tactical and law enforcement purposes. It has a Luminus SFT70.2 LED, constant current “boost” driver, tungsten pins on the bezel, tactical ring and a 3 button UI, with 2 tail switches. I received the “standard kit” with the flashlight, but there are also the “outdoor” and “tactical” kits, which come with extra accessories like gun mounting supports.

• Box contents [9th picture]

- PT16A

- Stainless-steel clip

- Tactical ring

- Lanyard

- USB-C charging cable

- 2x spare O-rings

- Instructions manual

 

• Conclusion:

The PT16A is a true tactical flashlight, it has essential features that make it really stand out as a great flashlight, especially for tactical uses. The build quality is pretty good, better than most flashlights I've already tested, it really feels high quality, the anodizing is pretty resistant as it's type III hard anodizing. The SFT70 is a perfect fit for what this flashlight means to be, it's very throwy, but still has a big hostpot and a lot of spill, the constant current Boost driver also guarantees a constant output and longer runtimes. I also liked the double tail switch UI, very practical for emergency and tactical uses, especially the instant Turbo and Strobe; the side e-switch on the other hand I think it's UI is a little confusing IMO, but very usable in outdoor and everyday uses.

Overall, I think this is the best tactical flashlight I've already tested, I feel I can really trust it to work when needed. There are some downsides as I will mention though, the mains ones being it isn't more impact resistant, 1m is a low rating for a fantastic tactical light like this. I personally believe the driver is potted (coated with resin), as the USB-C is, especially as it's meant to be attached to guns; and also the moonlight mode has around 5 lumens which, at least for me, it's too bright, moonlight modes should be 1 lumens or less in my honest opinion.

 

• Pros:

- Very hard and scratch resistant type III anodizing

- Efficient Boost driver

- USB-C is potted to prevent water going inside the flashlight

- The bezel is reinforced and has tungsten pins for breaking glass

- Scratch resistant lens

- AUX green LED to find the flashlight in the dark

- Easy operation with one hand and Strobe/Turbo

 

• Cons:

- The flashlight can’t tail stand

- The side e-switch auto lockout can be kind of annoying sometimes

- Moonlight mode too bright (5 lumens)

- Impact resistance rating is only 1m

 

• Price

The price of the PT16A standard kit is currently $109.95 on Brinyte official website. (not affiliated link)

 

• Body and build quality

Colors/Material Options: The Brinyte PT16A is currently only available in aluminum with black anodizing.

Material: The main body is made of A6061-T6 aluminum allow with type III hard anodizing; the tail switches are covered by silicone caps, the bezel has 3 tungsten pins, the clip is made of black coated stainless-steel and the tactical ring is made of a pretty hard plastic.

Main body: The main body feels very high quality, the type III anodizing really helps with that, it feels very comfortable in the hands and everything feels really high quality. The tactical ring is made of plastic but feels very solid, it really helps with the grip on the flashlight, this is very important as this is a flashlight to be used on harsh environments with water, sand and everything you can imagine, also on situations of high stress it’s very good to have more grip on an important tool as a flashlight.

Threads: The tail threads are squared and are not anodized, but there is an inner aluminum ring that is what actually makes contact with the tail cap buttons.

Clip: The clip seems to be good, but it has nothing special. It is made of black coated stainless-steel; it comes pre-installed and there is no other position for it to be installed.

Tail stand and rolling: The flashlight does not tail stand; the rubber tail switch is higher than the protection ring around it. It does not roll around easily though, the tactical ring and clip prevent it from rolling.

AUX lights: There is one AUX LED on this flashlight, it's located on the side button and serves as a battery indicator, lock and charging indicator, it also lights up green when the flashlight is not in use for some time to help find it in the dark. [10th Picture]

Buttons: This flashlight is a true tactical light, and it has 3 buttons for different purposes: the side e-switch for outdoor and everyday use, it locks after the light is not used after some time to prevent accidental activations; the main tail switch that always turns the flashlight ON in "turbo" and the secondary tiny tail button that when pressed if the light is OFF goes to "strobe" mode, if the flashlight was already ON it will cycle between the modes. The tail switches are covered by rubber caps, the side e-switch is covered by a metal button and is fixed on the tail cap by two hex screws.

Battery contact: The flashlight makes contact with the battery by 2 gold-coated springs, this makes the flashlight more resistant to impacts, and protects the battery and the driver, as the spring will absorb a lot of the impact. [11th Picture]

Bezel: One of the coolest, and most important, features of the PT16A is the bezel. It's like a classic stainless-steel tactical bezel but it has 3 tungsten pins! The pins are very useful for breaking glass. They are a feature that makes this flashlight really stand out as a tactical flashlight. [12th Picture]

Water Resistance: It features IPX8 water resistance and seems to be very well sealed, I see no gaps for water to go inside this flashlight easily. I loved the USB-C silicone cover design, it's one of the best I’ve seen, it's hard to open by accident and very hidden on the flashlight body, like a silicone cap should be; it is kind of thin, but this is no problem as the USB-C is potted (coated with resin) and will not allow water inside the flashlight.

Impact resistance: The flashlight is rated to endure a drop of 1m, it's a very strange rating as the flashlight is meant to be very resistant and attached to guns. I personally believe the driver is potted, it would be really strange to make the USB-C coated with resin and not the driver also. And the flashlight seems it could endure much more than 1m.

Here is a size comparison with 2 other flashlights the Convoy M21A on the left and the Sofirn SK30 on the right [13th Picture]

• Weight and size

Weight:

-Without battery: 147.8g

-With battery: 220.7g

-Battery weight: 73.0g

Size: 160.0mm (length) x 39.4mm (head diameter) x 29.2mm (tail diameter) (tail diameter on the tactical ring = 38.9mm)

-Battery size: 21.3mm (diameter) x 74.5mm (height) (protected cell)

 

• Battery, runtime, and charging

Battery: The PT16A is powered by a single 21700 battery, the package comes with one Brinyte branded 21700 cell, it seems to be a protected cell and it's 4.5mm longer than other cells I have. It is also possible to use 18650 and CR123A batteries, but I recommend getting an adapter to avoid these batteries rattling inside the tube. [14th Picture]

Battery Indicator: The side e-switch on the body has a LED to serve as a battery indicator.

Charging: The PT16A has USB-C charging on the main body, and it can also accept cells with USB-C, as it comes with a 4mm longer battery it will also accept the longer cells with USB-C. [15th Picture]

 

• Modes, Runtimes, Throw, Candela

Modes: It has 4 main brightness modes, "moonlight" with 5 lumens, "medium" with 120 lumens, "high" with 900 lumens, and "turbo" with 3000 lumens.

Advertised specs:

Modes	Brightness(Lumens)	Distance(meters)	Runtime(minutes/hours)
Turbo	3000-600 lumens	458m	1min-135min (2h15min)
High	900 lumens	-	230min (3h50min)
Medium	120 lumens	-	1200min (20h)
Low	5 lumens	-	18000min (300h)

Throw: This flashlight is certainly on the throwy side, it has a well-defined hotspot that throws far, Brinyte advertises it can reach up to 458m and 52500 candelas of distance, all this while having a compact reflector and head.

 

• Emitter, reflector and CRI:

Emitter: Brinyte does not state which LED the PT16A uses, they only say it's a Luminus LED, but I am certain it is the SFT70 gen 2 in 6500K because the LED PCB has “SFT70” written on it. I didn't notice any green tint at all; it has a nice overall tint and beam, I didn't notice much green or yellow tint at all, very neutral tint, at higher brightness it has a blueish tint, like most cool white emitters. I think this LED is very suitable for a tactical flashlight, it’s very bright and produces a very nice tight blinding hotspot. [16th Picture]

Lens: The lens is anti-reflexive coated and seem to have some kind of scratch resistant coating!

Reflector/TIR: It features a smooth medium reflector, that makes the beam throwy.

Beam profile: The beam has a very throwy pattern with a well-defined hotspot and some spill. I didn't notice any green tint. The beam is not the cleanest and has some noticeable artifacts, this is due to the SFT70 having 4 individual emitting surfaces, instead of a single one, but you can really only see it if you look at it pretty close distance, and it does not impact on the use of the flashlight. [17th Picture]

CRI: The 6500K SFT70 have around 70 CRI, for a tactical flashlight CRI is not the most important thing, and trading the CRI for more efficiency and runtime makes sense on the PT16A.

 

• Beamshots Camera settings:

- 24mm lens 2" F8 ISO400

I apologize because it was a little foggy when I did the beamshots, so the visibility is a little lower than expected.

- The trees at the back are around 100m distance, I could measure with more precise tools so now I have a more precise distance.

[18th picture] - PT16A Turbo (3000 lumens)

[19th picture] - PT16A High (900 lumens)

[20th picture] - PT16A Medium (120 lumens)

I always try to match what my eyes can see on the beamshots, so camera settings may vary.

• Driver and UI

Driver: The PT16A features a constant current "Boost" driver, with built in USB-C charging. For this reason, it maintains a constant output until the battery is almost empty. No flickering or PWM on this flashlight!

UI: This flashlight has a very tactical focused UI. I think the side e-switch UI is kind of confusing, but it can be because I am not very used to this type of tactical UI. 

The side e-switch is used to operate the flashlight like an outdoor flashlight, but the e-switch gets locked when the flashlight is not being used for a while and you have to unlock by clicking it 3 times; when it's not locked clicking it will turn it ON, while it's ON holding it turns it OFF and clicking while it's ON cycles between modes; by holding it when it's OFF and not locked it will go into "moonlight" mode. The bigger tail button always turns goes to "turbo" mode. The smaller tail button can be used to access strobe when the flashlight is OFF, or it can be used to cycle between modes if the flashlight is already on.

Low Voltage Warning: Yes, and the flashlight will power OFF when the battery voltage is too low to preserve battery.

Reverse Polarity Protection: Yes.

Thermal Regulation: The thermal regulation is fully automatic; the flashlight reduces the brightness when reaching high temperatures to avoid damaging the components. The thermals and heat transfer on this flashlight seem to be pretty efficient and even on “Turbo” mode, with 3000 lumens, you can use it around a minute before it steps down.

Lockout: It features lockout and automatic lockout on the side e-switch, it automatically locks when the flashlight is not in use for some minutes to prevent accidental activations. The tail switch can be locked by slightly untwitsting the tail cap, this will make the tail switches lock, but the side e-switch will remain working; this happens because the flashlight actually makes contact on the tail cap by the threads and also by an inner aluminum tube that only makes contact with the gold plated ring on the tail switches, so untwisting the tail cap will block the path between the tail switches and the driver, only the threads will remain connected.

Turbo: The “turbo” on this flashlight is very bright, with 3000 lumens, the flashlight gets hot fast, as expected, and last around 1 to 2 minutes before stepping down to avoid LED and driver damage.

Moonlight: This flashlight, sadly, has no real “Moonlight” mode. The so called “moonlight” mode on this flashlight has 5 lumens, which is too bright to be a real moonlight mode. “Moonlight” modes should have less than 2 lumens IMO. But the 5 lumens mode is by no means bad, and is really useful if you don’t want to blind yourself while trying to use it close to you.

Blinkies: I already commented this flashlight has instant access to “Strobe” on the secondary smaller tail button, but this flashlight also features “SOS” mode! To access “SOS” you need to turn the flashlight ON with the e-switch, then double press it, this will make it go to the “Strobe” mode, then you double click again and it will be on “SOS” mode.

 

A special thanks to Brinyte for sending this flashlight for me to review!

*I am not being paid to do this review, everything here is my honest opinion.

Thank you for reading my review <3

This is the Convoy M21A flashlight, it’s a throwy flashlight powered by a 21700 cell, has the SFT70 3000K LED, a constant current “boost” driver, orange peel reflector, and more!

I added some accessories that you can buy separately: 20mm Blue LED switch, white translucent silicone button, green glow in the dark lens O-ring and stainless-steel bezel.

• My opinion:

This flashlight is on my favorites list, it’s a simple flashlight, but it has a lot of features done very well. The M21A is a pretty solid flashlight with an awesome design, with the SFT70 3000K it's pretty bright, having around 2000 lumens, it's throwy and has a lot of spill. The body quality and machining are very good, it has a efficient driver for most LEDs and you have a lot of options of LED to choose from! I just wish it had a proper battery indicator and a dimmer "moonlight" mode. It's not easy to find a flashlight with so many of those features done well for the price Convoy sells this, it's really a bang for your buck.

The upgrades I said earlier really improve the M21A, the stainless-steel bezel, LED switch and GITD o-ring for the lens are really an upgrade for the flashlight.

• Pros:

- Very good quality for the price

- A lot of LED options to choose

- Easy to disassemble and modify

Specific to this setup (SFT70 3000K):

- Efficient “boost” driver

- Absolute awesome tint and really high CRI

- Very powerful for a high CRI LED

 

• Cons:

- No external battery indicator

Specific to this setup (SFT70 3000K):

- No real moonlight mode (The 0.1% has around 5 lumens from what I could see)

- The SFT70 3000K can handle 8A max, but the driver only has 5A and, currently, there is no other driver option for the SFT70, so less maximum output.

• Box contents [10th picture]

- M21A

- Lanyard

 

• Price

Currently the price of the tan M21A with SFT70 3000K is $26.68 on Convoy official website

• Body and build quality

Colors/Material Options: The M21A is only available in aluminum, you can currently choose the anodizing color between black and tan.

Material: The M21A main body is made of an aluminum alloy, it is probably 6061-T6 but Convoy does not specify it. The standard button is made of black silicone.

Main body: The M21A battery tube has a diamond pattern knurling, this makes it have a better grip, especially if it’s wet. The anodizing apparently is not type III, I already heard it was type II but I am not sure. The head part has circular cuts to serve as heat dissipator and manage heat better, this texture on the head feels very nice and I think it looks very cool, a similar pattern is found on the tail cap. When the head and battery tube are screwed in, the head part actually covers the battery tube end and makes the flashlight feel like a solid piece.

Threads: The battery tube threads are squared, the tail cap threads are fully anodized, so you can mechanically lock the flashlight by unscrewing the tail cap a little; the side of the battery tube that connects to the head is not anodized.

Clip: The flashlight does not come with any kind of clip, but as you can see a screw clip can be installed on the 2 holes near the tail button.

Tail stand and rolling: The M21A can tail stand and is stable while doing it. It will not roll easily on a surface because it has some straight cuts on the circular rings on the head and tail cap that prevent it from rolling too much and falling of a desk. Using a screw on clip will prevent rolling even more.

AUX lights: This flashlight has no AUX lights by default, but you can install a tail switch with light that will help you find the flashlight in the dark, and can also serve as a battery indicator because it gets dimmer when the battery voltage drops.

Buttons: The M21A has a single tail cap reverse mechanical switch, it has a very nice click, it’s a 20mm tail switch and can be swapped for a switch with LEDs or a forward switch.

Battery contact: The flashlight makes contact with the battery by 2 phosphor-bronze gold-plated springs, this prevents battery and driver damage if the flashlight is dropped, because the springs will absorb the impact.

Bezel: The default bezel is made of aluminum anodized the same color of the flashlight body; it is crenelated having 6 trapezoidal shapes. A polished stainless-steel bezel is available for the M21A and is a must-have upgrade IMO, I installed it on mine and I love it, it won’t get scratched as easily as the aluminum one and gives a more solid feel to the flashlight, and makes it better if you need to break glass on emergencies.

Water Resistance: I have no doubts the M21A has similar water resistance to IPX8 rating, although it does not have an ISO IP rating, I think we can all agree that most Convoy flashlights are very well water sealed. It has O-rings on all threads, bezel, lens, battery tube and the silicone button works as a big O-ring for the switch, if you choose to get the metal button it will come with 2 O-rings to ensure water resistance.

Here is a size comparison with 2 other flashlights the Wurkkos TD01C on the left and Convoy S2+ brass on the right. [11th picture]

 

• Weight and size

Weight:

- Without battery (Aluminum bezel): 167.7g

- With battery Molicel P50B (Aluminum bezel): 237.6g

Stainless-Steel bezel adds 12.7g

- Molicel P50B: 70.0g

Size: 152.8mm (length) x 44.5mm (head diameter) x 31.5mm (tail diameter)

 

• Battery, runtime, and charging

Battery: The M21A is powered by a single 21700 battery, on my case I got a Molicel P50B to use with it. The SFT70 requires at least 10A CDR battery, so if you are going to get a similar setup be sure to get a suitable battery. You can also use 18650 on this flashlight, I recommend using an adapter to prevent the 18650 rattling inside the battery tube. [12th picture]

Battery Indicator: There is a mode called “battery check” on some groups of brightness levels you can choose, it will blink 1 to 5 times depending on the battery level:

Battery voltage	~Battery level	Light blinks
< 2.95V	0-20%	1 flash
2.95V to 3.25V	20-40%	2 flashes
3.25V to 3.55V	40-60%	3 flashes
3.55V to 3.85V	60-80%	4 flashes
&gt; 3.85V	80-100%	5 flashes

*The battery percentage is not really accurate, but it's easier (at least for me) to think that way.

There is no external battery indicator present on the M21A, you can use the switch with LED to get kind of that, because the LEDs on the button will get dimmer with the battery voltage dropping.

Charging: There is no on-body charging on the M21A, you need to recharge the battery on a dedicated charger.

 

• Modes, Runtimes, Throw, Candela:

Modes: This one hass the 12 groups driver; I recommend getting the 12 groups one because you get way more brightness levels to choose from. I like to use group 1 and 2 because they have all the main brightness levels: 0.1%, 1%, 10%, 35% and 100%, and group 1 also has 2 blinkie modes: “strobe”, “bike light” and “battery check”; but you can choose from 12 groups if you get the correct driver, and some modes have other brightness levels like 20% and 50%.

Throw: This flashlight can throw pretty far with the correct setup, the SFT70 is not the best for throw, but as the reflector is kind of big you will have a nice focused hotspot and a lot of spill, I estimate it can get to about 400m or more with this setup. You can get other emitters such as the SFT40/42r or Osrams if you want a pretty throwy flashlight, but I choose the SFT70 to have a bigger hotspot and to get the 3000K high CRI because I love this LED.

 

• Emitter, reflector and CRI:

Emitter: This M21A has the Luminus SFT70 3000K LED with 95+ CRI, the CCT and CRI make the LED lose some lumens and efficiency compared to the 6500K version, but I like to have a warm/neutral CCT and high CRI on my lights. This LED is capable of throwing far on this flashlight, and has a beautiful tint, while still having a considerable output, the SFT70 3000K is tested to have around 1800 to 2000 lumens at 6V 5A by the tests I have seen some time ago, very good output for a high CRI low CCT LED. [13th picture]

Lens: The lens is made glass with a green anti-reflexive coat.

Reflector/TIR: It comes default with an Orange Peel (OP) reflector.

Beam profile: It has little, almost not noticeable, artifacts due to the SFT70 having 4 separated emitting surfaces instead of one, but the artifacts are really not much apparent with the smooth reflector it comes with by default. [14th picture]

CRI: The SFT70 3000K has 95+ CRI!

• Beamshots Camera settings:

- 24mm lens 2" F4 ISO200

I always try to match what my eyes can see on the beamshots, so camera settings may vary.

[15th picture] - M21A SFT70 3000K - 100%

[16th picture] - M21A SFT70 3000K - 35%

[17th picture] - M21A SFT70 3000K - 10%

[18th picture] - Flashlight off (I actually was a little closer to the trees than on the other pics)

• Driver and UI

Driver: The SFT70 M21A comes with a constant current “Boost” 6V and 5A driver, this ensures it has a great efficiency, Convoy advertises it as having 85% to 95% efficiency, the driver can vary depending on the LED you choose. This means you have a 30W power flashlight, it is very bright with the SFT70 LED, even with the 3000K 95CRI, but the SFT70 LED could handle 8A, and, sadly, there is no driver option for the M21A to get the maximum brightness from the SFT70 LED.

UI: It uses the standard UI for Convoy flashlights with a single tail switch. Fully clicking the tail switch turns the flashlight ON/OFF, half clicking cycles between modes; to enter configuration mode you need to half click it 10+ times until it stops flashing, then you can choose which mode group you want and if you want mode memory or not.

Low Voltage Warning: Yes, the flashlight will start blinking when the battery voltage is too low and will eventually turn off to protect the battery.

Reverse Polarity Protection: Yes. It has reverse polarity protection, so inserting the battery with the wrong polarity should not fry it.

Thermal Regulation: Yes, the flashlight will reduce the brightness when it gets too hot to prevent damage to the LED and driver. Be careful when using it on very hot places though, because the flashlight may overheat if it cannot reduce the brightness enough.

Lockout: It does not feature electronic lockout, only mechanical lockout by unscrewing the tail cap a little, because it has anodized threads. Lockout isn’t even that important on this light as it has a mechanical switch, that already prevents accidental activation a lot.

Turbo: The “turbo” mode on Convoy flashlights is actually called 100%. On the M21A you don’t have quick access to it unless you have it on memory, or if you select a mode that the first brightness level is 100% and deactivate the mode memory. The “turbo” mode has around 1800-2000 lumens is very bright and heats up pretty fast.

Moonlight: The Convoy calls the “moonlight” mode as 0.1%, if you get a driver with lower power, you will have a lower brightness, as this driver is 6V 5A even on 0.1% it’s still pretty bright, I estimate around 5 lumens comparing to my other flashlights. This means it’s actually not a moonlight mode because it is too bright.

Blinkies: On the 12-group driver you have 4 different blinkies, “strobe”, “biking”, “battery check” and “SOS”. They are separated on some groups, but group 7 has all of them together.

 

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*I am not being paid to do this review, everything here is my honest opinion.

Thank you for reading my review <3

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This is the Wurkkos TS26, a enthusiast focused flashlight with 4 TN-3535 LEDs, RGB AUX LEDs on the optics, USB-C charging and reverse charging, 21700 Li-ion battery, magnet on the tail cap and much more!

• Pros:

- Constant current Boost driver

- Anduril 2 (Very customizable and versatile)

- The AUX LEDs are pretty bright

- IPX8 water resistance

- Very easy to disassemble

- Nice built quality

• Cons:

- Lower modes blink very fast like the "candle mode" but very dim, the flashlight doesn't seem to be able to maintain a constant brightness level and will be kind of like the “candle mode” on the super low brightness levels. I experienced this on levels lower than 20 clicks on the Anduril config. (This can be a malfunction on the unit I received)

- The pre-configured "moonlight" mode seems way brighter than 1 lumen

- Only available in cool white and low CRI (for enthusiasts it should have more CCT options)

My Opinion:

I liked this flashlight, but it is not what I think it should be, it needs improvement, especially on the driver to make sure the "blinking" on the lower modes is fixed. I think, as this light is more focused on enthusiasts, that it should at least have more CCT options and high CRI, I would love to see this with the 519a LED they promised, but it's an overall very good flashlight, very powerful, efficient driver, magnet on the tail cap, bright AUX LEDs, USB-C charging make the TS26 a very complete and quality flashlight for only around $40.

• Box contents [8th picture]

- TS26

- USB-C to C charging cable

- Lanyard

- 2x spare O-rings

- Instructions manual

 

• Price

The price of this flashlight is currently $42.33 on AliExpress Wurkkos store and $39.99 on Wurkkos official website (non-affiliate links)

 

• Body and build quality

Colors/Material Options: This flashlight is only available in aluminum and grey “gun metal” anodizing

Material: The main body is made of 6061 hard anodized aluminum, the bezel and clip are made of stainless-steel with a black coating.

Threads: Both threads of the battery tube are anodized, the tail cap threads are squared and the head threads are the standard thinner threads.

Clip: The battery tube threads have a space for the clip to be inserted before screwing only on the head, the clip cannot be reversed! There is also an O-ring in contact with the clip ring, and another to prevent water in the flashlight tube.

AUX lights: This flashlight has AUX lights on the optics and on the main button! The optics AUX LEDs can be configured on Anduril to blink, show battery level and has a lot of fun modes, the button only lights up green when charging to show the charge state, and for some reason it lights up blue for some seconds when you unplug it from charging.

Buttons: This flashlight, as most Anduril flashlights, only has a single click e-switch. It is covered by a black silicone dome with the Wurkkos logo in transparent silicone.

Bezel: The bezel is crenelated with 4 trapezoidal shapes, it is very useful when you leave the flashlight on a table at dark as you can still see the AUX lights, and this type of bezel can also be used to break glass on emergency situations.

Water Resistance: It has ISO IPX8 water resistant rating, and I don’t see any major failures in the water proofing, I don’t like much the exposed rubber cap to protect the USB-C from water damage, but the rubber cap seems to be good on this model.

Here is a size comparison with 2 other flashlights the Wurkkos TS28 on the left and FireFlyLite X4Q Comet on the right. [10th Picture]

 

• Weight and size

Weight: 106.1g  (without battery – measured on scale by me)

170.0g (with battery – measured on scale by me)

Size: 122mm (length) x 35mm (head diameter) x 27.9mm (tail diameter)

 

• Battery, runtime, and charging

Battery: This flashlight is powered by a single 21700 battery, a Wurkkos branded 5000mAh 21700 is included inside the box, I tested and 18650 can also be used, but be sure it can handle at least 10A constant discharge and to make an adapter so it doesn’t rattle inside the tube. [11th picture]

Battery Indicator: The main AUX lights serve as a battery indicator every time you turn OFF the flashlight, also you can access Anduril battery indicator by clicking 3 times the main button while the flashlight is OFF.

Charging: The TS26 features USB-C charging on the main body. The USB-C is protected by a rubber cap. When charging the button light will be lit flashlight green, when the charge is complete the button will be solid green. When you unplug the charging cable the button will light up blue. [12th picture]

 

• Modes, Runtimes, Throw, Candela:

Modes: The TS26 has Anduril so you can configure it to have almost any brightness levels you want! But it comes with some predefined brightness levels from factory, you can change there later on Anduril.

Advertised specs:

Mode	Brightness (lumens)	Runtime (hours&minutes)
A1	1 lumen	520h
B2	15 lumens	135h
C3	65 lumens	31h
D4	220 lumens	11h
E5	550 lumens	4h30min
F6	1150 - 700 lumens	11min - 2h48min
G7	2100 - 550 lumens	2 min - 4h12min
H8	3400 - 550 lumens	1min - 4h

 

Throw: This flashlight is kind of floody, but it still manages to go a little far, it lights up a whole big area where it is pointed to. The box states it can reach up to 190m on maximum brightness.

 

• Emitter, reflector and CRI:

Emitter: This flashlight uses the TN-3535 emitters in 6500K, they are not bad emitters, but I feel for a flashlight with Anduril UI focused on enthusiasts it would be much better to use lower CCT emitters, like at least 5000K or 4000K, also high CRI emitters would be very good on this flashlight. My opinion is a lot of people, including me, were expecting the TS26 to use the same LEDs as the the TS26s, the Nichia 519a. When they announced it had the TN-3535 I saw a lot of people complaining, and I totally agree with it. The 519a LED would make way more sense on a enthusiast flashlight like this. [13th picture]

Lens: It has anti-reflexive coated glass lens in front of the TIR lens.

Reflector/TIR: It features a balanced TIR lens, being floody while still managing to throw light a little far.

Beam shape: Very smooth hotspot transition with little diffused flood around it, usual on TIR lens like this. [14th picture]

CRI: No. The 6500K TN-3535 LEDs used on this flashlight doesn’t have high CRI.

• Beamshots Camera settings:

- 24mm lens, 1", F4, ISO200, WB: 5200K (daylight)

I always try to match what my eyes can see on the beamshots, so camera settings may vary.

[16th picture] - F6 mode (1150 lumens)

[17th picture] - G7 mode (2100 lumens)

[18th picture] - H8 mode (3400 lumens)

• Driver and UI

Driver: This flashlight uses a constant current efficient Boost driver to power up the LEDs. The driver doesn’t seem to be capable of deliver the lower currents necessary for sub-lumen brightness levels, as when I tried configuring the lowest mode to less than 20 clicks, on the Anduril configuration, the light started to blink like the “candle mode”, not being able to maintain the lower brightness level. It doesn’t seem to have any problem with higher currents, and works perfectly with them.

UI: The TS26 uses the famous enthusiast UI: the Anduril v2.0. This UI is full of cool and useful features, it’s almost totally customizable! I will not focus on the UI as it would make this review much bigger, but you can check all the information on the github official page, and I will include a picture with a lot of information about the UI. [15th picture]

Anduril Github page

Anduril manual and image credits

 

Low Voltage Warning: Yes, and the flashlight will power OFF when the battery voltage is below 2.8V to preserve the battery life.

Reverse Polarity Protection: Yes.

Thermal Regulation: Yes, and it seems to not have any thermal problems as far as I’ve tested it.

Lockout: The flashlight has electronic lockout on Anduril by pressing the main button 4 times, the AUX lights will get into blinking mode and blink on the color that represents the battery level. You can also have mechanical lockout by unscrewing the tail cap or head a little, as both threads are anodized.

Turbo: The Turbo mode has a max stated brightness of 3400 lumens, that's a lot of lumens! n this flashlight you can access “turbo” which is the maximum brightness by double clicking the main button, as it comes configured from the Wurkkos factory.

Moonlight: Moonlight on this flashlight should be very good, but as I said before, the driver doesn’t seem to be capable of maintaining a lower brightness than what is necessary for a sub-lumen brightness, so on the lowest mode that it already comes pre-configured from the factory, the brightness will be bliking like crazy like the “candle mode”, that’s very sad, because moonlight mode is one of my favorite to use daily, and this flashlight fails hard on it.

Blinkies: As it has the Anduril 2 UI it has a lot of blinkies, including “candle mode”, “lightning mode”, “tactical strobe”, “party strobe” and a lot more!

A special thanks to Wurkkos for sending this flashlight for me to review!

*I am not being paid to do this review, everything here is my honest opinion.

Thank you for reading my review ❤️

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This is the HD05 review, a nice flashlight for EDC for people that like a lot of lighting modes on an EDC flashlight! It has a white throw LED (SFT70 6500K), a white flood lamp with adjustable CCT, a Deep Red light for preserving night vision and avoiding insects at night, and a 365nm UV light. It also features a boost driver, mangnet on the tail cap, USB-C charging port and a magnetic rotary selector for cycling between modes!

• Pros:

- 4 types of lighting (White throw, white flood, deep red and UV)!

- Efficient Boost driver

- No green tint

- Adjustable CCT on the "wing" light

- Magnetic rotary switch allows fast cycling on lighting modes (though it has a delay)

- Battery indicator

• Cons:

- Strobe modes makes a loud “clicking” noise

- You can't fold the "wing" light with the light point out of the flashlight and lock it on the body, the light will turn OFF close to the locking position.

- Magnetic light selector is not as smooth as other flashlights, TS27 is way smoother

- "Wing" light part will scratch the main body where the "wing" lock is.

- A little hard to disassemble

- IPX6 water resistance is kind of bad (IMO)

• My opinion:

I am very surprised with this flashlight, I didn't think it would be this good. Of course it has some flaws, but the light is still pretty decent. The SFT70 6500K produces a nice throwy beam with no green tint at all, the driver is a boost efficient driver, 4 different light modes to choose, it's a nice all-around flashlight, especially for EDC, if you like to have all these lighting modes and doesn't care for it being a little big and heavy. The Red and UV light are not perfect as the Red beam is kind of ugly if you are near enough and the UV has no ZWB filter, so you have a lot of visible light coming of, not just almost pure UV. Also the blinky modes make an awful loud clicking sound. The "wing" flood white light also doesn't seem fragile, but I think on the long run it will be the first thing to break, especially as you will be almost always with your fingers touching it when holding the flashlight.

• Box contents [10^(th) picture]

- HD05

- 21700 battery

- USB-C to C charging cable

- Lanyard

- Instructions manual

- Extra o-rings

• Price

The price of this flashlight is currently $68.49 on Wurkkos official AliExpress store and $62.99 on Wurkkos official website (non-affiliate links)

AliExpress coupon: ($4): EO5RS3

• Body and build quality

Colors/Material Options: It’s only available in aluminum, and the only available color is this "gun-metal" grey.

Material: It’s made of 6061 hard anodized aluminum, like most Wurkkos flashlights. The bezel and button outer ring are made of Stainless-steel with a bead blasted finish.

The part that locks the side “wing” light will get scratched by opening and closing with time (mine already has a thin scratch line without the anodizing)

Threads: The threads are squared and anodized. Only the tail cap is unscrewable.

Clip: The clip is fixed by screws on the side of flashlight body, it’s made of black coated Stainless-steel. The clip can be removed by removing 3 Phillips screws on the clip.

AUX lights: This flashlight has a lot of lights, but the only AUX light on it is the battery indicator on the middle of the main button.

Buttons: It has one main electronic switch and a magnectic rotary switch for selecting between UV. White throw (SFT70) and red light. The flood side light is turned on by lifting it, even when the flashlight is off.

Bezel: The bezel is very small and made of black coated Stainless-steel.

Water Resistance: This flashlight has IPX6 water resistance rating. The battery tube and LED/Driver part seem to be well sealed, the USB-C charging port is covered by a tiny rubber cover, but I think what makes this light more susceptible to water damage is the side “wing” flood light, the mechanisms to make it fold and rotate reduce the water resistance.

Here is a size comparison with 2 other flashlights, the Wurkkos TS28 at the left and Convoy S2+ on the right. [11^(th) and 12^(th) Pictures]

 

• Weight and size

Weight: 168.2g (without battery – measured on scale by me)

236.5g (with battery – measured on scale by me) (It's heavy!)

Size: 129.1mm (length) x 36.7mm x 30mm

 

• Battery, runtime, and charging

Battery: This flashlight is powered by one 21700 Li-ion cell, a Wurkkos 5000mAh 21700 cell is included. [13^(th) picture]

Battery Indicator: There Is a battery indicator on the center of the main button. It lights up to indicate charging as it follows:

Color	Battery percentage
Green	75% – 100%
Blinking Green	75% – 50%
Red	50% – 25%
Blinking Red	<25%

 

Charging: It features USB-C charging on the body, the charging port is on the back side of where the button is. It comes with a USB-C to C charging cable.

When charging (Button battery indicator):

Color	Charging state
Red	Charging
Green	Fully charged
Red and Green Blinking	Battery not installed correctly

 

• Modes, Runtimes, Throw, Candela:

Modes:

1) White Throw Light: This flashlight does not separate brightness levels by “steps” it uses a stepless ramping to control brightness. The only predefined brightness level are the “minimum” of 7 lumens, which is essentially “eco” mode, and “maximum” of 3100 lumens, which is essentially “turbo”.

Claimed specs:

Brightness level	Lumens (lm)	Runtime
Max brightness	3100 / 950 lm	1min30 / 2h15min
Min brightness	7 lm	254h

2) White Flood Light: There are also no steps on this light option, you need to hold the button to access the ramping brightness. You can mix the cool and warm light as you prefer, or use the “pure” cool or warm white. You can't make the "wing" light stay ON while closing the "wing" with the light pointing out, this will make the "wing" light turn OFF, as it works by "feeling" a magnetic field of a magnet where the locking pin hole is. I tested getting the tail of another flashlight I have close to the "wing" while it was completely out of the HD05 body and the "wing" turned OFF while the magnetic tail was close to it. [14^(th) and 15^(th) pictures]

Claimed specs:

(Cool white)

Brightness level	Lumens (lm)	Runtime
Max brightness	300 / 260 lm	4min / 4h30min
Min brightness	4.5 lm	259h

(Warm white)

Brightness level	Lumens (lm)	Runtime
Max brightness	240 / 180 lm	3min / 4h08min
Min brightness	4 lm	259h

3) Red light: There is also no steps on red light mode, same as others.

Claimed specs:

(Red light)

Brightness level	Lumens (lm)	Runtime
Max brightness	90 / 50 lm	3min / 11h13min
Min brightness	8 lm	62h17min

4) UV light: On UV light mode, there are 2 brightness levels (“steps”), low and high, low mode consumes 700mW and high mode 1600mW. [16^(th) picture]

Claimed specs:

(UV)

Brightness level	Output (mW)	Runtime
High	1600mW	4h27min
Low	700mW	11h16min

Throw: The combo of SFT70 and the tiny reflector makes this LED kind of throwy, it is advertised as having 28100cd, which is on the throwy side for EDC flashlights.

 

• Emitter, reflector and CRI:

Emitter:

1) White throw - This flashlight uses the SFT70 LED in 6500K, I didn’t notice any green tint, it has more of a light blue tint, way better than green or yellow IMO. I think the SFT70 5000K or even 3000K would be better on an EDC flashlight, but as this flashlight already has the floodlight with high CRI and warm/cool CCTs I think it´s good to have a more efficient throwy option. [17^(th) Picture]

2) White flood – I am almost sure it uses the same LEDs as the Wurkkos TS27 for the flood white light, as it has similar specs, the CSP1313 in 6500K and 2700K. The LEDs are distributed at rows of 6500K and 2700K LEDs, high 90 CRI and you can mix the LEDs and obtain intermediary CCTs by double clicking and holding the main button. The rows of LEDs are visible when the brightness is dim enough. [18^(h) picture]

3) Red light – The LED is not specified but it surprised me at how powerful it is for such a tiny LED, it is probably the same LED used on the Sofirn ST10, the beam shape is not the best, there are some rings on it, but the deep red is a very good. [18^(th) picture]

4) UV light - Again, the LED is not specificed, shame, but the UV light is 365nm and is "real UV", it just has some blue and violet color because it has no ZWB filter.

Lens: The main SFT70 LED lens is a glass lens AR-coated (anti-reflexive) held in place by a Stainless-steel bezel. The Red and UV LEDs lens is made of glass too, at first I was certain it was plastic, but after testing it I was suprised it was glass, as using plastic would be cheaper, but the lens would get scratched way more easily. The Flood white LEDs don't have a lens, only a white plastic diffuser.

Reflector/TIR: The reflector for the main SFT70 LED is an OP (Orange Peel) reflector, while the UV and Red LEDs use tiny smooth reflectors, they're probably made of plastic.

CRI: The flood white light has high CRI LEDs!

• Beamshots Camera settings:

- 24mm lens 2" F4 ISO200

[19th picture]: White throw light (SFT70) - Around 100m to the trees at the back

[20th picture]: Deep red light - Around 60 to 70 meters

I always try to match what my eyes can see on the beamshots, so camera settings may vary.

• Driver and UI

Driver: This flashlight uses a boost driver for the SFT70 6500K LED, I imagine the other LEDs use the same driver, as having more drivers would increase the flashlight price.

UI: The flashlight has a lot of lighting modes, but the UI is not overcomplicated. The main button is an e-switch, and it turns the flashlight ON/OFF, the magnetic rotary selector changes between, starting from the left, UV, white throw and red light. Holding the main button will decrease or increase the brightness. The side "wing" flood light will turn on if you pull it from it's neutral position, it will turn on automatically unless the flashlight is locked, you can click the main button while the "wing" flood light is ON to turn it OFF.

Low Voltage Warning: Yes

Reverse Polarity Protection: Yes

Thermal Regulation: The flashlight thermal regulation doesn't seem to have major problems, it will get pretty hot fast, especially with the SFT70 LED on turbo, but for other LEDs it takes a while for it to get hot, yes it gets hot on UV, Red light and flood "wing" light too.

As the main body is made of a single piece of aluminum the heat conduction is very good and the flashlight tail will soak the heat from the head fast, usually flashlights that have unscrewable battery tube don't have this good heat conduction.

Lockout: This flashlight has a lockout mode, you must click the main button 4 times to access it. On lockout you can access momentary "low" brightness level by holding the main button. To unlock simply press the main button 4 times while it's locked.

Turbo:

1) White throw (SFT70): This flashlight is advertised to have 3100 lumens on the "turbo" mode, it is very powerful even if it does not reach the advertised lumens. To access turbo you can hold the main button while the flashlight is ON and wait for it to reach maximum brightness or double click at any time to go straight to it.

2) White flood "wing": Advertised to reach maximum of 300 lumens on cool white and 240 on warm white, it doesn't last long though, as the tiny aluminum volume at the "wing" gets hot fast.

3) Red light: Advertised to reach 90 lumens max, holds up for around 4 minutes.

Moonlight:

1) White throw (SFT70): OK, so, this flashlight does not have a "moonlight" mode. 7 lumens is not "moonlight".

2) White flood "wing": Here it gets as low as 4 lumens depending on which CCT you have configured, but again, no moonlight.

3) Red light: Minimum of 8 lumens, but it actually looks brighter, so no moonlight, but at least red light does not affect your night vision as much as white light.

Blinkies: It features 3 blinkie modes: strobe, SOS and beacon. All modes make an awful loud clicking sound that any other flashlight I own makes, it is extremely loud and you can hear it if the flashlight is around 2m distance from you. Usually the flaslight makes this sound because the electronics are changing their state being with a lot of amps to being OFF, this makes some electronics such as inductors vibrate and make this noise, but on this flashlight it is extremely loud, most flashlights I own you have to put the flashlight near your ear to hear it.

 

A special thanks to Wurkkos for sending this flashlight for me to review!

*I am not being paid to do this review, everything here is my honest opinion.

Thank you for reading my review <3