[Review] Manker E11 XP-L AA/14500

I have contacted them through eBay and have no response, that is not good

Still no reply from the seller, i was going to get another Manker but this NO Response has put me off, i will buy a O Light next time, the X7 looks nice.

That’s really odd. I bought two E11s from that same seller and both had O rings with them.

Well i have sent them eBay message, emailed them direct, sent blf pm and still no response, customer service seems non existent. manker more like *anker

I dealt with Manker previously and they always responded to emails, although sometimes it took a couple of days.

Manker replied to my email quickly and were helpful. Used the email address on their website.

Great to hear!

still no response from anywhere

looks like a 219c or 219b (your choice will fit)
for more throw the T01 is probibly the call.

excellent job on reflector polishing.

warning

it is not easy to propery polish, and it is very easy to loose lumens from home polishing (ask me how i know) :frowning:

Sorry for the delay. We are back to office now from the National Day holiday.

We will handle it well for you, Just don't worry about it.

BTW, we haven't got BLF PM from you.

Did anyone happen to test the moonlight mode on this light? Just wondering if it’s anywhere close to the advertized 171 hour run time.

Thanks!

Nice review Budda as always!

Stevedog - good job! Is a nice combination smooth reflector and de-domed led. Maybe Manker should consider this, even if we have a choice for T01.

I have this flashlight from few weeks, a nice little flashlight for close kind of tasks, very powerful for 1xAA NiMh.

I use it with 14500 (Manker and Xtar unprotected) it still have good runtime with 14500 on first 3 levels.

The power button is a little to light (I’m used with U21, U11 and T01) but is a matter of taste. I like that you can power off completely with a short twist of tail cap

Budda, I see the output drops after app 2 min. Can you manually restart after lets say 30 sec, and measure the output, like in this review:

I ask that because I want to know do you get that 700 lumen just once when the battery is freshly charged, or you can get that 700~ lumen for longer period of times, till the battery depletes or so. Does that drop happens because of temperature protection kicking in maybe?
Thanks

Does somebody by any chance own BOTH tints of this light and could post a photo of the LEDs next to each other? I´m not sure if I really got the 3D (neutral) version since the LED tint looks a bit cool…

Thanks,
K.

sorry, I don’t have this light anymore.

My E11 was delivered today, i ordered the neutral white version, but mine is much too yellow to be neutral white, compared to other led lights it is about 3000K or even lower, and that is more warm white than neutral white.
I don’t like the color of the light i recieved today, it is bright, but it is not what i wanted…

I’m a little late with this post but I recently bought this light off Amazon (EDCgear, I think is the reseller) and I discovered some additional modes… after the 3 flashy modes listed, the next are a solid high, slow flashes in groups of 4 and then ‘3 level ramps’ of moon, low, mid and high. To the best of my knowledge, the light did not come with these modes… I think I activated them somehow. Anyway, if someone finds this to be true for their Manker E11, let me know.

You’ve stepped into the programing mode:

This is turbo without regulation (no step down)… be careful, can get hot.

This is the battery indicator

These are 3 levels you can pick for each setting during normal usage - click during the ramp level that you like to set it.
Personally I like to use moon 1, low 1, mid 2, and high 3.

Fuzzylogic, I really appreciate your insight! It is configured!
One other observation I have is that when I’m measuring current draw from a NiMH, the current is >2.5A but with a Li-ion 14500 (Sanyo or Windyfire), the max current is ~.95A. this all seems backward! Given the warm tint and floody nature of the beam, it’s hard to tell & I question if I’m getting within 100 lumens of the spec’ed 800 lm with Li-ion (???).
Can anyone explain this current read ‘reversal’?

Broodmaster,
I was doing some researching into Li-Ion battery safety (i’m pretty new to this stuff), and was worried about my Sanyo UR14500P being used in the E11 (the Sanyo I discovered is ICR (per Sanyo data sheet), the least safe kind and is not good for higher than 3A constant usage (per Mountain Electronics where I bought them from.)).

Long story short, there’s a review of the E11 on the German site TLF where the power consumption was tested and NiMh was twice that of 14500

Also there’s this review of the Utorch UT01 which is a clone of the E11 so it should have the same specs, and at high setting, the NiMh was 4.2-3.3 amps and the 14500’s was at 2.01-1.9 amps (the Sanyo is safe, phew).

I’m know next to nothing about Li-Ion batteries so I trust these review by people who know better. I believe it has to do with the fact that the 14500’s have a higher voltage than the NiMH.

Hope that helps a little.