Now there are so many single 18650 flashlights, so it is quite difficult for customer( and us, flashlight enthusiastics) to choose. Fitorch MR35 is one of the single 18650 light that caughts my interest, because it has 5 LEDs ( or colours) in it, and it also has usb charging.( it’s a trend now)
1.Unbox
( I forgot taking a picture, so I borrowed a picture from internet :P)
Inside the box we have a holster, a lanyard, a micro usb cable for charging, a spare o-ring and button cover, and an English manual( it supposed to have a diffuser cap, but mine doesn’t have, strange)
The manual is quite useless( for Example, it said it has breathing led, but mine is flashing, not breathing)
There are also some spelling mistake, and some patches were done by hand, but anyway, let’s forget it, we won’t read manual, will we?
2.Design
( Jetbeam II-M on the left, and Fitorch MR35 on the right)
The MR35 uses a single XPL-HD led and 3 XP-E2 RGB led and 1 365nm UV led, covers almost all applications in household using and hunting
The design is…well, not too special for a single 18650 light, its length is about 147mm, and its headdiameter is about 45mm, the diameter of reflector is 30mm
Its Center of mass is not in center of light, but lies near its head, due to its heavy head
The light contains main parts, tail cap, tube, and the head, the stainless benzel can be removed
The build quality is good, better than astrolux and convoy, even can compare with olight, jetbeam or nitecore
Actually the design reminds me about nitecore flashlight because of its black, solid, and big head
It feels solid when holding the light
The clip does its job very well, provides enough strength to keep the light in my pocket
The screw is square, and already lubed from factory
The Glass is AR coated
the Usb port and E-switch is located opposite each other at the body
the tail switch is mechanical, which means there will be no parasite current when the light is off, it can do tail standing, but not reliable because the head is heavy
2.User interface
The MR35 has 2 switches, one is located at tail cap, to turn on or off the light, and one at the body, to change mode
The switch is responsive, but the E-switch at body is quite more difficult to locate compared with other lights
Its UI is quite complex( which is reasonable for a 5-leds lights) but fitorch has done great job for new people to use and get use to
From off, press the tailcap to switch on, default it will go to last brightness of white led( the color leds doesn’t have memory)
Single tap will cycle through 4 brightness white(low-mid-high-turbo-high-mid-low)
Hold the switch at any mode will cycle through 4 different colors(Red-Green-Blue-UV)
Double tap at any mode will go to strobe, and any next double taps will cycle through different strobes
(White stroble-White SOS-red,blue police flashing-only Blue flashing)
3.Power consumption and PWM
All the figures below are tested with NCR18650B and a Clamp DC meter , results may different if using different batteries
White led
Low:~0.01-0.02A(too low to measure accurately)
Mid:0.16A
High:0.62A
Turbo:2.8A
Color leds
Red:0.6A
Green:0.76A
Blue:0.78A
UV:0.44A
i tested the light with 1/24000 shutter speed and naked eyes, no evidence of PWM, the light is fully constant current
4.Usb Charging
The current charging is 0.8A, and will slowly reduce to 0 until the battery is full
Since the tailcap’s switch is mechanical and will open circuit when turn off, so it’s necessary to turn on the light to charge battery
When charging, the green led at the E-switch will flashing and constant on when it’s full
There is a problem, when the green led stop flashing, the light actually wont stop charging the battery, maybe the battery is not full, not a big deal, but I don’t like false inform
The light stop charging at 4.25V
5:Beamshot
Updating in next post