Thanks so much for the review. I hope you publish it in a separate thread too so it would make it easy to find.
The TO10R tint looks like it will be very green given how much it is above the BBL. The TO46R seems better but still on the green side. How does it compare with the nichia 219c? Is it more green? Because for me, even the 219c seems very yellow green compared with 219b, which is more rosy.
The tint shift on the TO46R looks pretty wild but is easily fixable by applying DC-Fix, which I pretty much apply anyways on most of my flashlights. I’m just worried about the green. I had to return my Zebralight SC5C II XPL2 4000k 90CRI because the green was unbearable. The three UT01 I had were also consistently lime/yellow so I don’t use them.
I think I will pass on the TO10R and buy the TO46R to play with. It’s unfortunate because currently, this is the only non nichia HI CRI 18650 flashlight on the market with USB recharge. Would have been the perfect EDC light if the tint was closer or below the BBL.
Here’s the output measurements with the supplied batteries. No notable increase with high drain VTC5A (about 10 lumens).
Wuben TO46R
Turbo 0 sec: 1180 lumens (stepdown at 1 minute and drops down to 520 lumens at 2.5 minutes with the head at 50°C)
Turbo 30 sec: 1140
High 30 sec: 586
Mid 30 sec: 196
Low 30 sec: 37
Moon 30 sec: 5.6 lumens
maukka, maybe this is a dumb question, but considering the supposedly “expected” 1300 lumens - adverstised by the manufacturer - and these 1180 lumens measured, this decrease is due to the emitters used? Meaning NW (modded for this GB) vs CW (original)?
This is just a curiosity and will not influence - IN ANY WAY - my option to buy the light in this GB
Thanks for your work and for _ the _’s work on this
Hmm that 1 minute turbo time is kind of a bummer. The lumen output for 1100 is understandable due to the CRI rating though. The Jaxman E2L can maintain 900 lumens with no step down, though it gets a litte hot after a while. So I’d at least like to have seen a 900 lumen option. Hmm.
For the price though, I’m still interested and on the list already.