Wait for the Wuben A21. It’s gonna be a 4200 lumen, Xhp70.2, compact, single 21700, USB rechargeable flashlight. Will be pricey I suspect, but Wuben makes quality lights. I have a couple of them.
They’re pure garbage. Trust me, I made the mistake of getting 2 of ’em for mum to use with 3×AAAs.
Aluminum-foil battery tube, rattling zoomie-head, scratchy switch (great if you like Random Modes At Random Times), and so many things wrong with it, that they’re all an abomination unto the LORD.
Take the bux you’d spend on some AT01s, and toss quarters down the sewer instead. It’d be more amusing than dealing with those crappy lights.
Oh, they ain’t even Ultrafire, unless UF completely and totally disavowed even giving birth to those lights, ’cause they’re nowhere to be found on the UF site, and UF even lists their own discontinued lights!
I wouldn’t want to be listed as the baby-daddy, either.
I think the wuben A21 which i just received is going to be hard to beat. It’s not 4200 lumens in my opinion. Closer to 3400-3600 in comoarison to known lights.
Rofis makes a XHP35 light called the MR30. I am anxiosly awaiting mine in transit from Banggood now.
That Rofis MR30 does look pretty nice. But it has some oddities to it that I noticed right away with just a quick look just now. There may be others, but here’s a few I noticed. The charging port doubles as a discharge port for using the light as a power bank. But, the port is Micro USB and it comes with a short adapter cord. In spite of taking 21700 and using XHP-35, it only has a max output of 1600lm. A lot of other lights are well past that level right now. Also, in the freeme GB thread, it is mentioned that the light has two step downs when using “Turbo” mode. :person_facepalming:
Yeah, but 1600lm has been done with 3V emitters by some guys here already, with better throw, no donut hole, etc. Who needs a boost driver and a 12V emitter if there’s nothing to gain (nothing desirable anyway)? IMHO, if it’s gonna be a XHP-35 HI, it ought to get a lot better output to make up for the lack of a nice beam profile. :confounded: And it ought to have thermal management rather than a timed double step-down. :person_facepalming:
Well, in a recent review of that Rofis light, it had a bad tint shift. So, there’s that. But, what I meant was to have a tight beam for better throw. The XHP-35 doesn’t have nearly as bad a cross or donut hole like the 50’s and 70’s do. But still can’t focus a reflector too well, or you’d get a dark spot where the bright spot is supposed to be, because it’s still a quad die with no light being generated in the ‘center’. Anyway, I’m not knocking the XHP-35. I’m saying that it isn’t ‘better’ than some of the 3V emitters, unless you push it well past 1600lm output.