I have to make a correction on my “review” post.
The charging port on mine does *NOT *work.
If the light is on and you plug the USB cable in your PC the light turns off - so I assumed it started charging.
But it doesn’t, nothing happens. I had it plugged in for half an hour, checked the battery and nope, nothing.
Maybe I’m doing something wrong here but the manual is completely and only in Klingon so I just don’t know.
O well, I might me changing the driver anyway so…….
Cheers,
Nico
So, as promised I measured the throw (today) and guess what? It’s not bad at all.
I measured 230+ Kcd with an almost fully charged Efest IMR 26650/3500.
In other words: more then what the Thrunite Scorpion V6 does at half the price.
I don’t have the latest and best 6000mAh cells, so with those it would be a little better stil.
Also, I haven’t modded it at all yet. 230+ Kcd stock is nice, very nice.
If a little tweeking can get it to around 250Kcd I’ll be quite happy.
Next I will bridge both springs and replace the wires from the driver to the led and post the results.
Cheers,
Nico
That sounds great. I’m really impressed. Thanks…
Good review George, thank you!! :+1:
I’ve got the second version of this light.
I posted my thoughts elsewhere, but this is a better place, so I moved them.
The first impression it made is the second worst of all my lights. Second after $1 plastic junk.
Positives? OK, there are some too.
Pics:
Black marks on the bezel, dust, off-centre emitter. The black marks actually look worse than the picture shows.
More dust:
Just another head photo which shows emitter position nicely. And more dust.
I failed to photo the orange-peel arease with my phone, but here’s a single ding in the reflector:
Switch cover. This photo exaggerates tiny dings. What really looks bad is scratched areas in the centre and near the rim. The switch is glossy, but in these places it’s matte, so that’s pretty visible.
Ring around the button doesn’t look like it was meant to be here from the start.
On the bottom you can see it’s dirty with something. I think it’s grease.
I didn’t manage to try it in action yet.
This feels unreal…
I just tested charging.
Put inside a partially charged cell, 3.98 V.
Plug in, indicator LED turns on. The magnetic connector is superb!
Remove after 1 hour, it charged the cell to 3.98 V.
Maybe something went wrong, try again for 15 minutes.
Result? 3.98 V.
It seems to be vety consistent at least…. :person_facepalming: . 
That sux…… 
Did you switch on the tail cap switch? It breaks the contact and battery is not charging even if the indicator light is on.
P.S. my blue bezel has the same black marks as yours, but I seem lucky with well centered led and good reflector.
If only it had a 4000-4500k LED inside instead of a 6500k one.
Would have been dope to give to a police officer of mine with a magnetic connector.
Stupid me :person_facepalming:
Will try again when I’m back home.
Well, to add to my posts: the bezelring on my light is a very pale blue as well, it has 4 of these black markings as well, and the switch cover looks as scratched as the others………….but these are minor issues.
A major issue is that the charging on mine doesn’t seem to work either.
I will try again with the manual switch “on” and post result.
Tip for led not centered: they probably screwed the head on without looking if it was done properly (hence the dirt on the reflector and the rease on the lens).
So far, and especially for the price, I’m quite happy with this light.
Cheers
Nico
Anyone try to unscrew the tail switch or take the driver out to do some mods .
Nope.
Monday I’m @ Djozz’ and we will bridge both springs (so the “tailcap” switch will have to come out) and maybe replace driver wires.
Some good news though!
I put in a cell with 4,04V, turned the light on and used the onboard charger.
The charging port light on the light went red and went dead after some time.
Took the cell out, measured it and……4,18V.
Nice.
Grtz
Nico
So……………focus couldn’t be improved, the reflector is not the best ever but it will do.
Both springs bridged and measured with Djozz’ Mobilux (my elcheapo LX1330B always exaggerates CW around 9-10%) and now we got a dependable 240Kcd.
Not bad as I paid slightly over €30,00.
I suspect the XP-L HI in the light is not the latest version so I might upgrade to V3 (I like the 3C binning a lot) at a later point.
Cheers,
Nico
JM70
Utorch UT02
Measured at 10 meter distance.
Yes both stock. Just got my JM70 yesterday. Did comparison test between the JM70 and UT02.
Hardusvd70 and Nico raised my curiousity just over my natural laziness, so I opened my other 3 samples of the lights and measured the throw - 11 m from the lux meter (HS1010A) and saving the max value:
Battery 4,15 V start My sample - 2180 cd = 263K1m start / 248K@30 sec
Sample 2 - 1830cd = 219K start / 214K 30 sec
Sample 3 - 1994 cd = 241K@start / 218K @ 30 sec
Sample 4 - 2004 cd - 242K@start / 228K @ 30 sec
My sample again - 2040cd= 246K - at the end of the measurement. Battery was 4,06V.
So my conclusion from this small batch - it is some kind of lottery, yet deviation is +/- 10% from 240K cd cold start.
I’m finally back home and I tried to re-center the LED with this instruction. But when I screw the bezel back I always end up with LED completely off-centre. Suggestions?
Maybe find the proper centering ring ?
What’s the opening of the reflector ?