Boruit Headlamp Review D10 (aka. EHL0628) - King of the Budget Headlamps?

I had ordered 2 and have been using one at work with great success. Don’t mind the stock emitter’s tint because my whole shop is coated in oil and coolant so it just makes it pretty.
The one I keep at home finally got an emitter upgrade with an XM-L2 U3 3D on Noctigon 20mm. Replaced the 2 wires to MCPCB with teflon coated.

Note: the solder points on the switch side of the board need to be trimmed very close to the board or they will short out against the button retaining ring when you screw it together.
It’s anodized, but why risk it? You can test by simply placing the retaining ring against the assembly and verify that they aren’t dragging on it.

Such an amazing light for the money.

Using it for night fishing, very comfortable light. No cons, except emitter. It must be swapped with warmer, stock cool white is not suitable in foggy weather.

Wildcat, thanks for the Convoy tip!
My Convoy optics arrived and after testing I decided it must be permanent.
After sanding the sides of the optic I also wallowed out the inside of the bezel to allow the shoulder of the optic to rest on it.
Bonus was that there is a groove on the inside of the bezel that I was able to slip the o-ring into to keep the optic in place and give it some water resistance.
Didn’t need to adjust the height of the optic, sits just perfect and has a little downward pressure on the MCPCB. I left the reflector centering guide in.
The beam is much more usable for closer work and there are no sharp demarcations between hotspot and spill, or any rings around the outer edge.
Pictures can explain better than me:

This shows how the o-ring sits:

I had a 219C 5000K laying around from another light, on a 16mm mcpcb, so I swapped it in like you. I only needed to extend one wire. It works and looks great under a 60° TIR lens.

Output on high went down from 495 lm to 330 lm. (Maukka calibrated TA Lumen Tube) I’ve got more than enough brightness to handle the close-up type work I use it for such as soldering and automotive repair. It’s the perfect little light now. :+1:

I haven’t touched this light since. I really need to get a TIR in mine!

-Garry

Mtn electronics has them.

I saw this some time ago and bought one. since, I have bought 3 more. This really is a good headlamp for around $11! I just tried to find a couple more for friends and can hardly find them anywhere.
Does anyone know where to get them other than Aliexpress?

Banggood seems to sell a version of this Boruit EHL0628 but is known as the Xanes D10 headlamp. I haven’t tried ordering from BG so I’m not sure if it’s exactly the same or they just look the same (based on the item description and usage operation and the pictures posted). I got the EHL0628 from their official store in AliExpress.

Do u have the specs for a boruit rj3000 headlamp

I finally got around to changing the LED and optics in my EHL0628 (XP-L ON 16mm copper and TIR).
I didn’t want to solder an extension to the wire so I took off the driver and soldered longer wires directly to it. I took the chance to shoot some photos.
Note that this is the old version bought almost a year ago, the new version has a new UI (with stepless dimming).
[Edit: Sorry, no new version and no new UI. I misunderstood the phrase “stepless dimming” (I’m not a native English speaker)]

Charging circuit:

Looks like two TP4057 chips in parallel.

The driver:

A quick guess would be that the unmarked SO-8 IC is an MCU that is providing PWM to switch two transistors (SOT-23-3 chips) through current limiting resistors (the 3 1ohms in parallel).

The two boards are separated by a plastic spacer (sorry about the quality, took this one with my phone’s camera):

New UI? Stepless dimming? When?Where? :wink:

This D10 has only had one UI as far as I remember.

Stepless dimming = 5 steps - LOL

Well, all the places that sell this headlamp now say it has stepless dimming. Some examples:

http://www.aliexpress.com/item//32826991825.html
http://www.aliexpress.com/item//32824362452.html
http://www.aliexpress.com/item//32836243713.html

Guys, do you think that there is no new UI? You think the sellers just misinterpreted “stepless dimming”?
Because if that is the case, I’d like to edit my post to reflect this, as not to mislead people.

Well it has “stepless dimming”, but that is via press-n-hold, while the “normal operation” (simple click and let go) goes through two modes. Is this how yours operates?

-Garry

Mine works exactly like yours.
But I thought “stepless dimming” means that the PWM can be ramped, E.G. like the Boruit RJ-02.

5 steps via press-and-hold are still steps, aren’t they?
Now I’m confused… :person_facepalming:

“Stepless dimming” is literally the 5 different brightness levels. It is not like ramping or like the RJ02. It’s misleading, but no big deal.

Thanks to both of you for clarifying, I edited my post.

Yes the stepless dimming is NOT what you think it is . It's a pure poor translation on their part and has confused everyone who ever entered this thread .

It isn't a bad User interface and it's pretty simple to use .

  • first click is medium mode…. so from Medium you have 5 basic options
  • #1 wait a second or two and click again to OFF..so- [ med...then WAIT ….OFF]
  • #2 don't wait at all and make a second quick click to high.....so - [ click click is med. then high .]
  • #3 CLICK CLICK CLICK ... med / high / off /...bang bang bang /simple as pie . 3 normal clicks .
  • #4 Click the light on to medium … and then holding down the button will cause the light to start cycling thru the lights 5 modes.(downward)~ med/low/moon?/high/not-so-high/med/low/notreallya moon/high/ etc etc etc . cycling works from any mode if you hold the button down .
  • #5 Two fast clicks from any mode/even from off ...takes you into nasty Strobe /two more fast clicks into SOS mode /and two more into a nice slow beacon mode .

Thanks, Boaz!