[Review] Wuben E05 - Impressive eSwitch 14500

Cool. Thanks for the review and intro to what could be a nice edc light.

Emitter Swap: complete (see post #2)

Hum, much better tint now on the flashlight :wink: And improved lumens :smiley:
And thanks for pointing out the batteries! I’ll probably need to get one or 2 that are longer than mine, so that I have some spares. These Soshine may be some candidates :wink:

Hey Gchart, do you have any idea if a 16mm MCPCB from MTN is a drop in?

Im not too comfortable reflowing just yet.

It should fit fine. The only thing is I don’t remember if it’s a 1mm or 1.6mm thick MCPCB (I’m thinking 1mm, but I didn’t measure). Worse case if you use a 1.6mm and it was a 1mm is that you’d have a tiny gap between the stainless bezel and the head. You might be able to sand down the gasket a bit to add clearance. What LED are you thinking about swapping in?

Probably a warm XPL2 like you did.

Great review!! Thank you. :+1: Mine are supposed to be here Wednesday, I can’t wait. :wink:

The picture of your daughter is great, she’s a cutie & maybe a budding ‘flashoholic’ too. :wink:

Got one, the 3 hour run time on high is what sold me. Most 14500 flashlights chew through the battery very fast on anything other than a low setting.
The coupon code from Vipon puts this light at 19.97 with prime, couldn’t say no to that.

Got the Wuben TO46R last week and am blown away by the quality, fit and finish and performance.
The packaging is even better than a lot of other light in the same price range.

Thanks gchart for the great reveiw!
Later,

Keith

Thanks guys. This really is a great light. I took it deer hunting with me this weekend (with a bigger one for backup, and my TH20 for gutting in the dark) and it looked great out there in nature with the 4000K that I swapped in, and plenty bright.

Thanks for posting the information and the emitter swap photos. I was about to buy it but didn’t like the UI. I want simple click for on/off. Press and hold should be for changing mode, which is far more intuitive and has become the standard for BLF UIs.

This is always subjective, for me I want the modes to change fast and not have to wait.
The timing on hold for off is not as bad as it sounds, put it this way, if you press it to turn it off and just move your hand to your pocket it will be off before you secure it.
Unless you are trying to avoid sniper fire the delay is very reasonable.

My only wish would be for a shortcut to moonlight but they have made hold down from off to go to Turbo which is more important to me, so I guess it’s no big deal.
Can always shut off in moonlight and then it will be memorized.

One thing that really pleased me with this flashlight is it has almost a Foy bezel, but just has a small subtle crenulation so you know if the flashlight is on of you set it down on it’s head.
Tint looks like pure white with normal tint shift for the type of emitter.
Testing capacity on the battery as we speak.

Overall best buy of the year for me on a AA/14500 EDC by far.
Later,

Keith

Mind got here today. I charged the battery & fired it up…… I am amazed at this little light!!

Everything you guys wrote about them is true!! I could not be happier with this purchase…. This light nails it. :+1:

Thanks for the objective/atypical review.

Gamed runtime?
150-181 lumens on HI for so many m.a.hours ?
If more photons are needed, next level begins ~ 1000?

Yesterday I was tempted to put a Luxeon V on mine to improve the beam quality! It was late so I gave up, but that will be a next step on this :wink: It surely has less shift than the XPL2 on it and still puts a great amount of light out of it!

I’m a fan of that 4000K 80 CRI XP-L2, it does have the XP-L2 tint shift at the edge of the hotspot but it being soft yellow instead of the greenish that the cool white XP-L2 shows, makes all the difference to me.

Thanks for the very good review!

I picked mine up yesterday. Its a VERY nicely made light. I like or can live with just about all its “quirks” like the odd UI, but im not very happy with the beam pattern it produces.

Mine has a smooth reflector, and the tint shift is truly a CREE rainbow. I can visually see at least 3-4 steps of color transition. I could probably live with that, but the thing thats bothering me the most is that the hotspot is a donut with a dim spot in the center.

I only paid $20 for mine with a coupon from Amazon, but im not 100% sure I want to keep it.

Hi Keith,
What’s the coupon code? Thanks.

Hey Gebe,

Each code is one time use, you may be able to buy more than one in your order but only one amazon order will process. Try adding one a at time into the cart then go to checkout and add code.

Need to get code from this site;
https://www.vipon.com/product/5620536-WUBEN-E05-EDC-Flashlight-900-Lumens-Cree-XPL?ref=ss_5620536_18_title

You need to join the Vipon but all that they want is valid email, can be throw away yahoo,gmail, etc.
They have lots of good codes and it is all for Amazon, easy peasy.

HTH
Keith

Thanks much Keith but the code isn’t working. What a wonky site that vipon is! It took forever to join and at first it wouldn’t let me navigate the site unless I downloaded their app. After much frustration, I finally got through to get the code.

Went to Amazon but the code is no longer any good.

Ended up modding mine with the Luxeon V: “REVIEW”: Wuben E05 V1.0 – AA/14500 battery – XPL2 LED - 900 lumens [PIC HEAVY] [***MODDED WITH Luxeon V]*** - #20 by MascaratumB
Much better beam if compared with XPL2 :wink: :stuck_out_tongue: