Group Buy: Wuben TO50R HC ("The Flashlight") - 90+CRI, 2500+lm, EDC - CLOSED!

That is a nice looking light! :+1:
Now that the GB ended, may I ask you _ the _ to send me the lowest price by PM, please?
I didn’t have the chance ( :money_mouth_face: ) to get one of these and I may regret it , but I preferred to only now know how much this would have tempted me!

Still, I appreciate your work and efforts with Wuben and…I hope they implement the UI in other (smaller) lights of them :wink:

Looks like my shipment left the Netherlands for 3 days and is now back in the Netherlands. Interesting.

That is 17track not translating it very well I believe

Looks like we might have it by the end of next week

The flashlight has already reached me
I live in poland

Thanks

Got mine today. First LH351D light. First 21700 light. First rechargeable light (which is great since the cell doesn’t fit my charger). And first 2-button light.

It’s still daylight but I am impressed. Nice, creamy tint. Feels great in the hand. And I love, love the clip!

Also, it’s pretty neat how the emmiters subtlety fade when powered off.

Mine has arrived today.
Has anyone noticed that in the Strobo mode you hear such delicate clicking? Something like a tiny relay inside.

Got my two today too. Nicely packed /wrapped box for shipping. Bringing the battery up to full charge is.

I don’t hear anything when it strobes. My hearing is not good but I am wearing my super duper hearing aids. :question:

USPS attempted delivery today but no one was home to sign for it. I have rescheduled it for tomorrow via USPS.com, but let’s see if they can screw that up.

Just about dark enough now to go outside and play with one. Very cloudy so it should get quite dark here in the mountains… no glow in the sky from civilization.

We’ll expect a report and beam shots from you in the next hour. :smiley:

OK. I love the beam, the shape or spread, no definite hot spot. And I love the color of light. I only had a headlight that is quite cool to compare to. The UI is very nice too. No photos. I don’t take very good beams with my phone. The LEDS have one odd behavior I have not seen before… they have a glow that slowly dims to dark when turned off. Takes a few seconds… just different. Could be a bother if you were needing to disappear into stealthiness, but no matter to me.

The clicking on strobe and gradual dimming is very common with boost drivers.

The C8 w/ XHP35 HI I built does the same but what’s weird is that only 3/4 dies dim down like this. Makes me paranoid that one of them is dead.

What makes this sound? Btw the wrote that this light have carclo 1062x optics, but it doesn’t look like it.

Do you have a D4 or something you can see if a known Carclo optic fits or compare the two?

There is no Carclo, which has a frosted center (green). And the Wuben optics do not have this characteristic something (blue).

And here is a “sandwich”. I tried to center the left optics pin. Quite other dimensions.

Oh man, you’re right. It never was Carclo. Have to use a diffusing sheet to smooth the beam if necessary. Unless Wuben lets us know of an alternative. At least the optics they chose is a very good one.

Very good - I agree. But susceptible to scratches. There is no glass. Only optics.

LEDs:

And one more comparison (wuben-left, carclo 10621-right):

It is the same TIR as the one in the FireFlies PL47.

EDIT : After doing a quick search on aliexpress then Alibaba for “4 in 1 led lens”, this one looks like to be a close match.
It’s easier and cheaper for flashlight manufacturers to use local parts instead of importing them, then I would assume that FireFlies and Wuben used this one or a clone of :

Considering the lower quality of the one used in the PL47 with mold defects, it was probably a clone or a “QC rejected” batch.