Should I get this zommie, get the M10 or the M12? And don’t say all of them!
Garry makes everyone spend money! I think I need to use him on my taxes to try and recoup some of my money. Lol Resistance is futile. He should have been in sales!
Nice review this will complete my set of sk68 style lights! Thanks!
My buddy likes the sk68 lights and showed him my sk98 this weekend and he wants one but he wants a neutral tint installed in it though after seeing some 4c and 3c tints this weekend.
Thanks very much for the review! Frontpage’d and Sticky’d.
ive got a xml t5c1 im debating putting in this just to see how it changes the beam… its basically purple now
Nice review, i like the video review.
4 lumen low zoomie with memory, tail stands and fits long protected 26650's. That sounds like a winner.
Too bad it isn’t brighter. It has a big battery, plenty of thermal mass, good heat sinking, and great beam profile. Yet it’s pushing what? 1.5 amps maybe? What a joke! Why couldn’t they drive it at a good 2.5 Amps so you can get a decent 800ish lumens in flood mode, and 550ish in throw?
Can you check the tailcap to see its amperage measurements? Maybe your lumen counts were done solely in throw mode and it loses a lot of lumens in throw, maybe due to blackened inside vs mirrored or whatever?
i dont have good enough leads to check the current, but with the lens off the ceiling bounce tests show that the lens is eating up a good 10% of the output lol.
I second measuring the current, please. Low quality leads don’t make the test not worth doing. Plus, I doubt the current is so high as to matter much.
Also, in WIDE mode, are they just as wide as each other? With that big lens, I’d hope the beam is wider than the SK68? Would really like to know!
Thanks for the review.
Ive got one of these coming from the same supplier. 
m10 if you don’t want a zoomie lol
the M12 if you want high output
this is you want smaller size
you should test the emitter with just the lens before going through the trouble of swapping (although, depending on your set up, swapping might be the easiest way to test).
I’ve had several budget plastic lenses make output look purple and swapping to a glass lens made it nice cool white with no purple at all.
The only thing that would make me want a bigger zoomie is because it will have a bigger lens and therefore smaller hotspot/better throw.
But this one just doesn't have that. They put the same diameter lens in as the sk98, with a thick green ring around it. Is this because that lens just happened to be available? A bigger piece of plastic would not have cost much more, and would have improved the throw significantly, would even have made the throw a bit impressive (which is quite an achievement with an XM-L inside).
Just ordered one of these too. Will have to wait and see I guess.
Come on, jmpaul! I see that you have the same lux meter as I do. Forget the ceiling bounce and test the lux at 1m between this one and the SK68. Pictures can deceive but meters say believe.
sorry about neglecting this thread all week!
i am usually quite busy during the week - i will try to update post 2 with answer to questions and also take some lux readings over the weekend
Picture of the dropin please
have the dropin aluminium under the star?
That is all i need to know for decide If I should buy it
Nice review! Thanks!
So nice that it made me to buy this light.. ;)
The pill is solid and there was even some Fujik under the star.
My sample is reasonably driven at 1.6A. Modes are 100%, 50% & 10%, no memory - starts at high after 3s off. Low mode is not 4 lumen, more like 40 lumen (I think your lux readings confirm this).
Flood (for me) is the more important feature of a zoomie.
Which zoomie would you choose?
I don’t care if it uses 1 o 2 18650.
This SK98 clone from FT?
Trustfire Z1/Z5?
Palight M900?
XXX?
Just got mine through. Some very good and a little bad.
Plus points:
-clean and unbleamished
-surprised at the output. It’s way brighter than an sk68 on a 14500. I don’t have tail cap readings yet. But I’m certainly not disappointed
-tint is very good. Not sure if I’ve struck lucky but the tint it almost identical to my Klarus NT20. Very neutral white edging on the side of cooler. But a million times better than my z8 and as good as any of my other lights
Now the bad:
- the head is very lose and has no resistance. This mean tip it head down and it zooms. Tip it up and it slides all the way to flood. I guess there should be some kind of friction ring to stop this happening. Any ideas on what it need to do or adjust?
Thanks.