Warsun Zoomie X65. Bro of UF1405?

It is not my light, just an over-processed advertising image :)

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Did your flashlight get soaked or is it just happy to see me? :crown:

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Gearbest has now XML2 as well.

and it costs $17.97

xml version is $16.99

I think it looks rather good for a zoomie.

It seems that zoomie boom happened and I see a lot of people that swore only on reflector lights buying them... :)

Hit it on the head.
I lurked here for about 2 years and joined up almost 3 years ago and at that time Zoomies were considered a “Toy, passing Fad, good for entertainment only” by the majority of members of stature.

Now given, a lot of those people have moved on, but now it is a Zoomie Lovefest!
Anyway, they’re all good on my book if they make ya happy:)

They also hated 2-3 cell lights because “Ya can’t trust 2 or more batteries in series, it’s the Devil’s Brew”
Then along came MT-G2’s and the like, and all of a sudden, Multiple cells are where it’s at.
Funny that.

Later,
Keith

Maybe the quality and variety of zombies have changed as well.

Oops... zoomies (auto correction error)

Aspherics are my number one choice since my first days of flashaholism. I would like to see some inventions on this field and not just "slap it with bigger lenses for better performance", and downsize trend.

I imagine one day small pocket zoomie will have at least 500kcd throw performance. Zoomies are lights with biggest potential and they have incredible performance in certain light applications(like IR for example), and I can bet that some person like MEM will make extraordinary versions of them.

Just ordered the XML2 version from GearBest this morning. I also have a 1504 in the mail. I will post some pictures when they come in.

That is unlikely. Fresnel did it all in the 19th Century.

Wait, explain that triple pictured above? Some other light? a mod of the Warsun X65? Photoshop?

This might be an interesting lens replacement:

It is unGodly expensive for a thin piece of thermal plastic, and it needs trimming. It costs much more than the flashlight.
This one http://www.dx.com/p/50mm-optical-glass-lens-for-flashlight-spot-light-44653#.VWtOMUYy1LE is cheaper, but only 2 cm. thick, so it may not be much shorter focal length than the original.

Me again with questions regarding throw comparison to Jacob A60, anyone can report back about how this light throws :D?

waiting for throw numbers as well.

if it beats a 200kcd without too much trouble, I am interested

Ordered one from GB - coupon: JUNE15GB for 8% off. It's a sitewide coupon code, so they say, but for lights that already have a discount shown (not really a discount...), the coupon code will increase the price, maybe. The code works well for the X65 sinc'e it is not listed discounted now.

Warsun X65

Cree XML T6 Price: $15.69 with coupon GBX65
Cree XM L2 Price: $16.80 with coupon GBX65

:party:

Ahh, the GBX65 code from the GearBest Specials thread here: https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/28604. I missed that - little better than the JUNE15GB code.

I’m sure this is not the first topic about it but……instead of using a short focal length fresnell lens you could possibly use a small pre-collimating lens.

The right one will concentrate the light from the emitter onto the mail lens without any or much light being lost inside the head.

De distance between the pre collimating lens and the main lens (so the focal length of the main lens does play a big part in this) is again very important.
You can easily see how much light is being lost in a zoomie when you try it out, in a dark room, going from flood to throw and back, looking at the light reflected from the ceiling.

The difference is so obvious that you don’t even need to measure it to see it.
Roughly 50% of the output gets lost on full spot zoom.

Grtz
Nico

There was a thread about using multiple lenses, but I stopped following it because I didn’t see any report of configurations and results.
I think it makes sense, when a short focal length lens is not available for a reasonable price, to add a second converging lens instead. There are practical issues like how to fix it in place and retaining useful zoom in to flood mode.

I now have the color 3 x XP-E variant shown above, but called “SHARP EAGLE ZQ-SH-01 3*CREE XML-XPE Multifunctional 1600LM 6-Mode White & Blue & Yellow Light Portable Flashlight Black, SKU: 32004999”, $8.99 with coupon, from Tmart.
It is really cool white, warm white and blue. The lens is so long focal length that it projects fairly clear images of the off-center LEDs. Being off center does increase the chromatic aberration of the white ones. The nut on the side is a tripod mount, but it is not near the center of gravity, especially when zoomed to spot. The pill slides in the head.
The pill refuses to unscrew from the body, for me also. I might keep the three colors, but I at least want to bypass resistors in the driver.
I tried twisting left as well as right. The disk that holds the star in won’t come off either. I think it is aluminum.
All the shininess inside does not seem to do much harm. The main rings are from reflection off the black sides of the head, where the pill slides.

The LED Lenser P14 is 4xAA. It is not a budget light, but Tmart has it (or claims to at least) for a more or less budget price.