Nuts, Hang on, I will pop it back out. The Reflector is narrow at the bottom and there is no stock centering insulating ring. The Regular XPL centers itself with its corners.
Give me a bit…
About 27mm wide, 20mm deep and the back hole is 5mm with a 1mm shelf around it that sits on the board.
I got the U11 in the mail today, I like it! The USB charges the battery to 4.18v checked with 2 different batteries the beam pattern and size is almost identical as the Zebralight SC600. the U11 hotspot is just a very tiny bit smaller, when comparing the 2 lights in their brightest setting the U11 is brighter.
Fit and finish is superb! I might swap the Led for a XP-L HI whenever I have time. But so far I think Manker has a winner with this light. Good Job Manker!
Not having a ZL to compare to, this is great to hear… What tint XPL-HI are you thinking of replacing the stock emitter? I have been very happy with the warm white I put in…
2B is my favorite cool white… I just used the stock board and reflowed the new one on it. You may have to thin a noctigon down as the stock board is thinner than a noctigon. A 20mm Noctigon will need some filing on the edges, but a 16mm should fit the screw holes already there. Easiest way is to just use the stock board….
Manker U11 standby current (parasitic drain): measured 0,2µA! This is practically zero. It will drain an 18650 in 2000 years, theoretically. Even better than Zebralight (4µA).
Its really not that bad the UI since a quick click gets you to Moonlight mode and a long click gets you to the last saved mode. my complaint is that sometimes I click too fast to change modes and go to the blinkies. |(
The light seems to be accessible, IF you can get the switch out. Thing is, there is a charging circuit in there too. It may be a lot of work to just drop a couple of modes.
Moonlight and one other mode of your selection are available from off…
Just received mine today. My first impressions are pretty good, and I was skeptical. I’ve got seven Zebralights and it seems like Manker is trying to imitate them in a lot of ways. Overall, they’ve done a very good job. This is a solid light. Machining and finish are great. Pocket clip is passable but leaves plenty of room for improvement. The switch cover is rotated ever-so-slightly so the Manker logo is a crooked by a couple of degrees, which isn’t a big deal but will bother me a bit. The UI is a bit confusing at first but I’m getting it. By biggest gripe so far, and its not surprising, is the cool white tint. Luckily that seems like a pretty straight-forward thing to fix.
Those are my 2-minute first impressions. Overall, a really nice light for a good price.
EDIT: I lined it up with some of my other “smallish” 1x18650 lights for a size comparison
LOL! less than 24 hours of getting mine, I already replaced the Led for a XP-L HI V3 1C, now the hotspot is about half the size of the original which was about the same size as the hotspot of the SC600, and now looks way brighter, I don’t know why they decided not to go with the XP-L Hi like the T01 since the HI version looks like a better choice, at least to me.
BTW that AS5 looking thermal grease it originally came with sucks! it is very very thin, so I cleaned the surface with alcohol and Q-tips and used real Artic Silver 5 under the original MPCB, now the light gets hot a lot faster which means better heat transfer to the body.
The switch seems very hard to get out, so I decided not to try and disassemble any further, the MPCB seems to not have direct thermal path and is made out of aluminum, I might sand down a Noctigon later on but for now I used the same MPCB.
So far changing the led is a piece of cake on this light, I suggest trying the XP-L HI.