Video & Still Photo Review of the Small-Sun ZY-T20 - from Wallbuys

LED Flashlights – General Info 18650 Flashlights
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Hello,

I received a Small Sun ZY-T20 today and I wanted to show some photos and a video of the light and a basic tear down. This was to be a light to mod, not for review, but I figured others might like to hear the reviewers meanderings... Really? Not.

Watch the video, for most of my commentary about the light. The stills are just a highlight.

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It came in the original box, but where the hell is the charger cord? This light has a charging port and I thought the complete light would come. It did not. I did not get this light for free. I paid for it. I only paid 50% of the cost, but still, I thought I should of gotten the accessories with the light. EDIT: I probably did give Wallbuys the link to the one without the batteries and charger. Most likely my fault, so just take the bitching with a grain of salt & move on. I love to bitch anyhow and there never has to be a good reason, just any old reason will do. So, Wallbuys probably did right as far as sending what they felt they were supposed to send.

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The light weight in at 616 Grams, or 1.57# without the batteries. It's a Heavy light! OAL is 188mm and Head OD is 75mm

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The 2 stage reflector has a stippled bottom and smooth top.

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80% of the weight of the light is in the head. That's why I figured it would be a good light to "hotmod".

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The driver, for all intents and purposes, is the same diameter as a King Driver.

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4x18650 in parallel.

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70mm glass lens. Green glass, possibly coated with something, but not AR for sure.

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70mm x 50mm PLASTIC reflector. Yuck, Plastic!

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XM-L on a large star. Aluminum heat sink is threaded and is not hollow, but the thickness under the star is only about 2mm and there is enough room in the pocket in the head to have made it about 20mm thick or more.

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Driver only pulls 2 amps. Not a super bright light, but the spot is nice and tight, just not really bright.

Beam Shots

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Overall, a nice light, with many possibilities. It could be a great thrower, with a thicker heat sink and driver harder. Fit and finish is very good, but the plastic reflector, (in my mind), knocks it from a $60something dollar light, to a $25-$30 dollar light at most. It sure as hell isn't worth $60. Glad I got it for $30.

EDIT: I probably did give Wallbuys the link to the one without the batteries and charger. Most likely my fault, so just take the bitching with a grain of salt & move on. I love to bitch anyhow and there never has to be a good reason, just any old reason will do. So, Wallbuys probably did right as far as sending what they felt they were supposed to send.

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Thanks for the overview, I like aluminium reflectors better too, but at least the performance of a plastic reflector has never been reported being less than an aluminium one (exept for one flashlight I have where the plastic refector is needed to fix the led board down and is so thin that it deforms doing that)

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Thanks for the review OL. You did indeed get 50% of. I bought a pair of jeans the other day for 50% of. My daughter thinks they are way to short. Running at 2 amps this light would run for hours on high standard. The beams just a little different to the run of the mill MTG out now.

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same as mine, got it a week ago for around 26usd with 4 cheap trustfire 18650’s. the charger included sucks takes a really long time to charge your batteries. i just take ’em out and use the other charger.

MrsDNF is right i lit it up on high with the cheap batts and lasted for more than 2 hours. i just haven’t tested it on good batts yet. and yes the beam is narrow

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OL maybe you could make a 9 XPG2 with some nice TIR optics out of this one and junk the plastic reflector?

thanks for the review sir

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Seems like they shipped you the version without charger and batteries. Did you order the one with charger and batteries?

Call me a battery/charging snob. But I would never have charged the batteries inside that light with that charger. Especially not with those batteries.

Thanks for letting us get a good look at the light with you. :)

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I just picked that link without looking, when I needed a link for the thread. From the emails ahead of time, I thought I was getting the one with the accessories, but as I say, they may have seen it as me wanting the one without, since I was going to mod it anyhow. The worst thing to me was the plastic reflector. I just don’t feel that a light going for $60+ should have a plastic reflector in it. A lot of people charge batteries in their lights, especially now, when retail stores are starting to carry lights with Li-ion packs in them. Hell, look at all the cordless tools all over the world and they have been around for years and years. It’s bound to become a bigger thing as retailers start carrying them. The one in Wal-Mart looks to be as cheap as you can get and it will surely mainstream after a while. I just hope people can take videos of them when they go Poof… It’s fun to watch.Tongue Out

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Just asking OL: what your top 3 reasons are for not liking plastic reflectors?

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Nice review. I did purchase a Cree Led (Power Style) flashlight with 2000 lumens at $45 discounted rate. It comes with a rechargeable battery - but it drains too fast. Will post pics of it later.

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Put an SST-90 in that thing.

And is it really heavier than a fully-loaded 6D Mag??

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Thanx for the review OL. Have you or anyone here modified the T20 yet. I think with the specs, it could be modified into a mean thrower.

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Never saw this post, sorry. Top three? Plastic sucks, Plastic sucks and Plastic sucks.

Seriously, I find that the plating on many of the cheap plastic reflectors is not as good as metal. Also, if I ruin a plastic reflector, it's bye, bye, since I can't remove the coating and polish it like I can with an Aluminum one. Also Aluminum reflectors can act as heat sinks and plastic can't.

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You can use the search feature here and type in ZY-T20 and get many results, but here is one Mod.

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Thanx OL! :slight_smile: