Interesting new light from Yupard and quick review

LED Flashlights – General Info 18650 Flashlights
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Just ordered 1 of this Yupard , it looks interesting, has battery meter and it capable of charging your phone too :smiley: and oh yeah… it’s at budget price too :wink:
( dang… can’t take post the pics from that website)

http://www.aliexpress.com/item-img/YUPARD-XM-L2-Flashlight-Torch-USB-charge-5modes-mobile-power-18650-battery-2000Lms-Intelligent-flashlight/1812120970.html

EDIT

Just got it today in the mail…opened up the box and guess what? the light is inside the buble wrap BUT outside the normal white box and with foam around it.( what in the world were they thinking? )… the box was crushed too but good thing no damage to the light.

First impression… this light is tall!.. taller than most C8 variants, smaller and shorter head than regular C8 and it’s not black or grey, it’s purple! more like gunmetal purple color… kinda cool, I don’t have any light in my collection in this color :bigsmile:

There’s several unique feature on this light, the XM-L2 LED is on a star only has 1 wire!( positive) :~
The light itself is feel hefty due to think heat sink around the driver pill, just slightly more heavier than Convoy C8.
I had no access to the driver as the driver pill section is glued |( I guess they trying to hide the driver trade secret?
After all it is the only budget light ( under $20) that has battery meter on it :slight_smile:

Of course it has to come with 5 next mode memory |( starting with LOW-MID-HIGH-STROBE-SOS
Driven at around 1.5A with XM-L2 the output is my guesstimate at around 400-500 lumens

Would I recommend it? that depend on are you collecting it or if you care about the lumens more?
But for something that under $20 and has a battery meter not a bad deal at all…
This is some light that you want to put it in glove compartment as it’ll give you idea how much battery left in the light :smiley:

Now if I can find a way to open this driver pill and see if I can do some resistor mod to this light to bump it to a nice 3 Amp then this light definitely will be a nice light to carry around, but it’s perfect enough for walking the dogs at night.

Btw… it does comes with nice olive drab color lanyard with lobster claw hook on it :smiley:

Side by side comparison with Convoy C8 (Yupard is on low mode )

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Reminds me of the recent Solarstorm.

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Saw it before, looks interesting and the price is good. But really really limited by the fact that it uses a single 18650.

Now - one 18650 battery to cater for both light and USB charging? That’s pretty limited. Unless you’re prepared to take a bunch of batteries, but then again you may as well bring your powerbanks if that is the case.

If it uses 3x or 4x 18650 then I may consider it more usable.

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Not sure why but reminds me JetBeam DDR26 just without display. And yeah, something from Solarstorm.
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Ability to charge other devices is awesome. I wish my DDR26 had this feature.

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aahh… Thanks Chloe :beer:

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Looks pretty similar to the Nitecore EC25.

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Yeah, definitely a mash-up between Nitecore EC25 “cobra” and Solarstorm grey/blue palette tones.
Had it a tailcap switch PLUS the side one to change modes but retain momentary-on ability, and a neutral tint, it would tempt me greatly.

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Phone battery back up that can jump start a car!! :Sp

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Have you got it yet?

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On sale for $17.10 now for 3 days.

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no… unfortunately it still on the slow boat :frowning: hopefully sometimes this week, it’s almost a month now :weary:

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and its 2000 lumens

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By now I learned very well… any flashlight under $20 usually it’s around 500-700 lumens :smiley:

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In Mozilla (FireFox):
[ View | PageInfo | Media ], select the pic and Save As.

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no it must be 2000 lumens other wise its fraud and you can file a paypal claim and get a free light :stuck_out_tongue:

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Maybe it’s about time to file mass paypal claims with all the flashlight purchase?!

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Found out from some Chinese online stores that the max current for this light is only 1.5A. Looks rather underpowered. But the reflector seems big enough to throw reasonably well.

Those who bought and received it, pls show us the driver if you could :slight_smile:

Specs

More pictures of this light

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Here is another new Yupard light from the same AliExpress seller. I’m gonna order ordered one of each.

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I should be getting it any day now as it shows it’s already in NY sorting center for few days now :smiley:
even their $5 yupard mini can be resistor mod and add XP-E2 on noctigon and it’ll blew away SolarStorm SC-03 :smiley:

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That’s about right, most of these budget light are never push too hard as it is only to please the non flashaholic users :bigsmile:
but for under $18 and has the ability to charge other thing is a not a bad deal at all :wink:

Just got it today…post some pics in the OP :slight_smile: