Review of HM Q5 zoomie

A few weeks ago I was one of the winners of the following light by DinoDirect

As promised as participant in this giveaway I’m going to give a short review. But I can say this: this light beats every sipik I’ve had so far in almost every aspect except for memory.

Pros

- Build quality (although not at all waterproof) is very sturdy

- Nice design and an intrigueing desaturated purple color

- Output

- Beam quality: very smooth when zoomed out, 90-95% focused when zoomed in.

- Price

- 14500/AA

  • Pocket clip

Cons

— Next mode memory

- Next mode memory

  • Next mode memory

I rate this light 4,5 out of 5 stars, but find it depressing it will probably never be used as my EDC because of the next mode memory. After a lot of trying I managed to open it up, but it’s impossible to get the chip exposed without breaking it, so I can’t do the graphite trick.

UPDATE: after finally being able to get the driver out, I managed to disable next memory with the pencil trick.

Memory now resets after about 3 seconds of being off.
Going to EDC this for a while now!