Ahhh, not an apples to apples comparison if you go to straight Li-ion supply line with an FET driver.
When we’re talking about a light that can do AA or Li-ion either, then your choices are more limited. I have the Utorch UT01 and the TK05 will be here tomorrow, I’ll do some checking on my lightbox and see how they do. I’ve got 2 friends with the TK05 that tell me right at 600 lumens with the XP-G3, one of these guys dropped in an XP-L V6 3D and it really upgraded the little 14500. Even with a Eneloop the beam is really nice and it’s an adequate carry light, just saw pics taken about an hour ago from both of em.
Yeah the UT01 was the 800lm one I was referring to, I knew what you meant, I just added the X5 post to try and get a rise out of ya.
I didn’t mention it but the Lumintop EDC05 is another AA/14500 light that lists 800lm on 14500, (400lm on AA)
Apparently the UT01 is made by Lumintop but the EDC05 doesn’t have the switch or battery length issues of the UT01. I fixed the battery issue with a ring of copper wire (“paper clip” mod) If I can’t get the switch working properly I’ll eventually just get an EDC05. http://www.lumintop.com/edc05.html
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Can’t wait to see your test results, right now the best cell I have for the UT01 is an Imren IMR 700mAh, not sure it’s high drain, Imren doesn’t list amperage specs. But it’s real bright on that cell. I’ll be ordering a couple of the Windyfires soon to try. I don’t think George stated which tint he measured in his review, mine is the 5000K, but it looks way warmer. Komeko measured it at 3789K.
I just reprogrammed the levels on it, they somehow got changed, probably went into programming trying to get the switch to work.
It seems to work okay with really hard presses, so I’m going to try the “plastic piece” mod that Komeko said cured the problem for him. Discussion : - Utorch UT01 - #128 by komeko
I’d also like to swap out the emitter on my TK05, it’s on the high end of neutral, a bit too cold for me. XP-L V6 3D sounds good, I suppose that would increase the output too?
Do you know where to buy those already mounted with MCPCB? or did your friends re-flow them? I think it’s a 14mm board. Otherwise I guess I’d need to learn how to re-flow emitters, haven’t tried that yet.
I pretty much use Efest purple 14500’s exclusively, I have a few Windyfire and even AW but the Efests have always done an excellent job in my 14500 sized lights.
Only one of my two buddies swapped in the XP-L V63D, the other is waiting for me to mod mine so he can make a decision on what he wants me to do to his. Pretty sure the 3D was swapped onto the stock MCPCB, I’ll reduce a Noctigon and am thinking of slicing the dome off but will go with the 3D pretty sure. May end up building a driver and putting Anduril on it for the candlelight and lightning modes, love that firmware from Toykeeper!
Will also look into the possibility ofusing Richards new 17mm boost driver, who knows… I could end up with the Fat Boy MT-G2 in mine!
UT01 needs button top correct? MTN has been out of stock on the button top Efest for a long time, so I was getting the Windyfire’s because they describe them as “outperforming the Efest”:
Richard hasn’t released his boost driver yet, close though, it’s done well in testing so he’ll be listing it soon.
I go the TK05 in the mail today, on a Windyfire fresh off the charger (first avialable 14500 I saw) it makes 579.6 at start and 508.9 at 30 seconds. The beam profile is ugly with the XP-G3 though. Jaxman’s choice of emitters make for a much better overall light without the need to modify it.
Jaxman has good tints but tend to use XPG’s instead of XPL’s, and they don’t like to drive their small lights too hard. So they end up wanting power modded. I think the E3 would be a much better overall light if it had it’s current output levels, plus an added high/turbo level of 500-700lm
I have PKCell 14500 (which are flat-tops), and they work intermittently on my couple of UT01 (more often than not, the flat-top 14500 does not work, or if it worked, slight shaking the flashlight will turn it off and not work).
so many threads in so few days…I cant read and reply smoothly, it will need too much time to read every threads carefully……
the middle modes is powered by PWM which works at 500 Hz, and it will not be seen by your eyes. but maybe seen by a camera, and I think the middle mode will be seldom used in most time, so I choose PWM for a convenience. The low and high is not PWM.
hi, the design of anti-reversing of battery forbids full flat batteries to work.
So flat 14500 batteries can not be use in this flashlight. You can use 14500 with a little higher cap like AA batteries, and I have this kind of 14500.
if dears cant get the battery,I can give you as a gift——need you leave a word in your order—-only few pcs this battery.
while,if you use 14500,the E3 will lost low and middle modes, it will be only one mode—high mode.
I am worry about if you can know what I am saying…
I want learn a good English ability from all of you.
I found it is hard to get the truth ability of foreign languages if you are not live in the place of that language.
Ok, since all of us are the man who love DIY, I fully understand what dear all are thinking.
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