This little gem is my favorite play toy right now! 
Cool… Curious its just a single aspheric optic correct? So OTF lumens decreases when the die image is brought into focus… correct?
Yes only one single convex lens. I don’t have a light meter, however in my “eyeball” ceiling bounce test it does appear to have less output when zoomed in to spot, compared to out wide at flood.
Well, no beam shots yet… The first thing that struck me was it’s size, it’s is way smaller than it looked in the photos.
I don’t have a light meter but this thing is really bright on a 30Q. I had to use a magnet on the tail for the 30Q because of the battery length issue (it uses a USB charging type cell that is longer than usual, and the battery compartment was made longer to accommodate it, making it too long for usual cells)
…………….Battery size difference…………………………Magnet on battery negative end………………………Battery with magnet…………….
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……………………A few comparison pics……………………………………………and with Convoy 18350 tube………………………
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I compared it with my low tech eyeball ceiling bounce test and it’s just as bright as my BLF A6 (no spring bypass, so probably around 1300lm) Also as bright as my new 1380lm Litesam PS16. I’d say it’s putting out at least 1300lm on the 30Q.
I love this light! The zooming action is sooooo smooth and “just right tight” the beam pattern is perfect, no rings, artifacts or dark spots throughout the entire zooming travel. The flood beam is great… just a big smooth even perfect circle of light. The tint is on the cool end of neutral and it’s pure white. No yellow or blue at all. The UI is excellent. The switch is excellent, it has great knurling and feels nice and solid in the hand.
The only things I would have liked would be a flat stainless “Foy” bezel. (I’m not too fond of the crenelated bezels) Love the stainless bezels. Also the head could have been made a bit thinner, it’s way thick at the front surrounding the lens. At this size they could’ve put a bigger diameter optic in it.
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I’m real happy with this light, it’s hands down my best zoomie right now, and really awesome with the Convoy 18350 tube and Aspire IMR 1100!
EDIT; this is actually the Jaxman tube, which is slightly longer than the Convoy.
Here it is with the Convoy tube:
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Wow, it does indeed! Thanks, I’ll add it to the list!
Although the price is quite high for Warsun…
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The similar sized Jaxman Z1 is $1.00 less with choice of tint, better UI and confirmed to have high quality lens.
Hard to resist trying this one for $21.80 right now.
BRETT confirmed the CCT is 5500K-5900K.
Is there a good way to get Wowtacs to Europe?
But look at that huge zooming movement, they used a very shallow (long focal length) lens resulting in tons of light loss when zooming in (so a small hotspot). Not all is bad about that though, the flood will be very wide.
The 30mm zooming travel in particular was something I thought to be an advantage for wide flood,thanks for confirming that!
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What do you mean by shallow lens? Are you referring to the depth it sits down in the bezel?
In the front view showing the emitter it looks like the lens is not there for that photo.
In this photo it looks normal depth (maybe?):
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Can’t see much else about the lens in the listing, but I was informed it’s a plastic lens.
Front view: (looks like lens is removed):
There is this photo of the die image where appears to be fully zoomed in, (but probably pretty close to the wall):
Also the price went up today about $1, now $22.84
Underwater (Diving) Zoomies:
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Countryman CREE XPL 1000 Lumen 18650 mechanical Zoom Flashlight
From Enogear
- CW 6500K or NW 5C 4000K
- XP-L on Copper
- Brass pill
- Glass lens
- HAIII
Looks pretty nice for only $36.00 Anyone have one or know about it?
Interesting design on those Archon’s. Looks a twist zoom that can be operated with one hand.
I did a review on the Archon D10U in 2014: Archon D10U 18650 aspheric diving flashlight, a non-diver review
Ahh, it’s been around for some time I see. Thanks.
But pink is new! :party:
You’ve got me curious now how that might work? I’m not seeing what’s different from any twist zoomie.
Thanks, I usually look for those first to include the link, guess I forgot, but it looks like it didn’t do so well.
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Yes! It was the pink one that caught my eye and decided to post it here, then I found it in black too.
Zoomie with magnetic selector ring and USB charging:
Sorry about that I was wrong. I thought those flaps sticking out on each side under the head was for twist operation with your thumb, but now with closer inspection I see that isn’t the case. It’s just a normal twisty.