[Review] Wuben E05 - Impressive eSwitch 14500

Thanks for your thoughts schuster. I’m awaiting the arrival of mine. Looks like a great deal for $20.00. I actually prefer the magnet as I find it increases the usefulness of smaller lights but to each their own.

Like you, I prefer OP reflectors in lights unless it’s a dedicated thrower. I’m thinking if the beam bothers me, an application of diffuser film will clean the beam up. I use it in a lot of my lights and it’ll turn a smooth reflector into a OP.

I believe mine arrived with a piece of thick plastic on the negative pole, but I can’t remember 100%! Yours didn’t have it?

Nope. There was no insulator on either end of the battery.

Thanks for pointing that out.
Guess I will have to look, as it is not clear to me whether the magnet acts as a spacer beneath the rear contact; i.e. if removing the magnet will change the effective length of the battery tube.

Thats a good question, but if it does change the length, I bet you could just shim it where the magnet was with some scrap plastic/paper/etc (maybe a couple layers cut from a junk-mail credit card or gift card?)

Mine finally arrived. What an great little light for $20.00! The best 14500 light I’ve ever owned and I’ve owned a ton of them. The accessories you get with it makes it an even better bargain. The only minus I can come up with is the low capacity cell it came with but that’s easily corrected and it’s fine for now.

The tint on mine is fantastic! No need to change this emitter. I’m biased towards CW and this thing is great. Pure white corona with beautiful spill. No tint shift on this, just beautiful pure white with no hint of blue or green at all and no artifacts at all, at least in this example. I really won the tint lottery!

To say I’m happy with this is an understatement. Wonderful build quality as good as any light I’ve ever had. This would be a good buy at it’s $39.99 retail but at $20.00, it’s an incredible bargain!

P.S. Thanks again Keith for alerting me to the 50% off code.

Good to hear ! Got one to be delivered in next hour. Enjoy !! :beer:

Glad you like it, Gebe. I agree that $40 actually seemed like a fair price. $20 is just a steal!

I’m running those Soshine yellow/white 14500. 900’s for a while now.
in several lights.
They give good run times and plenty of output power.
2 x Jetbeam and a Sofurn.
Compliments of Bangood early this yr.
Higher output than the Pana’s I have.

would it be easy to swap a driver? if yes, what is the diameter?

I haven’t been able to get to the driver. The battery tube seems to be glued to the head. You might be able to remove it with heat and/or strap wrenches. So I’m also not sure about the size, but AA sized lights are frequently 15mm.

good sample,I like it

what causes the turbo to step down in about 1 minute?

battery exhaustion, temperature increase, or just a timer?

wle

I think it’s just timer based

i think all that vipon type stuff is just data harvesting
or poorly managed

including
honeybuy
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wle

Hi, I got one of these today for $20 from amazon, but the power level indicator does not light up at all, you guys think this is a defective sample?

They don’t light up for a few seconds when you first turn the flashlight in? Weird. If that’s the case, it sounds defective to me.

no, it just stays dark, all the modes work normally but no blue light on start up, guess its going back, thanks for reply.

In reality it’s not much of an issue, but would like it to function as advertised and when they dont you feel like something else on the board might go too soon.

Is the button recessed so it isn’t pressed in a pocket? When I’m working I’m in weird angles for long periods of time. So a light with a switch that isn’t recessed would get pressed in my pocket.

I never had it accidentally activate, but no… it’s not recessed.