[Review] Acebeam W30 LEP 21700 flashlight

Uhh, yeah, nobody’s gonna get that…

He’s got some great numbers out of them. Sadly, when I sent mine in it would not accept any boost. It was the first time he couldn’t get any improvement over stock. Thankfully, mine tested at 1.8M cd in stock form, so I can’t be too disappointed… Or at least I shouldn’t be

That’s not good to hear. I just received my HI CRI at first and it measures only 228 lumens at 1s w/ both stock Acebeam battery and Samsung 40T :cry: Lumen output is the same w/ and w/o glass lens, which means the glass lens is very high quality.

Took some photometric measurements:

At beam center
CCT: 16255K
DUV: 0.0045
Ra (CRI): 85.7
R9: 36.9
Rf: 76
Rg: 89

At outer hotspot:
CCT: 2077K
DUV: –0.0099
Ra (CRI): 85.5
R9: 23.8
Rf: 78
Rg: 104

Will send it to Vinh. Hope he can boost it some.

Adhara, thank you for the feedback. I ended up placing an order with Vinh for a 6500k W30vn copy, awaiting receipt of goods, but sounds like I made the right choice. Atleast sheer output speaking. Been following the candlepower forum thread that AmericanDissent is talking about, so strange that copy wouldn’t boost, 1.8 is a tremendous output but I’m sure disappointing when expecting some increase. I know Vinh talked about inconsistent QC with alignment, but for it to not accept the mod at all is confounding. I’ll chime in when it arrives and let you guys know if the problem was isolated to that copy or not. Have a good one all!

Is that CCT at beam center a misprint? 16255K? Or possibly I don’t understand how CCT is calculated. Also, does the beam look warm or neutral?

SKV89,

Does 228lumen seem low? I know vinh was talking about only getting 300-350 from 6500k. Both are well under the claimed output. How does the HCRI throw? Look good? Do you like it? Any beam shots?

300-350 stock, before boost. 500+ with boost.

Not a typo. There is a huge tint shift within the hotspot. There is a ULTRA CW hole at the center. Highest point I measure was actually slightly over 20,000K but the point is very small.

I’m waiting for it to get dark to see how it throws.



Measured at 10 meter distance.

So you got the W30 high-cri, not the W10 high-cri? Do you think there is a difference between the two regarding the tint (some beamshots of the W10 were linked to a few weeks ago).

This light is rated as diving light 100m but didn't see anyone testing it underwater.

Νο .5W,but exactly 5mW.
Anyway,I have a 5W blue laser pointer. :slight_smile:

I understand you so much… :smiley:

Look at the video. White Laser Flashlight Acebeam W30 WOW!!!

He barely dipped it 1-2 inches into water, any IPX-8/7 rated flashlight can do it specially in freshwater like that, what im really looking to, is seeing this flashlight being used in saltwater or at least dipped for enough time and depth in freshwater.

It is not sold as a dive light and specifications are not always correct. I would hesitate to go salt water diving with my expensive W30 and maybe then go through all the fun with Acebeam’s customer service after water ingression at 25 meter. :confounded:

Its actually classed on ACE Beam website within the diving lights,

you can see the breadcrumbs navigation says diving:




and this slide from Acebeam website also:


and this:




and also written features:


and you till me its not sold as diving light ? and specifications are not always correct!!!!!

I did not check the description well enough, sorry about that. So a diving light it is. :slight_smile:

We will ha e to wait for a diver then to check out the W30 underwater.

Guys,

Closest to anything I’ve seen review wise of a dive effort for the W30 is in a pool. Cool to see the light bounce from the surface reflectivity :slight_smile:

https://lagu456.biz/mp3/acebeam-w30-underwater-mp3/IsYlJbD87qM.html

Cheers!

Love the throw but not the price… Now if it were about $100 I’d be interested.$259 is too rich for my wallet.