Guys,
Agro or anyone else with zoomie obsession needed here! Detective work…
I found a small gem of zoomie flashlights host!
It is no name zoomie or no OEM zoomie light with 850nm emitter.
Small review of a host
Simple dissembling job; pill went out without any issues. Aluminum pill with retaining driver ring and build in o ring that enables flashlight head sliding… Pill design is fantastic! No soldering job is needed. Pill has aluminum driver retaining ring. But however it does not have led mcpcb retaining ring so it requires gluing method or adding simple small screws(if someone prefers thermal paste underneath of mcpcb).
Driver is toss in a trash thing… So just toss it in a trash… Simple linear current AMC7135 style driver or mosfet should fit fine. 17mm one of course.
Driver pill cavity is 11,6mm - 3,3mm(retaining ring) for total of 8,3mm of usable 17mm driver cavity. So if someone would like to place buck driver it could be questionable… Take measures first.
Switch is reverse clicky omten style of a switch. Te be more precise it is KAN 28! Another big plus!
It has 23mm diameter acrylic lens inside (usable convex part is 21mm). On top of the lens there is O ring which is pressed via front bezel.
It has exposed tail cap tube threads which is not that good because of safety reasons.With anodized threads we can lock out tail cap of our zoomie lights to prevent accidentally turning on while battery is in the light(uniquefire 1503,1504 for example has anodized threads so we can use that safety feature).
Build quality is very good… Tube, anodizing, knurling, lightweight… Fantastic! But however on mine light somebody forgot to put tail cap O ring although it has cavity for O ring.
The most interesting thing: Shortest head walk(or zoom action) I ever seen! Only 3mm! Very useful and solid reflector light feel with minimum, unnoticeable “head walk”.
I need detectives to find me(find us) manufacturer of this flashlight or cheaper cree LED or bare host version of this light.
I ordered from ali here:
But I also seen it on ebay(several selers) here:
I immediately modded it with vcsel 850nm laser diode(10min job) and it works fantastic. But since I used aa mcpcb glue down method i don’t want to redo and do Osram white flat 1mm for example.
Guys this is really really one solid budget light with just few disadvantages(non anodized threads) that could be fixed if we find manufacturer. Incredible short zoom action is something that need to be checked with classic Cree or Osram leds though.
