【ツ】WildTrail WT1M & WT3M Sales Thread

If anyone can get a CAD cross-section from WT of these lights, that would be awesome!

G_damian - thanks again for great pictures and your thoughts on this new light! I know pictures are hard to determine LED tint- but that sst40 Didn't DOES LOOK really nicely tinted! Like the one I got from convoy this spring in my m21a, there is a pic of it in my sft40 thread comparison shots here https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/66979/8 .

The machining and finish looks really nicely done and I'm excited for mine. Speaking of which...

my has hit the US! It looks like it is in customs, hoping to see it next week! Now I'm regretting not ordering the triple too while I was at it..

are they still in stock? The WT3M that is?

Yes please! To the 5050 Getian "no dome" 3volt led in 3000k, 4000k!

I would order 20 right off the bat - for Astrolux multi emitter xhp50 lights (ec03, ea01s, ft02s) and then others like this WildTrail. That would be so awesome. The Astrolux ec03 with domeless 3000k leds would instantly become one of my favorite lights!

the silver one is with the clear anodization, or just raw aluminium ?
I just can't translate that "clear oxidized aluminum alloy" well enough, to know which.

My WT1M sst40 arrived! This thing is beautiful! Thanks Lux! https://www.reddit.com/r/flashlight/comments/pyqsme/nld_wild_trail_wt1m_and_convoy_s21b_culpm1/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

edit- machining is perfect! Beam quality looks perfect! A little purple in the beam either AR coating or my battery ;) the button is same as the wt90 which I personally love !


it doesn't fit my Lishen 5000mah purple 9.6 amp battery, the battery is too wide. But my 40t and P42a both fit perfect.

I'll take some Beamshots defintely tonight!

Great to hear you like it so far. I received my WT1M XHP50.2, also looks great. Not much time to check/test it yet. New job, etc

Tom, congrats on the new job.

So I was 100% going to rip the SST 40 out of this light immediately upon receiving it. But after using it last night I'm just gonna order another one to MOD, because the SST40 in this thing is so awesome. It's throws further than my C8, has great tint and great spill. Definitely one of the more impressive sst40 lights I've ever had.

only noticed one glitch so far I was going to ask you about- I always set my ramping and stepped in mud parameters in Anduril, and after doing that last night whenever I ramp down to the bottom of ramp or the lowest step the light shuts off. I then can only turn it back on by holding the button down as if I was trying to go into moonlight mode. A simple click will not turn the light back on when it shuts off like this. I'm wondering if it's the FET +5+1 design, because I remember toy keeper saying something about the original KR for driver having some moonlight limitations?

That's just a guess I don't even know if these drivers are like that or if I'm mixing this driver up with the triple WildTrail. Excuse my lack of investigating first.

or could this be software and it's functioning and not a hardware issue?

Maybe lower levels are just some leftovers from pre production code? We won’t know until source code is published.

Isn’t that strange, it’s just a 7135 driver, maybe it uses a higher PWM frequency (fast PWM ?) And the 7135 can’t lit up below a certain PWM level because the on time is too short ?

Hhmm, it's an older Anduril version - source code lost w/Lexel - really hope he's doing better. I upgraded my WT1M proto SST-40 to A2, probably will do the same with the new XHP50.2 version. Gotta check notes to see if we had this issue or not. Usually can got down to PWM value of 1, but not always, mostly dependent o the LED. Thought w/single LED was better though, hhmm.

Dunno, I'm really liking the raw/anodized finished on these WildTrails. Related to that, just received a ROT66 raw alum from a member to do a tear down on. It's got a significant parasitic drain problem, maybe a 7135 issue. Wonder if the high amp drain can damage them. Anyways, this ROT66 is also gorgeous!! I bought the original in black w/9 LED's, and was always so-so with it. But the new 12 LED model in raw - eliminated the battery carrier, better battery tube grip and look, bigger SS tailcap - all good improvements.

Gotta try level 1 with mine - will post results.

Thanks guys for your help- and now I do remember that at some point I did read g_damian's post about level21/150! Awesome!

honestly the light is SO GOOD, I don't care about this little glitch! I just wanted to find a workaround was all. And setting to 21/150 is FINE by me. I did set it to 10/150 (usually what I set my stepped ramping minimum too anyway). So with a thrower of the lowest mode is 21, I don't care at all. If it were an edc light I would be bummed, but not with this little thrower beast.

Once I sell the light I have for sale, I'm buying another wt1m immediately. I love this light, and yes I'll have two in the same color. The raw ani is gorgeous!

19 works for me - "glow" mode.

I just set both ramp and step to 22, works great , I'm 100% happy again !

I traced the low level problem down to the 7135. Swapping out the single 7135 for the low channel fixed the problem, so we suspect the batch of 7135's has this issue, even though they have the markings of the "better", correct 7135's. There's history here on 7135 issues. Some could not perform well at low PWM's, but in the past they had different marking so were easy to identify. It's really not a significant issue but does reduce the 150 ramping entries down to ~130. But at least starting at 20 or so looks like it does as well as a good 7135 at level 1.

Raptor Claw is the good one, Sailboat are the not so good ones, see pic here: https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/44540.

We've had trouble finding the good Raptor Claw ones in the past, Lexel post here: https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/41018/1484

It's strange, but I believe Lexel came across Raptor Claw marked 7135's that did not perform well.

Man, thanks for this great info Tom! Very helpful, amazing that you found this issue so fast! So i clicked on Lexel's link for the "raptor clw" in that thread which brought me here https://lcsc.com/product-detail/LED-Drivers_MEL7135PG_C80214.html

and it looks like they're in stock? 5 minimum at about $.65 a piece?

Or are these the not so good raptor claws you're referring to? how confusing! no wonder why light manufacturers run into delays and issues in manufacturing, with stuff like these tiny 7135 being bad sometimes, but not other times, you would think we would see a LOT more issues. glad we seem lucky!

They look like the right ones, but we can't go by the markings anymore.

Regarding low duty cycle performance of 7135s, I still have a small supply of O.G. AMC chips. I swapped one in an FW3A thinking it’d allow me to lower the floor level, and to my surprise, it may have been worse. Have you experienced this Tom?

The raptorclaw were always the best.

Got mine today, single SST40 and 3x XHP50

These beauties sat in international sorting for two weeks due to COVID in the facility so a bit late to the party.
I can’t get over how small they are, especially the triple. Beautiful design. The WT1M has some sharp edges on the head. The buttons are the same as WT90. Lanyard attachments on the tails.
WT1M has a nice hotspot, beautiful reflector. WT3M has shallow OP reflector so nice and wide beam out front. Some very dry lube on the threads, they squeak, so take care as there’s no spare orings.

Do these two flashlights have any known problems, that I must be aware before buying.
What drivers do they use? Modern internal design or low cost drivers…?

Thank you

Kind regards