Warsun Zoomie X65. Bro of UF1405?

Mine has a 3 x AA carrier and a plastic sleeve for a 26650.

I put in a small vise but couldn’t turn the pill with needle nose pliers stuck into the slots. So I squirted penetrating oil from the battery end. Next, maybe, I’ll try torching the battery tube while it is in the vise.

Even if I can’t get it open without destroying it, I will probably order an XM-L2 version to give to people who don’t use lithium ion batteries.

Sorry, my bad, 3 x AA carriers. From the photos I could not see a sleeve for 26650, but its good to know it does come with one! I might have missed this. Thanks Fritz.

Banggood has this now for 13.99$ xml2.
Here is the link from the email, I hope it works:

I just got 2 of these in the mail. Both came with a 26650 adapter tube. Exterior build quality is good, but the aluminum pill and switch retaining ring are the crudest I’ve ever seen. They appear to be cast and then machined or something. Stock output is weak, and quite blue. The stock lens also needs to be replaced if you’re serious about output.

It’s an OK host with potential if you put in enough time and money. It’s too bad really, if the pill, switch retaining ring, and lens were of equal quality to the ultrafire 1503 in quality it would be my favorite single cell zoomie host.

oh - thank god i cancelled my order an hour ago because i ordered when it was more expensive…

a bad lens is a no-go
tweaking the driver and maybe swapping the emitter is what i wanted to do at max

thanks for your opinion!
maybe you can upload some pics?

I just measured the one I modified with a copper and brass plug it press fit into the original stock pill. I also stripped the driver board and ran a wire directly from the battery + spring to the LED. No jumper on the tailswitch spring. Dedomed XP-G2 S3 3C on 16mm Noctigon soldered directly to the press fit pill insert.

I got 190kcd on an Efest purple 26650 3500mAh, and the LED is sitting too high so it’s slightly out of focus.

The lens was a bit hazy when viewed from the back side on the one I modified, and the focal length is pretty long. The pill is probably the harder situation for most people to modify. It’s got a big X in it that’s all air on the emitter shelf. Drilling it out and affixing your own shelf for the MCPCB is a must if you want to run much current. On the plus side mine had a genuine Omten switch in the tail.

I bet I’m losing at least 10% with the LED defocused, so the lens should be capable of 200kcd or more. In flood mode it’s actually very smooth, wide, and even, without the rings and other artifacts I’m used to with the cheap glass lenses in Uniquefire’s.

Edit: The lens in the second one did not have the slight haze in parts of the flast side of the lens.

Modified on left, stock on right



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Modified Light in flood.



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Stock light in flood, ring is from the reflective MCPCB retaining ring.



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Stock.



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Modified.



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Interior of pill has areas of finer grained, but still obviously un-machined cast areas like the switch retaining ring.



I’m ordering 2 A249’s from Optolife as replacements for the stock lens. At $12 they’re not super cheap, so hopefully they perform a lot better in throw.

I’ll add some sort of collar to limit lens travel to match the new lenses.

How did you get the pill out? Penetrating oil did not work for me.
I can’t see from the picture whether it is a right or left hand thread.

same question here.

Give it a solid hit then the usual pill unscrewing tools work. I used a couple of stacked sockets and a small hammer. Normal threads.

Thanks, will try the hammer.

I forgot to mention, I hit it from the driver side. No idea if it works from the LED side.

I was let down by Optolife, they didn’t have the 52mm lens I wanted to buy in stock. I may have to ask MEM what he recommends. He was asking me about hosts with a 52mm lens.

Any lux measurements kkw?

In post 59 I mentioned that it measures 190kcd, but is slightly defocused so it’s probably capable of a slightly higher number with the stock lens and an S3 3C dedomed in full focus.

Ahh missed that.

Thanks

Thanks Kloepper. It worked. I don’t see any glue. I guess they are just screwed in so hard they stick. I guess the penetrating oil must have helped, but it didn’t come out till I used a hammer.
The driver was also crimped in, instead of just pushed as usual.

It is a bit under 28 mm. in diameter.

Yeah feeling/looking at the pill tells me this will never be a good mod host for a high powered thrower. I had hope up until this point.

Hm, what do you think about just replacing one of the emitters with a different color? Or switching the wires around to choose which of the three comes on first?

I’d like to try making it amber first, then warm, then cool.

I don’t suppose we’re lucky enough that anything commonly available matches the host’s threads, to just substitute something for the existing pill and hold a new emitter and driver board (sigh).