Zooming Model List (2018 Updated) Tell us about your newest zoomie!

I’m really tempted to buy this UltraFire UF-10…anyone tried it?

If you can swap in the Cometa driver into your B158 you’ll be very happy (if the B158’s emitter sits on a DTP MCPCB).

I get 830 meters from my B158 and 737 meters from my modded Cometa (20 guage leads, spring bypasss).

Fenix FD40 added to the list, seems like a nice option as well:

I’m going to take a chance on it, around the same price as a Big Mac meal! http://www.gearbest.com/led-flashlights/pp_423439.html?wid=21

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Looks kinda like a Nitecore EA11!

I got a cheapy little Coast hp1 for my dad. It’s the only cheapy zoomie I’ve seen that isn’t terrible to look at. When its zoomed out its got a decent beam pattern with no extra rings of light. It only zooms so far so you never see the shape of the led.

I wish more were like this, using a regular zoomie fully zoomed I always end up backing out just a bit to eliminate the die pattern, just to where the hot spot becomes rounded, this seems to provide better vision as the die pattern disrupts it.

I’ve thought about finding a way to do a mod to resolve this so they don’t quite zoom in all the way.

Are there any that dont show that square pattern of the led?

I love BIG MACS!!

Lights that use a lens will show the square image of the die when focused, though as mentioned if defocused slightly the square turns into more of a circle. Lights that use a TIR type optic will look more like a reflector beam.

LED Lensers don’t project the LED as they have a more sophisticated optical system. I’ll try and post a review of the P7.2 in the next few days.

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Doesnt led lenser= coast?

This is one of the mini AA I’m going to get next. But I’m going to try this version, I like it has a knurling pattern on the head instead of just grooves:

http://www.gearbest.com/led-flashlights/pp_360839.html?wid=21

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Here’s a review: REVIEW: UKing ZQ – X900 600Lm Zooming Flashlight (#3 type Zoomie) picture heavy!

Yep, and if you saw or file off the bit described in the comments, it will allow you to get a fully wide flood.

Not for many years. The optics are slightly different, with at full zoom the Coasts having a bullseye hotspot (hotspot and spill) and LED Lensers having a hotspot with no spill.

I like mine, feels very solid and high quality. I’m planning on getting an empty pill and fitting a fet driver and dedomed spg2 with springs bypassed just for the hell of it and seeing how far it’ll throw.

Heard that set up is a bit of a monster, albeit with a narrow beam.

I will have an Ultrafire U-F10 here next week :slight_smile: Ordered the first day it arrived on Gearbest !

Haha, sounds about as useless as a laser without the cool lighting stuff on fire. And dull flood…

I think these lights with larger lens fitted with dedomed XPG2s are best as dedicated throwers. They have narrow beams, but when you are looking 300+m out, the beam is 10+m wide, wide enough IMO to be useful.

Better to fit them with de domed XP-L’s or even better with dd XM-L2 emitters cause they’ll have same performance as “new and improved” dd XP-G2 emitters and they have larger die which can be useful.

Please tell us it comes with solid pill!