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?
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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 
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!
Answering previous queries about the LED Lensers … they do have the nice round hot spot with no spill but I’ve been disappointing with the step down and run time of every one I’ve had … I’d never buy one again.
Coast’s hot spots depends on the model, some of them have just the hot spot and some the hot spot and spill, if you have a look on Coast’s website they show which each torch has …… scroll down the page a bit to the video and on the right hand side it shows the type of beam
https://coastportland.com/product/hp5r/
I’ve very recently bought the Coast HP5R which has the tight hot spot and no spill …. I haven’t tested run times that extensively but I have to say so far I’m very impressed with the torch although one of the batteries wouldn’t hold a charge and the retailer have immediately replaced ….
Whilst I wanted a small light torch the retailer said the HP7R for not much more money was an awful lot of torch but obviously slightly bigger.
Has anyone got either the Ultrafire UF 10 or the Palight M” 600 Palight the OP provided links to at the beginning if the thread and if so what do you think of them???
I’m guessing with both if you zoom right in you’d bet the square rather than a round hot spot ??
I’ve just ordered UltraFire UF-10…could not resist checking new zoomie 
Maybe this one will have good pill that allows to mod it with reasonable power.
Not sure probably square then you can back off a bit just until round. I haven’t been able to find much feedback or review on these Palight zoomies.
The Palights are interesting the M-600 looks just like the #3 M-900 I linked in the OP except the M-600 appears to have some sort of “touch switch”
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The M-900 has a metal clicky? or maybe it’s also a touch switch ? (metal clicky per freeme’s comment in post #37 below) In the description it shows: “Stainless steel tail cap and copper shift switch”
