I bought this from Rey’s Amazon site (presumably at the GB price). He asked if I could post the short review here since he wants to do a group buy on these.
The Wuben TO46R is a nicely made flashlight. The knurling is very comfortable and nicely machined… The black anodizing is perfect and smooth. No sharp edges. The light comes in a nice box with the standard stuff like warranty card, instructions, lanyard, a quality braided usb cable, clip, spare o-ring, and a protected 2600 mAh battery.
The TO46R has a triple Cree XP-G3 LED under a Carclo TIR. It is advertised at 90cri, but doesn’t say the color temp. My guess would be in the 5500k to 5800k range, at the outside 6000k. The flashlight driver is constant current. The bezel is not glued so, switching out the optics to a diffused TIR isn’t a problem. I’ve got a noctigon triple Nichia 219c 4000k on it’s way from Richard. Easy swap.
Carclo 10507 TIR
Carclo 10508 TIR
The threads are square cut, very smooth, and come well lubricated from the factory. Like I mentioned above, the light body is nicely machined with rather unique swirl knurling instead of the standard checkered look, and it tail stands well also. I personally think it looks great, and it’s very comfortable in the hand.
The operation of the light is simple. One click of the on/off button the light comes on. Subsequent clicks of the forward (W) button, and the light changes from Moonlight (7 lumen), Low (38 lumen), Med (200 lumen), High (604 lumen), Turbo (1300 lumen). To get to strobe from on, you simple hold the W button down, and as soon as you let up, it goes back to what ever last mode you were in. You can get straight to Turbo and Strobe from the off position as well. From off, hold the power button down and it goes straight to turbo. Hold the W button down and it goes straight to strobe.
There is a lock out mode. Hold the two buttons at the same time for a second, and the light will flash once. It is now in lock out and keeps the light from turning on. Hold the two buttons down again for a second, and it will unlock. You can mechanically lock it too, by un-screwing the tail cap a quarter turn. This is probably the easiest way to lock it.
Charging. Connect the usb cable to a power source. If the LED on the power button is flashing red, then the battery is below 31. If flashing Blue, the battery is between 31 and 99. Solid blue, the battery is fully charged. The light will also function while charging.
The charge rate is between .8amps and .14amps, depending on how discharged the battery is. It starts high, and when it comes close to fully charged, the rate drops.
Safety features. This light will step down to high when it senses too high of a temperature. That said, I ran the light for 5 minutes continuous on turbo, and the light did not step down or get too hot. The T046R has reverse polarity protection. If a battery is accidentally put in backwards it protects both the driver and the battery. It also has low voltage protection. (not mentioned in the manual) If the battery drains down to 2.8 volts, the light will shut off, protecting from over discharging. Allows you to run an un-protected high capacity flat top 18650 cell without worry.
Advertised run times are 1.7hrs Turbo, 3.5hrs High, 7hrs Med, 56hrs Low, and 125hrs on Moonlight. Your mileage may vary depending on the capacity cell you use.
The mode buttons are a little hard to find in the dark, but if you move your thumb side to side on the head of the light, you can find them. Would have been great if they would have machined a trit slot in front of the buttons. But it’s a wonderful well made light in my opinion.
With the stock Carclo 10507 TIR