An interesting find on Banggood (big zoomie) XANES X915 P10

G0OSE · 2019-12-11T14:51:58.000Z

Saw this zoomie the other day, looks interesting - what are your thoughts? LINK $52
XANES® X915 P10 Telescopic Zoom Flashlight 4 Modes Waterproof With 18650 Battery Torch Light

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1stein · 2019-12-11T15:35:21.000Z

Seen it too, can be around $40 with points. But acrylic lens…? I’m not convinced to this idea.

Jerommel · 2019-12-11T15:46:26.000Z

Acrylic lenses for flashlights are usually better than molded glass ones.

Jerommel · 2019-12-11T15:48:10.000Z

LOL, they don’t show us the 5 die LED projection in the video.

Jerommel · 2019-12-11T15:49:00.000Z

It’d be nice to have that lens though.

Theodore41 · 2019-12-11T16:22:48.000Z

Jerommel:

It’d be nice to have that lens though.

I have just ordered this.

manithree · 2019-12-11T16:41:29.000Z

Theodore41:

Jerommel:

It’d be nice to have that lens though.

I have just ordered this.

Let us know if it’s long press for off, or (as it maybe appears in the video) off is just a mode you have to cycle through. The former is barely acceptable, the latter completely unacceptable.

It could be long press for mode change, but it doesn’t look that way in the video. I don’t see anything on the product page about the UI except “4 modes.”

Bo4ka · 2019-12-11T17:42:58.000Z

€ 36,59
https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/3lc9b0Iy

G0OSE · 2019-12-11T18:08:49.000Z

Theodore41:

Jerommel:

It’d be nice to have that lens though.

I have just ordered this.

Don’t forget to let us know what it’s like :+1:

Theodore41 · 2019-12-11T18:12:45.000Z

Bo4ka:

€ 36,59
Page Not Found - Aliexpress.com

I paid €48.00 from Banggood with some points, including insurance and priority direct mail.

Theodore41 · 2019-12-11T18:16:57.000Z

G0OSE:

Theodore41:

Jerommel:

It’d be nice to have that lens though.

I have just ordered this.

Don’t forget to let us know what it’s like :+1:

Yes of course.

dorpmuller · 2020-01-15T12:08:02.000Z

I'm skeptical. Looks more like computer renderings than actual photos.

Jerommel · 2020-01-15T15:41:45.000Z

dorpmuller:

I’m skeptical. Looks more like computer renderings than actual photos.

Yes, i see this very often with cheap lights.
I highly doubt this helps sales though, because it looks photoshopped / computer rendered.
Maybe for smart phone shoppers it’s not that obvious, though…

Tom_E · 2020-03-06T14:46:47.000Z

I got mine, been working on a mod - hopefully will be testing it on Saturday:

my custom version of Anduril, using those 4 green and 4 blue LED's around the switch (all ON or OFF, simple)
FET+1 17mm driver, preserving the USB charging/powerbank functionality
flat white W1 on a 20 mm MCPCB, using long thin LED wires to reduce amps
a large copper disc added for heatsinking under the shelf

Driver and LED work all done, just need to add the LED wires and test the amps/output. I got pics but not uploaded yet. The lens is about the same width as a 1504, but plastic not glass. Decided against a SBT90.2 because of the sheer amount of amps and heat - zoomies in general don't handle the heat well because of the head being disconnected form the pill. My modded 1504 with a SBT90.2 drops output like a rock - heat problems...

Ohhh, it is a real flashlight...

sac02 · 2020-03-06T15:33:33.000Z

Thanks, keep us updated Tom, I want to know what numbers you get from this….

Tom_E · 2020-03-06T16:42:19.000Z

Just more fyi, I think the quality of the plastic lens is decent and am expecting roughly the same #'s as a 1504. Not sure if anyone tested a W1 in a 1504 though. The struggle may be focusing - I know with the SBT90.2, it always seems to be a little short, so lengthening the distance from the LED to the lens is tricky. I was able to add an o-ring, or fragments of an o-ring just enough to compensate in both the 1504 and B158. I'm a bit green with modding up lights using the W1, so not sure how the focus and amp issues will go.

Probably a video of it's operation with Anduril would do it justice, between the ramping, blinkie modes, and side switch LED support it will have. Should be my first Narsil/Anduril zoomie. I got other e-switch zoomie hosts but had no time to mod them.

Tom_E · 2020-03-07T04:02:46.000Z

Some mod pics

Stock parts:

USB Charger/powerbank support:

Driver electronics (partial):

Switch, LED's, and more driver parts:

Driver parts stripped:

FET+1/Anduril, spring that replaced a small brass button:

Copper round, 14 gauge, on backside of the shelf, thermal epoxied in, W1:

Drill/tapped 2 screws, MX4:

Close-up of reflow job, I think it's ok, not perfectly centered:

Backside after mounted:

26 AWG long LED wires got 5 amps on a Samsung 35E, but want to get 6. Not sure to try 24 or 22 now...

Tom_E · 2020-03-07T16:13:37.000Z

24 AWG wires it is. Little disappointing in the amps, ~5.2 or so, so I added a 22 AWG tail spring bypass. I take the amp reading with the tailcap off, so a spring with no bypass will drop amps from what I read.

Recorded 717 kcd taken at 5 meters (just over 1 mile), on a 4.19V Samsung 35E. I think that's in the balllpark of what I'd expect. The hot spot is tiny - somewhat difficult to get the reading but after some re-positioning of the meter, I could clearly hold it in the 700 -717 kcd range.

I like it! Nice look'n with the green and blue LED's controlled by Anduril. I got stock 2 1K resistors on the 2 lit greens and 2 2K resistors on the blues, and seems to work well. The stock driver was interesting - 3 wires controlling 4 LED's. It controls both V+ and V- (grnd) to the LED's and by reversing + and -, it switches from 1 LED to another. So I'm assuming by alternating + and - outputs rapidly (PWM maybe?), it can light both LED's. So the MCU used a total of 6 I/O pins to control 8 LED's independently.

My modding of the LED's was to set 1 LED input to grnd, and the other controlled by two I/O pins from the ATtiny85, so I can only light up 2 greens, 2 blues.

Agro · 2020-03-07T17:48:20.000Z

Awesome mod Tom.

Tom_E · 2020-03-08T01:56:53.000Z

Agro:

Awesome mod Tom.

Thanx! Just posted with a little more info included in the mod thread here: https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/37376?page=290#comment-1634334