Angryfox HR10. Review and disassembling.

AEDe · 2019-03-15T14:16:59.000Z

Almost a year after the review of HR06 , I was unexpectedly contacted by a company manager and offered to review an updated version HR06S, where, they say, all issues were fixed. After 4 months, the headlight has been received, though already HR10. Apparently this is some kind of late prototype, used and with an incomplete set. There is no information about it on the site yet, but pictures can be found at facebook .

SPECIFICATION

The only available source of information is instruction.

PACKAGE

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Complectation: flashlight, clip, forehead mount, gopro mount, used battery, charging cable.

APPEARANCE

The same 4 eyes . TIRs are without protective glasses.

There is tripod mount.

Tail cap from HR06

The charging port is the same as in HR06

Top strap added to the mount.

Holder is oversized.

Gopro mount does not fit well.

The clip quality is good.

HR10 has the same dumb nut instead of a spring. Work with unprotected batteries is impossible. Headlamp turn off from any movement. With protected 18650 weak strike is enough to turn off.

Positive contact now lies simply along the wall of the battery compartment without any insulation.

The thread is good, trapezoidal.

There is no waterproofing. Both the port and the optics of the diodes are perfectly breathable. Even IPx6 is too optimistic.

Weight and dimensions

The mass of the flashlight with mount, but without battery - 101.8g (HR06 - 103.7g , Panda 3R - 100.6)

Length 78мм as HR06, height 35mm, width 37.5mm.

OPERATION

A short press from off - on the memorized type of light in the memorized mode, except for the moonlight

Hold from off - moonlight, if you continue to hold - cycle: moonlight /fast strobe /slow strobe. The type of light is the memorized.

Double click from off - turbo main diode.

Triple click from off - battery charge check </ i>: 1-5 flashes.

Five-click - lock \ unlock. </ i>

A short press from on - turn off with memorizing, except moonlight.

Hold from on - changing modes in a circle. Moonlight cycle: moonlight/fast strobe/slow strobe . For the main diode low/med/hi-. For auxiliary led: low/hi.

Double click from on - changing the type of light. Main/green/flood/red.
Triple click from the main modes - red and green flasher.

Finally there is an unusual feature.
4 * click from on - turn on the tilt sensor </ i>. Turning the flashlight on 90 degree clockwise and back switches the mode. Two consecutive turns on 90 degree and back switch the type of light.
With a headlamp on your head, this can be done easily, but why?

The issues I found:

1) Memorization of turbo.
2)Strobes after the moonlight.
3) Long way to red moonlight from main led.
4) Turbo can not be turned on without turning off the headlamp.

MODES

Currents in modes:
main LED - 3.3A, 1.1A, 410mA, 40mA, 1mA
Green - 480mA, 50mA, 2mA
Flood - 440mA, 45mA, 2mA
Red - 380mA, 35mA, 2mA

Lumens at modes (approximately measured)

main LED - 20-230-500-1000lm (Заявленные 1000-500-200-25-2)
Flood - 15- 170lm (40 –150)

This is almost as declared

Turbo is limited to 70sec . In maximum mode, the lamp heats up to 40C

Auxiliary diodes are also stabilized.

Batteries in the HR10 are discharge to 2.5V, which is acceptable for many batteries. Below 2.8V, it starts flashing once every 3 minutes indicating a discharge.

Charging

Battery included is Sanyo 18650GA with protection.

Charger have not changed since the HR06. The only difference is a more strond magnet in the cable.
The charging current is only 0.5A. Charging time is about 8 hours. The lamp can work without battery from charger, the maximum current consumption is 0.65A.

The charge indicator is red during charging and green when charging finished.

Light

There are XML2 for the main light, XPG3 for the flood, XPE2 for red and green .

Main light

CCT = 5380K (Duv 0.0124)
Color Rendering Index (Ra) = 69.5
R1 = 64.6 R2 = 73.7 R3 = 81.1 R4 = 69.1 R5 = 65.8 R6 = 64.3 R7 = 82.2
R8 = 55.0 R9 = –41.8 R10 = 38.5 R11 = 63.8 R12 = 37.3 R13 = 65.4 R14 = 90.3

Flood light

CCT = 4039K (Duv –0.0007)
Color Rendering Index (Ra) = 72.0
R1 = 70.5 R2 = 77.1 R3 = 81.9 R4 = 72.3 R5 = 69.8 R6 = 67.7 R7 = 80.4
R8 = 56.5 R9 = –20.4 R10 = 45.9 R11 = 68.0 R12 = 43.8 R13 = 70.5 R14 = 89.9

Green

Red

CRI is expectedly low. XPG3 gives color artifacts. XML2 is greenish.

Main light has 7kcd , or 170m ANSI. and 7cd/lm.
Flood light has 340cd 37m ANSI and 2cd/lm .

Light comparison with Panda 3 (left)
Flood

Main

with HR06(left)
Flood

Main

Green and red

Beamshots:

Disassembling

The head mounted on the 4 screws

Optics of auxiliary diodes. Frosted has o-ring, smooth has no o-ring.

A surprise inside - small flask with mercury, it is a tilt sensor.

It fell off quite easily during the disassembly process.

To remove the driver board you need to disassemble the charger side.

Now unscrewing the screws from the MCPCB and the driver we can remove the driver board.

Copper MCPCB is 15mm in diameter and 1mm thick.

As headlamp was already disassembled I decide to change leds:

Now Samsung 351D 4000k 90cri is flood led, and sst20 4000K 95 cri is main led.

Main light
Before(7ккд):

After (8.5ккд)

Flood
Before:

After:

Conclusion

In that model AngryFox took into account many issues of HR06, but many ather issues remains unfixed .

No waterproofness

Not stable work with unprotected 18650 and even with protected 18650.

Holder that does not fix the position.

Very slow charger.

Operation issues

Leds are not good

Glass flask with mercury )

Positive contact without insulation.
With such problems, $ 70 for HR10 is obviously too expensive.

I like the functionality of Hr10 it has many features like battery check, lockout , good stabilisation etcetera.

In general, HR06 looked like a joke, but Hr10 already looks like a headlamp, albeit with several issues.

Lightbringer · 2019-03-15T17:11:17.000Z

Wonder what’s the fascination with adding ‘S’ to “improved” models… makes it cumbersome at best to use it as a plural unless you say “TG06Ses”, “VG10Ses”, and “HR10Ses”. :person_facepalming:

Whut’s the tilt-switch supposed to do or be used for? I’m not sure what the “fourth click” description above means. Shaking your head can switch modes up/down?

Yeah, unforgiveable about lack of waterproofing, even for a 20buk light, let alone 70.

AEDe · 2019-03-15T20:08:46.000Z

Lightbringer:

Whut’s the tilt-switch supposed to do or be used for? I’m not sure what the “fourth click” description above means. Shaking your head can switch modes up/down?

Yeah, unforgiveable about lack of waterproofing, even for a 20buk light, let alone 70.

I many years use headlamps, but have no idea. It is funny maybe, but not useful.
“fourth click” - I mean click 4 times) 4 times for activate tilt-switch and 4 times for disactivale it.
Yes you can switch modes up and switch leds (main - green- flood- red-).

Waterproofing is main disappoint of HR10, I hope they fix it.

Lightbringer · 2019-03-15T20:24:37.000Z

AEDe:

Lightbringer:

Whut’s the tilt-switch supposed to do or be used for? I’m not sure what the “fourth click” description above means. Shaking your head can switch modes up/down?

I many years use headlamps, but have no idea. It is funny maybe, but not useful.
“fourth click” - I mean click 4 times) 4 times for activate tilt-switch and 4 times for disactivale it.
Yes you can switch modes up and switch leds (main - green- flood- red-).

I got the part about 4 clicks activating/deactivating it, but wasn’t sure what head-motions would be needed. Shake head like saying “no”, or tilting whole head sideways then back up, etc.

I could imagine someone crawling through a cave, going sideways then back up, and now it shines green, or red, or starts strobing, etc. :laughing: