LuminTop ODL20C Small throw flashlight

klrman · 2018-05-27T20:22:28.000Z

mortuus:

klrman:

Nicolicous:

Yep led is off center. :disguised_face:

Being off center, does it affect throw or brightness much?

not that u notice but a flashlight at this price range should be perfect centered i think. even convoys light i have have better placed leds.

Interesting, never had a lumintop flashlight before. I wonder if their 2000 lumens turbo is real or not? That would be brighter than my V6.

M4D_M4X · 2018-05-27T21:03:10.000Z

very nice pictures!

mortuus · 2018-05-28T13:41:37.000Z

klrman:

mortuus:

klrman:

Nicolicous:

Yep led is off center. :disguised_face:

Being off center, does it affect throw or brightness much?

not that u notice but a flashlight at this price range should be perfect centered i think. even convoys light i have have better placed leds.

Interesting, never had a lumintop flashlight before. I wonder if their 2000 lumens turbo is real or not? That would be brighter than my V6.

depends how hard the xhp 35 emitter is driven, a little over 2000 is what u can push it out anyways, not even the blf gt or astrolux mf02 or all those that have this emitter goes very much above 2000 lumens.

klrman · 2018-05-28T16:31:54.000Z

If it hits 2000, then still about double my UT02 output which is great if it really could do that.

BrySig228 · 2018-06-28T17:52:24.000Z

this has 5 year warranty?

steel_1024 · 2018-06-28T19:06:35.000Z

BrySig228:

this has 5 year warranty?

5 years free repair (normal use)

BOMBAY · 2018-06-28T20:37:21.000Z

but I have to send for repair to China? if so it’s like I did not have anything because the shipping cost is greater than the cost of a new flashlight.

steel_1024 · 2018-06-29T08:47:22.000Z

I also think so

That will be a problem

But if you can send it

Usually free shipping back

Or it can be handled through local agents

srwaite · 2018-07-05T23:39:26.000Z

I picked one up. It arrived today. The LED on mine is even more poorly centered than the example here, and unlike my Manker u21, I simply cannot seem to get the head open. I’ve scuffed up the flashlight pretty badly in 2 spots attempting to. They’ve either glued this sucker shut or have a special tool to get it tight. I’m not very happy.

gerasalex · 2018-07-09T16:42:27.000Z

… I’ll add that the turbo mode of the flashlight, with the protected 26650 5500 mAh - does not work. Why is the manufacturer silent about this, and did not immediately write down which batteries to use with a flashlight, protected or not? And he does not want to solve the problem and he does not give advice, he does not answer questions,. The driver of the flashlight is not completely thought out. The rubber cover for the USB cover is also not thought out, it clings to your finger and opens constantly when using a flashlight.

Lumintop · 2018-07-10T03:47:37.000Z

gerasalex:

… I’ll add that the turbo mode of the flashlight, with the protected 26650 5500 mAh - does not work. Why is the manufacturer silent about this, and did not immediately write down which batteries to use with a flashlight, protected or not? And he does not want to solve the problem and he does not give advice, he does not answer questions,. The driver of the flashlight is not completely thought out. The rubber cover for the USB cover is also not thought out, it clings to your finger and opens constantly when using a flashlight.

Hello, it’s recommended to use a 22650 battery with a continuous discharge current of 15A, which can maximum the performances of ODL20C.
A battery with 10A discharge current is also usable.
Battery brands with well-reputation should be the first choice.
For safety concern, we strongly recommended using the protected cell to avoid potential reverse polarity connection.
If a reverse connection with unprotective 26650 cells, it will result in a damage ODL20C.
Hope that can help, thanks.

gerasalex · 2018-07-10T13:36:58.000Z

Let’s do it, you tell me specifically what brand of battery to buy me and what capacity and I’ll buy it. And if the flashlight does not work properly with this battery, which you advise me, then this is a marriage of a flashlight and you must change it for me or send at least another working driver. I paid money for the flashlight that should work. But you say that I have bad batteries, but my batteries, with other flashlights work without any problems …

srwaite · 2018-07-12T19:03:39.000Z

Well I made a clamp to get the head open, and reflowed the emitter and adjusted the centering. It still isn’t perfect, but it’s a lot better. I’m a little happier now.

blueb8llz · 2018-07-12T19:29:00.000Z

srwaite:

I picked one up. It arrived today. The LED on mine is even more poorly centered than the example here, and unlike my Manker u21, I simply cannot seem to get the head open. I’ve scuffed up the flashlight pretty badly in 2 spots attempting to. They’ve either glued this sucker shut or have a special tool to get it tight. I’m not very happy.

Does this throw as far as the u21?

DB_Custom · 2018-07-12T19:49:31.000Z

I found a special on 22650 12,000mAh cells and bought em all up…

DB_Custom · 2018-07-12T19:51:04.000Z

Ok ok, Black LiitoKala 5000mAh 26650’s work excellent in the ODL20C, as do the new black Shockli 5500mAh 26650’s with the horizontal labeling. Really like this light, even if the UI isn’t flawless.

wstrachan · 2018-07-12T20:01:27.000Z

My new Lumintop is DRAMATICALLY brighter and visibly longer throwing than my UT02.

DB_Custom · 2018-07-12T20:37:40.000Z

I see Lumintop here once in a while, I wonder if you guys could answer a question for me?

I got a sample ODL20C from an early reviewer, it made very low output… seriously, only 890 lumens on a top cell. I changed the emitter and swapped the sense resistor from an R050 to an R025 to get 4.83A at the tail and 1445 lumens. Then I removed the driver and emitter both and completely rebuilt it with my own components. My light has no branding, when I got it I could find no information anywhere as to what it actually was. I was told Lumintop made it, but at the time there was no information available on it. Of course now I know what it is by it’s unique style as you (Lumintop) have this light readily available.

Can you tell me what steps were taken to bring the output of the ODL20C up so it would outperform the Manker and Utorch equivalent lights?

Edit: This driver isn’t named, both the Manker U21 and Utorch UT02 had a driver name like LX46 or something, this one doesn’t say on the contact board near the spring like those do. This is the driver that was in it when I got it…

This is the charger…

And the charging port is the normal micro USB, not a “C”…

These pics are full size as taken by my Canon 1DsMkII, sorry they’re so large but I left them full size for a close-up view when clicked on.

DB_Custom · 2018-07-12T20:58:20.000Z

Ixnay the randingbay (no branding) on the drivers, I don’t know where I remembered that from but my Utorch UT02 has no visible writing on the driver spring side, can’t find any pics showing numbers on either the U21 or UT02 in my earlier review either so, I was just wrong on that one.

srwaite · 2018-07-13T02:58:03.000Z

blueb8llz:

srwaite:

I picked one up. It arrived today. The LED on mine is even more poorly centered than the example here, and unlike my Manker u21, I simply cannot seem to get the head open. I’ve scuffed up the flashlight pretty badly in 2 spots attempting to. They’ve either glued this sucker shut or have a special tool to get it tight. I’m not very happy.

Does this throw as far as the u21?

The Lumintop is definitely brighter. I’ll try to take some pictures to compare later.