Manker kindly sent the black and army green E05 II for review.
It looks like a good successor to the E05:
- The lumen output has increased 3x.
- Strobe is no longer in the main cycle group.
Here is my review:
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Nice review as always.
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Thank you!
I’m on the fence about whether it’s even worth mentioning that if you half-press about eight times rapidly and fully click, the light will remain off for five seconds and then turn on in Strobe mode. It doesn’t appear to be a hidden engineering mode. 
Nice detailed review.
It’s nice to see that it has good regulation on both AA and 14500.
I just wish Manker wouldn’t put so much branding/labels on their lights. Do they really need to label it with “[Al]” (for aluminum)?
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I’ve noticed a few manufacturers go overboard with laser etching. They must have new laser etching machines. 
Hi Tim @TimMc , Thanks for your review.
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Thanks for your advise. We try our best to improve. We considered that E05-II will have various versions, such as Aluminum, Copper, Stainless steel, titanium, color titanium … so we often laser some words such as ‘AL’, ‘Cu’, ‘SS’, ‘Ti’ to distinguish them.
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@Mankerlight What exact LED is used for E05 II?
SFS80? (sometimes called ‘P35 HI’)
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I’m quite pleased with my bead blasted titanium E05 II.
- It’s quite bright.
- Good emitter choice (4000K 519a)
- Simple and easy to use UI: 3 well-chosen modes with off-time memory.
- Strobe is hidden
- Excellent deep-carry clip.
- Feels good in the hand. Very secure when held with cigar-grip.
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Manker never disappoints.
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It is a custom led emitter. not SFS80.
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By the way, E05 II Aluminum have six body color option: black, army green, red, silver, sand and grey. and now new batch E05 II bead titan and E05 II copper are available.
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Ok, but from which manufacturer exactly? What is the reason to use a custom-designed emitter instead of a type which is widely available? The beam looks great and I want to test this emitter since it would be most likely getting good reviews.
I guess the reason is so people dont copy it.
Could be a Lumenpioneer W3535QJ1 domeless quad-die emitter in the Manker E05 II.
The size of 3.3 x 3.3 mm matches, also the design and the specs itself.
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Here is a picture of this unknown LED:
Definitely not SFQ43, due to missing clear silicone layer over LES and smaller size (3.3 x 3.3 mm, not 3.5 x 3.5), also yellow phsophor is only above LES on this LED shown.
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Thanks for the awesome photo! So far I was pretty sure it was a SFQ43. 
These Sanan-type domeless emitters are pretty easy to distinguish: the poshophor is not only on the LES, but also to the side of it.
Also they have a silicone coating over the LED chips, like Cree XHP50.3 / 70.3 HI. And last but least they also have some sort of pattern visible on the LED chips (at least SFN55.2 has so)
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The Manker E05 II Copper 519A appears to have good regulation.
However, it shuts off around 1 hour 21 minutes on High. I thought it might drop to 6.5 lm and continue for another 4 hours…
Technical Data of Nichia 519A 4000K R9080
Powered by Mankerlight 14500 USB-C li-ion battery:
Low: 6.5 lumens, 50 hours
Medium: 220 lumens ~ 6.5 lumens 1 hrs 30 minutes + 3 hrs 50 minutes
High: 800 lumens ~ 220 lumens ~6.5 lumens, 2 minutes + 1 hours +4 hours
I’m doing some runtime tests. I might do a full review…
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Manker E05 II Copper 519A
Specifications
14500
| FL1 STANDARD | Low | Medium | High | Strobe |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Output (lumens) | 6.5 | 300 + 6.5 | 800 + 220 + 6.5 | 800 |
| Runtime | 50h | 1h 30min + 3h 50min | 2min + 1h + 4h | |
| Beam Distance (metres) | 120 | |||
| Beam Intensity (cd) | 3,600 |
Ni-MH
| FL1 STANDARD | Low | Medium | High | Strobe |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Output (lumens) | 1.5 | 80 + 1.5 | 300 + 80 + 1.5 | 300 |
| Runtime | 27h | 1h 50min + 3h 8min | 2min + 2h + 30min |
Lumen measurements
| Cell | Mode | Amps at start | Specs | Lumens @turn on | Lumens @30 sec | Lumens @10 min |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14500 | Low | 0.00 A | 6.5 | 9 | 9 | 9 |
| 14500 | Medium | 0.00 A | 220 + 6.5 | 285 | 277 | 268 |
| 14500 | High | 0.00 A | 800 + 200 | 932 | 778 | 276 |
| Ni-MH | Low | 0.00 A | 1.5 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 1.7 |
| Ni-MH | Medium | 0.00 A | 80 + 1.5 | 101 | 98 | 96 |
| Ni-MH | High | 0.00 A | 300 + 80 | 404 | 380 | 107 |
Runtime graphs
I used my own DIY lumen tube with a TSL2591 sensor and forked bmengineer’s project RuTiTe to record runtimes.
Note: Lumen measurements may be off by 10% with my DIY lumen tube.
The room temperature was approximately 12 C.
Here is a summary of the runtime results:
| Cell | Mode | User manual | Runtime | Turn off | Final voltage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14500 | High | 2min + 1h + 4h | 1h 21min 1s | 1h 21min 1s | 3.21 |
| 14500 | Medium | 1h 30min + 3h 50min | 1h 32min 43s | 1h 32min 16s | 3.08 |
| 14500 | Low | 50h | 10min+ | 10min+ | |
| Ni-MH | High | 2min + 2h + 30min | 2h 39min 17s | 2h 39min 17s | 1.15 |
| Ni-MH | Medium | 1h 50min + 3h 3min | 3h 7min 11s | 3h 7min 11s | 1.15 |
| Ni-MH | Low | 27h | 10min+ | 10min+ |
“Runtime” is the time until the output reduces to 10% of the output at 30 seconds (as per the ANSI/PLATO FL1 2019 Standard).
“Turn off” is the time until my DIY lumen tube no longer detects more than one lumen.
“+” indicates that the light remained on after recording had stopped.
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The output is well regulated.
But the driver doesn’t behave as expected.
The flashlight turns off instead of dropping to 6.5 lumens (14500) or 1.5 lumens (NiMH) when using Medium or High.
The specifications suggest that High (14500) should have 800 lumens for 2 minutes, 220 lumens for 1 hour, and then 6.5 lumens for 4 hours.
However, I found that High (14500) had approximately 800 lumens for 1 to 2 minutes, 276 lumens for almost 1 hour 10 minutes, approximately 180 lumens for another 20 minutes, and then the flashlight turned off.
As a workaround, you could turn the flashlight on again in the Low mode until the Low Voltage Protection kicks (2.65V?) in so that you’re not left in the dark when the flashlight turns off while on Medium or High.
This behaviour was noticed with newer batches of the Manker E05 II (Aluminium) too (as noted here)
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