This is the Wurkkos T1, a 21700 flashlight with 5500 Lumens, a side light with 4 colors, mechanical tail switch with a magnetic selector, USB-C charging on body, IPX8 water resistance and more!
• My opinion
The T1 is a good flashlight, it tries to have a lot of features in a single product, this made the side light UI be very confusing - at least for me. It has a good driver, a powerful and efficient LED, good water resistance and useful side light with 4 colors and blinkies. It has a similar body and features of the Sofirn SK31 and tries to combine that with side lights and a magnetic selector. I think it’s a good flashlight, especially if you want a tacticool style flashlight with more features, though if you need a real tactical flashlight there are way better options.
The magnetic selector is a little too easy to miss the mode spots, I think it doesn’t “stick” as well as other flashlights I have to the mode spots. The side light UI is confusing, as it has a ton of different modes and colors to select. The Tactical UI is not the best I’ve used, as you can’t keep the light ON, it’s only momentarily.
| PROS | CONS |
|---|---|
| Efficient Boost Driver | Confusing Side light UI and Tactical UI |
| Multiple light sources with different colors | Magnetic selector is easy to miss the operation modes |
| Easy access to Turbo and Strobe | No real moonlight (Moonlight mode has 4 Lumens - which is too bright) |
| Color Battery indicator | *Doesn’t fit protected cells |
| IPX8 water resistance | The tail button activates too easily, so even touching it lightly can cycle modes |
• Price
Coupon (Wurkkos website): 3BEJHUSQ
The Wurkkos T1 is currently priced at $59.99 on Wurkkos Official Website (Wurkkos T1) and $61.85 on Wurkkos AliExpress Store.
• Box contents
- Wurkkos T1
- Wurkkos 21700 5000mAh Li-ion battery
- USB-C to C charging cable
- Lanyard
- 2x extra O-rings
- *User manual (Was not included on my unit)
• Body and build quality
Anodizing Colors/Material Options: The T1 is only available in 6061-T6 aluminum with gray anodizing - most probably type II anodizing to have the gray color.
Main body/Grip: The main body is pretty smooth with almost no grooves or knurling. The tail cap has some knurling on the mode selector and near the clip. The battery tube has some “holes” where it’s possible to see the inner aluminum tube that makes contact with the driver, I think this makes the flashlight a little more fragile than necessary.
Material: The flashlight main body is entirely made of 6061-T6 Aluminum alloy. The bezel is made of stainless steel with a matte black coating.
Threads: Only the battery tube side that makes contact with the driver is unscrewable, it has un-anodized squared threads.
Clip: T1 comes with a stainless steel clip with a glossy black coating installed on it. Pretty default clip. Clips well.
Tail stand and rolling: The flashlight doesn’t roll much as the grooves on the mode selector prevent it. It can head stand, but tail stand is not possible due to the button sticking out of the tail cap.
Magnet: Doesn’t feature a magnet.
AUX lights: The T1 features a color battery indicator and a side light on the main body that can be set to white, red, green, blue and some blinking modes. The side light are actually powerful for it’s size, with near 100 Lumens on the high color modes. The red, especially, is useful for camping to not draw insects attention.
Buttons: It features a mechanical switch on the tail cap for turning the light ON/OFF and cycling between brightness levels and also a magnetic rotating selector - which I think is too easy to miss the right spot to select a mode - for changing the operation mode. The tail mechanical switch has a pretty interesting feature, it has a half click without going all the way down, just a little touch on the switch and it cycles brightness levels.
Battery contact: Contact is made with the battery by 2 gold-plated springs, one at the tail cap, the other at the driver PCB.
Bezel: The bezel is a slightly agressive bezel , it’s crenelated with rounded trapezoidal shapes and is made of stainless steel with a matte black coating. It came very tight to unscrew on my unit, but it isn’t glued.
Water Resistance: It’s advertised and graded to have the IPX8 water resistance rating. The tail cap is locked by glue and seem properly water sealed, the battery tube and bezel threads have O-rings for water protection, and the USB-C has a silicone gasket.
Size comparison: On the left is the Sofirn SK31 (21700), on the middle the Wurkkos T1 (21700) and on the right the Convoy S2+ (18650).
• Weight and size
Weight:
- With battery (Wurkkos 21700): 207.4g
- Without battery: 139.4g
- Battery (Wurkkos 21700): 68.2g
Size: mm x mm x mm - (height x head diamter x tail diameter)
• Battery, runtime, and charging
Battery: The T1 is powered by a single 21700 battery. It comes with a Wurkkos 5000mAh Li-ion battery on the box. The included battery has 10A CDR and 15A maximum peak discharg - as this light has the Cree XFLSNA emitter and supposedly hit 5500 Lumens, I recommend using a battery with at least 20A of CDR, although the 15A peak might be fine for the small time it can sustain Turbo mode, but it probably doesn’t hit it’s full potential with the included battery.
Protected batteries or ones with USB-C doesn’t fit inside the battery tube.
Battery Indicator: It features a color battery indicator right above the USB-C port on the main body - pretty important and useful feature.
The color battery indicator lights up as:
| Battery indicator color | Battery level |
|---|---|
| Solid green | > 75% |
| Blinking green | 75% - 50% |
| Solid red | 50% - 25% |
| Blinking red | < 25% |
Charging: The T1 features USB-C charging on body, the charging port is located on the opposite side of the side LED and covered by a silicone cover. It charges at 5V 2.4A maximum, taking around 2h30min to fully charge.
• Modes, Runtimes, Throw, Candela
Modes: There are 6 brightness levels on the main “spotlight” with 1 strobe mode, 4 color modes on the side light, each having 3 brightness levels. There are also 3 blinking modes on the side light, them being Police strobe, red SOS and red beacon.
Advertised specs
| Spotlight - Levels | Brightness (Lumens) | Runtime |
|---|---|---|
| Turbo | 5500 - 810 | 1min - 2h5min |
| High | 2249 - 810 | 17min - 2h40min |
| Medium | 708.8 | 3h8min |
| Low | 300.7 | 9h |
| Eco | 25.9 | 92h |
| “Moonlight” | 4 | 339h |
| Side light (White) - Levels | Brightness (Lumens) | Runtime |
|---|---|---|
| High | 96.5 | 11h18min |
| Medium | 19.3 | 59h30min |
| Low | 1.7 | 338h |
| Side light (Red) - Levels | Brightness (Lumens) | Runtime |
|---|---|---|
| High | 48.7 | 12h18min |
| Medium | 19.3 | 61h42min |
| Low | 1.8 | 330h |
| Side light (Green) - Levels | Brightness (Lumens) | Runtime |
|---|---|---|
| High | 77.5 | 9h36min |
| Medium | 14.2 | 61h42min |
| Low | 1.4 | 384h |
| Side light (Green) - Levels | Brightness (Lumens) | Runtime |
|---|---|---|
| High | 23.5 | 11h42min |
| Medium | 5.1 | 54h18min |
| Low | 0.7 | 416h |
Turbo: The Turbo mode is pretty powerful on this flashlight, with Wurkkos claiming 5500 Lumens, the sad part is that this amount of Lumens generate a lot of heat, making the flashlight step down pretty fast. Also, it draws much power from the battery, so it will drain it pretty fast.
Moonlight: This flashlight has no actual moonlight on the spotlight, as the lowest mode (called “moonlight”) has around 4 lumens. The side light on the other hand has modes that vary from 1.7 Lumens (white side light) to 0.7 Lumens (blue side light) being more useful as a moonlight than the main beam.
Blinkies: The main beam has a tactical strobe with the full brightness of the flashlight, while the side light has a red/blue police strobe, red SOS and red beacon.
Lockout: Lockout is present on this light by twisting the magnetic selector to the lock icon - which is on the left side of the selector. On lockout, if you press the main button the battery indicator will show the battery level for 5 seconds, if you hold the button it will access Moonlight momentarily.
Throw: Wurkkos claims 415m on the spotlight on Turbo, this light doesn’t have a throwy beam pattern and achieves this throw by raw power.
• Emitter, reflector and CRI
Emitter: The T1 uses a Cree XFLSNA in 6500K, this LED seems to be very similar - or even the exact same - to the LMP LHP73B in 6500K. I actually thought it had the LHP73B initially, and really, it’s the same LED. The beam pattern and all seems identical. Pretty efficient LED, very high brightness and generates a lot of heat when pushed near it’s limit.
Lens: It has an AR coated glass lens in front of the reflector.
Reflector/TIR: It uses a 28.6mm Orange peel reflector.
Beam profile: The beam has a central hotspot with a smooth transition to the spill some small artifacts and small light rings.
CRI: Standard 70 CRI on all white LEDs.
• Beamshots Camera settings
- 18mm lens 1" F8 ISO800
- (The trees at the back are at a distance of around 100m)
Wurkkos T1 Cree XFLSNA 6500K - Turbo
Wurkkos T1 Cree XFLSNA 6500K - High
Wurkkos T1 Cree XFLSNA 6500K - Medium
I always try to match what my eyes can see on the beamshots, so camera settings may vary.
• Driver and UI
Driver: The T1 uses a Boost constant current driver for the LEDs. It didn’t identify any PWM on any level. Wurkkos claims 55W of power with this driver, which seems close to the power necessary to reach around 6000 Lumens on the main LED.
UI: The UI for the main beam is simple and straight forward, on Outdoor mode, a full click on the switch turns the flashlight ON/OFF, a half click cycles between brightness levels (eco, low, medium, high, turbo); while it’s OFF holding the button will go into moonlight mode.
On Tactical mode, a half click goes to momentarily Turbo and a full click access momentarily Strobe - this is not an ideal “Tactical” UI in my opinion, as you can’t keep the light ON and I don’t think it’s easy to rotate the magnetic ring to the Tactical spot on an emergency situation.
The confusing part is the side light UI, holding a half click turns it ON on white, continue holding to cycle (White - Red - Green - Blue); a fast half click cycles brightness level (Low - Medium - High); a full click goes to the blinking modes, on the blinking modes a half click cycles (Police strobe - red SOS - red beacon). I think the side light UI is very weird and confusing, it would be better to have the solid color modes on the full click than the blinkies, for example.
Low Voltage Protection/Warning: When the battery is below 2.8V, the flashlight will turn OFF automatically. The brightness will reduce when the battery voltage is too low.
Reverse Polarity Protection: It has reverse polarity protection.
Temperature Control: It seems to have standard Wurkkos thermal regulation, the brightness will drop until it reaches a determined output level on higher modes. It doesn’t seem to be a dynamic regulation.
Thank you for reading my review!
A special thanks to Wurkkos for sending this flashlight for me to review!
*I am not being paid to do this review, everything here is my honest opinion.
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