WARNING! TRAFFIC HEAVY, LOT OF GIFs!
Here it is the long-awaited ideal powerful budget flashlight! Bright flood and penetrating spot light modes, capacious power supply from 3 * 21700 batteries, built-in fast Type-C charging and good UI. And all this for the price of an ordinary flashlight of some expensive popular brand. The perfect gift for yourself or someone else. A gift that will really impress and that will be used, remembering you with a kind word.
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Specifications
LED: 12* Nichia 519a \ LH351D for flood + 1* Luminus SFT40 for throw
Maximum brightness: 12000 lumens for Samsung LH351 and 519A
Maximum range 637 meters
Driver: FET (flood light ) + Buck-boost (spot light)
Beam Angle: Far 7°, Near 78°
Standard preset brightness modes \ stepless brightness adjustment
Working voltage: 2.7V-4.2V
Power supply: 3*21700
Built-in Type-C (supporting PD fast charge protocol)
Size: 132.4mm (length) x 62.4mm (head diameter)
Weight: 435 ± 1 grams (excluding batteries)
Flashlight housing: aluminum
Waterproof IP68
Package and appearance
Traditional Sofirn\Wurkkos low-budget package. Just a yeallow-white cardboard box with zero gift potential. But, as usual with Wurkkos, the content of the box is much more interesting.
And inside we have: a flashlight itself, a charging cable, o-rings, a manual and a warranty. Removable handle and 3 batteries are optional, then you decide whether to buy them or not. I will say this - I see no reason not to buy.
(will add this pic later)
While the handle is on its way to me, I can only limit myself to the photographs that the manufacturer provided me. They will come to me, I will reshoot and add my own.
And here is the flashlight itself. It is made in the popular size of “soda can” and its design, as usual for Wurkkos is frankly simple.
Here, for example, another flashlight with the same combined light and the same power supply - Imalent MR90. It is much bigger and more expensive.
Here is another clear comparison. I have another representative of this kind of flashlights on my hands. Thoroughbred, elite, insanely bright and 4 times more expensive Acebeam X50.2, which I recently reviewed.
The difference in price is colossal, i agree. Well, is the difference in design to match it? Not that the audience of Sofirn\Wurrkos was interested in all sorts of luxury designe, but is it really difficult and expensive to play around with knurling?
As you can see, the flashlight has a wide flat tail, tail stand is confident.
With a diffuser on, TS32 becomes a good source of indoor light. Although you can point light to the ceiling.
The knurling is tenacious, thanks to the longitudinal grooves, and the grip here is comfortable, I like the diameter of 3 * 21700 model more than the good old 4 * 18650.
But if the flashlight heats up quickly at higher brightness, then it would be appropriate to make a hole for the lanyard, it will come in handy for those who will use the flashlight without a handle. Now the hole for the lanyard is only in it.
The handle seems to be comfortable, with ergonomic recesses for the fingers. But the difference in design is visible here. The grip is comfortable without a handle, but holding the flashlight like this will be justified only when working at low brightness.
Until the handle arrived, I use handle of Acebeam X50.2 for illustration
If desired, the flashlight can be mounted on a tripod, since the thread here is standard
As usually for soda-can models, flashlight can be divided into a head and a “cup” for batteries.
If you unscrew the tail cap, you can see the reverse side of the board with contact springs. The latter are thick, bypassed. There is no spring at the side of the head, as usual in such cases, there is a contact ring
Medium sized thread, trapezoidal and anodised.
Hurrah Hurrah! Sofirn put in something that other can soda lights lacked, an adapter for flat-top batteries. Alsmost any 21700 battery is flat top.
By the way, to my surprise, the flashlight worked perfectly fine even without the ring. But here it is better to let it be. I admit that without it, the ring can eventually wipe the heat shrink and short the battery
The head is large and wide, perfectly harmonious looking on the same large and wide body.
The cooling fins are numerous and quite deep (although I think that the lower ones could be made deeper). However, I strongly doubt that they will be of any use in older modes. A lot of metal in flashlight should have more influence on heat sink.
The pad with buttons is neat, but quite budget. Buttons ruin everything in design. Metal ones would be much more attractive. But that would have been a completely different price tag. However, from the position of functionality, protruding buttons are much more convenient than a flat and pretty metal round. Well, again, it’s a matter of taste.
Between the buttons are 4 small indicators of charging-battery capacity.
As usually, there is charge connector at the opposite side from the buttons. The cap is thick and secure. No matter how I crawled over it with my fingers, I didn’t manage to accidentally open it - wonderful.
6 hours is good result for 3*21700 batteries, but it may be better.
upd, TS32 also works as powerbank if needed
The bezel teeth are wide and not at all aggressive. The dog was not afraid.
Glass with enlightenment and anti-reflective. Below it are a dozen LEDs (brighter XPL for the average user and less bright but better light LH351D for gourmets).
In the center is a relatively compact (for a long-range flashlight) smooth reflector with an SFT40 LED. However, this is a good bright and fairly long-range LED, which knocks out 85.5 kilocandels that are quite good for a reflector of this size.
UPD. CREE XPL was sold out soon after review was posted, now there is better Nichia 519A version.
519 left, 351d right
As a result, we get another Wurkkos\Sofirn i.e. a flashlight that in most cases is as inferior to the hyped fat expensive models in design as it is superior to them in functionality.
UI
Classical UI Sofirn\Wurkkos.
It is quite convenient, and the fact that it is duplicated in two buttons makes it possible to set different modes for each light, conditionally LOW + MID.
OFF-OFF - on click
Hold from ON - brightness change
Hold out off - firefly
2 clicks - turbo
3 clicks from ON toggle between stepped and stepless
4 clicks out OFF lock
How the Wurkkos TS32 illuminates
SPOT is stabilized in all modes below turbo, FLOOD is not stabilized at all.
In reality, we get the following.
FLOOD enters the thermoregulation saw when cooling in HIGH and spot in TURBO without cooling.
Important! In the period from October to April (and especially in winter), the situation can be radically different due to low temperature
Here is a closer spot light in turbo mode, almost 3 hours before the brightness drops by 50, it’s quite decent, if you remember that 2000 lum is declared for 100.
In other modes, spot light is stabilized and will shine for a long time. Almost 7 hours of HIGH is really a lot.
Well, the flood light
Don’t expect turbo here to last long - 10000+ lumens in such a size warms flashlight up very quickly and when turned on from a warm state (i.e. almost always in real use) it will swoop down. But still, due to even half a minute of such a dive, this is not bad due to the high brightness.
You will succeed in quickly flooding everything around with light. If the flashlight had an Anduril interface, it would be possible to raise the thermal cutoff threshold in order to increase runtime in turbo, but for the general public, Anduril would become an unbearable challenge.
Yes, and in HIGH you will have 4 minutes before resetting to about 1200-1500lum.
For example, the Flood already heats up the body in MID mode to the temperature limit for bare hands
But this MID is enough for your eyes. A flashlight will normally handle this brightness and for the whole mass of everyday needs it will be the very demanded light.
And so, given the fact that there is a handle, it would be possible to raise it to 60-65 degrees. But this would already make it impossible to work without a handle and someone will buy without it for sure (although, why?).
In general, if you do not abuse the turbo, then there are chances that you will not encounter a thermoregulation saw. Especially in winter.
Everything is wonderful for the rest. This is the very universal light that many users want so much. There are only a few dual-light models on the market, and they cost much more. Well, do not forget that they have no alternative with cold light, and Wurkkos also offers the LH351D version with lower brightness and neutral color temperature, the light quality here will be much higher. Nichia? May be as well.
I, in fact, recommend buying LH351D I don’t see any sense in the wall of cold light from XPL. Although, from experience, there are people who, on principle, buy flashlights with cold light. Well, again, it is worth considering that by the time the XPL review is released, it is no longer on sale at all and it is not a fact that it will appear.
For the rest - this is classic floody light, from a firefly to super-bright turbo. Good comfortable light for walking, working indoors. Taking into account the ability to mount on a tripod also as a photo light (LH351D is good, but they promise an even better version with Nichia 519A)
I am sure that from these GIFs make be possible to understand absolutely everything that is needed.
There still be some cold light, in SPOT mode. It is quite sufficient light for absolutely all ordinary needs and will make it possible to highlight anything within a radius of 300m. At 200m, it gives a wonderful light in brightness. How often do you have to use it at further distances?
But the biggest advantage is the ability to turn both lights on together at the right level for each. This makes the Wurkkos TS32 an exceptionally interesting searchlight that will allow you to shine both near and far at the same time. However, for me, such a general light is limited to MID + MID modes, brighter ones will already heat up the flashlight and start “saw”. But visually MID+MID is delightfully comfortable. Flood light here is already bright enough to be to illuminate everything around at a distance of 15 meters, and the spot light confidently breaks through a hundred meters.
As you can see, there is some kind of light at 650m, but that’s exactly “some”
However, with respect to the overall dimensions of the reflector, this is not bad. Most needs of throw light, I’m sure, lie at much close range.
UPD
got Nichia 519A version. looks better IMO, i like this little bit rose tint shift. but that is matter of taste, of course
OVERALL IMPRESSIONS
Wurkkos TS32 has become one of the most long waited flashlights this year for me.
It’s too tempting to get a truly versatile flashlight for a relatively small price with convenient UI, high brightness and throw, with a wonderful runtime from 3*21700, and built-in charging. And most importantly - for not that small, but frankly affordable price.
Something similar from a major brand would cost at least 2 times higher and not the fact that it would be better in anything else besides design.
So, I’m sure that almost anyone will like such a flashlight. You can illuminate something distant. If you want, something near you. If you want - turn on both FLOOD and SPOT.
During fishing, you can illuminate a float fifty meters away from you, and then switch and comfortably light up path under your feet.
You can fill a whole hangar with light and you can reach the top of a neighboring mountain . Though there few use from TS32 in city and on the scale of the garden.
But if you go hunting or fishing, if you have a large plot of land, if you need to keep an eye on the animals on the pasture - the flashlight should show its best side.
In search activities, again, he must also become the same jack of all trades.
In short, this is the very rare case when universality does not become crutches. The flashlight is fully capable as a source of FLOOD and SPOT beams. It will not scare either with the price or the complexity of UI
The best recommendation would be that I leave the LH351D version for my needs, although it is far from certain that I will need it at all. Simply, I think that such a universal flashlight should be in the household. And I hope that my review convinced you of this too.
ps. The abundance of such positive is quite a reason to suspect me of bias. If you bother to read my other reviews, you can easily find frankly critical ones, from the same budget Sofirn to expensive Fenix
