2 things: 1. If you place a very small magnet on the flat-top, it will create the necessary contact (not sure about resistance issue but I've done it) 2. If you remove the capacitor from the chip, I believe it will only allow bright mode as it will always think it is being turned on for the first time. Love your videos buddy!
wow...I never new about the bad reading current from volt meters at low volts and high power circuits. that was totally awesome. Thanks sooooo much I'm going to get me a current probe today....
Those sharp parts on the old one can have 2 uses in emergencies. First to help break a window in a car and second to strike an attacker to help them decide to attack someone else. Beautiful cat.
I have the exact same two kinds of torches. Something broke yesterday in the newer model, the led now is constantly very dim. Maybe that the ic has broken down but have to do a teardown and research / repair. I like these models and was a bit disappointed it quit so early after only maybe 10 or 20h of use (not continously of course).
@@franzliszt8576 I was talking about the current, not voltage. Of course in full power mode the current should also be DC. So, his guess could be right.
@@a000ab yes the full power mode has probably continous dc but in low brightness it is possibltly pwm Now i got you yes the current can be inaccurate a bit but the resistance of the probes is aslo a bit too high
I wonder how the chip remembers what power cycling state it's supposed to be in? Would putting a resistor between 1 and 2 or 3 and 2 possibly help it forget? It would be ideal if it could just forget in half a second and you had to switch faster to get into the alt-modes.
The capacitor allows it to remember the state. If you used a lower value capacitor or if you put a resistor in parallel to it, the memory would be reset faster.
You can find those on Ebay using the keywords I always write using the green pen :). I don't use links because the listings change. I don't want to have my videos full of old broken links. I also can't return to all of my videos every week and update all of the links.
i have a similar flashlight with the same schematic except it has 4 x 1ohm resistors in parallel for a total of 0.25ohm and it has a 1Mohm in parallel with capacitor. Also it has 5 modes: high, middle, low, strobe fast 6Hz, strobe low 2Hz.
Thanks for a very good review again! I happen to have both types of led-torches, all work fine but i am afraid the higher power of the new led is a bit too much for long life. Anyway its a very good quality for that low price. I also bought a much more expensive one for around 7 Euros, which claimed to have 5 W. It turned out that there was no contact from the led-heatsink to the metal casing - the thread in the heatsink didnt fit into this of the case - it was just sitting loosely inside! The led's heat burnt itself off the pcb and the little plastic lens melted away! Now and than you can find such shitty construction from the chinese manufacturers - even with more exensive lamps! The skywolf imitation is really one of the best for the price-class!
I see Veritáska is still doing your scematics for you .............. she is very good at them. I use a cheap power bank to get a battery for my torch and put it back in the power bank for re charging.
Lol for 5x the price? :) I have convoy s2+, and two of these. These comes quite handy as a drawer flashlight you could have at any station, and they are quite powerful! I use them at lower setting. The only bad thing I could say about this flashlights is the color of the LED, they are quite bluish, one more blue then the other. But that depends on the batch I guess, the one on the video appears white.
I've ordered from AliExpress www.aliexpress.com/item/MUQGEW-Flashlight-Torch-Powerful-2017-Newest-Bright-Illumination-Portable-Focus-3000-Lumens-3-Modes-CREE-XML/32830343436.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.2bf64c4dsjCw8H
Lovely Cat-a-matic drawing !! And Danyk, that battery is NOT 9900 mA... Hee hee hee... If you hadn't mentioned in the video, I would not even have noticed it !!! So I had to make fun of it !!
Mohl bych mit dotaz trochu mimo? Je ta plastova cocka pouzitelna jako silna lupa? Hledam neco na lusteni napisu na SMD soucastkach a za tu cenu bych mel k lupe i nahradni vypinac a ledku ;) Dik
Thanks for posting. I think you need to pluralize the title of your channel to keep it consistent with the pronunciation you are using. Nice review and teardown. Thanks for posting.
Hello, nice video. how big is the diameter of the mcpcb 16mm or 20mm?, i want to buy this flashlight and change that xp-e lattice for a better led with more lumen/watt, since we those 4w we can get up to 600lm with a better led
Cree XP-E diodes i think, or copies of them. I know its not a copy made by LatticeBright becourse yours has round small dots and LatticeBright uses square dots. I dont know of any other LED chip copy factory. I bet both is copies, but if i should pick the real one if any of them is real then my pick is the new one, it seems to be the most right size die.
Do you have any contact details? I recently moved to a new place and before I left the old one, I had a high quality 600W PC PSU that broke after 10 (!!!) years of abuse and I thought I d sent it to you. It would have made a very interesting video (I had also bought replacement FETs and caps after I checked it somewhat myself) but I had no way of contacting you so I threw it away as I couldt take it with me... Maybe the next broken (or redundant) hardware could be mailed to you?
got 2 of these, on 1, 2 of 3 modes broke down and only the brightest work (so I was very lucky, since they are annoying). On the other one, all 3 modes are working, buts its not as bright.
Wow, how old is that soldering iron? Do you have a video on it? I’d love to know what’s in that case! I’d always thought soldering irons were always just simple heating elements in their most basic forms.
Again 1 like for the cat . Still, if she would not be that lazy , she would change the wires to your measure leads to thicker ones so that you can use them to accurate ohm and amps measures. Also she could change the LED to a 5 watt one which gives double the lux, but she is too lazy...
I have a cuckoo clock that needs winding 3ce a day. The hands aren't even visible from low down where I sit. But I still keep winding it for the sound !
this is good flashlight but my experience with this brand and other cheap flashlight are switch lost conductivity over time (most of them has bad quality switch)
All this time I thought it was you who drew those detailed schematics!!
Kitty might have some magic inside.
That cat is harry potter with magic writing feather. ☺
2 things:
1. If you place a very small magnet on the flat-top, it will create the necessary contact (not sure about resistance issue but I've done it)
2. If you remove the capacitor from the chip, I believe it will only allow bright mode as it will always think it is being turned on for the first time.
Love your videos buddy!
A very simple device reviewed in full seriuuusness . I appreciate your dedication.
6:42 smart cat
wow...I never new about the bad reading current from volt meters at low volts and high power circuits. that was totally awesome. Thanks sooooo much I'm going to get me a current probe today....
A tip for unscrewing things which are down holes without chewing them up with pliers (2:23): use a rubber (an eraser) or a wine cork.
wow the cat draws better schematic than me !! lol!!
Those sharp parts on the old one can have 2 uses in emergencies. First to help break a window in a car and second to strike an attacker to help them decide to attack someone else.
Beautiful cat.
Finally you taught your cat to reverse engineer things, good for you!
I have the exact same two kinds of torches. Something broke yesterday in the newer model, the led now is constantly very dim. Maybe that the ic has broken down but have to do a teardown and research / repair. I like these models and was a bit disappointed it quit so early after only maybe 10 or 20h of use (not continously of course).
Couldn't the inaccurate reading of the ampere meter be due to the current being more AC?
It is not ac itis dc bcoz its a battery
@@franzliszt8576
I was talking about the current, not voltage.
Of course in full power mode the current should also be DC. So, his guess could be right.
@@a000ab yes the full power mode has probably continous dc but in low brightness it is possibltly pwm
Now i got you yes the current can be inaccurate a bit but the resistance of the probes is aslo a bit too high
The cat is technically skilled.
Not every change is an improvement.
Amazing Intro today :) The Cat :D
Thank you for bringing the cat back
Wow, your cat must be genious!
Where do you buy 18650 batteries?
@PAPYRUBY ebay is closed
Best source in Europe is NKON, but there's a bunch more resellers on eBay or Amazon. Local only of course, air mail won't ship Li-Ion any longer.
laptop batteries ;)
12:57 the cat is being hypnotized
Great review and lovely cat
the cat returned
Useful video. Excellent
Cat at 13:00 #stoppedworking
cat.exe has stopped working
>restart cat.exe
csrss.exe of cat has stopped working.
I wonder how the chip remembers what power cycling state it's supposed to be in? Would putting a resistor between 1 and 2 or 3 and 2 possibly help it forget? It would be ideal if it could just forget in half a second and you had to switch faster to get into the alt-modes.
The capacitor allows it to remember the state. If you used a lower value capacitor or if you put a resistor in parallel to it, the memory would be reset faster.
How long does it remembers the state?
I would say about a minute or so.
Good review there, wish you would put links to them though so we wouldn't have to search for hours on Ebay or whatever sight, thanks, Tom.
You can find those on Ebay using the keywords I always write using the green pen :). I don't use links because the listings change. I don't want to have my videos full of old broken links. I also can't return to all of my videos every week and update all of the links.
OH, OK then, I understand it now. Thanks Bud.
i have a similar flashlight with the same schematic except it has 4 x 1ohm resistors in parallel for a total of 0.25ohm and it has a 1Mohm in parallel with capacitor. Also it has 5 modes: high, middle, low, strobe fast 6Hz, strobe low 2Hz.
The cat is an excellent touch!!
No cat was glued during this video..
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Nice video! I am surprised it is so cheap.
nice....sir why did you stop making videos on power supply
your cat should have it's own youtube channel.
Nice review! Moreover, would you like to review another tactical flashlight?
that ..... is a majestic cat
Thanks for a very good review again! I happen to have both types of led-torches, all work fine but i am afraid the higher power of the new led is a bit too much for long life. Anyway its a very good quality for that low price. I also bought a much more expensive one for around 7 Euros, which claimed to have 5 W. It turned out that there was no contact from the led-heatsink to the metal casing - the thread in the heatsink didnt fit into this of the case - it was just sitting loosely inside! The led's heat burnt itself off the pcb and the little plastic lens melted away! Now and than you can find such shitty construction from the chinese manufacturers - even with more exensive lamps! The skywolf imitation is really one of the best for the price-class!
Amazing channel.
I see Veritáska is still doing your scematics for you .............. she is very good at them.
I use a cheap power bank to get a battery for my torch and put it back in the power bank for re charging.
that clock sound, warm feeling :D
What are the actual lumen values of the modes? Even appropriate numbers, by comparison with branded flashlights, will be helpfull.
Very cute 🐈
Around 300 lumens on high
Does the chip also protect against cell over discharge?
The chip doesn't. The LED voltage drop does. At 2.5V the LED doesn't draw any current at all.
Those flashlights are really weak. It's better to buy Convoy S2+ once with XML2-U2 chip.
Lol for 5x the price? :)
I have convoy s2+, and two of these. These comes quite handy as a drawer flashlight you could have at any station, and they are quite powerful! I use them at lower setting. The only bad thing I could say about this flashlights is the color of the LED, they are quite bluish, one more blue then the other. But that depends on the batch I guess, the one on the video appears white.
I've ordered from AliExpress www.aliexpress.com/item/MUQGEW-Flashlight-Torch-Powerful-2017-Newest-Bright-Illumination-Portable-Focus-3000-Lumens-3-Modes-CREE-XML/32830343436.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.2bf64c4dsjCw8H
Thomast Tham Indian XD He's Chech dear expert.
@@semiRockethr 5x the price....where the fuck are you buying them from...
Good video very informative thanks 👍🔦
I really like your videos👍
very nice CatCAD schematic!
I never knew flashlights could get so complicated.
is it waterproof???
Lovely Cat-a-matic drawing !! And Danyk, that battery is NOT 9900 mA... Hee hee hee... If you hadn't mentioned in the video, I would not even have noticed it !!! So I had to make fun of it !!
Where did you get it for 2$? I cannot find it
my C1 is broken, does it still work?
8:25 I once tested one of those 9900mAh cells and it came out at 650mAh. I know they are fake as well :p
He actually measured only 542 mAh.
For his battery testing results, see danyk.cz/test18650_en.html
yeah, the biggest *real* capacity cells you can buy are 3500mah or even 4000mah. but they're expensive :)
Mohl bych mit dotaz trochu mimo? Je ta plastova cocka pouzitelna jako silna lupa? Hledam neco na lusteni napisu na SMD soucastkach a za tu cenu bych mel k lupe i nahradni vypinac a ledku ;) Dik
Thanks for posting. I think you need to pluralize the title of your channel to keep it consistent with the pronunciation you are using. Nice review and teardown. Thanks for posting.
Customise it with different colour cree led chip
Where to find cheap good replacement LED?
Your channel is my favorite :D. You are the best and your cat is the cutest cat I've Ever seen in my life :DD. Keep going :;).
ADP-40TH A NETBOOK ADAPTER schematic (40W) ??? problem diode
Hello, nice video. how big is the diameter of the mcpcb 16mm or 20mm?, i want to buy this flashlight and change that xp-e lattice for a better led with more lumen/watt, since we those 4w we can get up to 600lm with a better led
Please tear down & explain how quick charge3 charger (output 5v3a,9v2a,12v1a)working.Thank you.
Guess over discharging the 18650 in this torch is down to common sense?
It will never discharge it below 2.5V because at this voltage the LED draws no current. Below 3V the current is already very low.
Can you check the Sonoff wifi switches out?
Cree XP-E diodes i think, or copies of them. I know its not a copy made by LatticeBright becourse yours has round small dots and LatticeBright uses square dots. I dont know of any other LED chip copy factory. I bet both is copies, but if i should pick the real one if any of them is real then my pick is the new one, it seems to be the most right size die.
Beautiful cat🐈
I'm just here for the cat! How many 18650's does it run on? 🐱
Please make a teardown video of Yage Yg torse light
Do you have any contact details? I recently moved to a new place and before I left the old one, I had a high quality 600W PC PSU that broke after 10 (!!!) years of abuse and I thought I d sent it to you. It would have made a very interesting video (I had also bought replacement FETs and caps after I checked it somewhat myself) but I had no way of contacting you so I threw it away as I couldt take it with me... Maybe the next broken (or redundant) hardware could be mailed to you?
got 2 of these, on 1, 2 of 3 modes broke down and only the brightest work (so I was very lucky, since they are annoying). On the other one, all 3 modes are working, buts its not as bright.
Wow, how old is that soldering iron? Do you have a video on it? I’d love to know what’s in that case! I’d always thought soldering irons were always just simple heating elements in their most basic forms.
What kind of Kittie is it ?
Good video. Cute kitty!
now it's more fun
I love your cat 😚 and you of course ☺️😊
Hmmm.....
He was asking about his sandwich. I almost answered for you...
Here is your cat again...😁
white shoes back in stage! 😂😂😂❤️
i have that same flashlight
👍👍👍👍
A VERY SMART CAT!
I need to have that clock and cat...
Vaav
🐈 🐈 🐈 Cat
I ❤️ Love 🐈 🐈 cat's
Again 1 like for the cat . Still, if she would not be that lazy , she would change the wires to your measure leads to thicker ones so that you can use them to accurate ohm and amps measures. Also she could change the LED to a 5 watt one which gives double the lux, but she is too lazy...
I wish they would stop putting the SOS function in flashlights. It is so hard to find a good work light that just has one function.
Just short out the ic inside :-)
I thought that you say fleshlight..
,😂😂
The ticking clock in the background annoys me a bit.
There are two types of people:
One who are annoyed by it
One who enjoys it
That is true.
I have a cuckoo clock that needs winding 3ce a day. The hands aren't even visible from low down where I sit. But I still keep winding it for the sound !
I really like ticking clocks
I like ticking clocks, too.
Just don't try the high CRI ones, if you do you'll become a tint snob and no other cold white/angry blue LED will ever be good enough!😀
Good 👍
LED Fleshlight
keep going u are awsome
I like...
I love your Cat !
this is good flashlight but my experience with this brand and other cheap flashlight are switch lost conductivity over time (most of them has bad quality switch)
I want to purchase 100 pic
i love cat fist
Love your cat :)
how do brown guys always get the best deals.
Great video! Love the cat! Now if you could only figure out why Czech women are so good looking...
I want your cat
NOOOO, I won't give my cat :).
@@DiodeGoneWild ok
@@DiodeGoneWild in the future you cat will eat a batery
@@DiodeGoneWild haaaa😼😼😼😼😼😼😼 please 🙏 give me black 🐈 cat 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈
7:40 if you dont like, then make itself like this ua-cam.com/video/eHziUUx4hbY/v-deo.html ( with ATtiny10 microcontroller (6pin, 2*3mm, ~0.3$/pcs) )
Those 9900mah batteries are fake !
Of course they are genuine (says the chinese seller) :).
I think the old one is better
I wonder why you very like a "BLOB OF SOLDER"?
Indian albino? Anyone?
What cat hey
Yu
WE LOVE YOU DUDE PLEASE GIVE ME HEART :D