[Review] Wurkkos HD05: 4 lights in one: white throw, flood, UV and red light! SFT70 LED and Boost driver!

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This is the HD05 review, a nice flashlight for EDC for people that like a lot of lighting modes on an EDC flashlight! It has a white throw LED (SFT70 6500K), a white flood lamp with adjustable CCT, a Deep Red light for preserving night vision and avoiding insects at night, and a 365nm UV light. It also features a boost driver, mangnet on the tail cap, USB-C charging port and a magnetic rotary selector for cycling between modes!

• Pros:

– 4 types of lighting (White throw, white flood, deep red and UV)!

– Efficient Boost driver

– No green tint

– Adjustable CCT on the "wing" light

– Magnetic rotary switch allows fast cycling on lighting modes (though it has a delay)

– Battery indicator

• Cons:

– Strobe modes makes a loud “clicking” noise

– You can't fold the "wing" light with the light point out of the flashlight and lock it on the body, the light will turn OFF close to the locking position.

– Magnetic light selector is not as smooth as other flashlights, TS27 is way smoother

– "Wing" light part will scratch the main body where the "wing" lock is.

– A little hard to disassemble

– IPX6 water resistance is kind of bad (IMO)

• My opinion:

I am very surprised with this flashlight, I didn't think it would be this good. Of course it has some flaws, but the light is still pretty decent. The SFT70 6500K produces a nice throwy beam with no green tint at all, the driver is a boost efficient driver, 4 different light modes to choose, it's a nice all-around flashlight, especially for EDC, if you like to have all these lighting modes and doesn't care for it being a little big and heavy. The Red and UV light are not perfect as the Red beam is kind of ugly if you are near enough and the UV has no ZWB filter, so you have a lot of visible light coming of, not just almost pure UV. Also the blinky modes make an awful loud clicking sound. The "wing" flood white light also doesn't seem fragile, but I think on the long run it will be the first thing to break, especially as you will be almost always with your fingers touching it when holding the flashlight.

• Box contents [10^th picture]

– HD05

– 21700 battery

– USB-C to C charging cable

– Lanyard

– Instructions manual

– Extra o-rings

• Price

The price of this flashlight is currently $68.49 on Wurkkos official AliExpress store and $62.99 on Wurkkos official website (non-affiliate links)

AliExpress coupon: ($4): EO5RS3

• Body and build quality

Colors/Material Options: It’s only available in aluminum, and the only available color is this "gun-metal" grey.

Material: It’s made of 6061 hard anodized aluminum, like most Wurkkos flashlights. The bezel and button outer ring are made of Stainless-steel with a bead blasted finish.

The part that locks the side “wing” light will get scratched by opening and closing with time (mine already has a thin scratch line without the anodizing)

Threads: The threads are squared and anodized. Only the tail cap is unscrewable.

Clip: The clip is fixed by screws on the side of flashlight body, it’s made of black coated Stainless-steel. The clip can be removed by removing 3 Phillips screws on the clip.

AUX lights: This flashlight has a lot of lights, but the only AUX light on it is the battery indicator on the middle of the main button.

Buttons: It has one main electronic switch and a magnectic rotary switch for selecting between UV. White throw (SFT70) and red light. The flood side light is turned on by lifting it, even when the flashlight is off.

Bezel: The bezel is very small and made of black coated Stainless-steel.

Water Resistance: This flashlight has IPX6 water resistance rating. The battery tube and LED/Driver part seem to be well sealed, the USB-C charging port is covered by a tiny rubber cover, but I think what makes this light more susceptible to water damage is the side “wing” flood light, the mechanisms to make it fold and rotate reduce the water resistance.

Here is a size comparison with 2 other flashlights, the Wurkkos TS28 at the left and Convoy S2+ on the right. [11^th and 12^th Pictures]

• Weight and size

Weight: 168.2g (without battery – measured on scale by me)

236.5g (with battery – measured on scale by me) (It's heavy!)

Size: 129.1mm (length) x 36.7mm x 30mm

• Battery, runtime, and charging

Battery: This flashlight is powered by one 21700 Li-ion cell, a Wurkkos 5000mAh 21700 cell is included. [13^th picture]

Battery Indicator: There Is a battery indicator on the center of the main button. It lights up to indicate charging as it follows:

Charging: It features USB-C charging on the body, the charging port is on the back side of where the button is. It comes with a USB-C to C charging cable.

When charging (Button battery indicator):

• Modes, Runtimes, Throw, Candela:

Modes:

1) White Throw Light: This flashlight does not separate brightness levels by “steps” it uses a stepless ramping to control brightness. The only predefined brightness level are the “minimum” of 7 lumens, which is essentially “eco” mode, and “maximum” of 3100 lumens, which is essentially “turbo”.

Claimed specs:

2) White Flood Light: There are also no steps on this light option, you need to hold the button to access the ramping brightness. You can mix the cool and warm light as you prefer, or use the “pure” cool or warm white. You can't make the "wing" light stay ON while closing the "wing" with the light pointing out, this will make the "wing" light turn OFF, as it works by "feeling" a magnetic field of a magnet where the locking pin hole is. I tested getting the tail of another flashlight I have close to the "wing" while it was completely out of the HD05 body and the "wing" turned OFF while the magnetic tail was close to it. [14^th and 15^th pictures]

Claimed specs:

(Cool white)

(Warm white)

3) Red light: There is also no steps on red light mode, same as others.

Claimed specs:

(Red light)

4) UV light: On UV light mode, there are 2 brightness levels (“steps”), low and high, low mode consumes 700mW and high mode 1600mW. [16^th picture]

Claimed specs:

(UV)

Throw: The combo of SFT70 and the tiny reflector makes this LED kind of throwy, it is advertised as having 28100cd, which is on the throwy side for EDC flashlights.

• Emitter, reflector and CRI:

Emitter:

1) White throw – This flashlight uses the SFT70 LED in 6500K, I didn’t notice any green tint, it has more of a light blue tint, way better than green or yellow IMO. I think the SFT70 5000K or even 3000K would be better on an EDC flashlight, but as this flashlight already has the floodlight with high CRI and warm/cool CCTs I think it´s good to have a more efficient throwy option. [17^th Picture]

2) White flood – I am almost sure it uses the same LEDs as the Wurkkos TS27 for the flood white light, as it has similar specs, the CSP1313 in 6500K and 2700K. The LEDs are distributed at rows of 6500K and 2700K LEDs, high 90 CRI and you can mix the LEDs and obtain intermediary CCTs by double clicking and holding the main button. The rows of LEDs are visible when the brightness is dim enough. [18^th picture]

3) Red light – The LED is not specified but it surprised me at how powerful it is for such a tiny LED, it is probably the same LED used on the Sofirn ST10, the beam shape is not the best, there are some rings on it, but the deep red is a very good. [18^th picture]

4) UV light – Again, the LED is not specificed, shame, but the UV light is 365nm and is "real UV", it just has some blue and violet color because it has no ZWB filter.

Lens: The main SFT70 LED lens is a glass lens AR-coated (anti-reflexive) held in place by a Stainless-steel bezel. The Red and UV LEDs lens is made of glass too, at first I was certain it was plastic, but after testing it I was suprised it was glass, as using plastic would be cheaper, but the lens would get scratched way more easily. The Flood white LEDs don't have a lens, only a white plastic diffuser.

Reflector/TIR: The reflector for the main SFT70 LED is an OP (Orange Peel) reflector, while the UV and Red LEDs use tiny smooth reflectors, they're probably made of plastic.

CRI: The flood white light has high CRI LEDs!

• Beamshots Camera settings:

– 24mm lens 2" F4 ISO200

[19th picture]: White throw light (SFT70) – Around 100m to the trees at the back

[20th picture]: Deep red light – Around 60 to 70 meters

I always try to match what my eyes can see on the beamshots, so camera settings may vary.

• Driver and UI

Driver: This flashlight uses a boost driver for the SFT70 6500K LED, I imagine the other LEDs use the same driver, as having more drivers would increase the flashlight price.

UI: The flashlight has a lot of lighting modes, but the UI is not overcomplicated. The main button is an e-switch, and it turns the flashlight ON/OFF, the magnetic rotary selector changes between, starting from the left, UV, white throw and red light. Holding the main button will decrease or increase the brightness. The side "wing" flood light will turn on if you pull it from it's neutral position, it will turn on automatically unless the flashlight is locked, you can click the main button while the "wing" flood light is ON to turn it OFF.

Low Voltage Warning: Yes

Reverse Polarity Protection: Yes

Thermal Regulation: The flashlight thermal regulation doesn't seem to have major problems, it will get pretty hot fast, especially with the SFT70 LED on turbo, but for other LEDs it takes a while for it to get hot, yes it gets hot on UV, Red light and flood "wing" light too.

As the main body is made of a single piece of aluminum the heat conduction is very good and the flashlight tail will soak the heat from the head fast, usually flashlights that have unscrewable battery tube don't have this good heat conduction.

Lockout: This flashlight has a lockout mode, you must click the main button 4 times to access it. On lockout you can access momentary "low" brightness level by holding the main button. To unlock simply press the main button 4 times while it's locked.

Turbo:

1) White throw (SFT70): This flashlight is advertised to have 3100 lumens on the "turbo" mode, it is very powerful even if it does not reach the advertised lumens. To access turbo you can hold the main button while the flashlight is ON and wait for it to reach maximum brightness or double click at any time to go straight to it.

2) White flood "wing": Advertised to reach maximum of 300 lumens on cool white and 240 on warm white, it doesn't last long though, as the tiny aluminum volume at the "wing" gets hot fast.

3) Red light: Advertised to reach 90 lumens max, holds up for around 4 minutes.

Moonlight:

1) White throw (SFT70): OK, so, this flashlight does not have a "moonlight" mode. 7 lumens is not "moonlight".

2) White flood "wing": Here it gets as low as 4 lumens depending on which CCT you have configured, but again, no moonlight.

3) Red light: Minimum of 8 lumens, but it actually looks brighter, so no moonlight, but at least red light does not affect your night vision as much as white light.

Blinkies: It features 3 blinkie modes: strobe, SOS and beacon. All modes make an awful loud clicking sound that any other flashlight I own makes, it is extremely loud and you can hear it if the flashlight is around 2m distance from you. Usually the flaslight makes this sound because the electronics are changing their state being with a lot of amps to being OFF, this makes some electronics such as inductors vibrate and make this noise, but on this flashlight it is extremely loud, most flashlights I own you have to put the flashlight near your ear to hear it.

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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