wurkkos FC11 Pocket LED Flashlight High 90CRI Ultra Bright Max 1300Lumen EDC Flashlight USB C Charge,IP67 Waterproof Flashlight,Magnetic Tailcap, Great for Indoor/Outdoor Activities(FC11-Black-5000K)

FC-11 of the best beginner enthusiast flashlights out there. The LHD351 emitter is very color accurate in all versions and has a floody beam. The turbo mode doesn't last long and heats up, as expected. Battery life and UI are excellent. Unfortunately even when discounted, it is still a bit overpriced in India (probably due to import taxes).

Short Version: Can do everything well, short of lighting up the entirety of a large backyard or field. Great build quality and battery life. This is a great core flashlight to have even if you go with cheaper options for your other uses. The fact that you get a light that'll last for years, a good battery, and built-in charging makes this an amazing deal.Full review: r/Flashlight brought me here and I'm glad it did. I don't use flashlights in as many different ways as other people, but I do use it several nights a week for evening walks. Some parts of my walk are less lit by streetlights and one part has no lighting whatsoever, to the point where if there's no moonlight you can't really see the ground. I was previously using a GearLight S1000 and thought it was ok, but I needed something better. I honestly never thought a $30 flashlight would be worth it and thought the people recommending it were just being overly fanatic about it, but I honestly love this light. I've had poor vision my whole life and this is great relief to my eyes when I have to use it.It has great throw in the middle and good spill around it to make for a decent area of effect. My GearLight gave me about 40-50 yards of visibility in the pitch black part of my walk on the highest setting. This lets me clearly identify a bench 100+ yards away in the pitch black. If there's any light around at all, you don't need anything above the middle settings. The light is also warm and not as harsh, so it illuminates well without washing it out.Recharging is easy and the battery life seems great. I've used it about 3 hours total on middle settings and I haven't experienced a drop in performance. I haven't charged it other than the initial charge when I got it, but it's my first flashlight with built-in charger and I love it. The UI is simple to use. I wanted something that had a shortcut for a strobe, which this has. It comes with a very sturdy clip that has great retention for what it is. The magnetic tail cap is strong enough for you to not worry about the flashlight falling off whatever it's attached to without effort.My only real gripe won't matter to most people. The highest setting can only be maintained for 90 seconds and then it'll turn itself down to prevent overheating. It's obviously understandable and I believe the light is operating at the best you could hope for in this size. Because of that, I'll probably end up getting a good thrower flashlight later on, but this light inspired me to go for quality with that too.Overall, this is an amazing light and definitely worth the money. That's coming from someone who previously thought a $30 flashlight would be a scam. If you only use flashlights inside in dimly lit areas, you may not necessarily see the benefits of this light. But if you ever need to use it outside or in very dark areas, then you need this light and won't be disappointed.

I heard about the new FC11, and was intrigued, and after hearing people going on about it, ordered one for myself. :DI've always liked Wurkkos and Sofirn lights (which share quite a bit of genetic material), so it's no surprise I like the FC11 as well. It's both different and similar, which seems contradictory, but it's not. The head is almost identical to the SC31B, yet the body-tube is unique, not smooth nor knurled, but ribbed, which is a new feature. The tailcap is magnetic as well, letting it stick to metal surfaces. (Beware of carrying any light with a magnetic anything, as it can come dangerously close to credit cards and such, and erase them.) So this can be a perfect around-the-house light, or tool-bag light as well.In the typische orange-and-white Wurkkos box is the light, printed manual sheet, baggie with lanyard and extra O-rings, and USB-C charging cable.First impression is that quality is excellent. Perfect anodisation, no nicks or spots, a nice smooth semi-gloss black ano. Except for a blue ring around the side-switch that provides a nice splash of color, everything on the light is black, including the pocket clip. While it's not a deep-carry clip, it's not the usual chrome clip that looks like an afterthought on so many lights.The light itself has a nice bit of heft to it. Everything feels quite solid, nothing cheap or chintzy anywhere. One especially nice touch is that the light uses a LH351D LED, which is a fan-favorite among light enthusiasts for its great tint, color, and rendition. No surprises here, as it throws a great beam, especially in the orange-peel reflector. No rings, very little tint-shift, just a bit of a corona around the hotspot.The user-interface (UI) is quite good. There are two main modes of operation, stepped and ramping.Stepped, which is set by default, is simple to use. Click on, click to cycle through 5 modes from "eco" (moonlight) to low, medium, high, and turbo. Click and hold to turn off. I know, I know, a lot of people want just click-on and click-off, but I've always been used to a long-click to turn off, so it feels quite natural to me, and I don't mind at all.Ramping works as expected as well. Click on, click/hold to ramp up, another click/hold to ramp down, click off. That should make the click-off crowd happy. :DFrom off in either mode, click-and-hold for at least 3 seconds to switch between ramping and stepped. The light will blink quickly a few times, then stay on in the new mode.From on or off, again in either mode, a double-click instantly gets you to turbo, nominally 1300 lumens. One more click gets you to the previous mode (lit or off).Nb: this a FET-based driver, so is *not* regulated, but proportional. Brightness will depend on the cell's voltage, and the quality of the cell. So yes, as the battery depletes and the voltage decreases, brightness will gradually decrease as well. The included cell is quite good, so you'll get good brightness out of the light.Speaking of decreasing brightness, turbo is indeed turbo, meant for short bursts of bright light, and will start ramping down after a minute or so to something more sustainable. You can re-double-click to get back into turbo, but then it's on you to watch the light's temperature. The timed step-down is rather conservative, maybe too much so, to keep The Muggle from burning himself. :DThe switch is backlit to reflect the cell's voltage. Green good, red bad (recharge). Done.Recharging is done via a covered USB-C port. Blinking red means charging, green means it's done.I'd still want a deep-carry clip to be able to pocket-carry the light and not have half of it sticking out, but I typically immediately remove clips anyway, so that's not an issue to me, but it would keep me from carrying it daily. It still makes a good bag-light regardless.All in all, everything works as expected. Quality is also the expected level from Wurkkos and Sofirn, no glitches or hangups along the way. I'm digging the new ribbed design, too. :D

I ordered two of these last week after seeing reviews on r/flashlight.It's hard to find good flashlights that have quality light. This flashlight has a CRI of over 90 (CRI = color rendering index) and that's one of the most important things about this light.I compared the output of this light to my Fenix FD40.The FD40 has a neutral white emitter, and I can clearly see how the colors from this flashlight are much more vivid.When I point it at someone's legs, they look like a pale vampire with the Fenix, but "alive" with this flashlight.When I point it at something colorful, the reds and especially deep reds actually look red instead of like some sort of pale, faded magenta.Next to the FC11, the neutral-white Fenix appears like it might be around 70 CRI.And the UI allows you to choose any brightness, not just a preset low, medium, and high. There's also an option to switch to presets, but I like the ramping up and down feature much better.Also, the light is much smaller than I expected.This flashlight makes me happy.I wanted to order 3 more as gifts, but they only had 2 more coming into stock, so I ordered both. Sorry everyone. Hopefully they'll have more in stock soon.------------------------------------Wurkkos, if you're listening, the two flashlights I want most right now, but that don't exist yet, are:1.The same as the FC11 (high CRI) but with a 21700 battery, allowing a bit more output but more importantly, much more runtime. I love the compactness, but would appreciate a *little* more in the way of a heat sink to allow longer runtimes at higher output. This light is 1300 lumens, so maybe just 1600 for the max.I know you have one with a 21700 battery, but it's not high-CRI and is a bit different otherwise, too.2.A high CRI flashlight that uses TWO 21700 batteries, perhaps stacked above and below each other rather than in-line, so they can be connected in parallel. If it's done right and has, say, the ability to separately switch(/disconnect from the circuit) each battery for charging, then it should be able to charge both batteries as well. (Perhaps this can be done either with a dual "pole" mosfet or a clicky switch at the rear? ..but if it's cheaper, a dual-pole clicky switch in the tail could serve as both a lockout to the soft-press button, and as a hard power-off for charging. This is based on my understanding that the proper way to charge two batteries is separately or vs parallel or in series.)My desire for a two-21700 battery flashlight is more for runtime than power output, but it would make a huge difference in power delivery for higher outputs. I would never buy a flashlight like this if it was not high-CRI. Period. That's why I got the FC11 in the first place. If a dual 21700 was even higher than 90 CRI that would be even better. A 94 to 98 CRI light would be best.I don't know how much the cost would go up for this, but any flashlight with as much power as two-21700 batteries would be even more versatile if it could serve as a battery bank, too.

Let's start off with the pros and cons|PROS|•The sizeIt's good. Not what I'd call 'mini', but definitely small enough to call it pocketable. It's also big enough to comfortably carry in the hand.•Magnetic end-capNow, a few people see this as a negative, I view it as a positive. The end cap is *really* useful for my day to day usage. Of course, everyone's usage will differ, but either way, the tailcap is strong, but not overly strong. Think strong enough not to be knocked over if accidentally nudged, but weak enough that you can easily take it off of whatever metal source you have it on.•Variable lightThis is probably my favorite feature. If you decide to set it, you can set that flashlight so that, when you turn it on, you can hold the button to gradually scale from high to low. I'll be a little nitpicky here though, and say that I wish it was a little slower (because when you hold the button to increase/decrease the light, it takes a second, then takes off in whatever "direction" you're going, whether that's up or down)•General outputPut basically, it's small, inexpensive, and for the price/size you're getting, it's REALLY bright.|CONS|Now, granted, the cons are more than likely issues with my unit itself, but regardless, I'd hope that anyone buying doesn't end up having the same issues that I have, hence why I decided to make this review.•BatteryI'm not talking about battery *life* persay, I'm talking about charging the battery and the battery..."fit".A) Charging the batteryFor some odd reason, whenever I go to charge the flashlight, I'll plug it in, and the LED indicator will show 'green' (meaning it's "charged), when it obviously isn't. No matter how many times I do, it'll still show green. For some reason, my way around it is by shooting it on turbo for literally a fraction of a second, and THEN when I plug it in it'll charge.B) The battery fitThis is my main gripe with the device. And note, this isn't an "every now and then" occurance, this happens quite often (~50% of the time operated). Sometimes, the light will start flickering outta nowhere if I use it while moving/ if I have it turned on and pick it up. I haven't found a way around not having it flicker. And other times, it'll just outright shut off, which then I unscrew the bottom and take the battery out, put it back in, screw it back on tight, then operate it with no issues for like 60 seconds, then we're right back to square one. I think that it could have something to do with the magnet pulling on the battery someway or somehow, but I really couldn't put my finger on the main issue.|CONCLUDING THOUGHTS|If I bought it and didn't have the above mentioned issues, I'd have rated it a 4-4.5/5. But the issues that I have with the device aren't some small cosmetic issue, or a tiny scratch or anything like that. These are downright device malfunctions to a greater extent. If you buy it and don't have these issues? Great. I'm glad your unit is working as intended. If you get it and DO have these issues? I'm sorry for your loss, and if you decide to refund it, I hope you good luck in doing so.