Wuben Flashlights

Wuben started as a contract manufacturer and launched its own brand in 2016, and its lights still show a factory's appetite for unusual formats. The company describes its design idea as the Easy Carry Light, and its X series, launched in 2022, is where that shows: lights shaped like bricks, pucks and slabs rather than tubes. The X3 Owl came out of a Kickstarter campaign in 2023. Several of these models carry the Lightok name on Wuben's store.

The G5 at $19.99 is the keychain light and Wuben's best seller, run by a side rotary dial instead of a button. The X3 Owl is a clip light whose head swivels through 180 degrees, the X4 a multi-function pocket light with a removable 18650 and a side panel, and the X5 a flat light with white, UV and a green laser. The X0 is a magnetic pocket puck with a paddle switch. The L1 is the one conventional tube, a 21700 pocket thrower. At the top, the X1 Falcon and X1 Pro are pocketable floodlights on two 21700s with a cooling fan inside.

Register the light. Wuben's own policy gives a 15-day replacement and a 1-year warranty on flashlights and rechargeable batteries, and extends free repair to five years only for buyers who register the product on Wuben's website, with the owner paying shipping. After five years registered owners can still get paid repairs.

With the two X1 lights, the fan is what owners talk about. X1 Falcon owners credit it with letting the light hold output a passively cooled body of that size could not, rate the ergonomics and interface well for something so large, and note there is no PWM on any level. Their complaints are that the 21700 cells are hard to get at, the closed body means opening it probably voids the warranty, and the strobe is extremely disorienting. X1 Pro owners cite independent measurement of 10,320 lumens and 25,600 candela, below Wuben's claims, along with an IP65 rating that handles rain but not immersion and no high-CRI option.