Wuben X1 Pro#

• Specifications
• Introduction
• Torch in use
• Build quality
• LED, bezel, lens and reflector
• Size and comparison
• User interface
• Batteries and charging
• Performance
• Thermal Images
• Beamshots
• Conclusion
• Price
• Product page

Specifications#

Brand/model	Wuben X1 Pro
LED	6500K 70 CRI 1* CREE XHP50.3 HI, 4* CREE XHP50.3 HD
Maximum lumens	12,300 lm
Maximum beam intensity	42,025 cd
Maximum throw	410 m
Battery	2*21700
Onboard charging	Yes (USB-C)
Powerbank	Yes (USB-C 5V/3A)
Material	Aluminium
Modes	5
Blinkies	Strobe, SOS
Reflector	Smooth
Waterproof	IP65
Review date	April 2026

Introduction#

The Wuben X1 Pro is a fan-cooled torch powered by two 21700 cells. It has a Floodlight and a Spotlight. The battery compartment has a quick release lock. The USB-C port can be used as a power bank.

Is this better than the Wuben X1?

Wuben kindly provided this torch for review. I have not been paid for this review nor have I held back my opinions of this torch.

Packaging#

The Wuben X1 Pro comes in an off-white and blue Wuben-branded box with an image of the torch on the front and specifications on the back.

The following was included in the box:

• Wuben X1 Pro.
• 2* Wuben ABD4800 21700 3.6V Li-ion 4800mAh cells.
• USB-C to USB-C cable (lanyard).
• Holster.
• Spare screws for the fan.
• User manual.

1/4 inch thread extender (optional):

The 1/4 inch thread is great for mounting the torch to a tripod!

There is also an optional AT2XP bike mount.

User manual#

Torch in use#

The Wuben X1 Pro feels comfortable in my hand.

I really like the user inteface! The switch to select Spotlight, Both or Floodlight is fun to use.

It reminds me of the Acebeam M2.

The USB-C port can be used for charging the torch or as a power bank.

The holster is much smaller compared to the one included with the Wuben X1.

That said, the belt clip can be rotated!

There is a massive lanyard hole near the hinge.

Build quality#

This Wuben X1 Pro is made of alumimium and it has a matte black anodised finish. There is also a white version.

The torch can be actively cooled with a fan while sucking in air from the heatsink near the button and then by pushing air out near the heatsink on the other side.

The fan automatically turns on when the torch gets hot but it can be turned on manually too.

The fan can be removed by unscrewing four TX 5 screws.

The fan is a LEJOWE LD2006S05H DC Brushless Fan DC 5V 0.15A.

The springs and pads look like they form a solid connection.

There is physical reverse polarity protection but the driver does not have reverse polarity protection. I accidentally damaged the balancing circuit of the driver by putting 8.4V through the wrong way between the small notch on the tube and one of the terminals near the head.

That little notch is used to balance the cells. When it does not balance, one cell might start to discharge while the other charges. Luckily, the individual cells have low voltage protection and over voltage protection built-in.

The charging port cover feels like it might snap off.

The quick release lock is easy to use.

Drop test#

I performed a drop test and the torch surived!

I dropped the torch onto concrete from a height of one metre multiple times.

The silver sliding switch in the locking mechanism moved to the unlocked position each time the torch hit the ground. This could be a design flaw. That said, the battery compartment did not spring open.

LED, bezel, lens and reflector#

The Wuben X1 Pro has a domeless CREE XHP50.3 HI 6500K 70 CRI LED for the Spotlight and four domed CREE XHP50.3 HD LEDs for the Floodlight.

The glass lens appears to have an anti-reflective coating.

The Spotlight and the Floodlight both have mostly smooth reflectors. The reflector for the Spotlight has a wave pattern near the LED. And the reflector for the Floodlight has about five “waves” near the outer edge of the reflector.

CCT, CRI, and duv#

I have taken Correlated Colour Temperature (CCT) and Colour Rendering Index (CRI, RA of R1-R8) measurements with the torch positioned 1.42 metres away from an Opple Light Master Pro III (G3).

The CCT is around 6185K, the CRI is around 68 and the Delta u, v is slightly positive (green) for the Spotlight.

The beam produced by the Spotlight has an intense white hotspot surrounded by a green corona and a medium sized spill. The spill is not aa perfect circle. The bezel blocks the top and the bottom of the spill.

The CCT is around 5680K, the CRI is around 67 and the Delta u, v is positive (green) for the Floodlight.

The beam produced by the Floodlight looks like a plus symbol with an intense white hotspot in the middle. The plus symbol can be observed on a white wall when holding the torch up it in on the lowest mode. The beam looks floody on higher modes when using the torch normally.

The CCT is around 7600K, the CRI is around 57 and the Delta u, v is positive (green) when both the Spotlight and the Floodlight are on Turbo at the same time.

The hotspots for the Spotlight and the Floodlight line up nicely when both are turned on.

Spotlight#

Mode	CCT (K)	CRI (Ra)	x	y	Duv
Eco	5836	66.8	0.3245	0.3507	0.0084
Low	5956	67.7	0.3221	0.3458	0.0071
Medium	6067	68.2	0.3200	0.3418	0.0061
High	6306	69.1	0.3158	0.3342	0.0043
Turbo	6760	70.8	0.3092	0.3225	0.0016

Floodlight#

Mode	CCT (K)	CRI (Ra)	x	y	Duv
Eco	5671	67.8	0.3282	0.3606	0.0115
Low	5574	66.3	0.3306	0.3596	0.0100
Medium	5606	66.6	0.3298	0.3583	0.0097
High	5673	67.0	0.3282	0.3553	0.0090
Turbo	5880	68.6	0.3238	0.3459	0.0064

Both#

Mode	CCT (K)	CRI (Ra)	x	y	Duv
Eco	5813	67.2	0.3251	0.3507	0.0081
Low	5939	67.8	0.3224	0.3463	0.0072
Medium	6025	68.2	0.3208	0.3431	0.0064
High	6193	68.9	0.3177	0.3374	0.0050
Turbo	7601	57.7	0.2921	0.3353	0.0170

Calculate Duv from CIE 1931 xy coordinates

Dimensions and size comparison#

Dimensions#

I took the following measurements using a digital caliper.

Measurement	Unit (mm)
Length	138.3
Width	57.65
Height	29.6

Weight#

I took the following measurements using a digital scale.

Weight	Unit (g)
Wuben X1 Pro	231.63
Batteries	140.50
Wuben X1 Pro	372.13

Size comparison with its competition#

From left to right: Wuben X1 Pro, Wuben X1

User interface#

The Wuben X1 Pro can be controlled with a button and a slider.

The slider can be moved to select:

• Spotlight
• Both (Spotlight and Floodlight)
• Floodlight

There are four modes in the main group: Eco, Low, Medium and High.

There is a shortcut to Eco, Turbo and Strobe.

There are two blinky modes: Strobe and SOS.

State	Action	Result
Any	Press and hold	Eco
Off	One click	On (mode memory)
On	Press and hold	Cycle (Eco, Low, Medium, High)
On	One click	Off
Any	Two clicks	Turbo
Any	Three clicks	Cycle (Strobe, SOS)
Off	Four clicks	Lockout
Lockout	Four clicks	Unlock
Any	Five clicks	Toggle fan on/off

Lockout#

The light will flash three times when the torch is locked.

The status indicator will flash three times when a button is pressed while the torch is locked.

Mode memory#

There is mode memory. Eco, Low, Medium and High are memorised.

Turbo will revert to High.

Strobe or SOS will revert to the last used mode from the main group (Eco, Low, Medium or High).

The mode will remain the same when moving the slider between Spotlight, Both and Floodlight.

Strobe#

Strobe has an alternating frequency.

Floodlight (Strobe, SOS)

Spotlight (Strobe, SOS)

Both (Strobe, SOS)

I measured Strobe and SOS with a Zoyi ZT-703S oscilloscope using High Speed mode.

Battery status indicator#

The battery status indicator in the button will appear for five seconds when the torch is turned on.

Colour	Battery status
Blue	90% - 100%
Blue flash	40% - 90%
Red	15% - 40%
Red flash	0% - 15%

Low voltage protection#

There is low voltage protection. The light turns off around 5.62V.

I tested low voltage protection by connecting the torch to a bench power supply and then by lowering the voltage from 8.4.2V to 0V.

Pulse Width Modulation#

I did not notice any visible PWM (flickering).

I measured the PWM of the light with a Zoyi ZT-703S oscilloscope.

Spotlight (Eco, Low, Medium, High, Turbo)

Floodlight (Eco, Low, Medium, High, Turbo)

Both (Eco, Low, Medium, High, Turbo)

What I like about the UI#

• Simple to use.
• Shortcut to Eco from off.
• Shortcut to Turbo from off.
• Shortcut to Strobe from off.
• The fan can be turned on or off when the torch is on or off.

What could be improved#

• Eco is a bit bright at 10-20 lumens. A 1 lumen mode would be nice.
• It would be nice if the lockout mode did not flash the lights to confirm that the torch has been locked out initially.

Batteries and charging#

Battery#

The Wuben X1 Pro arrived with two button top protected Wuben X1 21700 3.6V Li-ion 4800mAh cells. Each cell was approximately 3.81V upon arrival. The wrap on the cells rates them as 3.6V 4900mAh 17.64Wh each.

The cells were isolated with a piece of plastic to prevent accidentally turning the torch on.

I tried the following cells:

Cell	Top	Compatible?	Comment
2x Wuben ABD4800 21700 3.6V Li-ion 4800mAh	Button	Yes
2x EVE 50PL 21700 3.6V Li-ion 5000mAh	Button	Yes	Disconnects if rattled.
2x Molicel P42A 21700 4200mAh	Flat	No	Too short.

Charging#

The torch has built-in USB-C fast charging.

The torch supports the following inputs:

• 5V/3A, 9V/3A, 12V/2.5A, 15V/2A, 20V/1.5A

Power supply: Apple 140W
USB Meter: ChargerLAB Power-Z KM003C
Room temperature: 16 C

It took 2 hours 5 minutes to charge the torch at a rate of 20V/1.35A. The cells were charged from 3.05V and 3.07V to 4.19V and 4.19V in series.

The status indicator is red while charging and it becomes blue when charging is complete.

Powerbank#

The torch can be used as a powerbank with 15W (5V/3A) output.

I used an ALIENTEK EL15 electronics load to discharge the torch at a rate of 5V/3A. It stopped discharging at 2 hours 3 minutes. The final cell voltages were 3.179V and 3.190V. The ChargerLAB Power-Z KM003C USB Meter measured 30.9 Wh. That is an efficiency of about 87.5%.

Power supply compatibility#

I tried the following power supplies with the USB-A magnetic charging cable:

Power supply	USB Type	Protocol	Does it charge?
Apple 61W Power Adapter	USB-C	PD	Yes
PinePower Desktop	USB-C	PD	Yes
PinePower Desktop	USB-A	QC	Yes
PinePower Desktop	USB-A		Yes

USB-C to USB-C charging works.

This shows which pins are connected in the USB-C cable:

Performance#

Specifications from the manual:

Spotlight#

FL1 Standard	Turbo	High	Medium	Low	Eco
Output (lumens)	3,650 + 2,000 + 1,200	1,200	500	200	10
Runtime	1min + 1min + 3h 42min	4h	11h	28h	455h

Floodlight#

FL1 Standard	Turbo	High	Medium	Low	Eco
Output (lumens)	8,650 + 3,000 + 1,800	1,800	500	200	10
Runtime	1min + 1min + 2h 48min	3h 6min	11h	28h	365h

Both (Spotlight and Floodlight)#

FL1 Standard	Turbo	High	Medium	Low	Eco
Output (lumens)	12,300 + 5,000 + 3,000	3,000	1,000	400	20
Runtime	1min + 1min + 1h 42min	1h 48min	5h 30min	14h	220h
Beam Distance (metres)	410
Beam Intensity (cd)	42,025

Lumen measurements#

I used a bench power supply to measure the current at turn on for most modes. I used a UNI-T UT139C Digital Multimeter to measure the current at turn on for Eco modes.

LED	Mode	Amps at start	Specs	Lumens @turn on	Lumens @30 sec	Lumens @10 min
Spotlight	Eco	16 mA	10	10	10	10
Spotlight	Low	0.13 A	200	175	173	173
Spotlight	Medium	0.36 A	500	428	421	418
Spotlight	High	1.09 A	1,200	1,040	1,019	986
Spotlight	Turbo	4.66 A	3,650 + 2,000 + 1,200	3,244	2,224	978
Floodlight	Eco	19 mA	10	11	11	11
Floodlight	Low	0.13 A	200	175	173	173
Floodlight	Medium	0.34 A	500	409	406	402
Floodlight	High	1.30 A	1,800	1,435	1,416	1,377
Floodlight	Turbo	9.86 A	8,650 + 3,000 + 1,800	7,279	4,288	1,380
Both	Eco	28 mA	20	21	21	21
Both	Low	0.28 A	400	343	350	345
Both	Medium	0.71 A	1,000	845	834	818
Both	High	2.41 A	3,000	2,509	2,464	2,334
Both	Turbo	15.08 A	12,300 + 5,000 + 3,000	9,666	6,486	2,329

Note: Lumen measurements may be off by 10% with my DIY lumen tube.

Runtime graphs#

I used my own DIY lumen tube with a TSL2591 sensor and forked bmengineer’s project RuTiTe to record runtimes.

The room temperature was approximately 16 C.

Both#

Floodlight#

Spotlight#

Runtime#

Here is a summary of the runtime results:

LED	Mode	User manual	Runtime	Turn off	Final voltage
Both	Turbo	1min + 1min + 1h 42min	1h 46min 30s	1h 46min 30s	3.03, 3.05
Both	High	1h 48min	1h 49min 31s	1h 49min 31s	3.05, 3.07
Both	Medium	5h 30min	6h 1min 39s	6h 1min 39s	3.03, 3.05
Both	Low	14h	15h 12min 33s	15h 12min 33s	3.00, 3.02
Both	Eco	220h	10min+	10min+
Spotlight	Turbo	1min + 1min + 3h 42min	3h 47min 18s	3h 47min 18s	2.95, 2.97
Spotlight	High	4h	3h 49min 54s	3h 49min 54s	3.02, 3.05
Spotlight	Medium	11h	11h 48min 51s	11h 48min 51s	3.01, 3.03
Spotlight	Low	28h	30h 54min 1s	30h 54min 1s	2.98, 3.01
Spotlight	Eco	455h	10min+	10min+
Floodlight	Turbo	1min + 1min + 2h 48min	3h 12min 55s	3h 50min 36s	2.97, 3.00
Floodlight	High	3h 6min	3h 29min 41s	3h 53min 51s	2.94, 2.97
Floodlight	Medium	11h	12h 38min 30s	12h 38min 30s	2.87, 2.90
Floodlight	Low	28h	29h 52min 7s	29h 52min 7s	2.97, 3.00
Floodlight	Eco	365h	10min+	10min+

“Runtime” is the time until the output reduces to 10% of the output at 30 seconds (as per the ANSI/PLATO FL1 2019 Standard).

“Turn off” is the time until my DIY lumen tube no longer detects more than 1 lumen.

“+” indicates that the light remained on after recording had stopped.

The runtime is slightly better than expected for most modes. It was slightly shorter than expected for the Spolight in High.

The output is well regulated.

The torch turned off for many of the modes when the output dropped below 10% of the output.

Throw#

I took lux measurements with a UNI-T UT383BT at 30 seconds. Turbo was measured at five metres.

LED	Mode	Specs (cd)	Specs (m)	Candela measured (cd)	Distance (m)
Floodlight	Turbo			10,975	209
Spotlight	Turbo			29,500	343
Both	Turbo	42,025	410	39,350	396

Beamshots#

I went to a local park and aimed the Wuben X1 Pro at a tree 70 metres away while using Turbo.

Beamshots were taken using a Sony RX100M2 using 3.2", f3.2, ISO 100, 5000K WB.

Wuben X1 Pro Both (Turbo)#

Wuben X1 Pro Spotlight (Turbo)#

Wuben X1 Pro Floodlight (Turbo)#

Wuben X1 Falcon (Turbo)#

Nightwatch Chaos NS59v2 9xSFQ60.3 (Turbo)#

Thermal Images#

I used a Thermal Master P3 to take thermal images of the torch while using both the Spotlight and the Floodlight in Turbo mode. Get 10% off the Thermal Master P3 with code Mcmahon10

Room temperature: 16 C

Time (mm:ss)	Max Temperature
00:00	20.2 C
01:00	50.8 C
02:00	49.3 C
03:00	47.0 C
04:00	46.4 C
05:00	46.4 C

Conclusion#

The Wuben X1 Pro has a better user interface and more features compared to the Wuben X1.

The Wuben X1 is good at what it does. It sustains a higher lumen output for longer. It is a floodlight.

The ability to switch between Spotlight, Both or Floodlight makes the Wuben X1 Pro more versatile.

The CRI is relatively low at 70 and the floodlight beam is honestly a bit ugly. There is a green corona around the hotspot and the spill has a cross pattern (it looks like a big flower).

The battery compartment on the X1 Pro has been improved to include a quick release lock for easy access. It has more space. Perhaps too much space. Flat top cells are too short.

I am pretty happy to see the cells being balance-charged despite being configured in series.

The USB-C port has been improved to fast charge the torch or be used as a power bank. It would be even better if the USB-C port had a strong metal cover and if the power bank feature supported more modes (e.g. 5V/3A, 9V/3A, 12V/3A, 20V/1.5A).

The active cooling system has been improved. There are two heatsinks. The fan can be replaced. And the fan can be turned on or off.

Even if you already have the Wuben X1, the Wuben X1 Pro is worth checking out.

If you just want an intense wall of light then I would recommend the Wuben X1.

Pros:#

• Good build quality.
• Good runtimes.
• Good beam distance.
• Fan cooled.
• Lumen output is slightly lower than expected for Turbo.
• Simple user interface.
• USB-C fast charging.
• Balanced charging.
• Power bank feature.

Cons:#

• USB-C port cover keeps popping out.
• Low CRI.
• Power bank is limited ot 5V/3A output.
• Requires longer button top 21700 cells.

Price#

The Wuben X1 Pro is US$139.99 at wubenlight.com.

Product page#

Wuben X1 Pro at wubenlight.com (affiliate link)
Wuben X1 Pro at amazon.com.au (affiliate link)

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