G5 Flashlight / WUBEN
The Wuben G5 is a flat everyday-carry torch, a little over six centimetres long and 52g, in an aluminium body rated IP65 against dust and water. Its defining feature is the control: a knurled rotary dial steplessly dims the main cold-white LED from around two lumens to a 400-lumen maximum, with a double-click for a brief turbo burst, setting brightness by feel rather than through fixed steps. A 180-degree rotating head, a sprung clip and a magnetic base let it be aimed and left hands-free, clipped to a cap or held to a metal surface. A secondary RGB emitter adds coloured light and a signalling beacon. It charges over USB-C in around ninety minutes and runs up to 65 hours on low. It suits someone who wants precise, adjustable light in a torch small enough to carry without noticing it.
Design intent
- +The main output is governed by a stepless rotary dial rather than a button cycling through preset levels, which lets the user settle on exactly the brightness a task needs and removes the familiar carry-light annoyance of clicking past the setting you wanted.
- +A rotating head, clip and magnetic base are combined so the torch can be positioned and left to light a task unaided, turning a pocket light into a basic work light without adding size.
Trade-offs
The Wuben G5 is a flat everyday-carry torch, a little over six centimetres long and 52g, in an aluminium body rated IP65 against dust and water. Its defining feature is the control: a knurled rotary dial steplessly dims the main cold-white LED from around two lumens to a 400-lumen maximum, with a double-click for a brief turbo burst, setting brightness by feel rather than through fixed steps. A 180-degree rotating head, a sprung clip and a magnetic base let it be aimed and left hands-free, clipped to a cap or held to a metal surface. A secondary RGB emitter adds coloured light and a signalling beacon. It charges over USB-C in around ninety minutes and runs up to 65 hours on low. It suits someone who wants precise, adjustable light in a torch small enough to carry without noticing it.
Design intent
- +The main output is governed by a stepless rotary dial rather than a button cycling through preset levels, which lets the user settle on exactly the brightness a task needs and removes the familiar carry-light annoyance of clicking past the setting you wanted.
- +A rotating head, clip and magnetic base are combined so the torch can be positioned and left to light a task unaided, turning a pocket light into a basic work light without adding size.
Trade-offs
- -The 400-lumen maximum is a brief burst rather than a sustained output. A body this small cannot shed much heat, and runtime on high is around fifty minutes against 65 hours on low, so the headline figure flatters what the light actually holds in use.
- -The cell is built into the sealed body and charged over USB-C, with no swappable battery. The torch's usable life is therefore tied to a cell that will degrade with charge cycles, which sits awkwardly against the durability the metal body otherwise implies.
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