Rofis MR70 Flashlight/Powerbank Review

Rofis has released the Rofis MR70 flashlight, a light that also serves as a powerbank! The light features a Cree XHP70.2 emitter and other nice features!

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Official Specs and Features

Here’s a link to the Rofis MR70 flashlight product page.

Versions

As far as I can tell, there’s only one version of this light.

Price

MSRP on these is $89.95.

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Short Review

While a large for pocket carry, this will be an absolutely fantastic bag/travel light. Big lumens, powerbank, and onboard charging. Tough to beat that package! And the energy of a 26650 makes it a reasonable power bank!

Long Review

The Big Table

Rofis MR70
Emitter:	Cree XHP70.2 (CW)
Price in USD at publication time:	$89.95
Cell:	1×26650
Turbo Runtime
LVP?	Switch warning.
Switch Type:	E-switch
Quiescent Current (A):	0.00012
On-Board Charging?	Yes
Chargetime
Power off Charge Port with no Cell?	?
Claimed Lumens (lm)	3500
Claimed Throw (m)	248
Candela (Calculated) in cd (at 30s)	748lux @ 5.035m = 18963cd
Throw (Calculated) (m)	275.4 (111% of claim)^
All my Rofis reviews!

^ Measurement disclaimer: Testing flashlights is my hobby. I use hobbyist-level equipment for testing, including some I made myself. Try not to get buried in the details of manufacturer specifications versus measurements recorded here; A certain amount of difference (say, 10 or 15%) is perfectly reasonable.

What’s Included

• Rofis MR70 Flashlight
• Nylon pouch
• Lanyard
• Charging cable (2) (one for charging the light, one for charging from the light)
• Spare o-rings (2)
• Spare charge port cover
• Paperwork (manual, etc)
• Rofis brand 26650, 5500mAh

Package and Manual

The box for the MR70 is a small (for the light) cardboard display-ready box. It’s heavily printed, with runtimes and specs, and other information. The light and goods are held in place in a plastic tray.

The manual is fine, but it lacks some of the graphics I like to see in manuals. The chart is the same as that on the back of the box, but some operational information has been added in the manual.

Build Quality and Disassembly

This light has such an unusual look. Sure, it’s a black flashlight, and looks very flashlighty, but it has shiny anodizing. The knurling isn’t normal knurling. The body is flared in a non-standard way. It’s just different! (Whether it comes across in photos or not, trust me, in hand, it just seems different.)

Really, the light feels great in the hand. It’s not large for a 26650 light, though not very pocketable. Much less is it big for a light with onboard charging and a secondary emitter, and one that can act as a powerbank.

The bezel should be removable, but I didn’t push my luck.

The tailcap does have more usual knurling, and this helps with cap removal for cell changes.

I really like the body of this light. It’s probably well known that I don’t like aggressive knurling, and this is certainly not aggressive. I won’t say it’s as grippy as regular knurling, but it’s just fine for me.

The threads are small, anodized, and well-lubed, and fairly smooth. They’re square-cut, too.

The tailcap has dual springs. There’s a fairly soft but thick external spring, and a thinner but much stiffer internal spring. This setup provides a lot of contact between the negative terminal of the cell and the light.

The positive contact of the light is an unusual brass button. I can’t see down in there very well, but I believe the spring has a cantilevered brass cap over it. It’s a setup I’ve never seen before, but it seems to be the best of both worlds – a brass button for great contact, but a stiff spring to keep the cell well contacted and snug. I can say – whether it’s better or not – the light stays on through a bit of solid abuse, with no disconnects.

Size

Officially 127mm x 39.2mm (head) x 31 (tail).

The length of the MR70 wouldn’t really be out of the question for daily carry, but the thickness probably is. It’s just barely longer than the BOSS 70, but much thicker.

Retention

The nylon pouch that ships with the MR70 is quite nice. There’s an actual metal D-ring on there and a metal snap. The light will fit in either orientation, but is most comfortable bezel-up.

The included lanyard connects to the tailcap through a small hole.

Power

Rofis includes a single 26650. It’s a flat top unprotected cell and labeled as 5500mAh. The highest capacity-rated 26650 I could find was 6000mAh, which was news to me. That likely means that the 5500mAh rating isn’t outside the realm of possibility. (The highest capacity I’d seen was 5000mAh, so this was a surprise).

The cell seems of good quality and works well in the light. The light won’t be particular about cells, though, and should work fine with any type 26650. It should even work with 18650s just fine too, but I’m not sure how securely the contact will be made if the cell gets bumped around.

Here’s a runtime on Turbo. It’s possible to kick the light back up to Turbo at any point, but the output doesn’t hit actual Turbo levels again. The temperature stays low throughout the runtime, too.

At 2.9V, the light was still on, and I stopped the runtime. The switch was indicating that the cell voltage was low, though. So we’ll call that “Low Voltage Warning.”

Charging

This light also has a micro-USB charge port, which has a thick rubber boot cover.

Rofis claims 2A charging, and I found that charging happens at about that rate. In any case, it’s “good enough” charging. Unfortunately, the cell doesn’t test at nearly the rated capacity of 5500mAh.

Not only does the light have onboard charging, but it also has the unusual option of being a powerbank, too! I made a little graph below, but bear in mind that the X-axis is meaningless. Really, just look at the current drawn in Amps vs the Voltage that the light/powerbank is providing. Ie when I’m drawing ~2.1A, the voltage is just under 4V, which I believe is technically out of spec for USB charging. However, at more reasonable or common current draws (1A and 0.5A) the voltage is just fine at~4.5 and ~4.8 respectively. Ie this is a very good powerbank!

Rofis even provides an adapter to allow a USB to plug into the setup. A nice, possibly unnecessary bonus.

User Interface and Operation

There’s a single side clicky switch on the MR70. It’s an e-switch and has an indicating section in the middle. The button is slightly concave. (On the other side of the light is the secondary emitter, which is behind a similarly-sized piece of plastic, but it’s convex, and as a result, it’s easy to differentiate these parts.)

This button is big, and exactly the right amount of clicky and travel. What can I say, I really like this switch.

Here’s a user interface table!

State	Action	Result
Off	Click	On (Mode memory)
Off	Hold	On Side Emitter(Mode memory)
Any	Double Click	Turbo
Any	Triple Click	Strobe
On	Click	Off
On	Hold	Mode Cycle (LMH)
Off	Long hold (>3s)	Beacon mode (switch blinks red)
Off	Long hold (>4s)	Lockout^
Lockout	Long hold (>4s)	Lockout Off
Strobe	Hold	Strobe mode cycle (Fast>SOS)

^ During lockout mode, clicking the switch activates the red switch LED to indicate lockout.

Modes

Mode	Mode Claimed Output (lm)	Claimed Runtime	Mode Measured Lux	Tailcap Amps
Turbo	3500/1500/1000	1m/10m/190m	63900	4.16
High	1500/1000	10m/206m	26300	2.94
Medium	450	9h	8110	0.69
Low	30	120h	690	0.06
Side High	200/120	640m	–	1.01
Side Medium	60	36h	–	0.28
Side Low	3	7d	–	0.012

LED and Beam

In this Rofis light is a Cree XHP70.2. That’s a huge emitter in a relatively small reflector. The reflector is orange peel. This makes a broad hotspot with soft edges and a usable amount of spill.

The XHP70.2 has been said to have a bad tint, and I can corroborate that to some degree, but the tint in this light is great to my eye. The tint is even across the whole beam, it’s just about pure white light…. a great tint emitter.

The secondary emitter is a side emitter behind an opaque cover. It’s “NW,” But it’s actually very warm. Also, of course, completely flood. It’s usable up close, but past 10 or so feet it’s not all that useful. That it has 3 modes is a nice touch, too.

Beamshots

These beamshots always have the following settings: f8, ISO100, 0.3s shutter, and manual 5000K exposure. These photos are taken at floor level, and the beam hits the ceiling around 9 feet away.

Tint vs BLF-348 (KillzoneFlashlights.com 219b version) (affiliate link)

I keep the test flashlight on the left and the BLF-348 reference flashlight on the right.

Random Comparisons and Competitive Options

Here’s a relevantly filtered page on parametrek.com.

There’s literally nothing that compares to this light in this format. There are other dual emitter lights, many 26650 lights, and even a bunch with micro-USB charging. But the powerbank feature…. Nothing else has that.

The Acebeam EC50 Gen II and the Klarus G20 are about as close as anything else now. The Rofis is much more compelling than those two for me.

Conclusion

What I like

• Build is different, and quality is great
• On-board charging is solid and fast
• The powerbank feature works very well
• Dual emitters are a nice bonus
• The switch is great

What I don’t like

• Low just isn’t low enough
• No shortcuts to low on either emitter

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