what's going on YouTube Kevin Reese here early in the morning right now still dark 6:36 a.m.
you see behind me starting to get Sun coming up back here in the east I wanted to show you
all or a view of this light the Phoenix hmm 65 are I like the light it's a great light don't
get me wrong the reason they make all these different lights is because everybody has a
different opinion on what they think is a great light now for me I bought this light I wanted to
try it out I am returning the light I wanted to do review on it before I returned it I've
taken it through its paces about what I would use it for mechanic type stuff under car kind
of looking it has a spotlight in a floodlight mode which I'll show you all in a second it's a
great light for me I'm just looking for something a little different and there's also one annoying
thing about it that bothers me specifically I don't know if it will affect everyone but I'm
gonna show to y'all in just a second so let's go ahead and get into this review my name is
kevin reese for those of y'all who don't know go ahead and subscribe to my channel and turn
on notifications so you get notified when I post new videos let's go ahead and check this light
out this is what the light looks like when you get it in this nice pretty package see here USB type-c
charging port which I'm not really a big fan of and I'll get into that later max of 300 hours
runtime battery level indication lockout function a 5 year for your pair and always nice multi-fuel
18 650 or cr123a the outside they show you some feature of the light dual switches adjustable
head layout 60 degrees USB type-c charger port outside not a big fan of that you see
the different modes here so in floodlight mode your low is eight and eight lumens go up medium
130 high four hundred and you got your spotlight mode different outputs and you see your run time
there when you put them both together you get that 1400 lumen output you can see it I guess
of course impact resistance 2 meters waterproof ip68 on the water for 2 meters you see the size
here dimensions and the weight is three point two seven ounces and that's without the battery inside
it comes here in this little case you've got your instruction manual here extra Oh ring you got your
Phoenix warranty card source this is attached to the light to remind you this little plastic
disc here you see comes in the way in between the battery and the light itself to prevent it from
accidentally turning on during shipping in storage and I'll show you a lot of these features outside
but just to give you a close-up inside you see you've got Phoenix here so this is your spotlight
you can see it's got the beams directly going out your floodlight you can see here it's got
the beams to kind of disperse outward so that's like your flood if you tap it once that's your
battery level indicator and that means you have a hundred percent charge right now so and I just
charged this battery so it's got a full charge and so there's your better level indication like
I said you've got a hundred percent one for lights are on one three you know there's your percentage
two one like flashes you can see I mean a nice rubber you know this this seals it but again you
know I'm just not a big fan of this outside charge and outside some of the lights are picking up now
especially more convenient I'm just not a big fan of this trend of putting a port on the outside of
a flashlight when you're trying to water seal it I would rather I would prefer a battery
which they make you know that are USB you micro USB and USB type-c rechargeable batteries that
actually you know but the battery is enclosed you know the batteries not outside the flashlight so
to open this one get your battery out you screw this cap and you see this one came with a I got
this one with a nice 3500 milliamp 18 650 Phoenix battery and it does tell you if you look on the
on the back side here up underneath you can see your direction for your batteries so you put it
in positive first your band a nice band in a nice Arbor grippy material that extends around you know
it grips pretty well I think I may have moved it so not really sure how how its set up but it goes
so maybe that's supposed to be towards the front coming on to the back of it Phoenix and you know
it's got these clips and I've had some other clips in the past I don't want to say the Streamlight
bandit as well as the Phoenix the the small one I got camera name of it I've done reviews on both of
them but they have a simple kind of pinch twist to tighten and loosen this one is you know no matter
how you look at it you know moving it trying to adjust the band you know it's just it's getting
your fingers in between it's not is it's easy and convenient as is those other lights or so you know
that's kind of a negative against it other than that y'all just the weight of the whole light
and I guess that's because these two beams you've got this big housing that you have with different
modes I'm just not really a big fan of it I got it to try it out to see if I you know how I liked
it and maybe it could change my mind but I'm gonna be returning it so at least y'all getting to see a
video of the light so maybe this will help you all out if you're looking at this light so now
we're gonna check out some of the beam patterns outside arch also looking at the flashlights like
I said you've got your your floodlight which is this beam and your spotlight which is this beam
just like we talked about and I'm gonna turn my light off on my camera so I can show you all these
but like I said you press that button you've got full bars that means that you have a full battery
you can activate it either way you know if you you press and you hold it'll lock it it'll put it into
a lock mode which I'll show you all these modes so just like I showed you all the lockout modes
but there's your battery level indicator this is your low mode here for your floodlight and you see
it does do a nice job of illuminating all around the area take it up the nexus medium illuminates
all around and then you got high so floodlight really does a great job as far as just what it
says a flood pattern and it does flood very well so this is your spotlight mode so it's going to
shine around just spray a little bit so you've got that's the low the medium the high and then
that's like your turbo so as far as spotlight you know looking up into trees around and get
there again you there's this the moon up there Sun coming up in the East but y'all get the idea here
you got your spotlight and it does it it does a pretty good job here of illuminating all around
you know the area it has a nice throw but it's also got a nice you know a nice cone around here
again this will be floodlight so if y'all can just see that difference here I want to kind of
compare in contrast so floodlight mode y'all see flood and that's on high working up here spotlight
so we'll go high spotlight and high so there's flood and off and high spotlight and off and
when we turn them both on together it's a flood light and then hold it down then you've got this
your max 1400 lumens of flood and spot both of them so you get kind of best of both worlds
you get a nice you can see here the beam right here you get a nice throw and a nice flood so
that's how the flashlight functions in the dark one of the most annoying things about
this light and it like I said it may not affect everybody but for me I have pretty
decent hearing this light and being on your head it's even closer to your ears
whenever it's on the high mode it makes a high-pitched whining sound a high-pitched
beep let me see if y'all can hear that I'm gonna bring it up I will focus up here to
my mic and let y'all listen so I'm gonna turn it on so if y'all listen very closely
if y'all can hear that
it's a very annoying sound it bothers my ears I could imagine somebody with hearing problems that
has to wear a hearing aid it'll probably pick up that that frequency I'm not sure but it's
it really bothers my ears and when I'm if I have this on high and I'm and I'm working on something
in a quiet environment it's it's aggravating it's just this constant ringing in your ear so
that's one of my one of my biggest complaints about this light so there y'all have it this
is my review of the Phoenix HM 65 R and why I'm returning it go ahead and hit that like button
if this video has helped y'all I'm sure there's some of y'all out there that love this light and
that's great for me it's just not exactly what I'm looking for as far as you know having to use the
different buttons with the different modes I'm not really a big fan of the rechargeable flashlights
that are rechargeable from the actual outside because it just you know even though you have
that waterproof that dust cover that goes on you know you still run the risk of getting water into
it or getting dust into it but just because it is exposed I like something that seals up
completely put the cap on there's no way for to get again water dust to get in unless you take
the cap off that's just me that's my opinion I think that's the best design the weight of it
just for what I'm gonna use it for a philosophy of use you know kind of when I need hands-free
lighting for stuff I still want good runtime but I really don't need to wait in the bulk of
two different lenses and just the size of this light overall I would really prefer just like a
regular 18 650 with a little L shape just simple one button go through the modes turning on and
off and no external charging ports but that's just me let's go ahead and like that video if
it helps you out subscribe to my channel y'all I'll see y'all in the next video I'm Kevin Reese