GB Clone Offically "SOLD OUT" 10/21/18 XPL HI 1300LM Focusing AKA Cometa 2016

Yes and no. Easy to open and align the led pcb, but not really easy to judge is it center enough.

Wow! You got Cometa for USD5.99. :+1:
Can you post how you improve it with internal blacking?

@ecotack
I have the paint in my cart for more than a year. But i could not get anyone that could say if its worth the 20€.

Are you going to mod yours id be intetested to see what numbers you get with XPG2? mine does close to my B158 in throw. My numbers are always low when testing candela.

Wow… 350+ replied in this post. :smiley:
Too bad. Mine is still “back order” without any progress at all. May have to cancel soon.

I received mine today, it was missing that vappower 26650 and those freebie 2x18650. I doublecheked my order and it clearly was with 26650. Guess i have to contact BG customer services…

The 2016 is nice disguise, both my wife and daughter thought they’re are not newly bought. Success!!!
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too funny! :wink:

It was the Warsun X65 (right) I had to black out, the Cometa (left) is nicely done from new:

Just out of interest, left to right, Warsun X50 XML, Warsun X65 de-domed XPG2, Cometa XPL HI and UF-1504 de-domed XPG2. Apologies for the bad photo, take on my phone and they are not all at the same brightness.

Not sure how well it will cope with the heat yet. Someone on eBay UK sells 10ml bottles for £2.25 plus shipping, so I thought I’d try it.

I have a noob question. What happens if I paint the inside of the head white or chrome instead of black? I want to mod one to use 4xE21A to be used mainly in flood mode for picture taking.

Painting the inside white will add a bit to the flood, and it will make the spot setting really ugly (but just as bright of course)

Artifacts.
Even glossy black makes weird artifacts in zoomies.
This one is flat black to avoid this, and get a clean beam :slight_smile:

I get mine today, my first light with Bistro UI.
Really nice host (except for the sketchy markings), but I’m surprise that the lens is smaller than on my B158B.

Get today with 26650 cell
Head threads are loose and not resistance during rotation,maybe miss O-ring need to check.
Package is marked 2016-07 I hope also the battery (3.6V) will not 2 year old.

There is no o-ring under the sliding part of the head, which would have been nice in the design to stabilise the head and provide some extra waterproofing. But they did not do that.
A two-year old li-ion battery, if stored at 3.6V, should be perfectly fine.

What you think about this Cell and how much Volt was at the first?
About the Lens usefull Area looks smaller than expect.

My cells were 3.45V if I remember well, fine voltage for storing. The cells seem fine, I measured both around 5500 mAh, which is a great capacity. They can draw quite some current but are not the highest current cells around, they say.

The size of the lens compared to the head size is not maximal, but that is a design choice: for every zoomie you need to extend the bezel to protect the lens, and that bezel in principle blocks sideways light in flood modus. Jaxman (=original design of Cometta) chose a wider bezel/narrower lens to aid the beam angle in flood, other manufacturers choose a maximal diameter lens (for their given bezel diameter) for highest brightness in spot modus but the flood is pretty narrow.

Thanks for explain.
I don’t recognize if this Vappower it’s just a Rebranded Japan/Korean cell,
or it’s a full Chinese manufactured,

I’ve dropped some differents LEDs in mine…
Tried a sliced SST20 but got too much artifacts (due to my crude method of slicing), an untoched SST20 and finally an LH351D with the dome.
I kept the latter for it gives a nearly round beam when zoomed in, with a great CRI so it shows more things.
Zoomed out it makes a really good fill light for video/photo :slight_smile:

Received mine today, 18 days from china to france with standard shipping (without tracking)…not to shabby.
I don’t like zoomie generally but at this price with a 26650 included + a lighted tailcap, it would have been silly to not jump on this bargain !

LOL :smiley: