The pictures show my own triple build on a X6 with the Ledil CUTE-3 optic, polished. These have a lot larger individual optics so they have more of a hot spot to the beam profile. Not sure why they didn’t go with something like this, maybe availability of the Ledil components, or price. The Ledil CUTE-3 is taller as well, about as tall as the X6S optic plus o-ring plus glass lens.
Does it take flat top ??
Yes, it does take flat top 18650s.
And/or flat top 18350’s. 
Button top works as well, but protected cells may be too long.
Thanks for the review, Dale. I thought this light was a great idea, when I first read about it a while back. But, I realized that I like the original X6 head size better than the more compact head on this light, when looking at them side-by-side in your photos. And floodier optics? :confounded:
Thanks… i ordered one 5 days ago… just need to get some more unprotected Sony VTC5A flat top…
Thanks for the review!
Is the heat sinking the same as a standard X6?
The fins are cut properly, the emitter shelf appears to be a bit thicker and the copper DTP MCPCB is pretty thick as well.
I will disassemble one tomorrow and get pictures and measurements of these dimensions…
Thanks for the review Dale !
I must try one 
Great review and what a cool light!
Thanks for the review, Dale. These look very, very nice. They are also a great deal. It wasn’t too long ago that the parts alone cost a lot more than this, and maybe they still do. Decisions are getting tougher, with the FW3A if that happens, the Emisars, this, and others.
Thanks for reviewing, thumbs up!!
Thanks for the pictures and Lumen readings!
Where are your Kronos Flashlights for direct comparison?
Does they use the same threads as the Kronos?
Is there a clip included? there is much space for a clip.
They do come with a clip and lanyard, and a couple of extra o-rings and two extra rubber boots, a clear one and a sort of pinkish one.
Will the Kronos lights be a direct comparison? Aren’t they made by Manker? Interesting question, need to look at that…
Looking good Dale, and I see a lot of inspiration/homage
A better driver/firmware could transform them.
I like the rounded lines of the original (I have four), and the screwed-in pill, and reflector screwed into the pill. Of course with a TIR that’s not necessary.
The anodising… was not terribly good.
Actually I just like these, rather than the dreary industrial tubes, bigger tubes with fins on the head, huge tubes with even huger heads, the “how big can I make a reflector and put a SOA emitter behind it” game, etc.
When/where can we get them ?
I hope the head packs a bit of mass to handle the heat better. This makes my custom X6 triple have a decent runtime.
I can put the Mateminco X6S tail cap right on the Kronos battery tube like they were made to go together. I can pull the Kronos battery tube and stick it between the X6S head and tail, works fine, so yes, the Kronos X6 lights fully interchange with the Mateminco X6S EXCEPT the bezel of the X6S is shorter to adapt to the shallow triple optic.
Edit: Threads do not interchange between the Kronos/Mateminco lights and the original Eagle Eye X6.
I think they are. I have a matched set of SS/Cu and Cu, with serialised wooden box, and a working set in Al.
Definitely Manker made.
I think they would have been rather expensive to produce, in particular the threaded reflectors and other tight tolerance bits. I got good ones but there was some variability.
Banggood kept selling them under Astrolux brand afterwards at random prices, but I think that they are now long gone.
Tom Tom, the SS X6 and Cu X5 are Astrolux branded at Banggood and have recently been on the site. I’ve thought about gnabbing the little X5 a couple of times but man I have so man of these already, not so much the 5’s but I have 16 variants of the X6 here and have given away and sold twice that many. If I’d known Eagle Eye was going to disappear off AliExpress I’d probably have bought a dozen but they didn’t say anything to me about it although I just got 2 last week. Go figure huh?
These are still nice little lights, even smaller with the reduced bezel length (what passes for the head is really a bezel) I wish they’d left a much thicker emitter shelf area instead of reducing the bezel, seems like it would have been pretty easy to just machine the pill section shallower up top and leave the bezel as is, but again, nobody asked me…