Review: Ultrafire WF-502B with XP-G R5 drop-in

Have a pleasant time here at this friendly forum, robbynaish!

Looks just like mine. Also looks like a good deal!

@raccoon city

Thans for your welcome message

@JaffoAZ

Thanks, i will buy in that shop… hoping yr comparison is right :slight_smile:

Alex

My opinion of banggood is it's a spammish POS foul looking ebay type trash site . Everything they sell is same old same old ebay trash ..If you want to know what are the worst lights ever made they are showcased Right here on Banggoods 4 flashlight pages .Every single one of them should be avoided and would probably yeild a nice purplish bad binned emitter,bad heatsinks ,nasty PWM,cheap andozationetc.... it's obvious that they are just scraping the bottom of the barrel ..A shop purely price driven .I see nothing they sell as redeeming in any way .I'd avoid them at all costs and assume everything they sell is a fake / a second or something being dumped .

Spam site

Hi Poaz,

im sad read so…. at least in hobby models thing their products are very good, and even if something is failed, they change without they ask u send it back (t happened to me), i had to send them a small video showing smt was no ok.
On NG http://www.rcgroups.com many users bought from banggood many different models and are originals.

So u suggest to buy from manafont?

Many thanks

Ale

Yep, manafont is reputable.

I'm personally not much of a manafont believer either but they actually sell much better lights .. the selection from banggood is like I said a bad smattering of what ebay sellers who don't know and don't care puke out ..They do it only for one reason ....price ..good or bad they don't know or care . It would be presumptous of me to say it's all pure garbage because lots of these lights obviously sell pretty well..But look at the batteries and chargers they last as well ..Fake ultrafire reds and junk chargers are the spotlighted /featured add -on

If this isn't spam ... it ought to be

Manafont /DX /Dino/KD/Focal etc... Any or all would be preferable to what I'm seeing from the banger

Having said that ..I'm assuming that buying a 502B xml from banggood is about the same as buying one from almost anyone else ..i'm not sure there are any real ones . the trustfires501/502/504 etc...are pretty much what they are ...they are what they are ... Manafont sells fake 501's too And so does dino ..Until I bought a really old 501b from dino really cheaply did i ever see a real trustfire light in the 501/502/504 series lights .. I think they are just so copied again and again ..99% of the people out there will never see a real one ////That said it still isn't that much better ..It simply had a better anodize,a better thread and metal... You could postulate that someone made a mistake and just made a copy too good .:P

I don't think anyone needs to be scaring you away from a 502Bxml for 12$ . I assume bangood will deliver for you ..

I just overall question their entire choice of flashlights and their business model ...like I said it would be like randomly buying from a Chinese ebayer .. not worth freaking out about

Glad this thread is alive again.

Seems my 502s mode memory is not the same as my 501s. It does not remember the last on press but thinks there is a half press and goes to the next mode. Just me or is it defective? I’ve got another coming from a good deal to see if it’s better.

Any thoughts?

Jaxon

Since it's just a drop in from such a vast myrid of makers, it would be surprising if they ever acted the same as another . My assumption is all of these parts are from multiple sources .heads tails ,tubes,reflectors ,driver-pill-emitter. So the fact they don't have the same driver isn't surprising

I have very quickly decided that if I want a light to have a driver with modes I know I like, I’ll put my own driver in it. Nanjg 105c

Or buy a light that you know has one in it: XinTD

KD has the 502B with the new U2 XML 5 mode for $13.50 and they are very reputable and banggood sounds like a girl I used to date.

http://kaidomain.com/product/details.S009983

Thanks… this site look like banggood :slight_smile: When i opened i thought i was in banggood :slight_smile:

What is better in this new 502b?

Thnks

Ale

Here too i find a good offer, SS is abt 3 usd

Here ask wich reflector choose :quest:

thnks

Ale

Second one from ‘linkoutdoor’ works perfectly, and even has a serrated button. And the Logo is not backa$$wards.

Jaxon

Hi Jaxon, im sorry, i can’t understand what u meant :frowning:

If you replied my question, u said is better the secon type of reflector (SMO)?

Sorry

Thnks
Ale

Hi Ale,

I was commenting on my previous note about a difference of a 502 and the mode memories of my 501. Go back and look at previous posts for clarification. I’ve now ordered one with the SMO reflector to see if it has a better ‘spot’.

Jaxon

Hi guys,

Fasttech has this model with Hi, Lo, no nonsense strobe or SOS… anyone has any comments or short reviews to it? Pricing is really reasonable too.

http://www.fasttech.com/products/1601/10001856/1134202-ultrafire-wf-502b-cree-xm-l-t6-2-mode-700-lumen-le

thanks…

Holy thread revival Batman!…
nice, i enjoyed reading all that!
… but the icing on the cake with cherries on the top must be…….

lol :slight_smile: Thanks Don!

Good to see a 502B review , dont know I want another though ... To many L2's

Can anyone confirm if this has mode memory? Looks good.