Under $10, 1x AA/ AAA/ 10440/ 14500 flashlight reference

Hmmyes… They look nice in the pictures, but the blue one that tempted me into buying was really very disappointing… :frowning:
(but luckily much cheaper too)

AliExpress Ailsa Hao’s store Store No.1193462
I’ve never bought from them, fwiw.

Take note: 3-5 June Aliexpress Sales at [Aliexpress] NingBo Yupard Outdoor Co.,Ltd Store No.938524

These look interesting:

Cool looking light there Pregulla. Had to order one.

Smiling shark 16340. I believe DX has them too.

Edit: had them, sold out it seems.
http://www.dx.com/p/smiling-shark-ss-509-60lm-cree-xp-e-q5-led-3-mode-white-light-mini-flashlight-1-x-cr123a-16340-289533#.U44wMni9LTo

I passed on it a while back because of the tailcap switch. I despise that type of switch that sticks out a mile. :Sp

Now that is pretty interesting…hmmm

Smiling shark flashlights that don’t say the led brand, like most, may not be as bright as one would like. They also tend to have plastic pills, so a good mod would either have a new pill or a thick star in contact with the body. That said, the shape looks like it has good cooling, if the heat can get out to the body.

Help me out here if you can?

Please identify any of these you know has a “mode memory” — remembering the setting last used, so the same setting comes back when it’s turned on again.

(I use strobe mode a lot when walking, in crosswalks, to wake drivers up.
And I turn it on before starting into crosswalks even if I can’t see a car
coming — because I’ve had them come up so fast I didn’t have time to fiddle
with the flashlight — so I put a lot of wear on switches and have begun to
have them fail on my regularly used walking lights)

  1. looks like a nice compact zoomie, do you guys know where I can get one?
    Also where to get this one shown by Pregulla

I got mine from Meritline last year. Finish was ok, but it was no better than a typical SK68. I gave it away as a gift.

http://www.meritline.com/showproduct.aspx?ProductID=106039&SEName=cree-xp-e-flashlight-torch-1200lm

KuoH

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BIC has them for $.5.5
I got mine from ebay auction for $3.75

“next mode memory”

A capacitor keeps the MCU alive, you turn off the light, hours later you turn it back on, it will start immediately in the “next mode”

You can scrub a pencil tip across the capacitor on many of them making a layer of graphite which allows the capacitor to quickly drain rather than stay charged almost indefinitely, so the MCU resets back to “default” or HI every time you turn it off and leave it off for a few seconds

Start practicing bumping or 1/2 clicking the switch, not a complete click, but partially press the switch changing modes w/o actually clicking the switch

Mode memory, whatever level you were running on when you shut it off, it will come back on at that level next time

I thought the watermark was obvious? Haha.

If this is anything like the fasttech version I just got it AIN’T worth it!

Pics inbound

Yes, in hind sight… :~

I have 2 of them now.
one from DX, which is nice brassy yellow, branded Zhishunjia
one from an ebay vendor, which is piss yellow, branded UltraFire AT-09
:slight_smile:
I still can’t get the bezel off the DX one, and the threading on the tube and in the head have a lot of play… :frowning:
The other one comes apart easily, threads match better. It’s also about 1.5mm taller than the DX one.
Knurdling is also different.

The UltraFire has a hidden SOS mode…
Press long and it will switch to SOS mode.

Allright folks, this is not as good as i hoped…
Plastic body…
This picture here is not correct, i think…
Zooms from a small spot to a projection of the Osram LED.
I’m modding it as we speak.
It gets a new short head and flood optics.
Because it has one big advantage:
Very light weight!
No shaking mass on the forehead. :slight_smile:

Surprise when i got this one in:
Urine-yellow! :smiley: Not faecal-brown.
It’s bigger than the Olight i3s
It says “CREE” on the head, but it’s not a CREE…
Works fine though!
One mode, plastic lens and reflector.
2 part head, so it’s mod friendlier.

> This is a good one! <
Stainless steel, glass lens, CREE XP-E, one mode, bright.
Only 88mm long and 12mm diameter :smiley:
DX has them too:
http://dx.com/p/319073