Noticed a few vendors selling the SK68 clone with a red LED, whats up with that? $9 on Amazon, $5 on ebay, thinking of ordering one just to see what I get.
BTW they are listed as a 14500 not a AA light.
No idea why they said ultra or blacklight.
interesting…i see it for the first time…there is also uv light,green…looks good.
Normally its the SK68 thats colored not the led, going to give it a try, not optimistic
Usually they use colour XR-E leds, nothing wrong with them, they make for fun lights, but they are two generations behind and not nearly as bright as XP-E2's or XB-D leds.
But they are 660mn, longer than the current E2’s by a bit (if you care about that).
I do not see the 660nm anywhere in the ebay link? But if so, a Rebel or Ledengin led is not likely, more likely is some low efficiency chinese led.
Details we won’t know until a few are in peoples hands.
CREE XP-E Photo Red Emitter
Cree XPEPHR-L1-P3-15-C
Viewing Angle: 130°
Height: 2mm
Width: 3,45mm
Depth: 3,45mm
Emitting Color: red (deep red)
Nanometer: 655-660
Lumen min.: 425mW
Lumen max.: 950mW
mA test.: 350 mA
mA typ.: 350 mA
mA max.: 700 mA
V typ.: 2,3 V
Reverse Voltage: 5 V
Watt: 0,81 W
It is quite a confused listing. UV, Ultra Red, Blacklight. Still, I’ve been searching for a red P60 for a while and yes, the search results are usually for red anodising.
Overview coloured emitters in SK68 clones
I bought a green and red variant from the vendor, and took a few picture compared to another regular SK68 clone
The coloured variants are on the left and center, and the regular is on the right
It isn’t clear in the pictures above but the bodies are wonky and stand somewhat sloped, and they don’t stand on their tailcaps because of the convex button.
I actually really like my regular sk68 button, but don’t see it on other torches. The logos etchings are off center and printed poorly, and differ between torches
As usual with cheap torches come poor quality control, poor led placement, not centered at all, although the pill looks to be slightly better in the coloured variants
I prefer the spring in my regular one, it isn’t such a pain to screw in the cap, most of the parts of coloured sk68’s fit to loose on my regular version.
In the end they are Sk68 clones, cheap, small torches, with so so build quality, I don’t exactly know the led emitters, but I imagine they are old variants.
I will probably pick up a blue emitter one as well, just for fun. For anyone else interested, ignore the weird title they had on ebay, they mean nothing
What is the beam like?
Won’t be able to take proper beam profiles for a while, but its very similar to a regular white XP-E, all I can tell you that it gets fairly tight
I'm pleasantly surprised that XP-E leds are used in these cheap lights, those are way better than XR-E leds. (XP-E2's would have been even better of course)
The different color emitters might be nice used as outside house or landscape lighting. Looking forward to playing with mine when it arrives.
Hmm unless the camera settings are messing with the color, that actually looks like a “photo-red” deep red XP-E. The normal red usually has more orange tint to it.
If that’s true it’s very surprising. Deep red XP-E’s are not that common. I had to get mine from mouser.
Looks like just the emitters are a buck shipped on ebay, maybe same seller.
Link?
For the rest click on sellers other items, then search within for LED by price lowest first, all on that page of items.
The emitters that they sell are chinese, and way more primitive than the Cree xp-e that is in these sk68 clones.