It looks cheap that they copied the design of the Ultrafire LZZ-06 (also sold under other brand names) and added a clicky switch. But there's not many clicky AAA-lights so that is a plus. $4.50 shipped is another big plus.
Decently built, driver has the extra + pad to bypass the current resistors, center spring on the battery side of driver is a very big one…definitely needs the spring bypass as the spring is large but the metal of the spring is rather thin (so current will suffer at higher draw). Normal tail clicky, very smooth zoom as it has two o-rings, one of the pill and one on the zoom head.
For sub $7…this is a rather nice 26650 / 3xAAA /18650 w/ sleeve zoomy light
16mm star, solid shelf on the pill, easily modifiable to get maximum output from a very inexpensive light
My 2 Supfire F3-L2 arrived today, 18650 battery is kind of lose inside (not really a problem), but not quite wide enough for a 26650 to slide in.
I compared the light to my WB878, my nephew first gut judgement (with a blind test) was the F3-L2 was a little brighter.
A very simple hack to make it ALOT brighter [not sure regular alkaline batteries will be able to handle current draw then, unless they are NiMH rechargeables]
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A. Move the LED + from current location to the pad next to the MCU bypassing the current limiting resistors for more or less direct drive (very very bright)
B. Pencil trace across the capacitor for a 5-10 second reset back to high when turned off (pencil trace mod)[or solder a 300-350K ohm resistor on top of the cap]
C. Simple spring bypass by soldering either solder wick or a wire inside the large spring on the bottom of the driver
Since the pill is not hollow, a good helping of heatsink compound would work well too…it will run a bit warmer but make a WHOLE lot more light
Woo hoo… I thought I missed the deal already… now the deal is back ON again …thanks, just ordered 3
Oh man…between Banggood, GearBest,Fasttech,RMM,Goinggear,Illumn,Aliexpress ,Ebay and some others total is about 20 lights,(not counting LEDs and drivers )
It’s going to be hard to explain the wifey why the postman is bringing packages everyday next month when it’s not even Christmas time :Sp
