ohaya - maybe FT is following this thread and decided to test their STL-V6 because they know it's all from the same vendor... Agree, it's weird, but not surprising when playing the Chinese lottery. Just hope the retailers are learning to put pressure on their vendors to give them a heads-up when things change. Driver changes that effect advertised features is a bad thing, but by my own experience, FT isn't much better - been trying for weeks to get them to change a driver advertised as 5 modes and is actually 3 modes, they verified this - still it's listed as 5 modes.
RaceR86 - agree, the listings KD has are ridiculously lacking info, dunno how anyone can buy from them without knowing any details, and if what is listed is accurate. But DX and Manafont do the same thing...
I posted a picture of the spring-side of the driver, and I can post a pick of the emitter side, but have been avoiding removing the actual driver from the pill, since it’s soldered-in, and I’m still awaiting and trying to see what Wallbuys will do with this situation.
Their “solution” thus far has been to change their website to eliminate the now-non-existent feature (the mode groups), but I have to remind that that change to their website was only in the last day or so, post-fact :(… Not the best way to do business, IMO…
I just remembered something that I had forgotten about: When I was trying to figure out the modes and mode changing, I had noticed that FT also carried the same FandyFire STL-V6, so I posted a message on the FT forums:
So, it’s possible that whoever monitors their forums saw the post, and then tested the lights they had, and found that they don’t have mode groups, and then they decided to change their website. This is actually more discouraging, because like you indicated, all these lights are probably from the same vendor, so probably the “new” STL-V6s are non-mode-group, for every seller. So, unless you get lucky, like RaceR86, apparently, you get the “new” STL-V6 instead of the original.
Very similar to the HD2010 situation with the EAST-092 driver vs. the EAST-092B drivers?
I hear you about buying from such stores, but even then, I guess that, even knowing the risk, when it happens to me, I still get kind of upset about it :(…
Here’re a couple of additional pics of the pill. I still haven’t pulled the driver out because still waiting to see how Wallbuys wants to try to resolve this:
that is not a fandyfire stl - v6, I’ll strip mine tonight and take pictures, as I said above the “star” is actually a large diameter alu disk that screws to a shelf in the head, do a forum search for skyray stl - v2 there are older threads showing this.
From looking at Gords’ pics, it looks like the light that I have is the same externally, but different from the one that you and Gords has? Is that correct?
Also, just to clear one thing up, is the light that you have and the one that Gords has both FandyFire STL-V6, and not Skyray STL-V6?
At this point, I’m really puzzled. I’m sure now that the light that I have is different, but I have a hard time comprehending how two lights from the same seller (Wallbuys) would be so different internally? Maybe there are two completely different manufacturers that make a “FandyFire STL-V6”, with different design/specs, and maybe Wallbuys buys from both of them, being unaware that the lights from the 2 different manufacturers are different?
Edit: In a way, this situation is even more crazy than the situation with the HD2010s. At least with the HD2010s, there was only one manufacturer (as far as I know) and that manufacturer changed their design/spec to use a different, inferior driver.
if you look at the top two pictures, they show the two sides of the body tube that have writing on……the reason I took those two shots is the writing says “fandyfire” and “stl - v6”, I was rushing out to work so its upside down because I held my phone the wrong way, but I can read the text even on my phone……
Yes, mine is indeed a correct fandyfire stl - v6, it does throw quite well (its beaten down by my convoy l2 build easily though) I don’t use it so much because some retard thought a forward clicky was a good idea, I’d like to find them and shove that forward clicky up their nose.
Looks like its easier to mod Ohoyas STL-V6 with new emitter than the “original” one.
I would not have complained If I got that light. But then again. I had no plans of using it in stock form…
Huge 32mm mcpcb that have direct contact with the body through the outer edge.
A 20mm mcpcb, would just fall through the flashlight…
Im not a fan of the design, but I plan to fix that in the future…
Easy quick fix… If there is something you don’t like about a light. Mod it… I have no intentions of using that switch…
Even though I haven’t verbalized it, from the beginning, I agree that the one that I got was probably going to be easy (not “easIER”, since when this started, I didn’t realize that it was “different” from the “original”/”real” FandyFire STL-V6) to mod.
But, and as usual, maybe I’m being naive, it was/is the “principle” about the whole thing, i.e., I feel/felt that I was SOLD and BOUGHT one thing, but received A DIFFERENT thing.
For you and most others, who can mod, that might not make a difference, but to someone who is not into modding, or not able to mod, this difference would be more significant, I think.
Wallbuys (and FastTech) have already changed their websites to reflect the non-mode groups, which is good in one sense (more accurate) but also bad in another sense (less/different functionality). What I think really should have happened is that they should have two “models”, one for the old and one for the new design. That way, there’d be no confusion, and buyers, like me, would know what they were actually buying.
That is really weird. When I checked yesterday or the day before, which I was trying to figure what was going on with the one I got from Wallbuys, I could have sworn that it had the mode groups removed :(. Maybe I was imagining it :(…
If they don't give you full satisfaction, be sure to open a PP claim before the 45 day limit. You might even want to start one at 30 days. It tells them you're serious about your complaint and encrouages them to do something about it.
Agree, it's weird, but not surprising when playing the Chinese lottery. Just hope the retailers are learning to put pressure on their vendors to give them a heads-up when things change. Driver changes that effect advertised features is a bad thing, but by my own experience, FT isn't much better - been trying for weeks to get them to change a driver advertised as 5 modes and is actually 3 modes, they verified this - still it's listed as 5 modes.
