Definitely not a Cree XR-E Q5 emitter. ( and i agree its a roughly handled copy of a old first generation XP-E. The original Sipiks and its clones are getting difficult to find with the XR-E these days, as most of the cheap ones we seem from many sellers now come with a crappy purple tint Latticebrignt led.
Hm, back in 2015 they said it was a genuine Sipik product but didn’t answer directly about which emitter.
You can ask them what’s up now: http://www.gearbest.com/led-flashlights/pp_15289.html?wid=21
Howiezowie, if you wanna make a straightforwardly nice & simple mod to that flashlight, take a look at these bargainly priced emitters mounted on 16mm boards:
- Cree XP-E HEW 226-Lumen 2900K LED Emitter on 16mm Aluminum Base If that max 226 lumens figure is right, that means this emitter is a Q3 bin which, for that (2850K according to official docs) tint, it should be either an 80CRI typical or an 80CRI minimum emitter. :THUMBS-UP:
- Cree Q5 3-Mode 250LM LED Emitter with 16mm Base This one needs no presentation.
- Cree XB-D R2-WC 260LM 6000K LED Emitter Can't say much about this one.
- Cree XT-E Q5-7B 381LM 3000-3200K Warm White LED Emitter Other tints also available. These ones are lumen specced at 1'5A of maximum driving current.
That XP-E HEW is a real bargain beauty ($0'99 after BLF coupon). 
Cheers ^:)
The pictures they have definitely shows a ” XR-E” , so if they sent you one with a crappy LB XP-E clone its false advertising. The originals Sipiks i have that i bought 3 + years ago definitely has Cree XR-E emitters in them, and are far better built, brighter, & have a better tint than any of the knock-off clones we see now.
http://zoomermod.blogspot.com/2015/11/sipik-sk68-mod-xr-e-q5-dedomed.html
Not in English, but the pictures are nice
Barkuti, Hank, antiparanoico, DBSAR:
Thanks for the great followup and info. Very helpful! 
By the way: [quote=hank] http://zoomermod.blogspot.com/2015/11/sipik-sk68-mod-xr-e-q5-dedomed.html
Not in English, but the pictures are nice [/quote]
I am using Chrome browser and it offered to translate that Asian page into English - super handy, like magic!
From that site just mentioned (Chromium browser also offers translation from the Japanese, but it’s, er, imperfect yet.
But the pictures are nice. Here you can see the XP-E, showing the two squares and the round dot in the corners.
That’s from 2015 sometime.
if its a “real” XP-E would be fine, but its difficult to find real Cree leds in anything these days in lights under 10 bucks, what we usually end up with is a horrible tint, inefficient latticebright copy.
ARRRRRRGhhhhhhhh
(emailed the link to Sophos to check, and cc’d to webmaster and support at sipik.com (here’s hoping either of those “standard” addresses exists there.
Dagnabbit.
So I did ask on the website, and they’ve promised to find out what emitter they’re selling:
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Hey guys, I just joined today and found this thread.
I finally received an Ultrafire T6 that I ordered on eBay from a vendor that I had been assured was legit. Normally I will only order an Ultrafire product if it is from a vendor that is well known for selling authentic products as most of them are copied so much now you have about a 1 in 100 chance of getting even a decent copy.
As soon as I opened it up Latticebright, and worse they did not even try hiding it. It was printed on the star. The eBay vendor assures you that he only sells authentic products. He will wish that were a true statement before I am through.
I have already sent him a message letting him know what I have found and pretty much left the ball in his court. I am curious to see his response.
I was able to get 3 Q-5's from a Amazon vendor that was recommended to me. Products are fulfilled by Amazon out of their facilities and that seems cut down on the clones. I did order another T6 from the vendor on Amazon, it is suppose to arrive tomorrow. I guess I will find out then if it is a clone.
Great thread, I read some of the other thread lines and saw tons of great information. I am still much the novice, however I work as a technician so I catch on to things pretty quick.
I will post sometime tomorrow the outcome of the T6 arriving tomorrow.
My 2 cents: is it quite possible that the vendor sold you that torch believing he got “genuine” UltraFire lights from his supplier and has no knowledge whatsoever to distinguish between a real Cree XM-L T6 and a similar looking LatticeBright T6 clone.
So he might have also been ripped off. Also note that if a china shop or Ebay only states “LED type: T6” and the word “cree” is not even mentionend you can be sure to get a LB clone, and it would probably not even be a false statement.
K.
+1
Same about Q5. If they do not mention the word “CREE” it is because it will not be “CREE”, it can be anything else
Well, to be honest, neither “T6” nor “Q5” are any type of leds anyway. If they were just a tad *cough* “smarter” they could deliberately slam a typo over the “Cree” name on the ads (“Cr33”, “Creee”, …), and so they could completely lawfully rip you off. “All sales final”, LOL! :D
Cheers ^:)
Hi, what about this one. Does it look like cree xm-l2? I know quality of picture is not the best.
Quite the opposite, from experience. They mix together everything that claims to be the same, and send you whatever’s on top of the bin, no matter who actually provided it originally.
https://www.google.com/search?q=amazon+wsj+inventory+commingled
May be good. It has the core points in staggered rows and insertion pads are round, as CREE.
Well when i get it, ill take a better picture .But yes i agree with the things you point out was thinking the same just wanted to hear some other opinion. 
- TT6 just arrived and at just a really fast look it appears to be a Cree. I have to go mow grass but after that and a shower I will dig deeper. I took a quick phone camera shot of the LED but loading it is proving to be a task lol.