UTorch SF01 price drop to $6.99

A few new products showed up. No huge deals, but all worth a look. Most of these include batteries and built in charging, which is good for new users.

  • On The Road M3 Pro at $34.57, an Olight clone with USB-C charging and an included 16340 battery.

  • Wuben TO40R at $49.99 with included cell and built in charging.

  • Wuben TO46R at $52.99, a triple with included cell and built in charging.

  • Wuben L50 at $35.65 with included cell and built in charging.

  • Wuben A21 at $149, a ramping light with included 21700 cell, built in charging, and an XHP70.

  • Wuben E01 at $13.99, small AAA light. Not the best emitter used.

  • Flashlight watch at $9.99. I don't actually suggest anyone buy this, but it was ridiculous enough to share with the community. Comes with compass, charging, and 4 light modes. Unspecified brand and LED. Again, do not actually recommend doing anything other than looking at this.

Hi Everyone! Here's your weekly update on the hottest deals on GearBest, as well as some new products that might be interesting.

Deals

  • The Skilhunt H03 is discounted 21%, bringing it to $31.99.

  • The Nitecore HC60 Neutral White is discounted 21%, bringing it to $49.99. For an extra $9 over the Skilhunt, this has more throw, an included cell, and a standard USB charging connection.

  • The Convoy S2+ UV is discounted 17%, bringing it to $23.99. Great for scorpion hunting, rocks, and curing UV glue. Did you know that UV reactivity is used in gemology to grade stones?

  • The Skilhunt H03 RC is discounted 25%, bringing it to $40.99. Last week these deals ran out quickly, this headlamp is quite popular.

  • The Nitecore TIP CRI is discounted 37%, bringing it to $15.99. So far, high CRI keychain lights are a favorite among those reading my posts.

  • The Convoy C8+ is discounted 17%, bringing it to $19.99.

  • The BLF 348 is discounted 35%, bringing it to $5.99. I have confirmed this uses the 219C, not the 219B.

New Releases

  • The Folomov B5M 26650 flashlight/powerbank for $79.00. Complete kit with cell included. If you are in the US, this light is around this price on Amazon as well and they may ship faster.

  • The Folomov B4M 18650 flashlight/poewrbank for $52.00. Complete kit with cell included.

  • The Folomov A1 launched with a 45% discount, bringing it to $5.99. This is one of the smallest and most versatile powerbank/chargers, although HKJ noted the termination voltage when charging is a bit low. Great to toss in a bag.

  • The On The Road M3 Pro 16340 light with usb-C charging for $24.79. There are also versions that include cells.

As always, feel free to ask if you're looking for recommendations or for deals that are not on this list. In addition to finding deals, I can always reach out to my contacts at GearBest to see if they can make you a coupon on certain items. If you find anyone getting in to the hobby and looking for a place to start, feel free to send them my way as well.

This week’s update will be my last post of the month, so I decided to do something a bit different. The links in this post will still be affiliate links from GearBest. What’s changed is the format.

I’m betting most of you following these posts have picked up some of the recurring deals. GearBest often has some high CRI keychain lights and a few good headlamps that are always good deals. Most of you have bought a BLF-348, a TIP CRI, and a Skilhunt H03 (or the RC variant). So for this week, I’m going to post some lights you can use to find something unique and round out the selection.

Lights made from other metals

Aluminum is popular because it’s strong, light, and a good conductor. For those of you that don’t think it’s stylish, or that are too hipster to have the same material as everyone else, here are some options.

Power Banks

If you’re going to carry around a high powered battery, you might as well carry one that can charge your phone and light up a room.

  • Folomov A1 is the smallest, cheapest way to add this to an existing battery. No light though.

  • Nitecore F1, a popular and versatile lightweight single battery option

  • XTAR PB2 will take two 18650 batteries and turn them into a portable power bank with charge level readout

  • Nitecore F2 takes two F1s and smacks them into one unit

  • Folomov B4M adds micro USB output to a 1200 lumen 18650 light

  • Folomov B5M is a 26650 light with micro USB out

  • Rofis MR50 uses a new 21700 cell and has micro USB out, for more capacity than an 18650 while being slimmer than a 26650. The included battery is the same capacity as the one with the B5M.

  • Rofis MR70 again uses a 26650, with two separate LEDs for flood and throw

Lights that aren’t tubes

Sometimes you want different shapes in your collection. Aside from the keychain lights mentioned above, these are worth a look. And they won’t roll away on you.

Lanterns

Great for power outages and camping.

  • Nitecore LR10 has a built in battery and is high CRI

  • Nitecore LA30 has a built in batter and can use two AAs, and is high CRI

  • Zanflare T1 is not high CRI or in stock sadly, but is a great price and has cool white, warm white, and red modes so keep checking

  • Nitecore LA10 CRI is a pocketable AA lantern

Lights that transform

Most lights stay the same shape they were when you bought them. If that sounds boring, look no further than these options.

  • Nitecore Thumb is a keychain light with a tilting head

  • Nitecore LR12 has an internal diffuser than slides out for lantern use

  • Rofis R2 is an AA light with a rotating head so it can be used as a headlamp or an angled work light

  • Nitecore MT21C is an 18650 light with a tilting head and a magnetic base for work

USB-C charging

If you want your light to use the next big thing in charging standards, here it is

That’s all for now! Hopefully you can find something that’s nothing like what you already have somewhere in this list. Comment below with the unique lights that didn’t make it on to this list. Maybe I can find something to round out my collection as well!

GearBest asked me to share a promotion they’re running, the Utorch SF01 is on sale for $9.99 with the code GBUtorchSF01. This light claims to be compatible with CR123, AA, and AAA batteries, which would make it a great backup light.

I believe it's CR123 only.

It would be extremely strange if it worked with CR123, AA, and AAA batteries.

That's what I thought, but my person at grrarbest says it works .Can't find any review to confirm .

On the page of the flashlight, itself, there is a video that seems to confirm that it is only for CR123 cells. At least judging by the space left:

Funny thing is: is this a “1 mode at a time” flashlight, or it can also be a “3 mode” flashlight?
The UI operation is not completely clear :expressionless:

That's what I thought too. I'll make note in the post, thanks for the feedback.

Not enough details to know about the UI or internals but as far as being able to use cr123a, AA and AAA batteries, the SF01 would appear to be a copy of the Streamlight Protact 1L-1AA, which does take cr123a and AA (and possibly AAA although with a little wiggle.)


Looks promising. If anyone buys this light, let me know what cells it works with and I will update.

The springs seem to be “big” to be shrunk, so maybe it can take all of the 3 types!
I assume that it would only be good for AAs or AAAs (in my case) as CR123s are expensive and it doesn’t seem to be compatible with Li-Ion’s :zipper_mouth_face:

Hi to all, i received my Utorch SF01 yesterday, and i’m being testing it.

I can confirm that it work with AA, AAA and CR123A. It’s a bit tricky to put in the AAA, you have to center it well to make electric contact but once closed i can shake it hard without any problem( a very stiff spring keep it in place).

The LED seem a cool white Cree XP-G2( in the manual title says CREE XR-G2, gearbest says XR-E, maybe a mix of XR-E with XP-G2 :smiley: ), I tried to unscrew the head but didn’t managed to, yet!

This flashlight really is a streamlight copy it even has the same TEN-TAP® Programming from streamlight:
three different operating programs:

  1. high/strobe/low 2) high only 3) low/high

Visually i only see the two differences from the PROTAC 1L-1AA, the knurling in the tail cap and having just 3 instead of 4 fins around the head.

Tail cap currents:
CR123A:
High 0.884 A
Low 0.335 A
AA:
High 1.41 A
Low 0.430 A

Some photos:
Utorch SF01 album

It’s cheaper now.

Has anyone said whether it has mode memory? (searching “mode memory” in the thread doesn’t find any info)

No memory mode, is momentary On(forward clicky), Programmable with 3 different programs: 1) high/strobe/low 2) high only 3) low/high.

Does it seem to be well made? I’m thinking of getting a couple of them to give away. I don’t want to give junk. :smiley:

ui seems to be high , low , or strobe

high may be 350 lumens [seems like that would last about 5 mins with cr123a]
they don;t say what low is

wle

You can program it like the TEN TAP from streamlight, they copy everything… for me high seem more like 300 lumen with cr123a, i test it last night with ceilingbounce app and i didn’t see any drop in the first 71 minutes i had only one cr123a home and i use it to measure tail cap currents before, and other tests so was not completly new.

Low seems like 60-70 lumen on cr123a
High on AA around 150 lumen
Low on AA arround 40 lumen

Good enough for the price but don’t expect miracles, threads are triangular not square, didn’t come lubed, lens not AR coated and reasonable SMO reflector. But LED seems a original cree xp-g2, good springs and switch.

Can 16340 or RCR123 be used?

Probably not, didn’t test it because the info i gather says i doesn’t work and i don’t wanna “blow it up” … other think is that i didn’t manage to open the head(meaning didn’t see the driver yet)