Just a reminder about the Liitokala Store at Aliexpress: Here is a negative review to consider…
Is that the LiitoKala Store, the LiitoKala Official Store, the Official LiitoKala Store, the Famous LiitoKala Store, the Original Famous LiitoKala Store, the Real Original LiitoKala Store, the Original Real LiitoKala Store, or something else?
A big problem is that there are so many Liitokala stores or Official Liitokala stores that you can’t tell one from the other. If you dig deeper you can see that each store has an ID number. I’ve ordered some legit cells from an Aliexpress store, but they shipped from Turkey and took like 5-6 weeks to arrive to the US. This was over a year ago. Here is the store link if anyone wants it.
https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/cg35fP1W
To better identify this store, they have 37,900 followers and are a “Supplier Since 09 Jan 2013”. I can’t find their store #.
I think that be the OFFICIAL DOUBLE NAUGHT SECRET ONE & ONLY ( 
) SUPER REALLY REAL (TRUST US) OFFICIAL LIITOKALA STORE.
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Anyone else find it strange the vast majority of Australia is dark and full of dangerous animals yet you cant get flashlight batteries or guns?
As I stated above… I have never to date gotten a ’fake’ Liitokala 26650 from GearBest or Banggood. They have all been real.
Best I remember from threads & posts long past, they were rated 20A continuous & 30A pulse.
I have 22 of them, purchases ranging from when they first came out to about 6 months ago IIRC.
I’ve managed to get batteries from Mountain Electronics (max of 4 I think, I only got 2), but I’m concerned that if I buy some from AliExpress they’ll be rejected 
don’t really want to drop ~$30 and for it to never arrive.
(It’s 8am in Sydney now 
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Those 2 specific stores try to maintain their good reputation of not selling fakes.
Aliexpress, on the other hand, is like eBay. It’s made up of many small stores and sellers and it’s hard to tell who exactly your buying from and if their feedback is good or fabricated.
I make a point to follow the legit stores as well as put the items I’m interested in on my wishlist. When dealing with items from stores I’m not familiar with I read a lot of store and product reviews before buying.
Try the Vapcell store on aliexpress. It says they ship to AU for free.
https://vapcell.aliexpress.com/store/1084158?spm=2114.12010108.pcShopHead_11741348.0
Oh lots of them say they do ship to AU - it’s more worrying about customs rejecting due to not playing by their arbitrary rules. I’m planning on getting the Sofirn 5C 26650s 
That makes good sense Jason. :+1:
It’s not worth it ’to me’ to buy from some unknown on AE & risk getting crappy cells to save a few bucks. Only cells I have from AE came in a couple of Sofirn Lights. Those cells seemed to be fine.
I probably would & will buy some at some point from that AE Store BlueSwordM mentioned a few weeks ago when I need some again though. He said she was legit. Here is a link to that site:
https://queenbattery.aliexpress.com/store/1332380
Another Recent POST where BSM recommends this AE Store for legit batteries.
I get most of mine from LiIon Wholesale. Wish they had Liitokala 26650’s…
I haddadoit, justhadda. SP70 ordered.
Sofirn tells me my test light just shipped out today. I thought it went out last week. Oh well, maybe this is a true production light. I’ll keep you updated.
Seem my SP70 with HD26650 were actually shipped yesterday even though the status show shipped since 2 Mar.
Better late than never I guess.
Once its here customs won’t care its getting it on the plane on the other side that is hard but that falls on the seller and you can get a refund.
Good to know - might grab a few then. Would be nice if we had more options for local 26650s though. But I guess the market isn’t here for them.
Looks like fun right? I can’t even find a place to test lights where its dark now days to many people in and around the city. You would have to drive for at least an hour to find a dark open spot from my house in either direction with no people. Driving up north not many spots till after Newcastle my girlfriends parents live around there and its quieter but not empty i might go fishing like 11pm or 12am and people are still out. Probably closest would be the royal national park down south.
Its winter soon should be better.
Looks like mine has cleared customs this morning so I may get it around lunchtime Monday Best charge up my Keeppowers.
Mind you, I’ve purchased this light already so that should speak something… but, for those wondering, the proper parabolic curve to optimize for throw should have been observed as the red line I overlaid on the cutaway drawing below…
And it would have been wider and considerably deeper to really go for it…
Also, please keep in mind that I didn’t design this, I only overlaid it… this comes from the lights that have already succeeded in throwing over a mile from a reflector…. like the TN42 and GT (although the GT missed it somewhat as well), the MF04 came closer but still didn’t nail it. The TN42 throws almost as far as these other lights and is smaller.
If I can assume a 32mm MCPCB was used, this overlay shows just where the reflector deviates from optimized throw…
All this also assuming anyone cares…
And to clarify, I’m not meaning to be criticizing only offering Sofirn suggestions for future use… my intent is to be helpful, that is all. As said, I put my money down already….