AAA/10440 battery keychain light JAXMAN FINGEAR i2

Shame aliexpress charges 20% tax

that really sounds terrible!
Aliexpress charge seller about 10% order amount, if charging 20% of buyer, it is really unthinkable.

Where do you see that?
I ordered two, shipping to France, $9.90 each, $19.80 total, free shipping…
Would that be a brexit side effect?

You might call it a Brexit side effect, but this will happen to us too. In due time.
My opinion is that UK thought: it has to be done some time in the future, why not now?
People can blame it on the Brexit, but UK was planning it anyway. Brexix or no Brexit.
It has to do with the VAT “lost” to EU/UK because sellers now sell stuff at a net price.
And think: I leave it up to your customs people to deal with the VAT.

This is the message you get for TAX

From 11PM 31 December 2020, AliExpress is required by law to collect UK Value-Added Tax (VAT) at the applicable rate and remit to the UK tax authority when goods are sold to UK customers (i) where the goods are located outside the UK at the point of sale with a consignment value of GBP135 or less, or (ii) where the goods are in the UK at the point of sale, but sold by an overseas seller. For more information, please visit: VAT and overseas goods sold to customers in the UK using online marketplaces - GOV.UK

I get your point. Thanks. :+1:
This came up on the forum elsewhere…
Off topic, so let’s leave it like that.

Tax and intl trade EXPERT!
Powerful :+1:

I have made the 10440 battery available.
thank you.

WRT Skilhunt E3A:

  • same diameter (14 mm)
  • marginally longer (65mm vs 60 mm)
  • twice the weight (14g vs 7.5g)
  • can tail stand

I'd be interested if it had two modes, like mentioned by others above.

I'm wondering about the anodization quality, vs the E3A in its "best" version from this point of view (Slate blue), and vs its not so good other colors.

I wouldn’t call the 5 mm length difference marginal.
Also, the lanyard / keyring attachment is different. I like the Skilhunt much more.
But there’s another, much bigger difference that you’re missing: this one has a different head design with:

  • Separate LED and driver PCBs
  • Good thermal design

This means that:

  • With Jaxman you have a wider choice of LEDs that you can fit
  • Swapping these LEDs is easier
  • Good thermals enables making a good hot rod out of it

I haven’t bought a Skilhunt because I’m not very interested in lights that have a single board light engine with poor thermal path.
I think I will get this one, though I don’t want to be the first to buy it. And I also hope for a better deal later on. :wink:

even powered by a AAA 1.5V battery, it will still be some hot 5min later.
If by an 10440,much hotter.
So I can not use thin shell for it. Then the weight will be a little big. 14g while in fact, we can not feel the weight of a 14g small light.

For a 10440 light, I agree that the weight is good.

Btw, I ordered two of these and they should be delivered this week :slight_smile:

Thank you for your warm support

My red one arrived in just 14½ days after ordering. Quite fast, with COVID still around.
The body is a bit darker red than in the OP picture, and it has a satin like finish.
A bit like the “metallic red” of the Mazda’s CX5 sold a few years back. Not bad at all.
The anodizing is next to perfect, no spots, no color shift, no chips missing.
But since I’m more a fire-truck red person myself, this light will become a gift item.

It is a one-mode light with a pebbled TIR. Given it’s size I call it a moderate flooder.
I care for every lumen so I ordered a CW. But it’s not that angry blue. Must be the TIR
The first touch and feel was a bit meh. That changed after adding a bit of grease.
In real life, the backside has a slot of approximately 7x1.5mm for installing a trit.
The head has two parts. The top part only contains a TIR lens and plastic retaining ring.
The lower part reveals a PCB with, just like the Sofirn C01S, an easily changeable led.

My two red ones arrived too. Nice and compact, I really like it. A bit shorter than the Sofirn C01S. It is simple, just on and off, but it does that well, lots of light and a smooth flood beam.

A special compliment is for the tint. The XP-E2 is a classic choice, but the 4000K led that I received has a beautiful neutral to rosy tint, not yellow not green like so many 4000K leds. It is not very high CRI but not very low either.

CCT=4050K, duv=–0.0012, CRI=82.9, R9=17

hi yes. the red color is some speical.
That is there is difference in the pictures and in eye… While I cant say it in English. In our China webshop, we call it 色差
I tried take a photo by a cellphone, and DC,both are different

So it is really a displaying problem

Just got my red version. Looks good. My only comment is of 4 different brands of NiMh AAA, 3 would fit….barely. I had some trouble getting one back out. One would not fit at all. Tight clearances.
Tried an alkaleak, which fit fine, but it wouldn’t even fire up.

I received the two 4000K i ordered.

I only tested one with a regular AAA cell. Nice neutral slightly warm tint, quite bright and very floody. I attached it on my car key along a Skilhunt E3A and it is noticeably bigger. Diameter seems larger (i haven’t measured) and length is a bit longer. Not that much but overall bigger. I’m not sure i like the side attachment though… Nice keychain light anyway.

I have yet to try a 10440… I anticipate it to be much brighter, but it might not prove very convenient with only one mode.

thanks for dear buyers’s review.

I’ve had mine for a while. I swapped a 519A, 4500K (Simon/Convoy sourced) into it last night. Cri was 80-ish before with the XP-E2. Now it is fully a flooder, and CRI is over 95 on my Opple. Reds and browns, as usual, are the biggest difference. Quite happy with it.

Build quality: disassembled easily by hand. Desoldering MCPCB leads was easy. Thermal paste looks good and healthy. MCPCB is thin, and appears aluminum - at these power levels, I’m not concerned. Had to get the hotplate to 220°C to reflow LED (lead-free solder?), and the thermal pad lifted at one end. I don’t have a MCPCB nearly this thin or small diameter, so I just reused it and the 519A seems perfectly happy so far. I’ve given it more runtime since the mod than the entire time I owned it before, and all on 10440, so I’m not worried about it.

Now, for a trit…