This is great if the silver ring is magnetic. Exactly what I wanted to do with my tailcap. Where did you get the photo from?
It and two of the sipik 98’s. Not sure of the specs.
Darn! Its the Q3… Thats alright… I’ll buy another one… lol
Specs…
Product Description Condition: Brand New. Model: SK- 68 - 3W. Adjustable Focus : Can adjust its focus for different usage . Zoom Mode: Zoom In & Zoom Out . Waterproof , you can use it in a rainy day !
Switch: End Tail On/Off button . Battery Type: 1x 14500 OR 1x AA Battery (Not Included) Material: Aluminum alloy. Color Exactly the same as pictured ! Size :92mm x Ø25mm x Ø20mm Net Weight: 63g.
My son and I each got a 3 mode Ultrafire from T-Mart USA warehouse when ordering a 1 mode - not my brightest (of 3) but it’s become my favorite. After a few seconds of being off it comes back on in the high mode, otherwise it’s next mode if turned off and back on immediately.
Yeah I gotta try ordering that black Tmart sk68 when I need another one, some good input on them it seems. What I bought was the red one.
I just received this
Was $5.93 including shipping when I ordered I see it’s now $7.99.
Three modes, fit and finish is good, running off a 14500.
Took 12 days to get to SoCal.
I got two.
5.40 each shipped a while ago. Very nice lights for that price.
Is this where I sign up for the Sipik-68-of-the-Month Club?
Sign up found lots of places -
Fasttech
Amazon
TMart
DX
etc.
Best suggestion on sk68s is to add thermal heatsink paste ...
I've had best luck with ultra ok's
the 3 mode versions are barely worth the hunt for them
What kind of output are you getting from these on AA’s. I have heard people saying 80 LM and yet other people say ‘extremely bright’.
What do you guys get from yours?
Marc.
I’ve bought more than 20 of these lights in the past year, because everyone wants one as soon as they see it. I’ve had at least 6 different versions. Starting with 2 of the real sipik68s then switching to the clones cuz they were just better lights IMO. I’ve tried the BBQbuy, Tomtop, Easebon, Manafont, Miniinthebox,and another ebay seller i cant remember name. The differences in performance are so very tiny if any between the clones in my opinion. I personally prefer the 3 mode version.
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I make a slight modification to mine by unscrewing the lens and adding another O ring around the threads. This changes the distance from the emitter to the aspheric lens just slightly, and makes the beam a little tighter when fully zoomed at short to medium range, and it also makes the beam solid instead of the lines being projected (which I don’t really care for).
The switch on my UltraOK feels similar to my Sipiks. The main difference I notice between them is the zoom is tighter but smoother-feeling on the UltraOK. My BBQBuy is a bit rougher-finished than the others (mainly on the fins) and the domed lens that’s over the LED on the Sipiks and the UltraOK isn’t on the BBQBuy, which makes the beam a little different—it doesn’t have that ring around the outside like the rest do. The zoom on the BBQBuy is quite smooth. The unbranded SK68 I got from TomTop seems as nice as the Sipiks.
Different LEDs. XPE vs XRE.
My experience has been the ring version is a larger die image, but not as bright.
Some people will like the smaller, brighter die (slightly longer useful distance), While others like the bigger spot. Nice thing is the spend to find and see the differences is small.
Nice simple fix.
Exactly what I need to do for the opposite reason. OL put an XPG2 in my 3 mode and an o-ring should bring the beam into slightly better focus - which IMO is also brighter.
Outside, I don’t see the dots (not lines like older LEDs) and want every bit of brightness that can be squeezed out of it.
I have ordered many of the TomTop clones and all were good. Just received some from FastTech and they dont seem as bright to me though, other then that that nice also maybe even a little smoother filling. Have tried other places but they are usually not as nice.
SK68 for LIFE!!!
Yea I really need to step up to the XP-G2 Has anyone tried the R5 in a sipik/clone?
Ah, thanks. I was thinking the worker who puts the lenses on was on a break when mine came down the assembly line, but it didn’t make sense to me that it seems to work fine without it.
The die image is larger with my Sipiks (which has the ring), like you say. The Sipik (at least the one I tested—bought from Manafont) is a bit brighter than the BBQBuy,though.
I agree, part of the fun of getting these was to see what the differences are.
I have one from FP, one from DX and one from Tmart.
I think FP’s product is fake. It can not tailstand. DX one is red, tmart one is green and both can tailstand.
@ fyesilova : funny, my FT’s one tailstands better than my silver ebay one.
@ cat eyes : right yesterday i got a cheapo flashlight from ebay (something on the 3 usd range) wich is great as extension tube. Why? you get 2 different combinations for less than a extension tube:
-a) sk68+2 segments of crappy FL= sp68 with 3AA + a lanyard 
-b) sk68+1 segment= sp68 with 2AA PLUS a 1AA crappy FL + a lanyard
Someone (2-AA Sipik SK68 Mod) used a different model of the same brand for the extension tube, difference being side click and design more according to sk68’s. I didn’t check runtime improvement yet, but it does look like a tad brighter on 2AA.
Side comment: FT (single mode) was brighter than Easebon’s ebay one (3 mode), and better finished, but i stand with 3 mode ones. let’s hope FT sells them soon. I gave the single mode as a present with a 14500 lifepo and you should have seen the guy’s face when he tested at night from the balcony… just epic
The SK-68 is actually how I got back into flashlights, sometime in mid-2012. I saw a “3 watt” bike light at Walmart for about $30, wondered what was better/cheaper online, and soon found myself looking at the #1 most popular flashlight on Amazon — the Sipik SK-68 (called a “BBQbuy @ 7W” something something). I ordered two on Amazon from different vendors, then made a third order (for eight units) from the vendor with better quality. In three orders, I ended up with three different models and ten total torches.
The best ones I got were from BestDeal777 on Amazon, and I got eight of them which I have mostly given away as gifts. They were the only ones with an O-ring in the zoom mechanism (so it moves more smoothly), and they had slightly wider optics for a narrower zoomed beam. They were three-mode units with no mode memory (woot!), silver screws, and a generally incomplete set of O-rings. They’re branded as UltraFire and Cree Q5, but that doesn’t mean much. Some were able to tailstand, others were not. One had a stripped clip screw, and the exact level of zoom focus varied. A ceiling bounce test shows a similar amount of total light to what my H51w puts out on high, with Eneloops in both, so I think my SK-68s are getting about 140 to 180 lumens.
I’ve heard that other people ordering from the same vendor sometimes got relatively crappy units, so it’s basically just luck whether you get a good one there.
In any case, I EDC’d one on my purse’s clip ring for about half a year, used it as a bike handlebar light, and generally played with it a lot. The anodization didn’t stand up well to abrasion, so there’s a silver streak where my clip ring slides across. I still use it indoors when I want a smooth circle of light, or zoomed on occasion when I want to point at something or get a reference point for testing throw… but most of my EDC use is now covered by Zebralights, and I’ve upgraded to an EDC 18650 on my bike and XinTD C8 for throwy purposes. The Ultrafire 838 works better as a wide, smooth wall of light, even on 3xAAA instead of 1x18650, so the SK—68 is getting slowly reduced to a decoration.
While my SK-68s are significantly brighter on 14500 than with Eneloops, I’ve only tried it briefly because I don’t want to burn out the emitters. It’s over-spec for the Q5, and I’ve heard too many stories about people permanently dimming their lights that way.
Everyone I gifted a SK-68 to was very pleased with it. It’s very versatile, bright, and small for its price. I think it’d be a particularly useful light for a pizza driver trying to find street addresses at night. One friend now uses it while doing theater tech work, both to see things up close in the rafters, and to point things out across the auditorium. Another guy replaced his old 2-D-cell incandescent, which the SK-68 put to utter shame. The girls I gifted lights to mostly keep them in their purse for misc uses. As for me, I’ve trained my cat to recognize the SK-68 strobe, to help with getting the cat back inside at night.
The SK-68 was my “gateway drug” back into torches, and I’ve had a great time exploring all the new developments in LED tech since the last time I looked.