Good deal - TrustFire TF-R2

Aloha and welcome to BLF Rolz!

thanks for the welcome guys

For exactly the same reason I bought this C8. (SZOBM ZY-C8). It beats my ultrafire C8 Q5 in both throw and spill. It had some very small scratches but else the quality feels good. It was $12.58 + $6.40 (ship).

And welcome Rolz and enjoy the forum. Your country delivered the future queen in my country.

Thanks again. I had a look at the SZOBM ZY-C8 and it looks a good unit Are you able to swap out the LED pill with a P60 as you can with the Trustfire TF-R2 (DBS V2 clone)? . I'll decide in the coming days what to do as I'm keen to get a torch for an XML that should be able to cope with the heat load on high better than a L2 or a skyray S-R5 body. I like th eidea of being able to use a P90 pill without haveing to mod th epill supplied with the flashlight

No, the P60 is a different and smaller construction and will not fit inside a C8. You can see pictures in this thread, the C8 is build like that and there is even a picture that compare with a P60.

I noticed some time ago Manafont listing an item TrustFire TE-R2. It looks almost identical to the TrustFire TF-R2. Does it appear to also be able to take P60 pills as the TF can?

http://www.manafont.com/product_info.php/trustfire-ter2-led-5mode-memory-led-flashlight-118650-p-5634

This is the same flashlight. It is a typo.

Are any of these P60 pill compatible?

I have got this pills fits in head

Completely identical that that on photo

Possible use any pill from a P60 module?

I got mine today. I immediately swapped the stock pill for one from a Manafont XM-L dropin. I didn't get the clip in the parent post though. Not that I'd have any use for the clip anyway - it came with the usual black lanyard instead.

The light. This has been "enhanced" by accident, the actual colour of the light is accurate in the second picture, not this one.

The light beside its battery.

Head detail. I don't see the sort of crackling on the finish by naked eye - time to get out the magnifiers and have a very close look. It is there under 30x magnification. My guess is too much current in the anodising tank. It is visible on the body tube, but not the tailcap.

Tailcap innards - I don't much like the look of the plastic switch retaining ring.

Outside end of the tailcap. The dog hair is courtesy of the folks next door's Airedale.

The threads weren't lubed, the crud appeared after I lightly oiled the threads. The graunching and squeaking of the top end of the head being unscrewed got on my nerves. This is the tailcap thread detail.

Reflector - it is firmly fixed into the top part of the head so I didn't try to remove it.

The head farther pulled apart

There is some sort of coating on the inside of the body tube.

Back end of head - this has the Manafont dropin installed

Front of inner head. No idea what the gunge on the LED is.

The original Cree XR-E (Presumably R2) pill

The business end with the XM-L

Will get some numbers in a minute.

screwed out of the head fairly easily............luckily. I had some bonus fingerprints on the reflector and lens.

Throw numbers looking good!

High 27000 lux at 1 metre

Medium 7500

Low 1450

Must put the R2 back in some time to see what it can do.

Absolute output numbers on high weren't all that impressive - will try another (much younger) cell in case the cell was limiting current. 440 lumens from an XM-L does not impress me when I've measured better than 850 from the same dropin. The lens appears to be clean. Newer cell charging now.

I don't get why this light is so expensive with an R2.

I wish there were more lights like this. The p60 drop-ins have really crappy heatsinking. I have to fold foil to jam into all my hosts. Gives me a feeling of achievement but really kinda wonky looking. Good think it's all on the inside.

I think this light is expensive because it look pretty well made, but that emitter looks really off center in the last shot.

I think that's just the camera angle - it doesn't seem off centre in the flesh.

Hi Don, this one slipped off my radar but now Im thinking about ordering. Im sick of repacking foil every time I change a P60 in one of my hosts.

Did you get better numbers with a different battery? Hrvoje commented that the reflector produces mostly a wall of light. Also, are your measurements center spot or light box?

Can you post some beam shots?

How can this fairly compare to the X9 both on a XM-L emitter with regards to throw?

I don't have an X9 but I'll do some beamshots tonight once I've fed myself.

Edit: I was going to do beamshots, but it has started to rain. At least that means no PITA adolescents doing the Trick or Treat thing - which is an import from across the Atlantic we could well do without. It used to be "guising" here, ToT is a new thing. I don't mind the little kids at all, but obnoxious teenagers expecting money are just a pain.

Don, did you ever get updated output numbers for this? Thanks. Great pics.

I too love the idea of a light which is not a P60 host but can use P60 pills. Old4570 is the only one I've seen address this on a functional level:

I need to get into something like that, just need to decide how.

Here are some numbers. Turns out that if I use a meter probe instead of the switch I get 900 lux more at the top end, giving me just over 700 lumens which is more like it.

The switch needs to come apart.

Light Battery
Trustfire TF-R2 (XM-L) High 18650
Trustfire TF-R2 (XM-L) Medium 18650
Trustfire TF-R2 (XM-L) Low 18650