1x18650 XP-E Flashlight for $2.99; Deal?

Well at that price canā€™t say no. I am in for 2. Likely swap emitters with something brighter out of my bin and give them awayā€¦ā€¦.they should work with CR123ā€™sā€¦.

I have a couple of XP-E2s here that need a home. Might dedome one and see if I can get a tiny thrower out of some small host, maybe this one. Probably needs a real reflector though.

poozoo must be wondering why he all of sudden got a bunch of ordersā€¦ ā€œBLF Effectā€ :)!

Really looks like an S5.
:beer:

Ohh, if itā€™s anything like that, Iā€™m happy. Solid pill, moddable tailcap, alu reflector!
This $2.99 one is probably a cost reduced clone with none of that, but one can hope. :smiley:

Relic,

Maybe the same as this one:

:beer:

Hi,

I bought one earlier, and already got an email saying it shipped :)ā€¦ However, no tracking #, so I sent email asking if he was going to be able to provide one. No harm asking, I guess?

Ā£2.39 delivered to UK. Might get one.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/141014095897?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&\_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

i ordered two, so i hope itā€™s a good deal :slight_smile:

Hi ohaya, definitely no harm in asking, but I doubt a $3 order will get a tracking number. Oh, but you paid for shipping, maybe the $1 shipping is tracked? Let me know, if so Iā€™ll update the OP.

Ordered one. Nothing ventured, nothing gainedā€¦

Looks like a neat edc. Ordered a couple. Probably will try a nichia in one of them.

Thanks for sharing the finding.

The listing was pretty confident in mentioning XP-E R2, repeated several timesā€¦ quite bold for an ebay listing :slight_smile: Hopefully this guy didnā€™t just take his supplierā€™s word for itā€¦ I kinda suspect this is an XR-E, because I have an UF-S5 with XRE that looks exactly like that. And also the emitter in the ebay picture looked like it has a ring around it.

My S5 was $5+, has the utmost crappiest driver I have ever seen, with puke-inducing pwm (really!) on mid & low and not recognising soft-click in between blinks during SOS mode (meaning you have to noob yourself and full-click your way back to High).

But it works nevertheless. And for $3 itā€™s good for the host & emitter alone, XR-E or XP-E doesnā€™t matter, so Iā€™m in for a couple myself.

Thanks for the find.

I emailed him and he sent a tracking #, but also it is now appearing in my.ebay.com. Also got notification email from Ebay, but that didnā€™t have the tracking #, but it does appear in my.ebay.com.

Does the tracking number work? Iā€™ve never had any luck with those ā€˜direct in eBayā€™ tracking numbers. They usually just say ā€œshippedā€ with no further routing info.

Iā€™ve ordered bunches of stuff on Ebay from China/HK, and on the ones that provided tracking #s (almost all of them), the numbers did/do work.

The one from poozoo for this order hasnā€™t started working yet, but I just got that yesterday.

I couldnā€™t give a stuff about a tracking number for something so cheap.

True. Cheap enough that Iā€™d rather have the cheapest shipping than a tracking number that costs more.

Thatā€™s actually what surprised me when ohaya mentioned itā€¦ why bother with a tracking number on this? They should have the option to go for free ā€˜slow boatā€™ shipping. Must be ePacket or somethingā€¦

Will there be problems if the tailcap from this light is used in C8/C12, mechanical and electrical wise?