Group Buy for the GearBest Ultrafire F13 - Closed?

Thank you OL for arranging the group buy!
Ordered mine 2 days ago still processing…

Thanks, PM replied.

Hello processengr,

Your package will be shipped out in two days and update the shipping information in your account, please kindly wait for it, thanks.

I purchased one of these lights and I got it today. It came DHL, 6 days.

Anyhow, I will use it for the modding video and review. What I found strange, was a letter that came with it from "sammydress.com" Now who the hell is sammydress.com? It's got to be another website of GearBest. No telling who the real companies are here. I don't know what the deal is, but anyhow, I just thought everyone should be aware.

I will do a review of it and the mod later on this week.

Does the one you got have “Ultrafire” labelling, or something else? Also, does it have a pill?

Someone mentioned they received a dress advertisement from them before as well (I think in a PayPal dispute), lol. /shrug

Looking forward to your review and mod.

I haven’t taken it apart, but I will post all of that tonight, when I get home from work and I have a few minutes to tear it down. It looks like a glass lens, XM-L, Aluminum reflector and it has “Ultrafire” on one side of the body, but the other side just says XM-L U2, no designation that it’s an F13.

Looks like the led shelf is solid, made as part of the head, not removable and it looks like probably about 500 lumens at most on high, maybe a little less, so it's severely underpowered, which I would expect for a light with a thin wall. Can't tell much more till I tear it down.

Thanks for the update OL. Without trying to hassle you this light I think I read somewhere is supposed to have next mode memory. Does it and if so will the pencil line fix it? No hurry in the answer. Cheers.

I ordered one as well. Not sure why i would need this one though…

Oh, you don't want to go down that path. That way lies madness.

OK, so it is definitely an XM-L, an Aluminum reflector, glass lens (possibly coated), driver is just as RaceR86 shows in his photo, so you know how to mod it from that.

Also, instead of using the 153 resistor circled in green, supposedly you can just use pencil lead and pencil across the capacitator there.

So, the driver has 5 modes, H/M/L/fast strobe/SOS and Next mode memory. The led shelf is part of the head, no removable pill, but that doesn't bother me very much.

What would I do with it? An XM-L2 on a copper star, a NANJG driver, probably one from Kaidomain, (the V2 ones they have). I am getting to where I don't much care for the Qlites, with their flickering in moonlight, but that's just me... That's about all I would do. I think a copper star on the stock led shelf, would take 4 amps no problem. Then I would do the copper braid mod for the two springs and use a 26650 and be happy...

I will post a "review and mod" thread later on, but the mod is a one off, using the guts from a reflex mirror light I had.

I have seven on order and plan to do the pencil mod on five and on forward them. I hope it works.

Thanks for the info.

Hello Old-Lumens,

It’s a good news that you’ve got your light, thanks for organize this group buy, it’s over 100 units now.
it’s also wonderful that you will do a modding video and review, thanks very much.
About the letter, we confirmed from the supplier, it was placed in wrong package in ours, they also supply something fashion for other sites, sorry for this inconvenience, we will be more careful to our product packages.

Thanks,
Karen

So how much lumen is this thing on 18650? is it a flooder? semi thrower? sorry i’m to lazy to read whole thread :weary:

My three F13's arrived, one lanyard between them, one came with two 18650 sleeves and no AAA carrier, and one light is DOA.

Pretty throwy for it's size.

Anyone having issues, just contact GearBest via PM using their forum membership here. It's their ball game this time. I'm not running the middle man thing again, too much stressFrown

Hopefully they will make things right for you.

I just got the F13 I ordered on 5/9, acceptance 5/15, so about 14 days elapsed days.

I like the light, but a couple of issues I had:

- On the F13, the bezel ring was loose… like almost coming off. I guess that most here would consider a loose bezel ring as a good thing though :)…

- I also ordered an S55, which came in the same package…. Guess what? The bezel ring was completely off, and the lens and O-ring had fallen out also. Luckily, I found them on the counter where I had opened the package.

So, overall, the lights were ok, but I don’t understand why they were kind of falling apart.

Hello ohaya,

Very sorry about this, can you just send an email to our support center? They will keep track of your problem, thanks.