Nice! This lil’ guy is still my go-to light when I want to blast something with a lot of light. 
Poor little SRKs have just been sitting collecting dust.
I need to turn them into cash so I can make this thing ridiculous.
I’d trust Focalprice before AliExpress.
Actually if you look closely at the photo on the AliExpress listed light it appears to be the same light as this one, though with a greatly exaggerated Lumens claim on the AliExpress light. 2000 Lumens per XM-L2 would achieve instant self destruction of the LEDs.
The question then becomes whether or not they are the same internally. I have bought two SRK clones which appeared virtually identical to look at but they had totally different internal construction, making one a suitable customization/hop up candidate and the other a hopeless POS light that was stuck at no better than the original 1800 Lumens maximum actual measured output. The less expensive light was the better one in that case, both from Amazon sellers.
The OP was nice enough to disassemble the light reported on here, take photos shown, and it looks like it has excellent internal construction and is a great hop up candidate. The other remains a pig in a poke until someone does a similar analysis and report. Do you want to be the guinea pig?
The SRKs with all of their internal variation are teaching us that the same external appearance and even name on some Chinese made lights means NOTHING as far as internal construction details are concerned. Very similar appearing lights can vary tremendously internally.
Hmm, why isnt’t this more popular? It seems to have great heat management.
The bezels. 60% sure its the bezels. Heck, I don’t like them.
But I have a bench grinder. And I need something to finally push me over into buying new wheels for it. XD
This light is on my list most definitely. But I would have to buy another quartet of new high-quality cells to feed it, and that’s another $30 on top of the light. And I have other projects that take priority now over another toy.
This review from May seems to be the only mention I found for it and for some reason the major China web sellers do not seem to have picked it up so it is not an easy item to find. It still seems to be pretty new too. I did find a China seller now has it listed on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/N5-CREE-Super-Bright-Lantern/dp/B00MQKARAA
So basically too new and with lousy distribution and little group discussion so far it seems. I have one coming and it will go to RMM to see what he can do with it when it arrives. The OP has never apparently reported on his modification attempt, if any done.
OP is a tortoise-slow modder. 
Love to see what RMM can do with this lil’ beefcake.
RMM just finished doing a SupFire L1 for me and reports that with Sony high current batteries and the copper mounted LEDs he installed plus driver mods and braided battery springs it is now putting out 7300 Lumens in Turbo mode. He may also have upgraded the wiring. It also now has the same seven level output UI driver he uses in his standard SupFire M6 modification which ONLY outputs 4600 Lumens in Turbo mode so the 5 leds on the L1 are putting out almost as much per LED as the three in the M6 from his level 2 modification.
If he can do the same with this little monster it should be close to 6000 Lumens when he is finished with it, adequate I think! :bigsmile:
BTW he reported doing the L1 was a real PITA as it has 5 separate reflectors which are held between a front plate and the LEDs so getting everything reasonably well aligned during reassembly was a PITA. He did NOT seem anxious to do another! This might be a good alternative.
Bezels are ridiculous for 23 reasons.
But are they removable? Unscrew and replace with standard type? Grinding down 4 bezels is a bit tedious! I’m keen to hear any modding attempts and what’s involved.
You mean that you do not try to grate Parmesan cheese with your lights with strike bezels? :bigsmile: Actually seeing as how they are described as aluminum and I have a metal lathe in the basement they are “no problemo senor”, at least for me. I do have some lights with pretty ridiculous strike bezels though including one with the old totally outrageous Solarforce strike bezel with prongs about 30mm long. I have it on the L2X waffle pattern light, a special run from years ago.
As for the being removable question the OP shows them removed in one of the photos in the original review at the start of this thread. They do give the light a distinctive look compared to others and you can always tell the cop that the purpose is to make it readily visible if the light is placed on a table with the front down and inadvertently left on.
Any update on the upgrade mod?
Yall’ killn’ me.
When RMM gets back I’ll go ahead and grab some noctigons and a FET driver, move this puppy up to the front of the queue, see if I can bridge the resistors on the stock driver, and improve my test rig.
Maybe blow up my 10A DMM while I’m at it. 
What is the diameter of the driver? FET driver 
?
Well the stock driver is soldered into that thick brass ring. The actual driver measures 40mm so I would either have to piggy back a smaller FET driver, or do away with the brass ring. I think either way would work, but I may stick with just resistor bridges if it works well. I’m not currently planning on buying a set of high drain cells though I might if I can allocate some funds.
I definitely DO NOT understand Chinese product shipping. I just got my tracking number from Focalprice, by going to their web site, for this light and it is a DUTCH postal service tracking number, This was a light only order and I would think that China Post would be the cheap way to go.
Do you prefer China shipping? I find them the slowest to Australia, but I noticed lots of sellers prefer them. Wonder if its for the cost or shipping time. :~
I would presume that Dutch shipping has to be mailed from Holland and due to government subsidies China shipping is typically cheapest for most items made in China. Unless Focalprice has a EEC warehouse then shipment from Holland just makes little sense to me, but then what do I know?
Update:
Ordered 8/14
Claimed shipped 8/18
USPS finally recognizes tracking number 7/27. Status: “Origin Post is Preparing Shipment”.
At local post office 9/1 (A Holiday!) Should have it tomorrow.
Looks like you’ll be first to get this beast cranked up then.
I am waiting ’till I get some spare dosh so I can make it right for my tastes.
Light arrived in good shape other than the battery contact plate showing signs that batteries have been installed in the light. The normal circular battery + contact wear pattern visible on the driver copper surface. Also the light has apparently been opened up by someone as the driver retaining ring was about two turns or so loose so the driver was loose enough to move vertically and radially when touched. I tightened the retaining ring, greased the threads and installed batteries and everything seems to be functioning ok.
I do dislike the user interface with the light always coming on in high mode and no way to turn it off other than going through all three brightness modes to reach off. Hold down the switch and the light goes to strobe from off or any brightness mode and any switch depression from strobe goes to off regardless of the light mode before strobe was activated. So a minimum of two switch depressions to get from strobe back to a steady light output, and more if you want medium or low output. It accepted EVVA protected Panasonic NCR18650BD high current batteries with no problem.
The light head is just a few mm smaller in dimensions than the Nitecore TM26 head but the bezels and reflectors are considerably smaller. The TM26 is definitely a lot brighter and with a smaller hot spot. This light is floodier and with a lot lower Lux level in the beam center per visual inspection. Comparing it with two lights measured by RMM at 1800 and 2450 Lumens it looks to fall in between as best I can judge from different beam tints. Call the genuine output as being between 2000 and 2400 Lumens guesstimated. This light is definitely a warmer tint than the Solarstorm T4.
Very clean machining on mine and a good looking silver grey anodized finish which to me looks like undyed hard anodizing as used on many older bicycle aluminum rims. The battery tube is cut so that the batteries are not locked in radially. The battery recesses are only semicircles of 180 degrees or a bit less so batteries can tilt towards the center of the holder if there are less than 3, or two adjacent to one another, installed.
Overall a good light for the price if you can stomach the user interface. I expect to ship it to RMM to see if he can up the output and install his seven mode driver which has spoiled me.