I received mine in yesterday. I ordered it in Alibaba and apparently the seller is Uniquefire OEM. $38 shipped with UPS and arrived here in one week, quite good.
Now look at some photos of it.
Surprisingly it comes with XM-L2. I thought it is first generation XM-L as we see in FT, BG and GB.
It has one o-ring at the tail, but with the additional groove maybe adding another o-ring in there is possible.
The switch is secured with retaining ring.
Tailcap disassembled.
I have seen other members posted their switch, but mine looks different. It is more like a “standard” switch with 20mm PCB board.
From the two photos above I think I can swap it with the Omten switch sold in IOS, or maybe I will even consider to buy the forward clicky switch .
One problem with the light though. Sometimes the light would turn off by itself especially when moving around. I suspect that there is poor contact somewhere, or maybe the tailcap spring is not long enough to give enough pressure, not sure about this. Other members said the switch is nothing but crap, however my switch is seemingly different so I am not sure what exactly is the rootcause, have to play around with it more to find out.
Other notes with my OEM unit:
- The seller gives me the option whether I want to have the “Uniquefire” wording on it, and I chose no.
- The bezel of my unit doesn’t have through-holes around as you can see in the photo above.
- The seller also offers me the LED options: Cool white, red or green; And the driver mode options: 1 mode, 3 modes or 5 modes. Mine comes with CW and 5 modes, gotta swap the driver into LD-40 later anyway.
- The stock lens is made of glass and pretty good. The diameter and focal point is exactly the same with my DX 66mm aspherical lens. I put my DX lens inside and the projected die shape and the “ring” around are exactly the same.
That’s all for my impressions. It is not perfect but fairly good for the price. I have not fully disassembled it yet and my multimeter is not with me at the moment so no current reading was taken. The seller is very responsive and they even have Skype account.