COURUI DO1 'Big Head' (Black/GRAY NOW AVAILABLE) $29.99 @ Gearbest ( use coupon: gbcourui) A long-throw modder's light!

Ordered a black Courui on October 7th, paid for tracking, light was shipped Oct.10, tracking was refunded Oct. 21, still waiting for the light to arrive…

And the mail lady just rang the door bell and handed me the light. “Is this the package you’ve been waiting for?”

Timing, it’s all in the timing.

I think the mail lady must be reading BLF.

haha, and not the ‘other side’ !

:slight_smile:

The original link was eBay of UK - dunno how to order from there - my regular eBay account doesn't seem to work. So, searched regular eBay.com and found those other listings. I'm hoping they are all the same - seem to be. Not sure how eBay works internationally...

Finally received my Courui, after 30 days, but unfortunately with a loose reflector! No o-rings.

My gray Courui has finally landed in the USA, making a stopover for an internal ‘makeover’ by Brad, a.k.a. 18sixfifty, before making its final journey back to a country not far away from China!

Just wanted to share my new buck driver project. At this point I’ve got a stable running driver but fitting it in the courui is just to much work, I’m going to leave this one as is but not do any more, its just to much work and money to do these lights. I’ll be designing a new board for a more universal application…

This is a pic I thought would be a lot more cool than it was (its also very short range for my usual high power thrower beamshot’s, only 150yds). Also extremely hard to get this shot, I took it from a rail road bridge 60’ above the water with no solid floor.

This light is a DX courui running BU_CK with an XM-L2 U2 1A dedomed at 7.7A from NCRB’s (no higher power from ICR’s, exactly how it should be). it makes 523kCd!

All in all probably not worth the cost in this light for under 100kcd more output (using my 17dd_PIC I was getting 450kcd at 6.4A) but it was the first BU_CK I had running so it did serve its purpose.

Soldered this back to where is should be, but this is not bright as my gray one. I noticed this blinks about once in 5sec, very fast blink barely could see it. any ideas why gray medium is as bright as this black high?

Why is the second leg of the inductor hanging in mid-air?

That’s the way it came. A few posts back, there is an explanation with the same picture. That is the part he is saying he soldered back to where it should be.

Got my grey one today, too.

Big ass light. Wonderfull.

Mine draws 2.11 Amps out of 3 90% full TrustFire 2400mAh (unknown age).
2.11 Amps trough a extremely thin wire in the end-part of the light… changed it immediately.

Feels a bit too light for it’s size, I think.

To open it, just like the Kings? Remove switch, push with screwdriver?

I desoldered the LED star and unscrewed the shelf. Then I popped the driver out from above.

I placed an order for a black one on Oct 13, got an email that the light was shipped on Oct 16. It is Nov 21 and it is not here yet. Should I be worry?

Not yet, unless you live next door to Gearbest. I’ve ordered three of these lights now. The first, I ordered for myself. I paid the two dollars extra for tracking, and was really displeased with what I got for the two dollars, so I didn’t get tracking on the other two. But, here’s how mine have been:

First light - ordered 9/23, received 10/20 - almost a month (with tracking)
Second one - ordered 10/23, received 11/05 - about a week and a half! Woo-hoo! (without tracking)
Third light - ordered 11/02, received NOT YET, STILL WAITING 11/21! (without tracking)

So, there ya have it. Shipping times are not consistent or predictable in any way, but will most likely be over a week at least.

He is waiting for 5 weeks now :wink:

I got mine in ~18 days including weekend and customs.
But I chose the NL Post - so it’s a bit faster than usual to germany.

I got an order from AliExpress from 25.04 this year some days ago… was delivered on road by a tiny snail I guess.

How did I miss that? For some reason, I read that completely wrong! I saw Nov where he said Oct, so I was thinking 5 days! Yeah, 5 weeks is a long time to wait. Sorry about that!

Almost seven months……World record!
Did it come in a “Note in a Bottle” thrown in the sea?

DavidEF, your second order arrived very fast. I ordered 10 days before yours. I am thinking to file a Paypal dispute in a couple of days.