Just ordered two of them for my DST’s. Used the store points and it comes out to about $6.50/piece. Love 26650’s. It might look strange, but I like it.
Ordered two and got my first one today. The threads are very very loose in the end so there will be a fix somehow. The tube sayes XM-L2 on mine and it is one inside. Very nice beam.
No complaining, it´s a cheap light and we like to fix things in here so… 
I put both, an MT-G2 and SST-90 in one of these, I didn’t like the beam of either emitter with this reflector, they both had artifacts that I couldn’t get rid of and the stainless steel bezel creates a ring in the outer portion of the beam that I didn’t like.
IIRC with an XM-L2 the hotspot was quite large when I swapped the stock centering ring for a ‘normal’ thin/winged one. Before that I think maybe it was not very good? Ringy or something? I don’t recall. I do wonder a little what the XHP50 would do.
I ordered one on 1/17 and received it today. What!? I checked my account and it turns out I had ordered one on 1/3. So it took 17 days to get here and not 3.
The tail cap is fine on my sample. I did have to grease all the threads. The light is pretty much as Old Lumens reviewed.
Now I just need to assemble a BLF17DD driver and flash a custom firmware and I’ll have a true budget light.
You know that you’ll be piggybacking that 17mm driver on top of the stock 22mm driver, right? Just checking!
there is a BLF22DD board
More or less the BLF17DD w/ a larger ground ring…your build is a bit newer and more refined though 
Thanks WarHawk-AVG. I wasn’t trying to steer dthoang away from the BLF22DD, I just noticed the specific mention of the BLF17DD. I figured I’d mention the size consideration to try and prevent tears.
I’ve been thinking that I should do some new 22mm boards. There have been plenty of interesting developments since the last 22mm boards were done.
EDIT: Your post is maybe a little confusing to those who don’t know. Why don’t you put the hyperlink to the BLF22DD on the BLF22DD text instead of the BLF17DD text? :~
That’s the awesomeness of the BLF development community…always someone willing to push the envelope and make bigger, badder, better…
Sure the older stuff is still viable…but the new hotness always needs to be made or the “R&D” side of things get’s stagnant
I actually have two BLF17DD and one BLF20DD that I bought from RMM. I figured that the 17mm one will be easier to piggyback on the 22mm stock.
Or I can just drill a hole in the stock driver and turn in into something like this.
I have broken one glass lens, any idea where i can find a replacement?
Did you get a reply from customer service?
I received mine today and it also has XML-T6 stamped on the side and thats what is inside (no thermal paste at all just loose on top of shelf)
Yes please!
Dang. Predictable, but stupid.
Yes, it took some days but it seems that I will get a refund. I’ve ordered another one in between and was assured that the current model will be shipped. Let’s see what I will get this time…
Today I’ve got 3 XM-L’s from FastTech which I was planning to use for replacements (mounted on 20mm stars because I’m not in the reflowing business yet). Although only two of them should be XM-L2 according to my order, I’ve got all 3 as XM-L2 with silverish top (all T6 bin with 1A/1C/3B tint). Let’s see what I can do with them.
I received mine today also, and it too has XML-T6 stamped on the side and thats what is inside (no thermal paste at all just loose on top of shelf) Driver is slightly different than what has been posted, a YN-22-T6 different position of some components.
Gearbest customer service are quick in replying , I emailed them yesterday and today they replied offering replacement or refund , I asked for replacement as long as it has XML2, the XML I have is not that bright and has a lot of blue tint in it.
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Yes please!
I started work on a 22mm FET+1 type driver: [WIP] 22mm DD+single-7135 driver / single sided / Dual-PWM / Zener
This batch is worse quality than the first batch. Very poor, even at the price point.
Sorry, I just can't know for sure what we will get any more and it seems to get worse every time. Even if I ask for a sample first, I don't know if that sample will be representative of the actual lights going out.
Mine came in. Ordered on 1/7/15. Has an XM-L2 in it, says XM-L2 on body. Threads are loose, but I plan on putting Teflon tape on them anyway and they improved with lube.
Mine arrived today. I’d say it’s not bad for the money (as a cheap host)
Pros:
-Nice chunky body and love the plentiful heatsink fins. This could definitely be a nice little hotrod light.
-Reflector & lens nice and clean. Came with a protective plastic sheet over the glass which is nice.
-Decent external condition, some cloudy anodizing on the head and a few dings on the aluminium bezel.
-I like the red tailcap boot. Something a little different
Cons:
-Mushy crappy tailcap switch
-XM-L T6 on body and XML inside. Pretty blue, maybe a 1C. Might be ok once I’ve fixed that crappy centering ring and brought things into better focus.
-Very tight driver retainer. Tweezers where a complete no go here, had to break out the needle nose pliers to break the seal.
-Craptastic driver, seems to do Med, Med, Slightly-lower-Med, Flashy, SOS. So it’s really only fit for the bin.
-Fairly loose tailcap threads as others have said. But the anodized threads are pretty clean and the O-ring is correctly sized so it makes a better impression once you start to tighten it down. Should be ok if you are careful not to cross thread it.