Oh wow. They finally made a better looking light than the sky ray king but they really messed up the head design. Then they went overboard with a red anodized head.
I dunno… private listings plus auctions equal bad news in my book. I can’t imagine any legit reason for the listing to be private, and I can see all kinds of potential for shill bidding.
The front half of the light comes from a 9x xml t6 solarstorm bike light called the xt90. Then this whole light is labeled as a sky ray king which was one of blackshadows first lights they made. Strange frankenstein mix there.
http://m.ebay.com/itm/381101245523?nav=SEARCH
Here is the middle front half as a bike light with a different machined front bezel with gold anodizing.
This light looks nice
NItefighter, says XML2, but pic shows XML.
price is $12.95, shipping is $4.50 so total is $17.50
Icon Rogue 1 AA (or rechargeable AA or 14500 — see notes)
Gray, $5.95, free ship CONUS: http://www.ebay.com/itm/261478827951
Green, $6.95, free ship CONUS: http://www.ebay.com/itm/251791857703
Icon has been out of business for a while, so these are probably the end of the tail. Don’t expect a warranty.
However, for 6 or 7 bucks, these are really nice lights. Not very bright (H/L), but no blinkies. Very well machined. Just over 1” in diameter, 4.5” long, so a bit bigger than a typical AA light. Forward clickie, which isn’t my personal fave, but whatcha-gonna-do?
It has an interesting regulation circuit that got some panties twisted over in the other place… basically, it runs on high for 10 minutes and then steps down a bit. If you turn it on and off after it steps down, it starts the bright cycle all over again.
Among the downsides that I’ve been able to figure out:
- tint lottery — one of mine is sorta NW, other is COOL
- no tailstanding
- everything seems to be glued to within an inch of its life, so no easy mods/swaps. (I have heard of people boiling these sorts of things in bags, but that seems to melt more parts than it releases, so I’m not doing it.)
- threads are anodized, so if your battery is a little longer than a typical AA, you don’t get continuity. I threw a loop of solder wick in there to make contact for both eneloops and protected 14500s. The head doesn’t screw down perfectly tight (1/16” gap) when you have a longer battery in there, but there are enough threads engaged for it to be solid. Waterproofness might suffer.
The seller I linked did actually ship pretty quick, but that might be the ~50 mile distance between us.
If I was giving these as gifts, I’d strip the anodizing from the threads so people could use rechargeables without messing around.
FWIW I think BLF has some experience with eBay sellers calle “brotherhuang”. I don’t recall whether the experiences were good or bad overall, but it might be worth searching to try and pin it down. A glance says negative, but I thought the consensus was positive at one point? Like I said, better do some research.
If there was going to be a good version of this light, it would quite possibly be the initial batch. Do you folks really want to wait to get onboard with this thing until it’s $35?
If you would use a credit card, you can get it for $12,95 within shippin on Aliexpress (same seller). One of feedbacks say, that it will come with a XM-L and not a XM-L2. Avaiiable in CW and WW.
Thanks for the heads up. I wouldn’t mind picking up a couple of ICON flashlights, but I think I’d need to gut and upgrade them. I Googled a little looking for driver pics. All the glue helps explain why I didn’t find anything.
Still, nice find!
I posted this in another thread, but decided to move it here as that thread was about another light. Not sure if it's a good deal, but it looks interesting. 5 26650's, 18 emitters, side switch. $40. Doesn't specify the head diameter and I know nothing about the vendor. Link in picture.
Those seem to go normally $110+ so I wouldn't be holding breath and really expect to receive 1 for $40.
Nice photoshop :D
If you check out the order history, as of right now it says 26 sold. BUT only 1 has sold at $40 and that was today. Whatever else they were, they sold for 7.99
Damn. Even though it's only like $2.22 per emitter (Hopefully, not XM-L L2 bin), I wasn't going to buy one. Now the intrigue has me too curious. The vendor seems to have legitimate history. Maybe the account was sold. I see the light is supposed to have 90mm head . :) Oh what the heck.
Ordered one.
So whats the deal with the photo shopped pic in Post 16?
I've been trying to get it, but I seem to be even thicker headed than normal tonight.
From same seller.
SRK 3x XM-L for $13.99
NiteCore i4 for $12.99
NiteCore D4 for $19.99
Too good to be true?
That SRK has been steadily dropping in price… I’m interested to see how far it goes.
dthoang wrote:
Too good to be true?
Maybe. I have bought SRK's and I4's for just a hair more. We'll find out.
Wonder if he accidentally posted everything for his purchase price…
Price make a wrong, so sorry.