*** The great Skyray King shootout Fall 2015 ***

Thanks for posting. Some really good beam shots for comparison. The Sky Ray King stock model does well. Is there anywhere these can be bought with confidence that they are built and perfrom as expected?

The DD Kung seems awesome.

Nice! I also have a single SRK modded with XM-L2 U2 7D4 WW LEDs, and that tint looks pretty much how I see it. Thanks for the beamshots! I wish there was a place to get a reliable old style SRK suitable for modding.

sadly it is getting very difficult to find the “original” 3-torrid drivered Skyray King. 95% of them sold now are lower powered knock-offs and fakes. I only have one original i bought nearly 4 years ago from DX when these impressive pop-can-sized lights were first introduced. I have bought several of the new fakes but they don’t even come close to the original Torrid-driver version, or near the quality of build.
As for the DD driverless Kung that thing is a hand-held monster flooder.

I agree, the XM-L2 U2 7D4 CREE emitter in these beats the hell out of any Incan/Halogen light i ever had for output, while matching that warm Tungsten filament beautiful warm traditional tint.

It’s my warmest light by far, and yeah it’s like an incan on steroids. It gets burning hot if you leave it on for 10 minutes, as in, you-can’t-hold-it hot.

I agree that the SRK lights were limited in how much heat-sinking they could provide for the size and output they could be modded to, but I still like the fact that 6K+lumens of intruder-stopping-power can be extracted from a small light than can fit in a hoodie pocket is still impressive.

I forgot to add a photo of the lineup of these Lights in this beam shoot out.

Below from left to right:

4C-modded Warrior ,
OL JB-Driver SRK,
Stock Original (3-torrid driver) SRK,
DD 14+ amp SRK Kung,
XM-L2 7D4 SRK,
Six-Nichia 219B SRK,
Fenix TK75vn (2015 Edition)

All these lights were tested using fully charged Samsung 25R High-Drain 18650 cells.

Thanks for the awesome work man! The beamshots are gorgeous. What is your preferred tints in there guys?
I’m seeing myself like the 4c warrior and the tk75 ones :slight_smile:

No love for the supfire m6 ?

sadly i do like the Supfire M6, but never got the opportunity to find one to add to my collection.

U2 7D4? Didn’t think U2 bin was possible in tint that warm. Sorry, just picking nits., nice comparison.

You might be correct, i have a habit of typing U2 after XM-L2

I like my 5000 mAhr 10440’s too.

5000 mAhr 10440’s?

He is making a point about “acceptable” typos 5000 = 500 get it?

It was definitely a joke recalling false capacity/output claims and not intended as a rebuke. I merely assumed the light in question was listed as it was described at the time of purchase and chuckled over the unlikely hood. :wink:

Thanks for posting. Some really good beam shots for comparison. I have some Sky Ray King models.

This is an older thread yes but I am interested in buying a skyray. I am a novice so don’t know where to buy from but I wouldn’t mind buying them already modded with a higher out put. Can anyone please point me in the direction of some one who sells new, genuine, already modded, skyray led light, that maybe won’t cost an arm and a leg. Thanks for all help/knowledge

There are a ton of Skyray King clones out there, and many of them real bad. its difficult to find a real original unless you can find one from a member who has one to sell. The Securitying version is not bad, and i think BrotherHuang1983 on Ebay still sold the “good” Skyray Kung 4-XM-L version, (unsure lately though) Many of the multi emitter versions, ( 4 or 5 emitters up to 9 emitters) are usullay way under driven, and all need some modifications to really get them blasting some output.

If I were to get one if those under driven lights that are being sold. How much would it cost to mod it to produce more light. How hard would it be to mod it. How reliable would the light be after the mod?