very true now that i remember reading the Cree specs. I’m just more used to driving these emitters to the maximum to get 4 times those lumens. :bigsmile:
what do you think about this from a famous flashlight?
Fixed it for ya!
So, a Lattice Bright in a ZeusRay?
That just isn’t right.
Definitely a Latticebright fake of a XM-L2. east to see that this must be a horrible zombie blue tint form looking at the thin, light greenish-yellow phosphor that the LB fakes are becoming known for & their really bad tints.
see here: Review: Zeusray CREE XM-L2 zoomable flashlight
another LB led
and this is a rewiev,what a fuck?
Rewiev said ‘’Uses XM-L2 instead of XM-L for a 20% better improvement’’
LOL
You need to resize your image down, its far to big to view properly.)
done,look the LB print
its a latticebright indeed. kind of sad how these lattice bright fakes were already flowing to us more than a year ago and we were not aware of them until lately.
does these LB are available in Warm white?
i have never seen one yet, only in eye-searing radiation blueish white.
what do you think about paying mor attention to that?
maybe add [condirmed Cree inside] or something else?
- faked components are a bad thing - don´t look in the other direction”
I believe that the led on the LB board in the Zeusray may actually be an XM-L2.
My second edition Zeusray, has a regular XM-L2 with a traditional white cree board, but it looks like that reviewer with an original model, has a legit Cree, but Dealmetic probably had an any alu board will do policy. After getting a worried about all this, I checked all my lights, all good here, but I don’t usually play the cheap light lottery anyway
The Zeusray that I used in my ThorFire BD04 Review doesn’t seem any brighter than the 4x AMC 7135 driven ThorFire BD04. The Zeusray is a newer model with the crappy pill, not the good older model.
ThorFire BD04 on left, Zeusray on the right. Tell me what you think.
Here’s a look down the front end. My picture isn’t great but you can get a good look at the emitter. If it is real, then the quality of the Zeusray has to be pretty bad to have a 4x AMC 7135 driven light make it look mediocre.
Just found this in one of my smaller flashlights. It was a generic, but still listed as a Cree XM-L… and it most certainly is not. I knew that name sounded familiar when this thread popped up.
So sad.
Melting…!!
This is a genuine LatticeBright.
Trust me, that was only one of the many problems.
- Star wasn’t glued down to anything so it was just floating by the wires.
- I had to resolder the wires together because the connection broke. It was the reason why I even bothered looking inside.
- Reflector doesn’t fit and was too small. Wiggly jiggly.
- Bezel doesn’t stay locked down because reflector is too small and short, and because star isn’t glued down, and because there’s a ginormous gap. I ended up using one of my spare TIR optics instead.
The fact that the LED even lights up is a miracle given all the craziness inside this flashlight.
In cheap flashlights are all LB :_(
Hooha, I just bought a green SK68 “Cree” clone on eBay for under $2 (auction, I was the only bidder, 99 cents plus shipping from “pflhobbyboy”)
(who, now that I look at the feedback, sells a lot of counterfeits. Dang. Not cynical enough yet, at my age ….)
It has a LatticeBright weak blue-white emitter.
No notches or holes drilled in the pill; press-fit aluminum foil ‘washer’ over the emitter.
One brightness level.
Chuckle. It came from a RC Car seller — and they don’t have any more of the SK68 lights for sale.
It’s a lottery lottery these days.
I notice lots of green SK68 clones on ebay right now (and sellers bundling ten or a dozen of them, as well as singles).
You can say that again!
Oh, you did.