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That hollow pill doesn’t look too bad, most of the area is on the outside of the circle anyway, I’d think.

Got my $2.94 Skywolfeye the other day, not too bad. Purpleish XP-E (?) knockoff. Got up to 0.84 A on a laptop pull.

Looks different, but the screw out pill and zoom remind me of SK68. Not a bad little light so far, if it holds up.

17mm driver, not sure about star, maybe 16-17mm. Doesn’t look like it has any heat control. I posted some photos on 18650 lights .

One of my $5 C8’s has arrived. Unknown emitter but throws like a XP-E. Bluer than I’d like but not purple. Body says Q5. Not bad, seems solid pill but haven’t taken apart.

Does your “C8” take 17mm driver and what size of LED it takes? 16mm, 18mm or 20mm? Is the pill solid?

This is a light that I haven’t seen before. This one any good?

I’m measuring 17mm on the driver and 19mm on the thing that screws in on top of the star, to hold it in place. So I’m guessing it would take 18mm star

If I pull that part off, I’m afraid that it won’t work, so I’m not sure if it has solid pill or not. It looks like it has one of those plastic circles that will get torn up if I pull off the thing holding the led. If you can tell me what to do, I am curious, though, if it has a solid pill.

Really need to see a photo.

The dark thing that screws over the star was about 19mm

Link doesn’t work.

Sorry, I checked it repeatedly, not sure if it’sthe site or me. If it doesn’t work later, I might have to retry later.

Basically you have the led+star in the pill. Then there is a piece that screws in and holds the star, and has a hole for the led. That piece is about 19mm, so I think you should be able to use 18mm star.

The easiest thing to do is to unscrew the cover out. I don’t see anything can go wrong.

BTW if the photo site works, you should be able to attach the photos to your post, not just the link.

I thanks that white piece of plastic is electrical isolation. And I don’t have another one and the end of my spanner wrenche is sharp. I’m afraid it will get torn up

I see.

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Gearbest gone Ebay now?

Hi, thanks for reminding me.
I didn’t read the “ebay” word on the title/subject.

I’ve deleted my post :slight_smile:

I received the one order from here. It looks like the same as yours. The good thing about this C8 is that it takes standard C8 pills. It can serve as a good cheap C8 host.

I think this one is similar to Convoy S5.

Got mine in and it is an OK little light for $4 shipped. Seen much worse. Original tint has bluish color, but much whiter than I would have expected. Reflowed a Nichia 219A from FastTech onto the aluminum board and it makes for a nice Warm White little light… a good improvement for less than $1 with the new LED. The pill is hollow, it is the middle section and the driver and LED are press fit from their respective sides. There is plenty of wire to pry the LED out and desolder it for reflow. If I get in any blank noctigons, I may file one down to this diameter, but the stock one is not running hot at all. The driver is one mode, but looks pretty good and runs no problem on a 3.2V LiFePO4 AAA with a noticeable improvement in brightness… Good find cajampa!

Plastic lens, but Hugsby XP1 lens fits, needs an Oring up front too…

Nice thanks for the update :slight_smile:

Good idea to use the Hugsby XP1 lens, i have two broken mod casualties :wink: here that gladly will donate some parts when i get mine.

Do you have any recommendation for the best LiFePO4 AAA? Unfortunately HKJ dosen’t test much LiFePO4 so i have no idea what to get.

And get some 10mm sinpads instead of noctigons, those are dropins on most small lights like these.

I have the Soshine ones from FastTech, they seem to be good, I do not know if they are the best though.

The 10mm sinkpads are too small for these, there is only a shelf and they would need to be about 2-3mm wider, thus the filing down of the 16mm… Either way, good little light, even stock, for the money…

Correction, THESE are the LiFePO4 10440’s

Aha good point, i didn’t think about the shelf, but you right then starting from 16mm is the only way.

EDIT
I will probably pick up some of those Soshine cells next time i order from fasttech, do you know any small cheap good chargers for them? I can use my opus but i am thinking for gifting.