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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.

No, that is the only problem, for LiFePO4’s there are no good small cheap chargers… Perhaps the Nitecore D2? Or the Xtar WP2H

I updated the post above, the first ones I linked were the 3.7V, I have the second ones, the 3.2V

That is to bad, i will search for one.

For 4.2v 10440 we have the cheap and excellent Xstar MC0, i hope one for LiFePO4 will turn up.

Mine has a gap in the key chain eye, so they gave me a full refund.

I just ordered one of these for US $3.44. I figured that a Nichia upgrade might be all this needs.

It looks kinda like a 14500 version of the Sharp Eagle ZQ-SH-05

Or a SingFire SF-361 clone.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/121796355784

Once you receive it, can you let us know if it takes 17mm driver or 14mm driver? Thanks.

Assuming I have the seller right, and I’m pretty sure I do, 4-cn922 sent me one with an lb emitter, but solid pill, driver seems decent, switch seems nicer than others, too. Nicely finished c8.