I received one of these for Xmas. I’d seen this in banner ads all the time while using my parents’ PC. It came with a dumb charger and 2 “protected” “4.2Ah” cells, which are undoubtedly old laptop pulls. I also looked at the emitter. It’s a LatticeBright clone of the original XM-L (surprise).
The box. Cheap thermoplastic (likely recyclable LDPE).
The contents. Light still in the crinkly wrapping.
I highly doubt the cells have any of the claimed protection circuitry. IlluminationSupply Kinoko IMR cells are among the shortest cells I’ve seen.
The mere safety of this kludge of a package is highly questionable.
Bless my parents. They’d always want me to do what I wish with a gift.
Such a review would be great thing to see, especially if mhanlen did it. He’s funny and from my understanding his YouTube channel has considerable reach.
I’d be more than happy to ship this to the designated reviewer at my expense if I were to get $56 and a comparison review in exchange. I would then purchase an Xtar MC1 charger, two Convoy S2+, and two protected Samsung cells for exactly $55.99 at Mountain Electronics to gift to my parents.
Yes and in the review your choosen package could (and should) be compared to the G700
And now that a just cause with no extra money to the scammers involved is found I am definitely in for $5,-!
I recon Slim Pickens also chips in and we are at 25
all this does is get a review out in the wild for the spiders to index.might save someone else the disappointment and danger(of the shitfire batteries)
our little contribution to the flashlight world.
btw i “won” one of these for $1.99 shipped.
it is what it appears to be.
a cheap n nasty $1.99 zoomie.with incendiary bomblets on the side.
a bit of tightening here and heatsink compound there and a bit of superlube made it useful.its in my neighbors toolbox now.
this one came in the same case with “anlook” ultrafire copies.same recycled junk.
this light had no markings other than the typical zoomie marks on the head they all have.
edit batteries are anlook.
Sorry for not updating my post. I’ve been working nonstop all last week, and weekend, so I haven’t had a chance to do anything with this yet.
I’m going to reach out to a few users this week who have the g700, and see if we can borrow their lights for a week or two for a review. I figured a gift card to Mountain Electronics would be fair compensation for letting us borrow the lights for the review.
That way these scammers don’t get any more money, everyone gets their lights back, and we can still get a review done. How about that?
I saw a few reviews… if you can call them that, on YouTube this past weekend.
I was disgusted by what I saw. Guys extolling it’s virtues, basically using the scam emails and web ads as a script… and yet, the beam looked unremarkable. Good flood, of course, its’ aspheric. But overall lumen and candela output, poor.
There was one guy who bought three… annoyed me to no end when he kept calling the LED emitter a “bulb”. I can’t stand that.
About as bad as the guy who pronounced Fenix as “fenn-icks”.
^ Watched that video…. it’s a joke of a demonstration. It clearly is not any different than any other aspheric zooming light. Nothing at all like the doctored up and fake images in the advertisements. The guy using the light in the video handles it as if it is some super dangerous weapon. Not impressed.
It’s a decent flood light, that’s really about all. And worth $6.99 on the slow boat from China.