*3/13 Update the Review is in!* G700 "Chip In Fund"

yes! will do!

Hey fellows… I have both lights in my hand and plan on doing a review in the coming weeks. It should take me about 2 weeks give or take a few days- because I’m finishing up a few Nitecore things. I really don’t need either light- I’m doing this for fun really. I really don’t care where it goes next. I plan on shipping the G700 or both lights back to slim. He can decide what happens to it next, and where I ship it to.

Cheers to Slim for furthering this, and I hope he can decide, and tell you, who to send it to next — keep those reviews rolling out, so he doesn’t have to keep paying shipping for each new reviewer. Send it around

I think we need to send it to mhanlen for a tongue and cheek review.
[Loupes binoculaires](http://www.matérieldentaire.fr/category-31-b0-Loupes-binoculaires.html)

Yes that is in the making.
Who in the US wants to go next?

I found this page interesting… its a directory listing of all of the infomercials they do for different markets…

http://tacticalsystemsmag.com/

Sorry I haven’t read all the the posts here, but it’s too bad that the G700 isn’t being compared to the Ultrafire E17 Simon is selling. That one is much more likely to have a real Cree XM-L. The Meco has a LatticeBright LED, so it’ll make the G700 look better than it really is.

kowshak, good find, th is makes it easer to track the names they are using, thanks.

tristan, you could be right, if we had only thought of this a little earlier in the process, the price is about the same so this would have been a better choice if the eco used has indeed LB in it.

If this is true, it could throw a little wrench into our plans. I sent a message to mhanlen about taking a look at the mcpcb, to see if it says LatticeBright or LB on it. Banggood lists it as a XML T6. So we will see.

EDIT: Mhanlen confirmed that the G700 IS a LatticeBright emitter, so hopefully the MECO is as well. He is going to double check.

Crisis averted :face_with_monocle:

Good grief. I hadn’t actually seen any of the crap ads for this piece of garbage, until I looked at the ones collected at the link above.
“How to stop a bear dead in its tracks” illustrated with picture of snarling Grizzly bear

It reminds me of a joke worth, er, improving.

How do you tell the species of bear from the bear poo in the woods?

Contains berries and vegetation: Black bear
Contains little bells and fragments of “700-type” flashlights and smells like pepper spray: Grizzly bear.

I’m afraid the real problem here is these “700” flashlight ads are pitched to convince illiterates, people who can’t or don’t read to find information.

Author Spider Robinson pointed out back in 1999, in a piece titled “Seduction of the Ignorant”

Keep making those video reviews, and remember — half the viewers are below average. Poor suckers are being ripped off totally.

Looking at the emitters close… the G700 definitely has a Latticebrite and the Meco looks to have the same. So it will be a fair comparison.

Sorry, I wish I had read this thread before the Meco light was ordered. The reason I know it is a LatticeBright is because I bought one awhile ago from Banggood and it was confirmed to be a LatticeBright on the “Fake Cree LED” thread.

Oh boy…… here is the latest flashlight “de jeur”. It is an X800 so we can be confident it is much better than the G700 model https://www.shadowhawkflashlights.com/ss1/index.php?AFID=12&SID=YH

Wow. They must hire those guys who write spam email to do their fake website reviews. “Sponsored by” indeed:

What did they change? Oh, the number “7” has been replaced by the number “8” in the white paint on the outside.
That’s, what, a 12.4 percent improvement in brightness?

While I’m sure the G800 is equally unimpressive as the G700, the G800 is a clone of the Ultrafire E26 which can take a 26650. The G700 is a clone of the Ultrafire E17 and is a 18650 light.

While many feel the build is better on the E26 (which I agree) the switch design is not a good as the E17. The omten 1217 switch will drop right in the E17.

Just to update everyone… I am working on this, although I’ve been a bit busy. This will be by next review, and I should be done with it early sometime next week. Sorry it’s taken a little longer than I’ve expected… but I’ve written the script for it and tested that crap battery that has come with it… It tests at 1600 mah and only wants to charge to 4.08v.

Thanks for the update!
Thorough work!
Can’t wait to see the video!

Thanks for the update mhanlen. I think I can speak for everyone here when I say that we’re all looking forward to the review. However, we all want the review to be 100% complete, so if that means that it will take extra time, I’m sure we all understand!

Yes + a lot

Update: My review should show up sometime a bit later today. Keep your eyes peeled! Or stay far, far away!