Especially if you want the R2 or R4 bin, with a smooth reflector.
If you want to "gift" a flashlight, a Solarforce L2i with the XR-E R2 is nice because the recepient can use regular AAA batteries, the runtime is decent because it is an XR-E, and it has very nice throw, especially with the SMO.
I finally found a couple on eBay for 10 buck plus $2 shipping.
Could not find them on DX or Manafont except with OP reflector.
Just an FYI to those who like the idea of standard-battery lights with decent throw.
Don't think Cree ever made XR-E LEDs in more than R2 bin. They did give R3 on the datasheets a while back but nobody ever seemed to be selling them. In fact, the current XR-E datasheets don't mention anything past Q5.
There was always a big majority of OP reflectors when using XR-E beacuse people don't like cree rings and don't need a dedicated thrower either. So it's not that there's loads of P60 modules with R2 SMO disappearing, they just never existed.
the solarforce drop in is just a 5 mode with dico lights strobes and sos I'd just buy something off of kaidoamin or anyone selling a cheap host and a p60 dropin for the same money ...What's the gain ?? Why buy the solarforce ? Why not get a free host as well ..I thought theh reason to buy the solarforce was mainly to avoid the disco lights . they were making dropins without the flashers which made them attractive to people who didn't want to mess with modding stuff .
I would call those 3.7-4.2V "limited voltage" or something, because there are low voltage Solarforce dropins that do 0.8-4.2V. Also you shouldn't think that the brightness of the LED is linear to the input voltage, 3.7-8.4V dropins may be at least as bright as your "limited voltage" dropin just that they have a buck circuit for 2x(R)CR123.
Looks like my post here was one of the few that didn't survive the .com change. Funny how I missed these when I was looking there. They're more money but are exactly what I was looking for.