Noticed a few vendors selling the SK68 clone with a red LED, whats up with that? $9 on Amazon, $5 on ebay, thinking of ordering one just to see what I get.
Usually they use colour XR-E leds, nothing wrong with them, they make for fun lights, but they are two generations behind and not nearly as bright as XP-E2's or XB-D leds.
CREE XP-E Photo Red Emitter
Cree XPEPHR-L1-P3-15-C
Viewing Angle: 130°
Height: 2mm
Width: 3,45mm
Depth: 3,45mm
Emitting Color: red (deep red)
Nanometer: 655-660
Lumen min.: 425mW
Lumen max.: 950mW
mA test.: 350 mA
mA typ.: 350 mA
mA max.: 700 mA
V typ.: 2,3 V
Reverse Voltage: 5 V
Watt: 0,81 W
It is quite a confused listing. UV, Ultra Red, Blacklight. Still, I’ve been searching for a red P60 for a while and yes, the search results are usually for red anodising.
It isn’t clear in the pictures above but the bodies are wonky and stand somewhat sloped, and they don’t stand on their tailcaps because of the convex button.
I actually really like my regular sk68 button, but don’t see it on other torches. The logos etchings are off center and printed poorly, and differ between torches
As usual with cheap torches come poor quality control, poor led placement, not centered at all, although the pill looks to be slightly better in the coloured variants
I prefer the spring in my regular one, it isn’t such a pain to screw in the cap, most of the parts of coloured sk68’s fit to loose on my regular version.
In the end they are Sk68 clones, cheap, small torches, with so so build quality, I don’t exactly know the led emitters, but I imagine they are old variants.
I will probably pick up a blue emitter one as well, just for fun. For anyone else interested, ignore the weird title they had on ebay, they mean nothing
I'm pleasantly surprised that XP-E leds are used in these cheap lights, those are way better than XR-E leds. (XP-E2's would have been even better of course)
Hmm unless the camera settings are messing with the color, that actually looks like a “photo-red” deep red XP-E. The normal red usually has more orange tint to it.
If that’s true it’s very surprising. Deep red XP-E’s are not that common. I had to get mine from mouser.