Any experience with these? Looks like a good gift light.
Jerry
Depends on how much you hate the giftee :bigsmile:
Yes those are decent little flashlights for the price. Similar size to an sk68, but skinnier.
I’ve got two of these running 14500’s and they are very nice. Light is very blue though.
Thanks for the replies. I think I will get a couple.
Jerry
The cheaper ones tend to have hollow pills and sometimes next mode memory, but all I have tried of that style work well otherwise. Very practical but ugly mass produced looking in my opinion.
Cheap is beautiful. :bigsmile:
Jerry
And, what Fritz said.
If anyone ever found a reliable repeatable source for the solid pill kind I’d buy more of them.
(one of my hobbies is pestering support at sellers to take one apart and tell me if it’s hollow or solid pill, they really find that terribly difficult to understand 
On a solid pill, the Luxeon Rebel 10mm square board drops perfectly self-centered into the circle where the 16mm round board usually sits, leaving the wire holes exposed and giving complete surface contact.
Of course on a hollow pill, the same 10mm square board is just barely touching the shelf at the corners.
You can stuff a copper disk in for heat transfer, after cutting holes or notches for the wires, losing the perfect focused image of the die at full zoom.
The typical hollow-pill ones are decent give-away lights (with Energizer lithium AA cells, as I find alkalines sometimes start leaking before the LED gets noticeably dim)
I bought some of those myself recently and left the same comment as my review at the seller’s.
I’ve got a couple of those. If you de-dome the emitter in one of those, you get a good pencil beam when zoomed. No, they’re not very bright, even with a 14500, but well worth the (cheap) price, IMHO. Also, you have to be careful about getting one with 1.5V AA support. Most of them now require a 14500 cell.
funny how these things are not as bright as a common sk68 even though similar parts can be placed inside
I wonder if it’s all because of the small lens
nevertheless if it supports AA then it’s a very good light for its price
I wonder too. I find the brightness on high about the same a the SK68 on low.
Jerry
I just bought 7 of these. With a 14500 they are plenty bright indoors. I have not tried them outside with various other peripheral lights. But I imagine they’d do fine. All of the ones that arrived ran on 1.5v or a 14500. One of them had a damaged oring for the zoom head, so was basically junk til I replace it. Some zoomed more stiffly than others. The clip is sheet metal trash and makes it difficult to re-thread the tailcap.
It’s a fine cheapy beater light to toss in a glovebox, tacklebox, random day-bag or to gift to people so they stop using those HORRIBLE lights Harbor Freight keeps giving away.
I did notice that they dont focus too sharply when zoomed out, some better than others. But on a 14500, the ones I have used for 5-10 minutes at a time (zoomed in for flood and bounced on the ceiling to make shadow puppets with my 3yr old), A. had a very nice smooth, round spot, and B. became quite hot… not too hot to handle, but noticeably hot.
They’re worth the $2.62/pc … but I like my single mode SK68 clones better, despite being larger diameter.