Skyray King (3xXML, 4x18650 Fatty)

Just saw this at Manafont, haven't seen another thread on it.

http://www.manafont.com/product_info.php/sky-ray-king-cree-xml-t6-3led-2000lumen-3mode-flashlight-golden-418650-p-9275

more details and pics

http://shoudiancn.com/thread-241111-1-1.html

hmm, clone of a light that has some issues

price is tempting. color isn't.

at least somebody's finally getting the side switch message...

Wow. I gotta get one of those and wear it with a neck lanyard. That’s some serious bling!

That's sick looking - how cool is that?!?!

Hope to see reviews on this.

The design looks awesome, hopefully the heat-sinking is as well thought out. The colour doesn't look so good in my opinion.. I'd much prefer a Surefire/Zebralight natural to a yellowy 'desert' one.

Finally, we get to see some budget 4xXML lights.

A bit more competition should drive the prices down, too.

Sorry, another 3x XM-L this time, just 4x 18650.

Still it looks a better design with a side switch and no need for a battery holder. I also like the mode arrangement, it looks like just High/Low with a hidden strobe. If only it wasn't gold..

I like the looks of that light and the color looks better in the second link the OP posted. Might have to take a chance on this one.

Yeah it does look much better there, but I'm skeptical after I didn't like the 'sand' L2 from solarforce. Luckily, my girlfriend did ;)

Maybe Skyray saw our thread on DRY baking and figured they'd save us the disassembly/reassembly oven time.

Thanks for the correction. That's what I meant to type - fingers have own agenda, obviously.

Go for the bare aluminum look. Selling what you scrape off to cash 4 gold = free light

I must (somewhat shamefully) admit it really makes my day when there is some (good) new flashlight news

Yavi, you make me laugh :-)

Interesting light. But very FAT. Not sure this would work with my hands.

Apparently 3x18650 wasn't fat enough... some people with huuuge hands were still able to hold it. So, introducing the 4x18650 canister! Fixt!

Maybe I can mod it to use 4x26650s so its fatter than it is long. /sigh

It also sucks that they couldn't even get a decent 3 or 5 mode driver, using the High/Low/Strobe. I mean, seriously? A TRIPLE XM-L and only 2 brightness levels? Ugh

The DRY is 47mm and uses 3*18650, Nitecore TM11 is 50mm and uses 4*18650, so much betetr design on the TM11. Now if the King didn't had that large back end it would have been just perfect.

A 3-emitter light with 3-mode WITH strobe...

Why not make it a one mode only, drive with 0,5A and set the PWM on 20Hz tops and consider it to be well driven 1-mode 24/7 strobe...

You could also leave out the on/off button. Useless, insert batteries and it´s on! Yey...

I seriously doubt it'll have the issues the TM-11 is experiencing due to the fact it has a completely different driver and less complex UI. As for heat dissipation, you really can't run any of these compact 2000 lumen lights on high (Turbo) mode for very long anyway. But a medium setting would have been better rather than , high-low-strobe.

They seem to have done a nice job copying the basics for the TM-11, so I'd say it's a fair bet it'll handle the heat much in the same way. I can't wait to get my hands on one of these.

4x18650 in parallel? how about driver?