Thanks Tom. I just cross posted with you on that. Yeah, fake. It seems vendors should be call on this type of stuff though.
Yes, squiggle trace driver.
There's gotta be one guy cranking out those SRK drivers - they all seem to be exactly the same now.
Agree - it's outright fraud if they claimed CREE. I see many now are listed not using CREE, but may say XML or T6, etc.
You're right. Just filed claims for 50% refunds. I don't feel right asking for 100% as I do intend to use them as hosts.
Thanks ImA4Wheelr for nice pictures. Not really suprise that these were not real Cree leds.
You have nice ideas, sound like much work to do. 
Looks like very thin led wires, changing those to 18-20AWG could allow more power to leds also, at least after you make that driver direct drive or change some modern driver board to this. Looks like there is plenty of space to change much thicker wires. :+1:
Today Finally rcv'd my 5X SRK clone from here: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/High-Power-3t6-LED-Flashlight-Torch-3-14t6-3-x-XM-L-T6-34000-LM-By/32793617553.html?spm=2114.13010608.0.0.E7CF4u
Mentioned the order back in post #14, ordered April 18th. Pretty much as expected - box was crushed but light seems mint. Classic blue/purple tint from the 10,000K LatticeBrights, or whatever junk they are. On good cells it does about 1,000 lumens, whoopie!
The host is a completely identical match to my gold 12X, as expected - same styling, same decent quality. The driver is the same as well - classic squiggle traces for the FET, 24 AWG wires.
I did reveice my 13xT6 versions for awhile ago and yes, it has very low performance and absolutely not Cree leds. I measured about 1000LM, not nice.
Even after i changed wires to 18AWG and give power straight from lab power, max amperage is somewhere around 8-9A and after that it starts losing output lumens. So these are really crappy leds.
But host is quite nice quality, looks exactly same than on pictures ImA4Wheelr posted.
PKCELL have very good reputation like unexpencive and quality brand.
But I think it’s a FAKE “PKCELL” via your link.
You can find a original PKCELL store on Aliexpress.
Can someone tell me how to focus, or to shut off, the AliExpress email spam?
I’m getting advertising email every day for stuff I’m not interested in at all.
They sell a lot more that I’m not interested in, than that I want to hear about.
On AE you can Blacklist some vendors and for Email - My spamfilter deals with all of the AE Emails - for shipment Informations I have my Smartphone-App.
Sorry for the necromantic post but not sure If should start a new topic just for the one find.
If you like it’s possible to get Lumintop Ring King for $25,5 (including all the taxes) which i think it’s a fair price. It’s even cheaper than going directly via their AE store.
This link should lead you to offer for $35. Then you need to acquire store coupons and at the checkout you should get $25 or less since I always pay with import tax.
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I see it has Turbo Glow tubes, is Turbo Glow also radioactive like Tritium ?
I don’t think so but that level of radioactivity is absolutely safe.
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Yes but not that good if it breaks…
Wildtrail WT90 - $100.81 with code “cofa100” .
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Thats an incredible deal. If I did not have it, I would get it.
It’s for reserving a spot to pre-order a copper WildTrail WT90. It’s not for buying an aluminium WT90. Customers will have their orders cancelled and refunded if they try to use the cofa100 code to buy an aluminium WT90.
