Thank YOU !!!
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Thanks so much, Justin and GearBest!
One way to find out, try one. It won’t hurt anything. It should work as far as clearances, but only way to know is try it out.
Congrats to the winners.
Thank you O-L and to everyone who said congrats to the winners!
Yay! I won something in an O-L giveaway! Hooray! :-)
Thanks O-L and Gearbest, is my first win I :heart_eyes: BLF
Hope you kids enjoy your new lights. Thanks for the excitement, O-L.
Congrats to the winners. I felt obliged to order a couple to support the giveaway. 
Now I have to get some 16340 cells.
If anybody already has one of these lights, could you let us know if they will take protected cells. Thanks.
Anyone else got theirs yet? Mine arrived today. I don’t have suitable batteries yet so I can’t try them out but already I have mixed feelings.
Things got off to a good start: The threads are well greased and have O-rings that fit. The walls of the battery tube are an impressive 3.5mm thick. Anodising is typical budget light quality.
Then things started to go down hill a little: The trim around the switch seems to be chromed plastic and half the chrome has already peeled off, making the whole light look second hand.
The ‘pill’ is a press fit aluminium disk, about 1.5mm thick. There is no thermal compound or adhesive under the star.
The ID of the head is just over 23mm but they have fitted a 20mm reflector and lens (both plastic). To make up the difference they have had to fit an oversize front o-ring and bezel. The result is it’s almost impossible to keep everything centred in the head and the o-ring keeps slipping down between the lens and the inside of the head. It’s a bit of a mess. Let’s hope it performs well……
Just contact May@gearbest.com and let her know your order number, your BLF ID, your shipping info, (for easier verification), and she should take care of it.
After much cursing and swearing I did manage to get the reflectors fairly well centred in the head, so I think I’ll get some batteries and give them a go. It’s only a $3 light after all.
I noticed that even Yupard themselves couldn’t be bothered to get everything lined up right for the ‘official’ publicity shots (see 4th picture down). That’s how mine looked when they arrived. 
One thing I have discovered is that I prefer this side switch position to the normal tail switch.
These lights also have a built in charging socket. I have the right size plug which I can connect to my hobby charger but I’m not sure about the polarity. Is it safe to assume the normal centre pin positive?
Hi Lancman,
I’m really sorry about what happened to you, if you need any help, please be free to PM me via your order number and the description and pictures about your problem.
Really good to hear Gearbest is responding on this thread, shows that they care!
It’s nice to know that Gearbest are following these threads and responding to problems. PM sent, thanks.
Here are the photos I sent:
It is far more obvious in real life but you can see how the chrome plating around the switch is peeling.
On the right hand side of this pic you can see where the o-ring has pushed down between the edge of the lens and the head. Although they don’t claim this light is waterproof, that is not even splashproof.
The good news is Gearbest agreed to refund me for one of the lights and that refund came through today, so fair play to them.
My batteries arrived and I can confirm that protected 16340s do fit.
The bad news is one of my lights also has a dud switch which is permanently on ‘high’ and will not switch off or change modes. The only way to switch the light off is to remove the battery………or was until I discovered that the tail cap from an Ultrafire SK68 clone fits perfectly. So I now have a unique 1 mode tail switch version! Added bonus is it now tailstands. 
I hope you guys are having better luck with yours.
Stressed out before Christmas forgot to claim mine
Got my 4 in yesterday (I ordered em from the group buy from the OP), they really aren’t that bad little lights
Just don’t like the H>L>STROBE>OFF round robin modes (definitely going to be kids use lights)
The o-ring was practically bonded in the head, was a booger getting the battery tube loose, but got it off and lubricated the threads and the o-ring (it had lube but it look like they missed em…not a bad little 16340 light…just need to get me some more cheap 16340’s to put in em
Thanks O-L!
Hmm, still haven’t decided whether I need to get in on this or not. Has someone done a teardown on this thing? Does it have a proper name or a reference number or something? I’d like to see a pic next to an SK68 or something.
I don’t own any CR123A lights and I’m not sure I want to start. OTOH it might give me a good excuse to play with boost drivers.
So I just ordered one tonight…the code still works if anyone else wanted to jump on.