Found some new side switch lights from a manufacture that has made some decent budget lights in the past. I have used a few of the RA-601 lights. They had low resistance spring, decent 2.8A driver and some brass parts. RA-601
Now they have several side switch lights in 14500, 18650 and 26650. The side button glows blue and blinks red when low according to their chenglish description. The charging portion of the light can probably be ignored, and I don’t see anodized threads for lockout. The seller told me they will have an aa/14500 version of the ra-800 after christmas. Right now they only have the 14500 version ready. Their lights always had decent machining, thick walls, good non gloss anodizing and a good price. I hope these are at least better than the cheaply made and problematic solarstorm SC01 series flashlights.
I'm sure, if they didn't have next-mode memory, they'd be super little tools, but far too often, these sorts of cheap lights are not even worth having due to that feature.
An AA/14500 version would be nice if it’s decent built quality. But what are the LED’s beeing used? On the front shot I see only 3 stripes and an overspill of phosphor… They seem to avoid calling them “Cree” so this “XP-G” (fake?) has to be replaced for better output/tint?!
P.S.: “2. New chip - XP-G LED (Brighter than XP-E LED,close to XP-G2 LED)” probably means they don’t use these old, lame Cree’s anymore - but the improved, chinese-built replacements by LatticeBright and similar. :bigsmile:
That xpg led does look strange. Doesn’t even look like a latticebright led. I’m sure the seller will say what the led is if we ask. We could easily request a cree led. This seller has made many custom mode lights for me in the past. The other side switch lights are labeled as cree though.
