Recommend a Sipik SK98 clone

[toysareforboys]

@GottaZoom

Maybe you had a bad de-dome if you’re getting rings off a die image - or maybe they could be cleaned up with blacking out parts of your light that the led shines on and fixing your focus.

Ahhh, thanks for the ideas

Around the LED is polished aluminum so perhaps that is causing all the rings! I’ll try painting it with my flat black BBQ paint and see if it improves

-Jamie M.

[DBSAR]

I bought the Ultrafire version, then modded it with a Nanjq 3.04 amp Driver with the High, medium, low, Moonlight modes, put a copper base under the star, and a de-domed XM-L U2 in it. Its a beast single-18650 zoomie light now.

[GottaZoom]

@toysareforboys

Around the LED is polished aluminum so perhaps that is causing all the rings! I’ll try painting it with my flat black BBQ paint and see if it improves

One of my XML FTTs has a polished & beveled bezel between 5 and 10mm deep on the inner side - I believe it is causing a lot to most of it’s ring problem. The light is copper HA so I’m not wanting to go with black. It might be OK below the bevel and around the lens.

Rings aren’t much of an issue for me on flood or outside and I mostly use the XML lights outside. And almost never on spot indoors, except for comparing lights to each other.

[VrestoTaylor (Vresto TaylorPrint)]

is the one woithout the hole in the heatsink?? the sipik has the hole-i want one without it…thanks…

[WarHawk-AVG]

@jgradyc

I just received my Sipik 98 clone from FastTech. Here’s my take. It arrived quickly. The build quality is good. The zoom slide is smooth enough to operate with one hand, but not loose enough to slip on its own. The flood is wide and has no hot spot. The beam shot about twice as wide and a bit brighter on flood than either of my Sipik 68 clones. There is no outside halo ring like on both of my 68s. The extreme edge of the flood has a yellowish tint. It tail stands. On flood aimed at the ceiling, it’s almost as much light as a 60w light bulb… probably more like a 40w bulb. So far, I’m really liking this flashlight, however…

On zoom, the rectangle is fuzzy and about twice the area as my Sipik 68 clones. It is also noticeably less bright. I can shine my 68 clone on throw mode inside the beam of the 98 on throw mode and the 68 rectangle is clearly visible and about twice as bright.

On high, the 98 heats up after a minute. After 15 minutes, it is hot, but not so hot as to be uncomfortable to hold. On low, it doesn’t heat up at all.

I have two disappointments with this light. The first, as I just described, is that the throw is not as small or as bright as my Sipik 68 clones. (When I adjust the 68 to be as wide at the 98 on its tightest beam, their beams are about the same brightness. The 68 might be a tad brighter.) My second disappointment is that the low mode is more like a medium. I’d prefer a much lower low mode.

I modded my SH98 from FT, built a TexasPyro 20mm Nanjg OSHPark driver w/ 8*7135 chips, I now have a SH98 that has 4 modes, turbo w/ 2 min timeout, high, med, low and no stupid flashies or PWM that bothers my eyes (I could solder down pin 2 and get a moonlight mode, but low is good enough
I also epoxied the star down to the pill, and put some NOALOX on the pill threads to help pull the heat away from the star

[PH_Oton]

@relic38

I got two from Wallbuys during one of their sales and I like them. Both were well built with a wide flood and decent throw. The pill is semi-hollow, but they used thermal adhesive to attach the star.
I see that Fasttech has them as well (I’m using that one in my giveaway), but I haven’t tried one of those.
Edit, I didn’t mod mine at all, and I’m a modder. Well, I did remove the next-mode memory, so I guess that counts.
Edit2: I just noticed one cool thing; no visible PWM! For a cheapie light that’s a nice touch.

I recently ordered Fasttech just because it has glass lens and hallow pill (call me crazy :bigsmile: ) but since I count on Chinese lottery I ordered 23mm glass aspheric just in case if my Chinese lottery luck let me down (and… it let me down, plastic and scrached ). Also, discussion thread “lens material” says that description is 100% true :Sp . Flashlight itself was dreadful. Lots of dings and even a deformation in the battery tube. Driver changed modes when I zoomed in and out (still mystery to me). Zooming mechanism was also horrid ( crunch, creaking and very hard to operate). However, I’ve buy it just for using the host for my next moding project so I didn’t bother much for all these quality issues.

[nofearek9]

the one I got from relic’s giveaway (fasttech) was with plastic lens.i also ordered glass lens but was not direct fit,the lens was a bit bigger.

[WarHawk-AVG]

I wonder if you could gently grind the lip around the aspheric lens w/o damaging/shattering it

[PH_Oton]

@nofearek9

the one I got from relic’s giveaway (fasttech) was with plastic lens.i also ordered glass lens but was not direct fit,the lens was a bit bigger.

Mine also wasn’t direct fit. I had to file down the nasty bezel that have had cut-ins for pres-fit the plastic lens.

[nofearek9]

nice idea ,I clued mine.

[VrestoTaylor (Vresto TaylorPrint)]

is possible to get the cabel for gun which can be used for sipik sk68?? i never saw it before…can it fit with any of available pressure switches???
http://kiev.ko.slando.ua/obyavlenie/fonarik-sipik-sk68-c-vynosnoy-knopkoy-ID74wGX.html