Hello I am mostly a lurker I had an account but could not remember the name so I made a new account.
I am a light-aholic I am addicted to flashlights, Lasers, fireworks, Glow in the dark things or anything that looks cool in the dark.
I bought my 1st Skyray King back last June it was the 3 LED black verson and was 10x brighter than any light I had other than my 55 watt HID flashlight.
I decided to get several and give as Christmas gifts I bought them from different eBay vendors I started bidding on the auctions with low starting bids and no reserve in October, I ended up with 15 and paid from $20 to$35 at most for the 3LED ones and $40 or so for the 4 and 6 versions. Everyone loves them.
I now personally own my original black 3 LED version plus a Gold 3 LED a Gold 6 LED and a gold 4 LED.
My original one has a weak spring and one of the batteries does not sit as high as the rest and is not making contact which I found out when charging them after running it till it dimmed and dropped 2 of the leds and only one was still working. the battery on the weak spring was still fully charged. Any ideas on fixing this?
Another question, my 4 LED gold one has 4 modes. High, Med, Low, and hidden strobe. Non of the others I bought had this, has anyone saw this before? I can not find any sellers advertising the 4 mode versions. I am pretty sure it was listed as the 3 modes. I was surprised when testing them before wrapping them for gifts and sit that one back for myself.
SRK’s vary greatly in the quality of construction and what driver is in them depending on where you buy them from, and when you bought them. It is possible that no two SRK’s you bought are exactly the same.
Best bang (well, hopefully not literally) for the buck right there, if you can live with the C-3PO color scheme. Better machining than the similarly priced clones. Better output in stock form than even a good genuine non-crap SRK, and 10 minutes with the soldering iron will nearly double it. And it has a H-M-L driver instead of the common H-L 2-mode SRK. PWM is still visible in lower modes but not as severe as the other drivers.
I had the original SRK and I miss it a little. I may consider one of the 4xXM-L2 or 6xXM-L2 models if I could find one I knew would be pushed hard enough.
Did anyone buy the 6xXM-L from wallbuys? Pretty sure that it won’t be able to output the claimed 4000LM, but it must be floodier than the 3XM-L ones, and this one price seems ok. If it gives out 2000LM I will be happy.
Was asking myself, all being equal if a 6-XML will overheat as much as a 3-XML. Each led being driven harder on a 3-xml than on 6-xml. it will give out more heat… or maybe not?
There is also a 7-XML SKR with chinese 9000 Lumen output Anyone?
I have a 6x and several 3x, believe it or not the spot is smaller on the 6x one. And XML2 versions have been out for quite a while (CNQG, and that Securitylng clone thing, though they advertise it as XML some are shipping out with XML2s). There's even 6x versions with XML2s.
I have no direct experience but the impression I got from researching their lights like the Rook, Knight, and Shadow clones is that despite the name their products are good. Also, on Fasttech you get what you pay for in my experience. Cheap lights are cheap and expensive lights are better. I think if it costs as much as a real SRK on FT, it should be good to go. Should being the operative word…
Very good King Clone. One of the better ones, with the three toroid driver and replacing the three sense resistors with lower value ones will make it a powerhouse. Look for this thread for ideas on the Kings and that particular driver.
I have seven of these lights in various clones, emitters, and have two original SRKs. (a cool white gold one, and a warm white black one.) The original will have the three-torrid coil driver, a stainless steel bezel, and a real “paracord” lanyard. the clones all have a shoe-lace type lanyard, and most have an aluminum bezel with various plain and different drivers.
The $ 49 Fandyfire UV-S5 is the closest you will find to the original SRK as mentioned above, it has the thre torrid driver, a paracord lanyard,and i believe the SS bezel.
I can not get the bottom off this one, it seems glued on.
Funny thing is each of the other ones looks different under the bottom cover. some have wires at different places and one has a solid silver plate and no wires or circuit boards.
I will try again with something rubber to grip it. I do not want to scratch it up.
That looks like the Skyray Kung M4. I have one of those from the same seller, and its brighter than all my stock SRK Kings and my Warrior too. He seems to have all the “good” SRK lights on ebay.
The threads on mine though was good and greased when i recieved it. I have modded mine with only XM-L2 Emitters, and use it alot camping for bright bursts of light.
What about the version that Manafont sells? One integral pad or separate stars? What driver? It’s just expensive enough to give the potential of quality. And it has the red button ring. for an irrational reason I really want the red button ring.
I have had several different 3 x XML SkyRay Kings, gold and black, from Wallbuys, Fasttech, and eBay. I also had a gunmetal 4 x XML Skyray Kung M4. Honestly, for the money buy the Securitying from eBay for $35. File down the emitter spacers, change the location of the positive LED leads (bypass resistors), and you will have an absolute monster! I put 3 x XM-L2 on Noctigons in mine and according to my light meter it is more than twice as bright as my best 3 x SRK, which was a little bit brighter than the 4 x Kung. This thing is in another league altogether. The name is lame, but this light is mod friendly and has a lot of potential. Don't pass it up!
Anyone?