Got one of the “authentic” Ultrafires with the Z7 emitter from fasttech. Had to see what the deal-ee-oh was. It’s okay. Floody. Maybe 600 lumens? Driven to 2.8ish. Gets warm but not hot. Small but noticeable dim spot in the beam center.
Nice little light but nothing special. Will keep it for the curiosity factor of having a weird emitter. But not to worry, don’t see the Z7 dethroning the T6/U3/xm-l-2 any time soon …. Although, I think I read somewhere (or maybe dreamed it) that EACH of the four emitters could be driven to 2.8, producing a 4x500 lumen effect. Did anyone hear about this or did I in fact dream it?
Anyway, I might do a review if I have time. But really busy for the next 10 days.
Would be interesting alternative if we didn’t have the Cree XM-L line of emitters, but we do, so this doesn’t seem to be much of a big deal.