does these LB are available in Warm white?
i have never seen one yet, only in eye-searing radiation blueish white.
what do you think about paying mor attention to that?
maybe add [condirmed Cree inside] or something else?
- faked components are a bad thing - don´t look in the other direction”
I believe that the led on the LB board in the Zeusray may actually be an XM-L2.
My second edition Zeusray, has a regular XM-L2 with a traditional white cree board, but it looks like that reviewer with an original model, has a legit Cree, but Dealmetic probably had an any alu board will do policy. After getting a worried about all this, I checked all my lights, all good here, but I don’t usually play the cheap light lottery anyway
The Zeusray that I used in my ThorFire BD04 Review doesn’t seem any brighter than the 4x AMC 7135 driven ThorFire BD04. The Zeusray is a newer model with the crappy pill, not the good older model.
ThorFire BD04 on left, Zeusray on the right. Tell me what you think.
Here’s a look down the front end. My picture isn’t great but you can get a good look at the emitter. If it is real, then the quality of the Zeusray has to be pretty bad to have a 4x AMC 7135 driven light make it look mediocre.
Just found this in one of my smaller flashlights. It was a generic, but still listed as a Cree XM-L… and it most certainly is not. I knew that name sounded familiar when this thread popped up.
So sad.
Melting…!!
This is a genuine LatticeBright.
Trust me, that was only one of the many problems.
- Star wasn’t glued down to anything so it was just floating by the wires.
- I had to resolder the wires together because the connection broke. It was the reason why I even bothered looking inside.
- Reflector doesn’t fit and was too small. Wiggly jiggly.
- Bezel doesn’t stay locked down because reflector is too small and short, and because star isn’t glued down, and because there’s a ginormous gap. I ended up using one of my spare TIR optics instead.
The fact that the LED even lights up is a miracle given all the craziness inside this flashlight.
In cheap flashlights are all LB :_(
Hooha, I just bought a green SK68 “Cree” clone on eBay for under $2 (auction, I was the only bidder, 99 cents plus shipping from “pflhobbyboy”)
(who, now that I look at the feedback, sells a lot of counterfeits. Dang. Not cynical enough yet, at my age ….)
It has a LatticeBright weak blue-white emitter.
No notches or holes drilled in the pill; press-fit aluminum foil ‘washer’ over the emitter.
One brightness level.
Chuckle. It came from a RC Car seller — and they don’t have any more of the SK68 lights for sale.
It’s a lottery lottery these days.
I notice lots of green SK68 clones on ebay right now (and sellers bundling ten or a dozen of them, as well as singles).
You can say that again!
Oh, you did.
Have any of you contacted the websites to see if they are knowingly selling flashlights with LB emitters but still advertising them as CREE? I contacted one, and they were less than helpful and even less remorseful.
once again disappointed this time from fasttech
the famous SK98…with Lattice bright
just time and money wasters.
and surprised that no one other buyer declare that
98…
sk68 clone,
Cree xp-e or not?
I need a better picture, but… For me it is CREE XP-E
most of the Chinese sellers could care less, all they care about is selling them, making money, and having to spend less on the LB fakes than real Cree powered lights.
The only way they will begin to care or change this direction is continuous pressure from everyone by filing mass paypal claims, causing enough losses for them that they are forced to change.
Yeah I’m sure the vast vast majority of their customers don’t know what CREE means, let alone care if they actually have a LB or not. They mainly care that the light looks nice, was cheap, and turned on when they pressed the button.
This forum has the only people who will cry foul when manufacturers who are selling cheap knockoff flashlights also start selling cheap knockoff LEDs inside those same flashlights.
What’s ironic is that them deciding to keep CREE on the side of these lights was probably intended to milk a few more dollars out of flashaholics who look for that term before they got caught.
That’s pretty bad. I didn’t know Fasttech were selling lights that had fake Cree LEDs. Did you created a “ticket”? If so, what did they say?
I knew long time ago that the cheap Ultrafire SK98s use LB LEDs when I bought one from DX. From my experience with FastTech, their customer service is quite nice and accommodating. However, they really don’t have much knowledge about what are they selling. It is not possible for them to check the details about all of the products unless somebody told them.