- The Fake-Cree LED Awareness Thread - The new "low" in Budget lights.

The first two are very fake, not even Latticebright, the last one may very well be a Cree XP-E.

I can’t tell about the Q5.

The first one, supposed to be XM-L2, is a clone of the original XM-L emitter, not the newer gen model.
The second one; I found one of those in a light of mine; odd with the phosphor “overspray” that surrounds the die.

Here’s mine, from a couple of pages back, shows the same overspray on the phosphor layer:

The first and second seem the same type LED, just that the second is made poorly with the strange corner where the die seems folded.

The first two are definitely not CREE, the second one even look worse than the Latticebright fakes, as i notice the phosphor has been over sprayed on the bond wires and the substrate around the die.

OK two new SRKs arrived
And these are different, interesting look the hardly readable webaddress on the LED shelf.

What does it say?
150110171850126.com
159119171850126.com

The second one made the first sequence more clear, but the last figures were wiped here, so I tried
15811817105e126.com
and choose searchterm:
15811817185.com

That got me to this page
http://www.yg77.com/contact-99320.html
translate to English, seems flashlight company

another hit, same company
http://gcj72785959.cn.gongchang.com/product/?gct=3.10.1-2-2-1.3

and there it is, a SRK section!

So the manufacter of these SRKs seems to be this company.

Oh well, maybe I am wrong and somebody knows Chinese or the company. I wanted to share this anyway.

Also, the LEDs used.
They look more like the LatticeBright to me.

And from the other

Those definitely are the inferior Latticebright leds. Also no heat dissipation with the thin aluminum star-plate and shelf-less body of a bad SRK clone with no heatsink. I would file a clam back for that crap.

By chance I came across an item listed as a cree emitter but based on the photo is actually a latticebright. The seller? Banggood’s US warehouse.

Item page

$7.52 for a latticebright on a 20mm aluminum star?

Tss the pics actually show LB

oh wow… now Banggood is actually selling Latticebright trash LEDs “Listed” as Cree LEDs for Cree Prices? This is a new RED flag for Banggood. LB LEDs are not worth .52 cents let alone almost 8 bucks. :expressionless:

Someone above commented about Fasttech SK98s with LatticeBright emitters

In their “New” products list they have various kinds of camouflage SK98s
(new! Even harder to find if you drop it outdoors …)

And, clever, each one gets a separate questions/review page so any inquiry about what “Authentic/Cree” means in English shows up only for one of their many versions of the light.


The days of getting these types of budget lights that come with real Cree LEDs are dissapearing quickly.

They don’t even try to hide it! It’s an obvious LB emitter with the branding PRINTED ON THE BOARD!

At least whoever is soldering the LEDs to the stars is honest!

I see an email address. @126.com

15011817185 AT 126.com

the “126.com” domain name is seen a lot on billboards across China.

Well bugger. I’ve been duped. Luckily it was only a $NZ4 torch.
Just looked under the hood of a cheap wee single 18650 ultrafire tube light I got 2(?) years or so ago. Found in a draw, took lens and wee reflector out. I see LB on the star. Was meant to be a Cree Q5.
No wonder the beam is a bloody awful washed out purple / white.
I will only buy from America now. And reputable sources. This fake Cree saga sucks.

Anyone know if there are fake XPL-HI chips circulating ?
A bit worried about my KD C8 en route.

Is there any thread that compares the fake LB Led with the real Cree ones?

No, I'm not tellin' ya.....

This one !! Look Back to the very first few posts.

I’d be interested to see them tested side by side with what they clone, its all about the lumens per watt :slight_smile:

Lattice Bright now has a 4 die chip. They call it the “HP50” :Sp

http://www.latticebright.com/En/hpxl1/2016-01/20/NewsView-269.html

Check out their web pages, they also now have an “XL” among others

http://www.latticebright.com/En/cpzs/cpzs1.html