Thank you. It says [something]ticeBri[something] in the picture, below the heatsink or whatever it is, so most likely is a lattice bright, unless there are also fakes of the LB. :-/
Hello Iām new here, I accidentally found this forum on google search and Iām very happy because this forum exist.
My English is not at best level so I canāt understand well how you managed to know whether the led inside flash is genuine Cree or copy.
I have many, many flashlights and everything that I bought the seller said that they are CREE XML-T6, but I doubt in that, Iām only sure for one lamp that is genuine Cree because it is much bigger from other and I can see on the panel that write CREE.
So here are pictures with numbers and if someone who good knows the difference can help it will be great !
this is head lamp with how to write 3x XML-T6, this is in middle that is written on the board CREE XML, and two other on the side, I donāt know here, it is write CREE XML, but I canāt know it is CREE or not ?
sad days indeed. question for you and others:
lightmalls is selling ultrafire c8 with claimed xpl v5 emitters. see link
what do you think the possibility these are fakesā¦.
they also claim to be driven at 3.0 ampsā¦??
i dont have any yet because lighalls is screwing me around on the shipping.
That looks to be a fake Cree XP-E only because there is an unusual āringā around the dome base on the substrate on that one, not seen on any real Cree LEDs before that i know of, though there are features of that one that real XP-E leds have, but it looks a bit off.
Thanks for that guys , I am new to the forum but I am a dedicated budget flashlight buyer. I have bought a few LED lensers, cheap ones, romison duel purpose flashlight which was uv & Cree, thrunight t10 and a few sky wolf Chinese 18650 flashlights. To be truthful I have been happy with all of them but I do use the cheapo Chinese ones the most. I am sorry for the intro on this thread.All my lights are Ā£20 and under but my favorite are the cheapo Ā£2 sky wolfs, fake leds but do the job extremely well.
Your welcome. and welcome to the BLF forums
The biggest problems with the fake/clone/latticebright LEDs are the low efficiency, (output versus amp-draw) low tolerances, bad QC, and in may cases horrible tint with very low CRI.
It dosenāt have a bluish tint, beam is white. I suspect it is heavily under driven, as it is rated @ 4900 lumen, and I would be very suprised if it is doing 40% of what they rate it at.