Hello,
This is the story of my journey from sadness to happiness with my TR-3T6.
First, some background.
I recently bought a Trustfire TR-3T6 on Amazon. I have a Dereelight DBS V3 3SM XM-L light with both smooth and light orange peel reflectors. This light has served me well as both a flood and throw light, but I was looking for a more blatantly bright flood.
Until I found this forum, I was convinced that I had to spend a small fortune to get what I wanted. HA! This forum has saved me hundreds of dollars already. Snooping around in the threads, I came upon the Trustfire TR-3T6, and it seemed like it perfectly fit my desires.
I had some Amazon credit to use up, so I went ahead and ordered it from there.
When it arrived, I was underwhelmed. About one out of 5 times it would actually turn on. I knew it wasn't the batteries because I was using Xtar 3100mAh Panasonic cells. I read on here about the tail cap "lottery" with these lights. Sadly, I lost that lottery. I concocted a make shift switch by removing the bad switch from its carrier board, soldering a couple wires in it's place, ran them out the tail cap into a very tiny external switch. It worked, but looked horrible. I tried searching for an exact replacement switch, but had no luck, other than an external pressure switch. I found a switch meant for the Ultrafire C8 for $1.90. It did not look a perfect match, but it was close enough to risk $1.90 on.
After waiting the normal Singapore to US dreaded shipping time, it finally arrived. Pulled out my "emergency, must use this light some way" switch, replaced it with the C8 switch, and "It's Alive!"
Finally I can test it.
First of all, I only measure 1.8 amps at the tail cap :( I will try the resistor mod at a later time. For now, it's still insanely bright compared to any other light that I have owned. I have had an MC-E in my Dereelight before, and that was the brightest that I have ever had previously. My XM-L with the light orange peel has a great flood, but it's nothing compared to this thing.
This thing also has a nice white tint that I really like. I was particularly amazed at the amount of throw that it has considering the size of the individual reflectors. This is definitely proof that price has nothing to do with intelligent engineering.
I can't wait to see what other jewels I can get my hands on without having to save for several months.
So, BLF and this Trustfire TR-3T6 has absolutely convinced me that price, name, and pretentiousness have absolutely NOTHING to do with the performance of a light.