Mine arrived, ordered through aliexpress from the yupard seller for 6.5$ with tracked shipping.
It’s bigger than I thought, thick walls. Pill is hollow, it’s just a aluminium ring which sits inside the head. Reflector is a very cheap plastic reflector and the lens is also cheap plastic. No dust or scratches. Lockout not possible.
Modes 100,50 and strobe. Current is about 1.2A. Cool white tint.
I made an extra thread about the light because I couldn’t find information in the forum about it. I wrote “reference#7” in the thread topic, maybe this should be some standard so we can use this reference number because these lights have no names…
Where do we find the coupon code? What is the difference between those two links?
My expectation is that prices will settle at around this level. This design appears to be cheaper to produce in quantity than SK-68s (# 4). Less material, less metal to remove, and the head may be extruded or otherwise grooved in a quicker way. Lighter to ship.
These are often over $10 but some places listed under. They are functionally and in appearance similar to SK-68s, but are the only moving pill zoomies I have seen with good cooling. Interesting to collectors.
A nice total internal reflection light. 14500 only. Could use a better led. My examples have loose tail cap thread.
Added: It looks like # 18, which is AA instead of 14500.
Smiling shark flashlights that don’t say the led brand, like most, may not be as bright as one would like. They also tend to have plastic pills, so a good mod would either have a new pill or a thick star in contact with the body. That said, the shape looks like it has good cooling, if the heat can get out to the body.
Please identify any of these you know has a “mode memory” — remembering the setting last used, so the same setting comes back when it’s turned on again.
(I use strobe mode a lot when walking, in crosswalks, to wake drivers up.
And I turn it on before starting into crosswalks even if I can’t see a car
coming — because I’ve had them come up so fast I didn’t have time to fiddle
with the flashlight — so I put a lot of wear on switches and have begun to
have them fail on my regularly used walking lights)
