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Thanks for the report Johnny, actually some of these 'meh' features would not be different for the Surefire version.

Does it have a recognisable led?

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Yeah, functionality wise it would be the same.
If I had paid surefire prices I would go screaming crazy.

For me the led is recognizable as “the light giving kind”

From the outside this is the best picture I can take right now. (click for large picture)

There are 4 screws in the base so I should be able to open it. Don’t know how far I’ll come with that, but I will try to open it later today.

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Well, don’t see a way to get close to the led.
Think the silver ring around the lens on the outside is glued to the body.

click for large picture.

I was able to to shine a light on the backside, and some light went through the holes for the cables.
Might make a bit better picture of the led.

click to enlarge

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Actually looks more like the XR-E

…than the XP-E

Based on the 3 strips on the die, two bonding wires, and mostly the shape of the board and lack of holes/markings under the dome.
Is that a metal ring around the LED in your photo? If so - definitely an XR-E!

Hirsh

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I think its designed for brawls in the dark so that you can see who you are punching. At least that’s what sprung to mind when I saw the pics.

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Okay, in the end it wasn’t glued.
It wouldn’t come off, but after prying a knife under it came loose and I was able to twist the lens off. (As it was supposed to do)

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It’s no metal ring.

And I must say, without the lens, it becomes all flood and has a more practical use in my opinion.
Although this introduces more risk to damage the led since nothing covers it now.

edit:
Had some DC fix leftover, put that on it.
It’s not a nice sollution, and it impacts the beam a bit, but I guess it’ll offer some form of protection, while still maintaining all flood and thus better light placement.

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Wow! You’re right - don’t know WHAT that is! Perhaps Cree slightly re-designed the XP-E to make the board slicker.

Or maybe it is one of those new Chinese-made Latticebright LEDs (although put on a Cree-labeled PCB).

They were discussed here as fake-crees in this thread.

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If I compare it with that thread, it’s not the same.
That one appears to be bigger.
And looking at the second picture, it has several “dots” mine has straight lines.

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Sure, sorry I didn't mean the specific one on that actual BLF thread, but rather just that thread seemed to be the first to recently identify this Chinese manufacturer 'Latticebright' on the forum. There was another link in my post (hyperlinked on the word Latticebright) to another more similar Latticebright LED.

These were what I found on the Latticebright site with Three strips on the die and Two bond-wires (as per XP-E):

XG: http://www.latticebright.com/En/cpzs1/2015-05/12/NewsView-176.html

XE: http://www.latticebright.com/En/cpzs1/2015-05/12/NewsView-175.html

XD: http://www.latticebright.com/En/cpzs1/2015-05/12/NewsView-174.html

KD: http://www.latticebright.com/En/cpzs1/2015-05/12/NewsView-171.html

VF: http://www.latticebright.com/En/cpzs7/2015-05/12/NewsView-192.html

Perhaps the dimensions and/or position of LED board corner solder-markings give away the model.

Or maybe I'm way off and this is indeed just a slightly re-designed/modernised Cree XP-E board!

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pictures won’t load for me, site is also very slow. So can’t compare.

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While searching for wrist light I found out SF has released an updated version: The 2211X.

It uses CR123 and is rated 300lumens, the price is quite ok considering the brand.