Read from some BLFers that this is actually a great one to have, but I understand that the good quality ones from DX are no longer available. There are other clones, but I am not too sure if they are dodgy versions of the real McCoy. Can someone please point me to a good place to buy a genuine Skyray SR-5?
I got mine Here from ebay. I have bought quite a few torches and battery cells from this seller, all have been good. The blue UltraFire cells are cheap but probably not the highest capacity.
edit Mine is the original blue one, this one appears to be grey and may not be the same
I can confirm that the empty host at Manafont is a very nice P60 host; it's very sturdy, tailstands, and I have had no issues with the switch. Heatsinking is good, and the pill-to-body fit is very close so it takes very little aluminum foil to fill the gap. The host is tough, I accidentally dropped mine on an asphalt parking lot and then ran over it with a full-size pickup and it only gouged the anodization and bent the bezel ring. I was able to remove the ring and straighten it back out, and am still using the host.
I have a blue grey Skyray and a light grey Uniquefire. Both look identical (except of the color) for the first moment. If you open them, you notice the differences.
Uniquefire: Cheap switch (plastic, a little bit brass).
If you really like the clone versions why not just get the original? I’ve got several clones and the Seraph is head & shoulders above all of them. Check them out at LightHound.com. I always make my order over $75 so I get free shipping. Best part of the original is you get two tail caps, extra bezel ring, o-rings, lanyard, 2 CR123s and a nice storage box.
Looks like a bargain - very tempting! My version from a diff Ali seller is only 4.2v max (marked S-R5 with T6 XML) but the quality was very good. I like it better than my SF L2.
If I really like the Sky Ray King, why not just get a Nitecore TN11 at 4 times the price? If I really like the Solarforce L2, why not just get a Surefire P6 at 10 times the price? Seriously. Why not do exactly that?
I really don’t have anything against purchasing a Seraph SP-6. At $30.00 shipped (cheapest I could find for just the host after few minutes of searching, which is the way a lot of people would want to go considering they’d probably rather run an XM-L drop-in instead of the one you get in the complete kit) it’s certainly not that expensive. But it is still more than 3 times the price of a Sky Ray SR-5 host.
Put simply, that’s a significant factor for some people.