I’m currently looking to buy a 3xT6 bike light. There are a number of options available, so I’m turning to the community for some advice. From what I have gauged by reading the few reviews and dx descriptions, I’m leaning towards the SingFire (definitely not because of the name). I have a feeling it doesn’t do the 1-2-3 LED mode thing and it claims to be neutral white and 2500lm. The next choice is the TrustFire at 2000lm with weird purple crown and 1-2-3 LED mode. Then, the cree and UltraFire models at 3000lm and 1400lm respectively. I least like the design and they also have the 1-2-3 LED modes. Lastly, the Marsfire - minimal info and a claimed 2300lm.
I’m interested to hear if people have experience with these lights and I’m also open to other suggestions - but I’d prefer to keep it around the $50 mark.
Had a nice build to it and side by side against a magic shine clone it looked the same size, which means I’m 90% sure it will fit the wide angle lense:
@whokilledJR - the Trustfire is my second choice right now after the Singfire only because of the 1-2-3 LED mode feature.
@cop - I read somewhere that the Skyray has a different battery connector to the Magicshine clones - thus making it more difficult to replace the battery - can you confirm this?
@adamg, not sure if i understand your question correctly.
The skyray i have is just a wire out from the light, the connector from light & wire to the battery is just typical from what i see. nothing special with it.They just plug into each other like adapter plug. Male into female.
I do not have the Magicshine clone to see so i am not sure, also cannot compare side by side & take photo with it, sorry.
He may be talking about my experience. I found my Skyray 3xXM-L lamp battery wouldn't plug into my Magicshine charger. Because of this I assumed that the Skyray lamp wouldn't work with Magicshine batteries. I was wrong about that. The Skyray lamp plug works fine with Magicshine batteries.
I can’t help with your question but I will share with everyone what I do for my “ghetto light” set up. Because of all the complaints I have read about the low quality battery packs I just mount Flashlights on my handlebars. When on my road bikes I mount a Convoy m2 and Xintd c8 using hose clamps on my handlebars. I hit speeds over 30mph and find this setup good enough to see the road ahead and also to be seen by passing cars. On my mountain bike I use the same hose clamp mounts for 2 Convoy s3 mounted on carbon fiber handlebars and a Convoy M2 mounted on my helmet with a two fish block. I get about 2 hours of runtime on Pana 3400’s with both these set ups but I carry a couple extra batteries in my saddle bag inside water proof battery cases. The hose clamps are very secure compared to the cheap oring mount the other lights use. I already have the Flashlights and the hose clamps are 80cents a piece at home Depot so don’t have to spend extra money on a dedicated bike light.
Tough to find someone with 1 specific, kind of oddball light on a forum and even tougher to find someone with 2. Compound that with the fact that it’s a bike light…
Anyway, I would think the Singfire has a better beamshot since the TF’s bezel sticks out so far.
I would guess it has a beamshot similar to your typical SRK.
The big question would be how hard are the two driven? No idea.
Maybe its an alt account? Hmm, anyways, someone would have to have both lights to compare and contrast, I think the silence was the answer for that question. I dont know either one…in fact Trustfire TR-008 is a charger as far as I know…?
Yeah I saw it, I was trying to show how unfamiliar I was with it, and I think most are too. I’ve never used a triple bike light like that, and knowing the heat a 1x version generates and comparing with the heat an SRK generates, I would guess these are either very under driven or would get hazard level hot if you aren’t going fast.
Knowing what I know now about how unreliable the 1x versions are in their connections and sturdiness, I’d go for the idea of using a hose clamp on a known good quality 18650 light and carry a few extra batteries as suggested. Something like RMM’s XPG2 triple comes to mind…and is the same price, can probably even output the same lumens if the one above is under driven…but I wouldn’t suggest doing that if you dont want to blind traffic…very bad idea.
Maybe consider do you really want a 3x bike light like this anyways? SRK in traffic would be blinding, 1x is probably better than 3x, since those models have a nice output and are throwy (also means its somewhat directable away from traffic), and much cheaper (mount two on your bike for $30?) Also, its a good idea to get a battery case and put your own known 18650s in, I think there was one at KD that was $16 if I remember correctly?
I love my SkyRay S6… as it is can be a bit brighter than a good 3 torroids SRK… just add a resistor
on it and you’ll be happy using MID mode
the only downside it… it’s heavy
BTW I do have several bike lights I want to sell if anyone interested pm me
I have more than 5 of different kind of bike lights… why?, I don’t know just a disease I guess
