The cheap chinese ones come with dirty lenses, sometimes scratches which look quite bad. The finish is worn off in places.
The 3x xml T6 arrived non working, it had come loose at some point I think. Messing round with the tail cap got it operational again.
The sanyo batteries were showing as zero charge and the tronic charger said they were now dead. I guess thats a bad charger not the batteries fault, but after 6 tries it accepted them, then in a minute said they were nearly full
Yeah ppl would think these cheap Chinese torches would be not much good but I been browsing the net and apparently there's a lot of fakes about, and Im guessing if you manage to get a genuine ultrafire torch, you will be more then happy with it, as people are amazed with these torches from what Ive seen and read. I am not having high hopes mine will be a genuine ultrafire C8 when it arrived, but Im crossing everything.
Its like these ultra fire batteries that are exploding, I wouldn't be surprised if they are fake, as everything is fake nowadays. Im not 100% sure that even my AW batteries are real
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko25nYDAJvg
I have just bought a couple of little 14500 torches with a set of Ultrafire 14500 900ma protected(Grey) cells from FT. After looking around there's been a few reports of these exploding.
Is there any way to check if the batteries I get are real? and are there any other 14500 batteries that you guys can recommend and where do I get them from? I've tried searching for Panasonic and Sanyo 14500s but all the sites with them on don't look very reputable.
I am using a Nitecore I4 v2 charger, I wonder if they popped because the chargers people were using weren't particularly good.
I like this one, actual 7500 lumens for a tenner or more because he ignores the cost of power tool batteries - no driver
plastic glass over the reflector seems to be the main give away that you have a fake ultrafire, as it should be glass and scratch resistance. So I would say that your 3x xml T6 was deffo a fake silversurfer.
Personally I think the Z1 and Z2 lights are pretty fantastic for the price;
http://www.solarforceflashlight-sales.com/product.php?sname=&s=45&t=LF
If you want actual repeatable consistency for bargain-basement prices, ditch the Ultrafire nonsense and look into some Solarforce lights;
http://www.solarforceflashlight-sales.com/
Personally I think the Z1 and Z2 lights are pretty fantastic for the price;
http://www.solarforceflashlight-sales.com/product.php?sname=&s=45&t=LF
They do look quite good, but Im after one with quite a large head, so more of a flood fill. So yeah I think I will go for a diff brand if im not happy with the ultrafire, thats if I ever receive it
I would have thought all ultra fires would use glass instead of plastic covering the reflector, and decent materials, not cheap tat, like its a fake ultrafire? People has even been receiving them with plastic bodies![]()
Larger heads give a tighter, less floody beam. If you want a floody wide swathe of light then you want one with a small head.
Hey, a smaller head gives out a wider beam?
Yes, elementary physics.![]()
How much do you want to spend, roughly?
The shiningbeam S-mini should give a wide but bright beam; http://www.shiningbeam.com/servlet/the-208/ShiningBeam-S-dsh-mini-XM-dsh-L-T6/Detail