Extremely Budget CR123 Light?

[march.brown]

Seems you've stumbled upon an unlimited supply of 3AAA lights. Perhaps you should place a new order for 3AAAs, and start a CR123 collection. :naughty:

I was wondering that if I sent for some 9LED 3AAA ones , would I get the CR123 torches ?

I ended up Emailing them in bold , block capitals ... I put the "Wrong" in red and the "Correct" in green and explained it in words (almost) of one syllable.

I don't know what will eventually arrive , but I'm getting a bit fed up ... Theres a limit to how many people I can give a 9LED 3AAA torch to ... And it's costing me extra money to put Duracell AAAs in all these give-aways.
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[march.brown]

Since the budget torches use CR123 cells , I put this post here instead of starting another thread.

I needed some plastic containers for four CR123s or two 18650s.

I looked on Ebay and found a set of four plastic cases for £1-79 including postage from the Far East to the UK ... Four cases , each of which will either hold four CR123s or two 18650s.

I've sent for these as I needed some more plastic cases to hold my slowly increasing collection of rechargeable lithiums and lithium primaries.

How can they make these and send them worldwide for £1-79 for four ... I just hope that I am not wasting money ... I could have bought a torch for that amount of money.
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[march.brown]

Well , I can report that I have sort of had success with my CR123 torches ... Sort of ! ... Today I received another package containing two torches ... They are single LED and they are CR123 torches ... But they are not twisties ... The logo says "3W Super Bright 601" ... They work OK as my other (correct) one did , but I wanted the twistie as it was shorter.

I can't be bothered to complain any more and will just say "thank you" to them and leave it there.

So for my sins , I now have had one (correct) twistie (CR123) , two (wrong) clickies (CR123) and four (wrong) torches that are 9LED 3AAA and I have only paid for two CR123 twisties ... They have had to pay for four lots of postage to get to this state of affairs ... They won't have made a profit on this deal ... I just hope that they have learnt from these mistakes and that future deals all go through correctly.
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[unclevit]

I'm not worried about the torch being too short for the protected rechargeables as it will only be used with primary 123s ... Just something cheap to leave in the car forever , with a couple of spare batteries.

Not too worried about machining quality or plastic lens either ... At this price , it is almost a throw-away torch ... Also in the car will be my Romisen RC-U4 fitted with three AAA lithium primaries plus my Trustfire F20 (AA) also with a lithium primary battery.

I will just have to wait and see how well (or badly) the cheapie works ... After all , I will always be carrying my two keyrings with their iTP A3s plus my EDC iTP A2.

Perhaps I keep (in the car) and carry (on my person) too many torches.

If I carry any more torches (and spare batteries) I will need a bigger car.
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iTP A3 using AAA alkaline is my best in-the-pocket-EDC. 3-mode costed me only US$18 shipped from the local agent. Using it for a month now and never have to change the battery. High Mode is very bright too. Can walk with it !! Size is the same with my Case Toothpick pocket folding knife (3 inches, with pocket clip). :)

 

[march.brown]

iTP A3 using AAA alkaline is my best in-the-pocket-EDC. 3-mode costed me only US$18 shipped from the local agent. Using it for a month now and never have to change the battery. High Mode is very bright too. Can walk with it !! Size is the same with my Case Toothpick pocket folding knife (3 inches, with pocket clip). :)

I like the A3s ... I have a titanium one and a stainless one ... These are on my two keyrings ... I also EDC an iTP A2 stainless clipped into a pocket ... Wonderful torches.
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[march.brown]

Well , I can report that I have sort of had success with my CR123 torches ... Sort of ! ... Today I received another package containing two torches ... They are single LED and they are CR123 torches ... But they are not twisties ... The logo says "3W Super Bright 601" ... They work OK as my other (correct) one did , but I wanted the twistie as it was shorter.

I can't be bothered to complain any more and will just say "thank you" to them and leave it there.

So for my sins , I now have had one (correct) twistie (CR123) , two (wrong) clickies (CR123) and four (wrong) torches that are 9LED 3AAA and I have only paid for two CR123 twisties ... They have had to pay for four lots of postage to get to this state of affairs ... They won't have made a profit on this deal ... I just hope that they have learnt from these mistakes and that future deals all go through correctly.
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After much deliberation , I decided to buy four RCR123A Soshine rechargeables to try in the cheap 123 torches ... I already had a Soshine SC-S1min four way charger which was virtually free (£2) as they sent the wrong model initially ... I had a refund plus I kept the wrong charger ... At the time , I didn't have any small Li-Ions to fit it ... I now use it with 18500 (Maglite 2C) and the 123 cells ... With 4.2 volt rather than 3.0 volt battery , there was a definite improvement in the output of the cheapie torch ... I can now keep my supply of 123 primary cells as spares as they are dated 2017.

The Soshine 123's are not protected cells so I will just have to be a bit more careful , though the torches are only single cell ones ... Since I also have a iTP A1 , I popped a rechargeable into that too ... My favourite Li-Ion is still the 18650 though.
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[old4570]

For $20 or just under = Akoray 3 mode programmable .
For just over $10 = Ultrafire 602 [ Had mine for over a year now ]
And my fav 1xCR123A = Ultrafire A20 [ Surprisingly Good ]