Ebay cree lights.

I've put this in general as I'm looking for thoughts on a purchase not looking to buy.
I bought a pair of 3x cree xml lights from a UK seller at the start of November, and up until the other week, both worked fine, however, one of the battery packs is now only lasting around 15/20 minutes.
So can the folk on here tell me, do I still have my buyers rights on one years warranty on these goods? as I would like the pack replaced.
I bought a pair of 3x cree xml lights from a UK seller at the start of November, and up until the other week, both worked fine, however, one of the battery packs is now only lasting around 15/20 minutes.
So can the folk on here tell me, do I still have my buyers rights on one years warranty on these goods? as I would like the pack replaced.
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Since you have two that you bought at the same time i think this should go a decent way in demonstrating the other pack is faulty.
I think you read it wrong. Two lights, each with three heads, and a pair of battery packs.
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Emailed them and seem they will send me another as long as I pay the postage , which seems fair, so all going well....we'll see.
Yes to both. Built three battery packs with easy to remove batteries for my 4.2v torches and separate head T6's that run off a 4.2v current. Also made a 2S/2P pack with quick removable batteries for my 8.4v lights.
By far the easiest mod is to simply tape two 4packs together and join the outputs into 1 with a DC splitter cable (which in this case, is flipped around so that it joins the output of the two batteries). Requires no soldering or any other skills. Just the ability to use a bit of electrical tape. Doubles the run times and reduces the strain on the batteries so that they wear out slower.
I don't think that the battery pack is poor per se, it's pretty much what comes with most Chinese XML lights. What's poor is the number of batteries in it. I run just two XML's off a 12 cell super pack (it's the only way to get decent run times on two XML's running close to 3amps). Those four cell Chinese packs are ok if your only running one XML of them (should get 2.5/3.0 hours from them) but are woefully inadequate to power three XML's without both damaging the cells and giving terrible run times. The very concept that you can run three XML's off just a single four cell pack is ridiculous unless the XML's are running at a very dim ampage setting. It's like powering your Ferrari with a 2 stroke lawnmower engine and then bitching about how bad that engines performance is (it's in fact a GREAT engine............................................. for a lawnmower).
Maybe the manufacturers will wise up to this weakness and start selling them with larger battery packs (2 four cell packs and a joining cable at the bare minimum).
The head unit's weird, it runs a mix of LEDs on full and low power but it never runs all 3 at full. So, why have 3? Just so you can say "3 XMLs ZOMG!", basically.