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The exact definition varies, but typically these are offbrand lights made in China and sold by direct shippers like DealExtreme, Manafont, and KaiDomain. Quality varies greatly, sometimes being surprisingly good, but often mediocre or poor. There seems to be little accountability by the companies that manufacture the lights with many similar lights showing up under different, but similar, brandnames like UltraFire, TrustFire, and UniqueFire that even share logos. | The exact definition varies, but typically these are offbrand lights made in China and sold by direct shippers like DealExtreme, Manafont, and KaiDomain. Quality varies greatly, sometimes being surprisingly good, but often mediocre or poor. There seems to be little accountability by the companies that manufacture the lights with many similar lights showing up under different, but similar, brandnames like UltraFire, TrustFire, and UniqueFire that even share logos. | ||
Cool tint colors for LED's is commonplace and neutral or warm colors are rare. HA III hard anodizing is hard to find. | Cool tint colors for LED's is commonplace and neutral or warm colors are rare. HA III hard anodizing is hard to find. Some might have Type II anodizing, if that, and therefore these lights show wear much faster than name brand lights. [[Terminology#Regulator|Regulation]] of the light output is usually not that great with steadily declining output as the batteries charge down. | ||
===Misleading Information=== | ===Misleading Information=== | ||