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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. Even lights with brand names like UltraFire are probably knockoffs, so the brand name may be meaningless.
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. Even lights with brand names like UltraFire are probably knockoffs, so the brand name may be meaningless.


Cool tint colors for LED's are 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.  
Cool tint colors for LEDs are 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.  


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