Both seemed OK last night and switched on OK. Nice and bright. Used them for a few seconds, switched off, on again - nothing.

Mine has been okay so far, but above comments are a little worrying.

Just out of curiosity, is anyone else finding these to be unreliable. Bought two, but both of them have now packed up. Batteries fine, but just not switching on. Probably a switch problem (it usually is on cheapies) but odd that both of them should have packed up.

Have to go back, but you'd expect better than this (and the problem afroylnt mentioned above) from a torch originally selling at £40!

Comes in a fancy box. Very bright. Feels well made. Instructions say when batteries fully charged lights on the charger should switch from red to green. The lights on my charger go blue instead. Tested torch last night after first charge. It ran three and a half hours on full brightness before it dimmed. For the price I am very happy with my purchase. Thank you ssc1.

Batteries did charge ok in my XTAR charger so will see it how it goes.

Just got a replacment unit and yes I to have a XTAR charge so currently using that. I told them the charger is borderline dangerous and they need to feed that back; not convinced that they will though.... batteries charging at different voltages so looks like they are v cheap as well. I am now thinking that this could be a poor buy.

That's concerning. I used a rather better (and slower) XTAR charger without incident, but you'd expect Halfords to have checked out the included charger properly. If they haven't done that, then they probably haven't checked the batteries either, and these batteries are potentially dangerous.

Are you going to have them check it all out?

!Warning!: Just picked mine up and put the batteries on to charge. After around a few minutes heard a slight bang and there was a smell of burning coming from the charger.

Disconnected & reconnected the charger but it wouldn’t work. Wil return for another unit as I have another charger already that will do 18650s. Overall it's still good value with the batteries but the charger I think is very low quality and borderline dangerous; do not leave unattended would be my advice, but ideally use a different charger.

Got one today thanks. Good value for a tenner. Heavier type of torch because of the 2x 18650 cells.

Can anyone say what brand 18650's are supplied? tks

Probably ok for £10, shame you have to take the batteries out to recharge

I have the mini version of this from eBay, very very bright!

Clearly not worth its original price, but a bargain at £10 - particularly with a couple of 18650 Li-ions thrown in.
Thanks ssc1! :grin:

Does this come with the batteries?

warning, don't look into these cree torches because you will fry your eyes :astonished:

What type of batteries does this take? 18650 or 123 or something else?

Thanks OP, picked one up on the way home.
It is a little bigger than expected but very bright.

Great price for a rechargable torch. ordered. Thanks OP :thumbsup:

Thanks ordered, guessing that with two 18650's it would be proper bright!

Includes the charger as well, something I didn't get with my cheapo Gearbest Cree special!
Voted hot.

Guess how much in Poundland

Not click and collect now I need a torch thanks to this

Seems a very good price for rechargable