Astrolux MF03 - new pictures + video

Olight already produces a flashlight with active cooling :wink:

I think a lot of you guys completely missed the point of the discussion I was trying to get started. I simply threw the Storm of Ra into this thread, because someone mentioned building a thrower with XHP70.2. I wanted to show that it is possible to build a flashlight that throws far with an XHP70.2 in it. I know the Storm of Ra’s build quality is the best, but it is a working light that has bigger throw than the former throw king, the TN42.

I think maybe we can incorporate some of what those guys did with the Storm of Ra, into the MF03?
I don’t know about all of you but I would love to have a flashlight that can output great lumens, has active cooling and throws far. If I have to pay more for quality, I really don’t mind, as long as the built quality, specs, and most importantly, the performance is there.

Did anyone say 2-mile long distance throw with 8000 lumens in the beam? I can always dream.

The build quality is not the best I meant. But as I said, it is a working flashlight.

Not the last time I checked. Are you sure?

I just checked their website and their highest end light is the soda can X7R and that has no active cooling.

I probably missed your point.

This is 2 completely different types of light. The Storm is an aspheric thrower, while the MF03 is a multi emitter flooder. Plus the MF03 is already past the design phase and they are already testing prototypes. Anything useful from the Storm will have to wait for a different flashlight design.

Are they working with any of the BLF driver wizards for this one? It’d be nice to get a great firmware UI to go with that dual button physical UI, and it’d be one less thing they could screw up.

No, it’s another Mateminco/Banggood light like the MF01 and MF02.

Unless of course there is a BLF driver wizard consulting and they are sworn to secrecy. But I doubt it.

guys!

discuss other lights and forums in the places made for that!

please do not unrail this topic

and watch your language!

i was allowed to add another detail:

LED configuration:

7 pcs Cree xhp70.2

and

one Cree xhp35 hi

Nice! Count me in.

Wow, me too.

Wow, that changes things. I guess the xhp35 uses a deep reflector in the middle of the head to give the light some throw and the 70.2 are all around the edge? That sounds pretty strange.

It gonna be cool, can the 8 led be used same time?

This beast will be a DX80 but with a bit more throw, I’m in

Wow! Interesting.

What about the cooling?

I was thinking will it be mixing LED yesterday… what a Mr. hindsight I am.
Great! Flood and Throw at the same time.

A 30Klumen light must dissipate a huge amount of heat and care must be taken in getting it away from the leds. In the design pictured in the OP there is some nice deep fins (but only a fraction of the surface area needed to dissipate the close to 200W of heat, as all big-lumen lights this light needs to stepdown fast) but they neglected the most important thing with these power levels: spreading the heat over the body as fast as possible so that the heat can actually get to those fins (and further over the body). You need a heat highway and they made a bottleneck just under the leds. The result is unneeded fast heating up near the leds and shorter time in Turbo. In my view they can buy significant turbo-time if they sacrifice some finning near the led-shelf for body-material, like this:

Interesting light… not sure where exactly it’s going, but it’s going somewhere.

Maybe they’ve found the secret heat dissipation we’ve all been waiting for. :open_mouth:

as it has a 2S/4P battery compartment the active heat path at the base of the shelf has at least a diameter of 45mm, this is well enough to conduct 1000W of heat, the fins are really thick, no need to widen the head as you show

the LEDs wont be sittingh at the edge of the light like the X80, head is bigger and less LEDs, so they more more to center