Astrolux MF03 - new pictures + video

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

This once sexy light just got a whole lot ugly.

How are you supposed to turn it on with an overhand or reverse grip with the light by your shoulder? This is how I use my L6, but this light has a weird finger cutout preventing this.

The ugly grenade style battery tube. The 4 ugly flat cutouts on the battery tube. The big, diagonal slices on the head. The screws holding the switch cover in place.

What happened to the sexy looks of the earlier MF01 and MF02? Did they hire the designer that Haikelite fired after he designed their MT03 and MT07? I see a lot of similarities.

I know they are trying to save weight by cutting a lot of material out, but geez, don’t turn it into a ugly monstrosity only a few will want to buy. So far these teaser pics make the Imalent it’s competing against look like a beauty queen.

IDK, I sure seem grumpy for some reason.

Can we have options of 8 xhp35 hi?

The Acebeam X65 has five of them and gives 12,000 lumens plus 423,000 candelas.

we will see...

Ya, imagine 16000 lumens 600kcd, continuously.

… sounds like a MF04 :wink:

Let’s discuss how much is too much for kcd? Do we want to use binocular to see so far. The answer is yes, please make it shoot the farthest as possible.
When I play with 450kcd, I am worried I shine on people at distance unknowingly because I can’t see clearly anymore. So everyone please use our big toy responsibly. I am thinking to bring my binoculars to be safe.

I’m sorry that I do not I understand that calculation, especially why the battery configuration matters, I just see 200W of heat that is generated at the front part of the head, that either stays where it is or it goes somewhere else and thus keeps the head temperature a bit cooler for a bit longer time. And the little practical experience that I have with these power levels is that to funnel 200W to elsewhere it needs a large aluminium cross-section, a tube in the center with common wall thickness will not do that sufficiently.

(btw, always I’m all for keeping material thickness as low as possible, don’t like big chunks of material where it is not needed, but here I see a very good reason to add that material)

Just options is enough. Save on engineering cost. MCPCB changes only.

That would be great :slight_smile:

I think for the approximately size of the tube which transfers the heat to the fins.

I see, so the idea is that that central shaft is close to massive then, with a small hole for the wires? (in that case I still think that a higher cross-section would matter))

Rather see 3-XHP70’s with 3 big deep reflectors at 8-9000lm Turbo like a huge BTU shocker and 5-70’s at 8-9000lms Turbo like a Ace beam X60. Not one for mixed emitter, multi-emitter lights. Rather have them all the same, but this is still very interesting… :+1: