1. What Astrolux light you ever bought?
A01, BLF A6 3D, MF01 Nichia 219C, S41S Nichia 219B, S41 Nichia 219C
2. Which light you like best?
S41S - this is my all time bicycle light now. I love it :heart_eyes:
3. Any comments or suggestions to Astrolux lights (Products, shipping methods, features, after sale, returns or other policies and so on)
I have many observations and wishes/suggestions for future Astrolux products. Thank you very much, if you consider as many of them, as you can.
More important suggestions will be marked like this.
Existing products:
For the Astrolux A01, ‘middle’ mode output could be lowered to around 20 lumens, and low could be increased to about 1.5 lumens (the current low is a bit less than ideal for me to hunt keyholes with).
For packaging the S41/S42 (including body variants) lights, there should be an option to omit the short tube for those, who will only use these lights with 18650 batteries.
I would greatly appreciate (and would buy of course) such S41/S42 (including body variants) flashlights, which have warmer CCT tints (e.g. 4500K, 3500K, 2700K Nichia 219C (90+ CRI) and ~5300K, 4000K, 3000K XP-G2 or XP-G3 (80 CRI for a balanced trade of high output and reasonable color rendition)).
The flooder light MF01 has relatively low continuous output (less than 1500 lumen) compared to the maximum output. I think, here the body is a limiting factor. I would also reduce the maximum output on the Nichia variant a bit (maybe by 10%), because the generated heat feels a bit too much.
Future products:
A flooder flashlight with continuous 5000+ lumen would be very good to have.
Different purpose intermediate sized single 26650 cell flashlights (weighing around 330-400 gr with battery for better heat spreading capacity, with well defined cooling fins, examples as ideas below):
A/ An XHP70.2 flooder with wide beam TIR optics (preferably 40-60 degree hotspot diameter), with at least 3 different CCT choices (e.g. 5700K 80 CRI, 4500K 90 CRI, 3500K 90 CRI). The new XHP70.2 is a very efficient emitter, it could make a decent flooder with a steady 1800+ continuous lumens mode, in a relatively compact format. (also, this could make great use of the upcoming Golisi high drain cells)
B/ An XHP35 HI thrower with 90+ CRI (very few manufacturer makes high CRI throwers!), and at least 3 different CCT choices. It could provide a very decent (maybe 250-300kcd), but not record breaking throw in a relatively compact format.
EDIT: Sorry, I forgot, that XHP35 is a 12V emitter, so it might not be a sensible choice for this purpose. Then an XP-L2 thrower with 90+ CRI with tight beamed TIR optics could be better.
Astrolux headlamp with so called ’Lava light’ emitters with around 1300-1500K CCT seen in the most recent Banggood E27 LED bulbs. This would be an ideal candidate for protecting dark adapted eyesight outdoors, while providing more visual information, than a monochrome red light. Normal maximum output of 100 lumen (200-250 lumen Turbo could be useful sometimes), and at least 5 normal levels OR stepless dimming, with a lower output limit of around 0.15 lumens. Beam profile could be moderately floody. Alternatively, momentary ON functionality according to mode memory could be good, and 0.5Hz location beacon.