Astrolux "MF04" discussion thread

There goes half of the lumintop customers still waiting on the gb :slight_smile:

Lumintop must be relieved since they are doing us a great favor and loosing tons of money on the GB, good thing someone is taking over the relay of this philantropic endeavor :+1:

Not sure about the small battery carrier on the MF04

Unless there’s something late and great, I won’t be interested in another light the size of the GT.
Nothing to see here. Just another copy cat or clone derived of laborious minds.
Put the latest tech LED in the sucker and you might get my attention

What the Mother of all LED’s? $120 Mother? On a 4 battery carrier?

Or the Black Flat?

Edited….

If they make it with a bigger flawless reflector, drive it hard, a good User interface and an additional tube extension for extra run time, it could be a GT killer… Interested

That’s a lot of “if”. :smiley:
I would add : if the real measurements / specifications meet the advertised ones.

It doesnt need to have 8 batteries if its boost driver like in TN42, so theoreticly it can run 70 minutes on HI with 2S2P NCR3500 GA.
You have my interest if GT fails with delivery to my place !

Either/Or , yeah. All the copying, inside, does nothing for my interest.
If lights keep coming to play like this MF-o4, it’s no different than a fat lady on a teeter totter.
LED technology could change tomorrow and bring new toys to the playground

Looks cool for a plumber's helper. Specifications?

Not that I'm particularly interested right now due to financial reasons, but hope they put in a fully regulated driver which can make use of the full battery voltage range as God commands (Sheeesh BLF GT!).

Cheers :-)

Whoa, it’s so ugly…

Technology has changed.

Interested depending on price!

Interested just to see how this develops. I don’t think I’ll need a replacement for my GT but then again I don’t need my GT at all (I just really love it).

That’s a little out there a ways before we see something like it that is sensibly affordable

Yeah if you can afford it, Go for it!

I’m thinking something like this, just a bit smaller, tiny less powerful, still expensive though I know…

:person_facepalming:

Very cool idea though, but not suited for reflector lights.|
Would make an awesome aspheric though.

Interested.

This technology will be good for reflector as well, the angle of radiated white light wont be much different from LEDs

The thing with high power Laser diodes is that they need most likely active cooling for best performance, so next step is a diode with build in TEC, but this wont be energy efficient for passive cooled enough for flashlights

I think this will cost about $150-175 Just a guess, but as I know Astrolux, they want to be on top of it, and the retail price of the GT is $265 I am curious about the specs, if this light is comparable with the GT, I predict that a lot of members will switch to this Astrolux. A lot of my friends ordered the GT, but are mad as hell because of the slow production and refusal of sending with registered mail, witch is totally normal for Banggood. The fact they closed the thread made them even more angry. There money is in the hands of Lumintop for 2 months and a week and no communication whatsoever from Lumintop, Neal or the team. I had to explain why the thread is closed, but they want refunds, no trust anymore. Sad story, but I think I never had to invite them to this group buy.

UPDATE new info from TA, hope is back, friends have calmed down. GT is still the way to go, I am impressed by the quality and performance, so let’s hope shipping is starting again before the Chinese New year lockdown.

Hi Martin, can you tell them to make the head more aesthetically pleasing? I don’t like the way they made this transition from the body to the head, and there is some miss alignment on the… what is that anyway? Anti-roll bumps?