Astrolux "MF04" discussion thread

Good!

Now for the first tests and the test outcome :wink: :wink: :wink:

If you get my drift :innocent:

Cheers
Nico

Nice :sunglasses:
Imagine a even stronger beam coming back from up there :open_mouth:

What is the driver and UI on this light ? Is it as good as BLF GT ?

Freeme said it was going to be a different driver than the MF02. I’m not sure how different, though. The MF02 uses a 6v carrier along with a boost driver to feed 12v to the emitter. The MF04 is appearantly a larger headed MF02 so the battery tube and carrier might interchange. It would be a smart thing to do.

They haven’t posted the specifications yet, but I imagine the UI is going to be the typical Astrolux style. It will probably have four brightness levels plus a double click for strobe, etc…

We will gave to wait until they announce the final specs.

There are already offerings for the MF02 in regard to other driver ASO, and it would be nice if they was interchangeable for this one too, which i think they will be.

Thanks to JasonWW and sparkyDK.

nice photos… how does the light feel in hand, is it balanced with that small battery tube?

Similar weight?

Maybe they made the MF04 a bit lighter on the big end?

It sure looks lighter around the switch area.

Hi … just a brush up on the GT

Weights BLF GT
with batteries 2273 g (8 × 35E)
tail-cap 91 g
one battery holder 64 g (empty)
one battery 48 g (35E)
one battery holder 259 g (with 4 × 35E)
two battery holder 518 g (with 8 × 35E)
battery tube 285 g
BLF GT head 1379 g (with screw 1381 g)
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Here is what I found on:
Mateminco MT35 Plus
Battery 4*18650 battery
Weight 1290g (without battery)

That’s really nice. Wonder how it does compared to the GT…

beautiful pictures @steel_1024

Specs say 2000 lumens for the MF04 and my MF02 has 3000 lumens. Is 2000 lm a misprint for the MF04?

The MF02 has a measured output of 2100 lumens and with the LED binning that’s already overdriving it.

Thanks. Somewhat misleading for BG to post 3000 lumens then for the MF02. I'm going to take off 30% off whatever

they say the MF04 output is and bank on that.

2000 is probably pretty accurate. The xhp35 can only get so bright regardless of how much power you put to it. It’s physically not capable of 3000 lumen “out the front”. Also, the throw of the MF02 is less than 1587m. It’s probably around 1400m.

The MF02 is still by far my favorite light in my collection, but I don't get why BG feel they needed to stretch the specs so far away from reality.

It is a mystery. They released those specs before the light even came out. And then once it came out and everybody realized it was much lower than those specs, we knew it would be lower obviously, banggood never did change the specs to a more realistic level.

Long press to turn it OFF…

Is that different than the MF02?