ASTROLUX MF01 Mini - common issues thread

Silicone cover is solid, takes a decent pull on the tab to pull it out.

I’d buy one or two heatsinks as well.

The tab on the cover is a little annoying, I may shorten it.
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I’m in for two. Have two minis, thanks

Conducted a series of tests on my instance. He determines the voltage on the battery quite accurately. I calibrated the temperature sensor. I set the temperature control to 55°C (25 taps in the configurator), but during the tests the flashlight warmed up to 67°C and I interrupted the test.
Test Charts. Air temperature 24°C, without cooling.

  1. Cold start. Ramp mode. Starting the “ramp ceiling”, after the decline in brightness, I again turned on the “ramp ceiling”, and repeated several times.

    As you can see, with each launch of the “ceiling of the ramp” the drop in brightness occurs more smoothly. This is strange. Flashlight temperature at the end of the test 46°C.
  2. Hot start (~ 36 ° C). Step mode brightness switching. Starting the “upper mode”, after the brightness declined, and again turned on the “upper mode”, several times.

    The result in this mode is quite similar to the previous one. But there are differences.
  3. Cold start. Ramp mode. Launching the “ceiling ramp”, after dimming, and again turned on the “ceiling ramp” several times. Next, the launch of the turbo mode and the forced completion of the turbo.

    Flashlight temperature at the end of the test 67°C.

I’ll wait on final pricing for those copper shims, but I’d potentially be after one. Shipping to AU will cost the same as the shim though I’m sure :wink:

I’m in for 3

For all who are interested in getting one of my heatsinking cover plates for the MF01 mini (see post #25 & #38), thanks for your interest so far, I will create a separate thread for this with all informations and an overview of interested so far. So watch out for the new thread in next few days.

This thread here should stay for general discussions around the issues and their solutions of the MF01 mini.
The presented heatsinking mod is only one of the possibilities to solve/improve the throttling down issue. Maybe or hopefully there will some other solutions coming up for.

I’m still looking forward to the results of the idea from led4power and the testings of it by ZozzV6.

It’s easy to miss a new thread, so post a link here when it’s ready. :+1:

I have read that XPL HI leds do not fit inside the SST20 version because it would need to be longer then.

What about LH351D leds, would they be to big as well? Could they maybe fit if they are shaved?

https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/59714

I have a blank mcpcb on the way to test this.
I think i wil need to dedome the LH351Ds to make it work

It’s not just the dome size. It’s also the height of the led base. I think the xpl base is a tiny bit higher than the SST-20. So the length of the optic legs becomes a factor. Too short a leg will crush the led base. I think it was the ROT66 which had this problem so they had a specific mcpcb with shallower drilled holes for the optic leg for that specific led.

My MCPCB will arrive next week so I will test it as well.

Thank you, JasonWW. So with LH351Ds the optic will not focus properly? Or will it really kill the led?

In another thread someone wrote that Mateminco stated the XPL HI would need a few mm more room in the head. Is the difference really that big?

I don’t know the height of the LH351D, I was just saying you need to check that. I might be an issue. On the Rot66 the LEDs got crushed.

The height difference was a fraction of a millimeter. Very tiny.

Thanks, JasonWW. I will check this. I’ll have to be very careful with the leds!

Hi guys

I received my MF01s recently and have a few questions if you are able to answer, apologies if they have already been answered!

1. Can you change the colour of the Aux lights like Emisar?
2. What battery gives the most output and perfomrnace? I’m using samsung 21700 40t at the moment
3. Im using the spacer provided but its making a rattling sound. Is that normal? I.e it’s not fitting as smooth as it should - contact between both spring and main light
4. Can this light be re flashed with new firmware like I did with my d4v2 which came with muggle mode issues! (same wire pogo pin)??

Thanks!!!

1) nope, they’re fixed
2) 30T would give higher turn-on output, but it’ll ramp down super fast. 40T is a good one for it.
3) spacer isn’t long enough, I used paper to “fill” it:

4) not via pogos. Gotta remove driver to upgrade it. It’s…… not fun.

Lol thanks man that is very helpful!