✌ FREEME - ASTROLUX FT03 Mini XHP50.2 (4200lm) / SST40 Anduril AUX LEDs USB-C 18650 Flashlight - ALIVE

If you look closely at my photo, the very center has a yellow spot, I haven’t seen this before on an XHP50.2. Hard to see the spot on some screens

Thanks freeme but this is different.

No yellow spot at dead center of the beam.

I think it’s more to do with the reflector shape and focus than the led type. You can try adding a paper spacer under the centering ring to change the focus slightly.

I dont know if this is a common thing with the FT03 mini 50.2.

I have two monitors, one shows it that has accurate colours, the other is not visible

I can see the yellow spot on two different monitors, but I honestly don't know what it means.

It’s a focus issue but don’t think it can be fixed without removing the aux board. I think the reflector is too high. The SST40 is perfect though

Worthy of FT03 badge.

I have the same (dark spot in beam center) in a Skilhunt M200. I guess it is just a minor error in reflector geometry or position.

Received mine today with the SS bezel. Overall it's impressive. Mine is the 5000K SST-40, might be my first 5000K SST-40, and I do like this LED's tint and beam in this light.

The AUX LED setup is a bit confusing but I think I understand what's going on. Besides the switch LED, there are 4 separate LED SMD's around the main LED and they cycle through 6 patterns of:

RED, RED/GREEN, GREEN, GREEN/BLUE, BLUE, BLUE/RED (no white as the manual says)

You can't stop the cycling, can't select a separate color and have it stick. The reason is it doesn't work like an Emisar light is because it's using the ATTiny85 MCU, not the 1634, and therefore doesn't have the I/O pins or memory to control that many LED's. The AUX LED blinking is probably controlled by the add-on AUX LED board, assuming it's a Lexel design (?).

You can't even stop the switch LED from blinking, so maybe there's a firmware mod as well? Dunno, I find it annoying - only option to stop it is by turning it all off.

Ooops! My Bad! 6 clicks plus click/hold toggles through solid color choices.

What? I can choose what colour I want with the aux leds and it stores it after removing battery etc

For my 5000K SST-40, on a VTC5D, I measured 9.05 amps (clamp meter), 1840 lumens at 30 secs (Maukka cal'ed), and 95 kcd.

That’s pretty decent. I got 1920 lm with the 6500K using a 30Q

I find it amusing how the manual states they achieved 4200 lumens with a 30Q (XHP50.2) ANSI, while I only got 3460

I'll use manufacturer's lumens at times, which is about 12% higher, least for the honest ratings.

I see this behavior in some other flashlights (some Sofirn, like SP32A or SP31v2.0 and also sometimes on the Convoy S2+ with XPL-Hi).
I haven’t gotten the FT03-Mini XHP50.2 yet so I can’t check.

I’ll need to double-check other XHP50.2 flashlights (SP33v2, SP33v3 or Convoy S11) to see if they also have this “yellow spot” in the center of the hotspot…

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That’s strange. Like Funtastic mentioned, mine can also cycle the Aux LED colors or choose 1 color (or even the “Voltage” indicator color), much like the aux-LEDs of the Emisar D4v2.

I sold an SP33 V2 last night and while testing noticed the yellow but the FT03 Mini is most noticeable, only on a white wall though of course

Your sure it uses the Attiny85? I don’t think I’ve seen any pictures of the driver or the unique centering ring.

There’s nothing unique about the centering ring, doesn’t do any centering, the screws are holding everything centered, it’s just insulating the reflector

I honestly don’t know what Tom is talking about because I can change colors and have it save.

From manual

“Note: The button led wire is connected with green, so it will be on when aux led colors include green like yellow, green, cyan, white. The button led will be off when aux led colors are red, purple, blue.”

Tom, the button will only flash if you have it cycling the colors. Can you not change the colors at all? I do 6 clicks + click hold and it cycles through colors, release on the color you want, if the aux led flashes and you release, then it selects the cycling again.

I thought the centering ring had leds built into it.