Mine is supposed to arrive today if the mailman gets his act together after the holiday. Thanks for the good video M4D M4X!
Hope I can do it next week. I want to do a timelapse video.
Well the mailman came through so I am now the proud owner of an Astrolux M01 with a nichia emitter. I am very happy with this light, it is my first 10180 powered light. I don’t find the threads to be loose as some have reported. The only negative I can report is you have to turn the light much further than I am used to with a twisty to turn it all the way off. It is flickery on low if you don’t turn it on far enough, but once you get used to that it works just fine. Charging with the built in charging port works great. As others have commented, the lens may get scratched in my pocket attached to my keys as the bevel is only raised very slightly. My overall impression is that this is a great light I am happy to have on my key chain!
My threads aren’t too loose, I guess 
WTF Astrolux
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On this light the switch wasn’t soldered properly, too.
Before
You have to reflow the left solder joint.
After
WOW, my threads certainly didn’t look like that, that’s too bad.
But my switch plate was completely loose, it actually fell off.
After owning all the other brands of 10180 lights I do, I just am not impressed with the quality of these Astrolux lights.
Another thing I noticed the other day was that most the other ones have gold plated switch plates that seem more rigid
thus having less play between low and and high.
The biggest complaint to me on these is the finicky low to high. But, that’s just me……….
Will this be the last fiasco or will there be more?
I think that we must to move away from this maker, like to the plague
Yes, we’ll move to On The Road or Jax! 
thete will be changes 
I have had this on my key chain ever since I got it. So far it has worked great. I am very happy with this improvement to my key chain.
Well, I just received a Astrolux S41 quad LED and guess what…………
One of the four LEDs is BAD. It is D-E-A-D
I tried to heat around the sides but no luck.
It looks to be re-flow mounted and I don’t have the ability to do anything with it.
I contacted Banggood and after many, many emails, I believe they are going to finally send me a new head.
It took over a week back and forth. I mean really?
At one point they wanted me to take it to a local repair shop. OMG you have to be kidding.
How many of you have a flashlight repair shop around you………LOL
It was like pulling teeth. One of the WORST customer service experiences ever. It was unreal. I even sent photos.
They just kept on wanting to send me just an LED. I kept telling them I have no way to mount it.
They don’t have any leads on them so I don’t know how I would unsolder and resolder it.
I don’t have a re-flow soldering heat blower.
Like I told them, I bought a light, if I had wanted to build a light I’d have bought parts.
Anyway, I’m not to impressed with Astolux right now.
I have had more defects in the 2 out of 3 I got than in the literally thousands of other lights I own.
well that makes me curious… 
Right?
Well, I have been collecting flashlights for 40 years now.
I have all sorts (newer ones still playing around with) laying around, here and there.
My original main collection, from years ago, are all down my basement in a bunch of large totes.
Those are all the OLDER tube lights from many years ago. I stopped collecting older lights 10 years ago and
I started concentrating on collecting only older Generator lights and the newer LED lights, along with older flashlight displays.
Here are a few photos of the lights I have on display these days .
Thanks !
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thats impressive! 
Thank you.
I didn’t photograph most of my newer lights as they are strewn throughout the house…….LOL
mrtoolfool - wow, what a collection. Since I live in California, my first thought was - I hope you don’t live near an earthquake fault line. 
If fracking is big in in Iowa, the fault lines might not matter much! 
LOL Now that’s FUNNY….
Nope, we don’t have to worry about quakes in this area. Just tornadoes ………
So I was experiencing intermittent to no output… and I opened it up. I lost the contact board. I’ve looked all over the house for it and can’t seem to find it. It was a review sample sent out by Banggood… so I guess my review won’t be happening now! Both this one and the CooYoo have given me problems. I’m beginning to think key chain lights with built in chargers- kind of suck.
Hi
Who knows what the LEDs use astrolux m01?
Nichia 219B -D300?
Cree XP-G2 - R4?