Astrolux MF01 Best Price EVER???

Hi everyone,

Yesterday Banggood put the Astrolux MF01 on promo sale for $69.00 USD or $92.47 CAD.

Promo is listed for Feb 21 - Mar 03 (2019)

I did a check of BLF threads as well as know discount code websites/BLF affiliates/members and based on what I could dig up, this appears to be the best price it’s ever been offered for (even with promo codes)?

From what I found:
Best ACTIVE web promo code $79 USD
CLOSED BLF group buy $78 USD
CLOSED web pre-sale $73 USD

Considering I managed to stumble upon this promo on day 2 out of 10, I somehow was able to suppress my impulse buying so that I could throw this out to the community for any feedback? ……with the hopes I can justify buying one on the premise: I simply couldn’t afford not to! :smiling_imp: :person_facepalming:

Can anyone confirm if this is indeed the best price so far for this light?

Absolute best price ever for the light.

I have the impression Astrolux is going to release an Astrolux MF01 V2, as Texas Ace has been speaking to me about. Not allowed to disclose more details though.

Thanks for the confirmation! I had a feeling this could be an inventory dump given that the light is already almost 2 years old.

My primary interest in this light is that it has the 219C high CRI. I know you can’t disclose anything but one can’t help but wonder if they’re considering a max output XHP70.2 or XHP50.2 redo to maximize output at the cost of CRI. If that’s the case, I’m very interested in the current deal given that I already own the Haikelite MT03 TA which has blistering output but 70.2 CRI

I’m not familiar enough with outputs and heat production to know if it’s even possible to drive those 219C’s harder to produce more output or if they’d have to change the LED all together. From what I’ve learned so far scouring BLF threads I think that Nichia emitters typically produce a lot of heat?

what I think I know so far is in regards to heat production highest to lowest would be something like nichia, sst, xpl, xhp?

Just off-ish chatter, but I could imagine an Astrolux MF06 with 24 pieces of E21A :partying_face:

… but something probably more realistic… Astrolux could consider the new MF01 versions with LH351D 5000K 90CRI and 6000K 90CRI (that could be a nice replacement for the crude looking beam the CW XP-G3 produces) alongside with the possible driver upgrade.