Rolz, as you have both A6 and S1 - could you please check if the tubes are interchangeable or the threads are different in both lights? I’ve read conflicting reports but many people were sent 18350 tubes with wrong threads so this may account for the mess.
One thing to try is to reverse the short tube. I learned the hard way that the knurling on the body tube must face towards the HEAD of the flashlight. This is true for both the 18350 and 18650 tubes.
Received my Astrolux S1 a few days ago and am impressed despite driver issues.
Using a brand new, freshly charged Samsung 30Q the first three modes are identical. Seems they are all Med1, so no Moonlight or Low. Med2 through Turbo seem fine (or “scary”, depending on how you look at it).
Reversing through the UI gives same incorrect modes, in reverse.
Two more anomalies:
- Hidden modes work apart from Batt Check which does not flash despite cheap DMM showing 30Q at 4.17V
I can’t get into Config Mode despite numerous attempts at 15+ taps, although somewhere along the way I seem to have enabled Mode Memory without any blinking sign that I’d entered Config Mode. User incompetence or broken driver?
The BLF A6 troubleshooting thread reveals a few others with somewhat similar issues so I’m assuming it’s a badly soldered or defective 7135. I’m reluctant to try to open it up and fix this myself so I’m waiting to hear if Banggood will send a new head.
If further confusion were needed it arrives in the form of a $4.95 partial refund BG issued prior to shipping to compensate for an odd error that pushed up the price by that amount after I added it to the shopping cart during a recent flash sale. The order details under My Account show it as simply “Refunded” so I may have an extra hurdle there.
A long time lurker I followed the BLF A6 development from the very beginning, signed up for the GB but held back for QA issues to settle. Finally pulling the trigger has taken me long enough to disqualify me as any kind of serious flashlight enthusiast, no matter what friends may think
Wait a while longer, fingers crossed.
Update 7th June: Banggood CS responds but suggests that it could be faulty switch. I waste a minute testing with knife blade and reply that it is most definitely a faulty driver.
Update 8th June: Banggood CS agrees to send a new head
Just got mine yesterday and I am pretty impressed with this light. Only thing that i think is missing from this is the Moonlight mode on the 4 mode option, both 7 and 4 modes should have a Moon included. But i’m good, it’s not really a complaint.
You will probably have to search the original thread for that answer but the output does change from battery to battery whixh means there arMoonlight however is only available when using 7 modes.
Hi.
I have a Astrolux S1 and I have put in it a “20mm 15 Degree Cree XM-L LED Lens” turning it to a more throw capable light.
So I ask if there is a more narrow beam optic for the same light.
I received my second Astrolux S1 today which I was buying as a present, oddly enough it came in a brown box instead a black box like my first one. I thought I would test it and to my disappointment it does not fit the protected cells I have. It appears the wall on the tube is thicker in the newer one, it also had a slightly more matt finish.
This really annoys me as I had originally ordered the Astrolux S2 based on my satisfaction of the S1 and S3 only to find it did not fit protected cells and now it appears the same has happened to the S1.
I do have a couple Keeppower that fit but most of my cells are protected Panasonics. Has anyone else ran into the problem of cells not fitting?