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Iā€™m sorry but thatā€™s just not the way it works. If your s41 has an mcpcb that is separated from the led shelf your emitters will fry before your light barely gets worm. Ask me how I know;)

Convoy S2+ does not fit Astrolux S41S

the user I quote in my last post wrote it did fit :confused: so you think it will not fit the convoy S2+ but it will instead fit the astrolux S1? (which is what Iā€™m hoping for, of course. For the option of using the 18650 tube but also to use the aluminum 18350 tube+tailcap to shave some weight)

As you can see in the description

S1 and S41 shares the same tube.

S41 and S41S have the same dimensions, just different materials.

I just received my second S41S today. I waited until after the problems were sorted out before I ordered my first and it arrived awhile ago. All was good so I ordered a second. Itā€™s good too.

I have noticed that some were complaining that theirs kicks down to moonlight after running on Turbo for the 35 seconds or so.

Both of mine do too, when running on an 18350 IMR from Radio Shack. However both of them kick down to level 6 from Turbo (level 7) when running on a 20Q 18650. I also ordered the longer tubes.

Yeah I linked the 18650 tube a few posts above, to show the sameā€¦ hopefully my S41S will lego with my S1 (which is also the most logic thing to expect). Itā€™s just so weird that every now and then someone shows up saying that their copy fits the S2+ā€¦ and thereā€™s even a picture showing that, more info here: Astrolux S41 - presale ended - #1313 by fedcas

If the LEDs are already punished by the optics and have ā€œthe blue light problemā€

Yes and no.
The separate sold tube fits both flashlights. But the threads of S1 tube are shorter as on the S41 and makes no contact to driver retaining ring.
It can be fixed with solder blobs on the driver.

Wrong.
My S41S Colored head (from a light bought complete) fits perfectly (without any modification) on a body from a complete A6 (S1).
So is there more than one version of the A6/S1 or S41S?

Once again:
All Convoy S-series have 1.25mm pitch thread
All A6/S1/S41/S41S have 1.0mm putch thread
But half of A6/S1/S41 tubes are smaller OD. They dont fit S2+, if you will use small force to put them out without screwing they will fall down.

Could you please be a bit more specific?

Thanks, I had missed that post.

Sounds like a bit of a messā€¦

Sorry for the late reply. But thats not the question if the bare BLF A6 works with the E14 Head.
The problem of some black BLF A6 is that the threads are too short to reach the driver-retainer ring with its bare end to make contact with it.
The bare A6 makes contact on the threads, there is no need to have a contact between the end of the tube and the driver-retaining ring.

+1 for the mess :s :s :s

kiriba, thanks for your measures, now I am more confident that I will be able to lego the S41S head with the S1 parts how I wish :slight_smile: by the way, I have just measured all the S1 tubes that i have:

1) the 18650 and 18350 ones that came with the box are very consistent measuring exactly the same, both at the tail and at the head side: OD 21,72 mm and 1 mm pitch.

2) Also the other S41/S1 spare 18650 tube from banggood (clearly from a different manufacturer or at least batch, since the anodizing is much more matte than the S1 one and there are other minor differences in the geometry) has almost the same OD, less consistent between the tail and head side but itā€™s around 21,75-21,80 mm (the bigger difference is in the tube ID thoughā€¦ with this tube protected 18650 cells tend to get stuck inside)

Thanks! :wink: you must be right this should be the only possible explanationā€¦ even though my S1 tube has 5 threads, and with 0.25 mm gap per thread that means after just 3 threads the crest of the internal threads will correspond with the crest of the external threadsā€¦ no way this can be done smoothly I guess :s Iā€™d rather say it should take quite some forcing to screw such parts togetherā€¦ too much animals around maybe :p?

Yes. The question was another

I think that answer was correct

Thank all.
Have just received S41 bare short tube.
21.8mm od, fits S41S head and tail perfectly. Still dont work with black S1.

I received my Astolux S41S from Aliexpress today.
It is the new version of the head. It is not glued and has the new Layout to prevent blue LEDs. :+1:
And itā€™s the old version of the driver. :wink: That means it has black PCB at the driver and the tailcap. On the driver I can read ā€œALEX WELLSā€. The tailcap has space bigger resistors and I can Read ā€œDL036_K6ā€. The springs are the same as from banggood.

It was shipped on New Year and is now delivered. Very fast shipping!!!

All parts of this flashlight are cheaper as on banggood including our codes.
I think banggood makes a lot of money with this flashlights and the high price on their website.

I have written some mails with the banggood-support. For the separate tailcaps they wrote that there is a different quality on aliexpress. Banggood will loose money if the sell the tailcap for $6 as they wrote first (before the tailcap was listet on banggood). But the wasnt able to tell me whats the difference in quality with the tailcaps. I am not happy with the high price on banggood vs. the better price at aliexpress because I have bought some of the flashlights, tubes and tailcaps.

Received mine from banggood and its superb! I might have gotten lucky but I have no problems so far with it. The PCB of the tailcap is yellow with two springs. Only thing is the oring of the battery tube is slighly too big so it get crushed.

Wow, thatā€™s good news !

I hope the two units i ordered will be the same as yours. :laughing:

Itā€™s strange though.
Some Astrolux products are much cheaper on Banggood, and some are much cheaper in the A.E. ā€˜Elfelandā€™ store.
And the prices fluctuate enormously too.