Review: Astrolux S1 3D Flashlight

Could it be that BG sold you fake CREE ?

Oh, really...

Is that why you ruded me, twice?

You are rude. Don’t cry too hard about it

Yeah, I'm really crying hard about your deliberate misuse of the Rude! button...

On BLF, you can't just post affiliate links wherever you want.

You can create one thread in this subforum and post them there:

http://budgetlightforum.com/forum/marketplace/commercial/liaisons

Here are the rules for affiliate links:

https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/36060

And here are the instructions for using the Rude! button appropriately:

https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/40153

Read up.

You might learn something.

Has anyone ever done runtimes for the various levels? I know that it depends on the battery, but just as a general guideline…

This light really punch quite a lot so with a regular cell you can expect about 60 mins of good runtimes

Good deal, do you have a 18650 version :slight_smile:

My astrolux S1 came with the white unmarked star. The LED is really tiny compared to my fake lattice brights.

Is this LED legit? The driver says alex wells but the star does not. It is copper though.

they run out of DTP star:P
it’s XP hd led, so the footprint is smaller than XM-l2 led, same size as XP-g2

So I shouldn’t worry then? I got the brown box and it says “test” in the bar code.

well, if you can, please post the image
i believe there is no astrolux fake yet

Sure, I can post pics. http://imgur.com/a/ved4c

I believe it’s legit product
At least the led looks legit xpl-hd led
Dont worry

Thanks, is that flaking on the reflector normal?

Maybe it’s because of glue
Normally it shouldn’t be there
But just blow it, clean it, you shouldn’t worry about it

Maybe it’s because of glue
Normally it shouldn’t be there
But just blow it, clean it, you shouldn’t worry about it

It doesn’t seem like glue. Like someone put a CD in the microwave.

I got BG to send a replacement reflector. Not only is this one free of speckle and slightly better machined, the pattern inside is much finer. My best guess as to the stuff is whatever was sprayed inside to make the pattern. Does not clean up or scratch off.

Ok, so its my first attempt at bending piano wire. Its not exactly perfect but its proof that it can work. The clip came out a bit shorter than I was trying to make it. But the up side is, now its easy to take off the tail to charge the battery and it doesn’t scratch the sides as you turn it. I think my second attempt I will try again to keep it about this short. I already like it more than the convoy S2 clip that I had on it. That damn thing wants to scratch everything that I walk past!

I used 1.2mm Piano wire. Generic stuff from ebay
These M2 sized screws
and the M2 sized nuts to fit them.

Yes thats the tailcap off a BLF A6. I immediately gave it a polish as soon as I got it out of the box. It looks much better now. I just borrowed it since its one in the same as the S1 cap.

My goal was to make it something closer to this

Can the NCR18650B battery be used? And will the Keeppower IMR 18350 flat top battery be used? Can you tell me which 18350 can be used for flash light?. If I use the olight 16340 , will the light’s performance be reduced?
Thanks!