Nice light, it may even give the meteor a run for its money. Many details can be improved, such as having the MCPCB wire a bit further away from the edge to avoid shorting, and better application of thermal paste (Although for this size it should not matter much, the light will heat up quickly anyways).
Swi from Banggood told me this morning this is a pre production sample Banggood received from the company producing them
none of the regular lights will go in production till the improvements and changes are clear
they seem to have reacted after the S42 issues to put more efford to improve the lights handing out pre production samples for testing, rather than go too early in production and find out later which issues the lights have when the first reviews show issues
I find thesetemps a major problem.
They did build in thermal step down but it seems to protect the hardware and not the user, this is literally burning hot, unscceptable imho for a production light, for a modded hotrod it is ok but for something one buys stock a no go.
I’m pleasantly surprised, it seems like they did the details quite right. And I’m curious about the output too, the 12.000 lumen is for XP-G3 of course, the high CRI Nichia version is not specified but will be more like 9000. I like the looks too. And the beam is nice.
Still the first thing I do with any Astrolux light is take it fully apart and check, check, check!
That’s great to hear. I’m glad they’re taking the extra steps to make sure everything is right from the start. I really like the looks of this light and will end up getting one as long as there’s no known issues.
