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I can confirm that my S41 which i received a week or two weeks ago and it uses the same firmware as the BLF A6 firmware.

Thought I read this somewhere too, but wasn’t sure if I had it confused with another light.

Thanks! I was wondering why it would have A6 since this came out after the X6 II, but that explains it.

Ordered one of these:

It was delivered today, but the embroidered name is not Astrolux, it’s MATEMINCO.
Makes it kinda obvious who is producing Astrolux for BangGood.

And MATEMINCO still is


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Hello toykeeper, thanks for pointing that out :wink: do you know what kind of problems do that caused? I mean, is it some obvious malfunction or is it more about working regularly for a while and then risking to fail later?

What happens is that the driver reboots. When the FET opens it lets current through, then when it closes it causes kind of a shockwave strong enough to reboot the MCU. So, in the strobe mode, for example, it’ll flash once or twice and then go directly to moon. Or it can go from turbo to moon, or one of the higher FET modes to moon, on its own.

Basically, if it runs at full power it reboots itself and goes to moon.

The attiny13a is tolerant enough to keep running regardless, even when it’s getting far more voltage than it’s spec’d for. But the attiny25v doesn’t respond well to these voltage spikes, and it reboots.

Newer driver designs eliminated the voltage spikes, but I don’t think banggood has any of those newer designs.

I got one of those too. Ordered 2 of the holsters, one had astrolux, the other has mateminco on it.

I see, that’s good to know, thanks a lot for the explanation and for your awesome work! :wink:

Any chance we could get new deal for Astrolux S41S SS ?

This is the one I know: Banggood : Global Leading Online Shop for Gadgets and Fashion

Thanks g_sintornillos ,
anything I should be aware before ordering? I see that many people were not satisfied with QC, mostly damaged emitters, leds with different tint etc!
I wanted to go for Nichia version.

First batch was for oblivion, high failure rate and DOA, then improved
I do not know what’s happening with the current batch, Astrolux is not characterized by having a minimum quality control, it can be a lottery

Mine, from second or third batch, bought at the end of 2016, works fine from out the box

check out post #366

Thanks, I wanted one for a long time but all this hiccups turned me off, hope they improved the light, wouldn’t like to get faulty nichia led, don’t have those at hand.

Astrolux S41S SS - from $32.26 ($64.95)/ Coupon: 8A955D

Nichia 219B / CREE XP-G3 / CREE XP-G2

S41 22.99$ in the app

also colored aluminum 18650 tubes availiable now

Which is the lowest price for black S41, i only get 24 usd on BG with a discount code FLSTNE and in android app a price is the same not lower.

And which high drain 18350 batteries from aliexpress would be the best for turbo mode, those from litokala probably will not stand the drain https://www.aliexpress.com/item/2PCS-ICR-18350-lithium-battery-900mAh-rechargeable-battery-3-7V-power-cylindrical-lamps-electronic-cigarette-smoking/32390812333.html

For those interested, I bought the Mateminco S01, which is the same as the S41S except they use the 5000k 219B emitters. The tint is better (less green) than my Astrolux S42 5000k 219c, and both MF01 with 5000k 219c. I asked the seller and they confirmed it is still the 219B. The quality is awesome. Very heavy in weight and good heat shedding from the copper. I hated the Astrolux S42 but I love the Mateminco S01. It has memory mode same as BLF A6 but its much brighter than the A6 from ceiling bounce test.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Stainless-Steel-Flashlight-Mateminco-S01-4-CREE-XPG3-Nichia-219B-max-1600-Lumens-waterproof-outdoor-torch/32851883631.html

I don’t have an account there, but could you let the seller know they’re legally required to state that the product uses open-source code and provide a link to (or copy of) the source code?

https://code.launchpad.net/~toykeeper/flashlight-firmware/blf-a6-final

The details are all covered in the “COPYING” file included with the sources.

Ok I relayed the message to the seller