[Review] Astrolux S42 4xNichia 219C Rechargeable Mini LED Flashlight supplied by Banggood

Tell them how much a success narsil was on the Q8. I’m sure it would increase sales. It’s like a factory custom light. What could I do to mod it? Nothing! Lol

Well, if people were to start contacting them asking for Narsil to be used with the drivers it sure would help the chances of it being used.

Tell them I am happy to help them get it working, they have seemed hesitant to use outside help for some reason.

Narsil would be amazing, hope they are reading this thread?

+1 for narsil.

Hey guys, let’s go to this thread and tell Haikelite directly that we would like to see them using NarsilM on their TA based drivers.

~~https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/47515/53~~

Oops, posted in wrong thread.

Astolux lights are manufactured by Matemineco!

Certain ones, but not all.

the S42 is not manufactured by HaikeLight nor will they build a driver for it

Yes, that would work really well as a UI on this light. Like a mini-Q8.

I updated the OP with my NarsilM replacement driver which accepts the USB piggyback board

Can you guys give me a little help? When I switch to Group 2, I only get 4 modes (Low,Med2,High1,High2) and I can’t get to turbo. I want to be able to enable memory so I can start at Turbo mode instead of having to cycle through each mode in Group 1.

Mode group 2 only supports those 4 modes. You don’t have access to turbo in that group. You’ll have to use the default mode group 1 if you want turbo. But, then you don’t get mode memory.

This light has a really weird UI. I’m making my own driver for it.

Lexel, you use the charger circuit that comes with the S42 on your mod? I’m considering making my own with MCP73831, but maybe it’s not needed if the S42 charger circuit is good enough?

I did lift old MCU so charger LEDs dont work anymore. but the charger itself stays connected with the rod and charges

TA made a design with new charging board

Thanks. I think I’ll just go ahead with my own design… it’s part of the hobby after all :slight_smile:

As soon as I hear from TomE to get a me narsil with the new pinout I will release the S42 driver that should be going in all future S42’s from the factory. Never could get narsil to compile properly myself.

A simple FET+1 TA setup but with Narsil it is a heck of a lot better then what it comes with now. Plus should increase the output a lot.

Damn I just ordered a S42! Ahh

Me to :person_facepalming:
I guess I’ll have to mode it with TAs driver when it comes out.

I modded my first one but bought a 2nd one this week. If I’ve known I would wait for the new one. But I think we get better quality driver from Lexel? Not sure if the factory uses the same components as Lexel.

Yeah if they use TAs design and good AMCs this light will be nice

Narsil will then have likely no thermal calibration

My design uses 7 AMCs while TAs is not decided if fully equipped with AMCs

The components on Narsil are not super sophisticated there is no voltage divider for LVP
Caps with X7R is nice to have if it gets hot