Astrolux MF03 - new pictures + video

One xhp70.2 makes easily 4000lm, so 32000lm only from the xhp70.2s + 2500lm from the xhp35= at least 34.500lm.

Driven to the max, the xhp70.2s can produce >9000lm a piece (>70.000lm total). Very big moding potential here… I guess the cells only will limit this flashlight.

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I would be very disappointed if this light dont outthrow DX80( i hope it will be over 40000 lumen)

What about the heat dissipation? Outperforming DX80 means it’s at least 32000lm and i heard a lot of DX80 have the half light up 70.2 problem.

I am very surprised. DX80 manages to use way more of its frontal area.

I would make the reflectors bigger too. The outer size of the reflectors would be bigger than we can see, but there should be some place to use.
Or better, make the reflectors from one piece of aluminium with maximum reflector size without overlapping.

The Texas Avenger driver will not work in this light due to the dual switches and dual emitter sizes. Astrolux is probably combining 2 different drivers into a single pcb or else using 2 pcb stacked to drive it.

I believe Astroluxs driver design will be kept secret and not made available to anyone. Sorry.

On the other hand, if you want to forget about powering the xhp35 and just use the 70.2’s, then the current TA driver will work fine for that. It will only use one of the switches.

It does not have the xhp35 with large reflector, though. :person_facepalming:

Do you know how hard and expensive it is to do that?
Might even be impossible.

One reason why it is less necessary for the MF03 to maximise reflector size by overlapping them is because of the huge center XHP35 that takes the primary care for throw: the DX80 has no choice but to maxise mini reflector size for throw.
Of course you can get more throw nevertheless by increasing reflector diameter (and a bit of length)…
I do think it is aesthetically very pleasing like this, and the beam will also be artifact free. :sunglasses:

Yes, the price would kill this idea. I have thought about it while I was writing my idea.
Its “still” an Astrolux Flashlight with low price and therefore this is not doable.

i am happy they used my idea and came out with this.

a lot more months have passed than expected because the found a lot obstacles on the way.

hopefully we see more manufacturers using that design idea - but one has to be the first ;)

Although a single piece design is good looking, does it actually also have a benefit? If you have overlapping reflectors sure, but with non overlapping reflectors what are the advantages?

Ya, at maximum output stated in cree datasheet, it will be much higher. I was being realistic to use slightly higher than typical spec so that the flashlight won’t overheat too fast or step down too fast.

No strange petal shapes around the edge of the spill. You get a perfectly round spill edge.

Yes I understand. I thought the discussion was about a single piece 9 emitter design; what are the advantages compared to 9 discrete reflectors?

Less space between the inner diameter of the reflectors and more throw. Better usage of aviable space.

Ah I think I get it. Even with discrete reflectors you should be able to further increase diameter looking at what it is now. But I can imagine if you want to squeeze out the last millimeter of space between two reflectors you need to switch to a single design.

This is not true on this size of the driver it would be no problem using 2 MCUs to control each LED type seperately, with upcoming Boost driver on Schokis boost chip next month we can also deal with 12V XHP voltage from 2S battery pack

Even with separate reflectors of the XHP70s you can CNC the edges off so that their radius is with little gap or overlapping