I hope the head packs a bit of mass to handle the heat better. This makes my custom X6 triple have a decent runtime.
I can put the Mateminco X6S tail cap right on the Kronos battery tube like they were made to go together. I can pull the Kronos battery tube and stick it between the X6S head and tail, works fine, so yes, the Kronos X6 lights fully interchange with the Mateminco X6S EXCEPT the bezel of the X6S is shorter to adapt to the shallow triple optic.
Edit: Threads do not interchange between the Kronos/Mateminco lights and the original Eagle Eye X6.
I think they are. I have a matched set of SS/Cu and Cu, with serialised wooden box, and a working set in Al.
Definitely Manker made.
I think they would have been rather expensive to produce, in particular the threaded reflectors and other tight tolerance bits. I got good ones but there was some variability.
Banggood kept selling them under Astrolux brand afterwards at random prices, but I think that they are now long gone.
Tom Tom, the SS X6 and Cu X5 are Astrolux branded at Banggood and have recently been on the site. I’ve thought about gnabbing the little X5 a couple of times but man I have so man of these already, not so much the 5’s but I have 16 variants of the X6 here and have given away and sold twice that many. If I’d known Eagle Eye was going to disappear off AliExpress I’d probably have bought a dozen but they didn’t say anything to me about it although I just got 2 last week. Go figure huh?
These are still nice little lights, even smaller with the reduced bezel length (what passes for the head is really a bezel) I wish they’d left a much thicker emitter shelf area instead of reducing the bezel, seems like it would have been pretty easy to just machine the pill section shallower up top and leave the bezel as is, but again, nobody asked me… 
I thought it was just out of stock again 
Loved the X6 host ……
I didn’t notice this thread, but did the same “lego-ing” like you did. 
I didn’t have the original Kronos X6, only the later released Astrolux S2.
I notice that the S2 tailcap doesn’t work (or make contact) with the X6S 18350 tube, but it does work with the X6S 18650 tube.
The X6S tailcap will also work properly with the Astrolux S2 18650 body tube.
But both of them do not fit (cannot screw — likely different thread screw pattern) the original Eagle Eye X6 body tube or head.
(ie. X6S/S2 18650 body tube won’t screw into the EE-X6 head; the X6S/S2 tailcap won’t screw into the EE-X6 18650 body tube either)
nice pics, thanx
Thanks… sony vtc5a gives more lumen for this light… so i just ordered some vtc5a, and 21700 from illumn with free s/h… i am sure more 20700/21700 lights are releasing…
Dale, are you just saying that EE went out of business?
Looks like a solid light that performs! Thanks for the review.
Yokiamy, I just don’t know. They are no longer listed on AliExpress so I don’t know if they are changing names or what happened to them. They were listed as Shenzhen Jin Lang Electronics Co., I just got a couple of hosts from them a couple of weeks ago, I’m told they are changing the name but…
Just got my x6s xpl hi NW today…
i got
2700 lumen with the sony vtc5a.
2500 lumen with the sony Vtc5…
I am using texas ace tube with the maukka calibrated light.
On a fresh charged Sony VTC5A, at 30 seconds, I get 2708.
By the way I am using the disc I got from Texas ace… I will keep doing more testing…
So the Sony VTC5A hits the sweet spot of this lights output over the Sony VTC6A, Sanyo GA 3450 or 30Q?
I know nothing about driver design. How do the capacitors make it more reliable?
Bistro was originally designed for a single emitter light, the X6, by our own Toykeeper. When we got to modding these into triples a glitch developed due to the increased current draw. There are a couple of ways to remedy this, Mateminco engineers went with this one.
Edit: There, fixed that little snafu on my part, been working for days on a Sofirn light and it crept into that statement I guess. Sorry about that.
I got 2700 lumen @ turn on, using sony vtc5a… if you are getting 3150 lumen @ turn on then your light must be very special made… lol…
Either way, lets enjoy.
Mateminco has high grade testing equipment that shows these make 3000 lumens, before you question my 4 yr old + light box that regularly equals factory specs you should look somewhere else…
Sofirn? or do you mean Mateminco?
At first, I asked Neal if these X6S had the remedy installed, so looks like they used this remedy of stacked resistors.
I have a question: regarding Bistro and this light.
With Bistro, if you configure the mode sets into 1 mode (let’s say 100% brightness only), and disable Moon mode.
So now the X6S is a 1-mode flashlight (Turbo mode).
a) If Thermal Stepdown is enabled, to what brightness level will the stepdown become?
b) If Thermal Stepdown is disabled (click during the first second after going to thermal calibration mode), does it mean there will be no stepdown (battery voltage drain will still cause brightness to decrease in a more or less linear(?) manner )