You know, that's do-able. For that we need direct contact with the fabricators in China, or even elsewhere. But basically, lot of these manufacturers simple contract out the work. You could probably contract out at different levels (full soup to nuts or just parts), different levels of quality too. Of course not many here speak Chinese and have the contacts - this is why you can use a go-between.
Think earlier I here I asked bout the driver, and someone posted the driver pics and appears to be a PIC controller, not ATMEL. Very rare to find ATMEL in production lights. In fact early on in the Q8 development, the ThorFire engineering team decided to implement our UI on a PIC, totally re-wrote our/my provided firmware, and really messed it up. They ended up firing the engineers, started over from scratch with out ATtiny85 and our firmware.
On this one they probably did like a true port of the code to a PIC because they seemed to dupe the UI pretty well.
Five quick clicks of the switch and the breathing switch light is disabled. I am very pleased with the two I purchased. I am also the proud owner of two Q8’s as well. Gotta love the built in charger on the Airpro DC7. I prefer the eye that never sleeps for ease of location in the dark.
I sent Barry the Amazon link and asked him before this review came out. The battery tube knurling is similar to Thorfire’s design which Sofirn does make, and all the other similarities, which made me think it was possibly Sofirn. He said exact that, “looks like a clone”
