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.
…and you’ll have a GoPanda or ElfLion knockoff of the light hitting BG/GB/etc. before the “real” version’s even announced.
True... Hhmm, kind of like Manker? 
That’s why you manufacture the parts, and then assemble them somewhere else.
Is this flash able with Narsil?
Might get rid of the breathing light switch.
Would be nice.
Imagine if it’s a narsim knockoff, the µC is the same, but I’ve got no idea if anyone’s compared.
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.
Thank you.
So No?
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.
Not got the DC7 yet.
Can’t stand the PWM on My Astrolux FT02 breathing light.
Yes, no... Not the same MCU therefore not compatible.
How about a Q8 driver board install?
Would it be as easy as that ?
possible but I don’t know for sure.
I asked Barry if Sofirn was making these, and he said no, and didn’t know who Airpro was.
Thank for the reply.
Definitely not Sofirn. These guys cloned the Q8 and driver design - no need for Sofirn to do that. Looks like firmware was ported.
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”
You’d lose onboard charging, no? Kinda defeats the purpose…
Still waiting on mine from the US.
Just wondering if breathing light is PWM my Astrolux FT02 has it, drives me crazy at night.
Aamof, I think it is. Don’t recall specifix as to how (waving the light around when it was “breathing”, etc.), but I did notice a rather slow pwm.
Another reason why I turned it off…