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…
After receiving my Airpro DC7, I would like to clarify a couple of peculiarities of the UI that might interest prospective buyers. (At least, these are true on my specimen. Please comment if yours works differently.)
First, in stepless ramping mode, the Airpro operates similar to Narsil, but with a notable exception. A press and hold from off turns the light on to moonlight, as you would expect. But if you continue to hold, nothing changes: the light does not ramp up. If you release the button, and then press and hold again, the light also does not ramp up: it simply turns off. A single click from off turns on the light at the level of the last turn off (excluding any turn off from the direct access moonlight level). So, let’s say you turn the light off on high, and go to bed. Later you get up to check on something, and you need a little more than moonlight, but don’t want to ruin your night vision. If you press and hold, you get moonlight, with no means to ramp up from there. If you single click, you get high (the last setting), and then must press and hold again (possibly twice) to ramp down. This is a problem that has long since been overcome, not just by programmable firmware, but by Zebralight, Olight, et al.
Second, in the stepped ramping mode, clicking the button once will take you to the last level used. If you click again, within more than one second but less than two, the light will ramp up (always and only up) one level. Repeat, and it goes up one more level, etc. But if you click too quickly in succession the UI responds as if it was a multi-click (which changes modes, goes to strobe, locks out, etc., depending on the number of clicks), and if you click too slowly, the light simply turns off. So let’s say you settle on medium (for more than two seconds), but then would like to increase the level to high. Being familiar with Narsil and Anduril, you press and hold the button, but that does not work. The light goes down (always and only down) one level, and stops there, even if you continue holding the button down. If you release the button and then press and hold again, the light goes down one more level. But there is no way to go up a level, once the light is on, without turning the light off, and then back on, followed within 1-2 seconds by a second click.
To say that the Airpro is an imperfect port of Narsil seems an understatement, and I cannot for the life of me understand how this is considered to be a simplified or more intuitive UI. But, if you can live with these quirks, I agree with the other favorable comments regarding build quality, built-in charging, etc.
Chuck
Thanks Chuck for the clear description. That would spoil the UI for me totally, I want to be able to operate my lights at low levels without going through high first. We are past that for years now.
And welcome to BLF! 