✌ FREEME- ASTROLUX MF01 Mini 7*SST20 CRI95 26650 ANDÚRIL Flashlight Group Buy - $45.99

I just tried the UCL 40.05x1.90 lens and surprisingly, it made very little difference. Tint dropped probably average –0.0005. I as expecting it would lower the DUV by –0.0010 to –0.0015.

4000K olive green ordered.

33 days and counting, origin post preparing shipment. After reading problems with the light I sure hope its worth the wait. I Just ordered a Armytek wizard pro v3 from Amazon to calm my addiction down, lol. I my order the Acebeam X45 tomorrow, got to love Amazon prime shipping.

I know how you feel. I just got mine today.
Ordered Sep 13
Shipped Oct 15
Delivered Oct 28

Consider yourself lucky -

First one:

Ordered Sep 9
Shipped Oct 18
Still in China

Second one:

Ordered Sep 9
Shipped Oct 27
Still in China

OUTCH! But in the end it will be worth it, I hope lol.

Even a blank MCPCB would be nice for those of us who like doing it ourselves - I’d love an MF01 MCPCB, but the only one they sell is pre-populated with 219C; would be nice if it cost half as much as it does (or less, preferably) and no emitters.

Or, basically just some kind of Astrolux/Mateminco spare parts catalogue. I’d do pretty terrible things for a few spare FT03 centering rings…

I have 219B SW45K emitters waiting for my second MF01 Mini… A blank MCPCB would be nice.

Yep, that’s what I’m thinking :wink: I do need to get a bunch more of them.

Just received my olive green 4000K version.
I like this light, decent quality, looks nice, size is good and the tint is beautiful, no green at all. Will test it later on a night hike in a wood.

Thanks FreeMe for this deal.

My olive green also arrived today - look'n real good! Yes, I got the 5000K greenies, but I like green .

Dunno, but at the low levels I guess the green is noticeable but really it's not that bad to me - I've seen worse.

Did a couple tweaks - cranked up the switch/aux LED's to high and set max ramp to the max 150 level. It's really an impressive quality light, running on a 26650 LK 5000 for now.

This is getting ridiculous, still waiting since early September Hi but I see I am not the only one

I ordered September 26; received October 26.

My mindset is: order from China, and forget about it. It’ll be a surprise when it finally does arrive. :slight_smile::slight_smile: :slight_smile::slight_smile:

Edited to correct arrival date.

Received all 5 of my lights. All tested okay. Very cool aux led functions. NOTE: when light is locked. triple clicks cycles through the aux led modes, including turning it off.

High guys, all of my MINIs have the same problem, they measure the voltage incorrectly. Is there a way of calibrating them without flashing firmware? (I cant do that)

They read freshly charged 26650 cells as 3.9V. I measeured them with two different multimeters and also under load, they are 4.2V spot on.
I put the same cells into astrolus FT03 and they were measured at 4.2V. What is happening with them? Anyone has the same problem?

I have 3 standard aluinium ones and 1 copper/1 brass on the way. Its not a complete deal breaker but it makes the voltage measurement function almost useless…

I bought them as gifts and now I find out this.

EDIT:
black one measures 3.9v
gray one measures 4.0v
sand one measures 4.1v

Couple of my results:

  • cell is 3.996V (Fluke DMM) and the MF01 mini reports 3.9V (custom NarsilM light reports 4.0V)
  • cell is 3.601V (Fluke DMM) and the MF01 mini reports 3.5V (custom NarsilM light reports 3.6V)

My custom NarsilM driver is in an Amutorch X9, but I hand calibrate the voltage readings on a driver by driver basis. I've found you need to do that to get accurate readings. Having a 0.1V or 0.2V delta difference in a factory driver does not surprise me, specially for our BLF designed drivers. There's variations are part to part, just like temp sensor variations.

If your worse light is off by 0.3V, that's also not that bad - it's accurate, just reading 0.3V low. If you tried a low voltage cell, like at 3.5V, you'd probably see 3.2V or 3.3V reported. Really not much of a difference.

(Sorry for the typo corrections...)

So there is no option to calibrate volage within Anduril menu itself (I know I cant have everything, its a fucking amazing UI). Well its just a bummer the 0.1V difference is nothing catastrophic, but 0.3-0.4V is 10%… Hmm, wish there was a calibration option in anduril, like the ability to add substract +/- 0.1V. or insert a measured 4.2V battery and have an option to set “this value you are measuring is 4.2V”.

I should go and beg ToyKeeper to add something like that into new versions of Anduril. :slight_smile:

Edit:
The only flashlights I had before with Voltage measurement function were BLF Q8 and astrolux ft03 and those happened to be bang on, the Q8 always showed the voltage of the highest cell and FT03 was very precise, it didnt now there are larger differences in other lights.

Hhmm. It's possible there's differences between NarsilM and Anduril regarding the voltage readings. I implemented the exact technique/source code that DEL wrote - it had more precision but still, I found it to need calibration. Mind you, I was a bit anal about voltage measurement - I wanted it accurate to 1/10th better than what's blinked out (0.001V).

Also the other major difference is my BLF drivers are using parts bought in the US from reputable distributors (Mouser, etc.) while these drivers are most likely sourced from parts in China -- I don't know that for a fact, but I'm assuming so. Lexel would know better. He could be providing the drivers complete, or not -- not sure.

From what I recall, the variables in the design are the MCU and the diode used for reverse polarity protection, both critical in effecting the voltage reading, and can have +/- tolerance ratings.

It might be wishfull thinking, hut I hope that I get higher quality ones from those limited editions. Or just that i’ll be luckier and get better pieces of the lot. 100$ is not really a budget light anymore.

That brings me to another quesgion, does the charging circuitry use independent voltage measurement (I think the answer is yes but I am not 100% sure)? It would be really bad if it tried to charge to battery to 0.3V more…

And not to bash the light so much, I just tried it outside in the field (night with no illumination) and I liked it really much! The beam spreads nout really nice, it has some flood and quite decent throw! The beam isnt as throwy and well defined as Q8 for example, but the MF01 MINI peerforms really nicely! It looks like a great EDC and its pocketable!! Outside the voltage measurement inaccuracies I am really happy with it!