Good picture to compare, thank you! Was thinking of ordering the MF01 Mini, but read there are too many problems with heat sink unfortunately. EA01 will be much better on that for sure.
I ordered my mf01 mini 3 months ago and the heat sink that came in it from BG is brass. I was part of The thread for the custom copper heat sinks here on blf, but ended up no needing one bc astrolux APPEARS To have fixed the problem. I remember others saying their new mf01 mini came with the copper brass as well in that thread. The mf01 mini is another home run light by Astrolux
The MINI is quite good IMO. I think the heatsink issue is fixed in the current ones, I got one a few months ago and it had the brass heatsink (although fitted the wrong way round). But it does get HOT, simply due to what it is.
The EA01 is a far more versatile torch IMO. And due to being a single emitter it pulls a lot less amps on High or Turbo. And thusly a lot less heat to manage.
If you take the head off the battery tube and underneath the head where the positive battery contact is it is surrounded by white plastic then you have the plastic insert. Not brass
Yeah the revised MINI has a brass insert, you can see it easily when you remove the battery tube. Mine was the wrong way round (needed rotating 180 degrees). I also applied some thermal compound to the touch points under the heatsink.