Review: TrustFire A8 from Manafont.

Thats kind of why i brought and reviewed the light for this reason and to me it looks sexy, my last 3 or 4 orders have been around 21 days but they are getting faster so i hope its even quicker for your Steve.

The last 2 MF orders were 18 days. The one before was 5 weeks.

Must of been a back order

Are you going to try another driver swap in this light? I had as much luck as you with my first driver swap but persisted and the second driver, touch wood is working fine. Blinkie modes should be an option.

Dads A8 left on the 28th so hopefully will only be a couple of weeks.

Not my first driver swap but more practice will not hurt, i will do another driver swap in the future but ill order more then one driver next time, I have brought a 60 watt soldering iron thats much smaller then my old 70 watt and i need some smaller tips for my 35 watt to help with these tiny drivers.

The light is still working great with the original driver reinstalled and my wife has been using it a lot to as there is no light out the back near our clothes line, its good she uses it as well.

Steve i think you and your old man will really light the light ! please post the current draw of yours if you can get it off him to test as i think my DMM under reading might of put some people off.

Strobe and s.o.s modes some times have there uses but i think like you they should be an option or hidden, but I'm getting used to skipping past them, but lights like this with 17mm drivers are great so you can swap them out if you want.

Here is what i did with my A8 gift box, holster, charger and a protected trustfire 26650 battery. I put in a POPPAS W-878 Flood-To-Throw light and made a nice gift set for my old man.

Sorry crap pictures.

I was happy with the price i payed just for the torch with the bonus of one battery and i made my old man very happy with a nice looking gift set and the torch i included is a good one but cheap and would be suitable for his work.

I had a chance to hold one when I came to pick up my TK70 few days back and have to say this compact light feel good and solid in hand. Really bright as well, dealer said it’s should be around 800 lumen.
I like it so ordered one. Came to get 1 but ended up ordered 3 more…this hobby starting to hit my pocket.

They are a nice well built light

I’ve been looking long and hard for a 26650 light and this might be the one to get. Does it have a true constant current driver, or just a micro-controller for modes? It looks like it’s direct drive from the photo, but it’s a little hard to tell.

Just spotted this available without battery and charger from HKE.

-Garry

Good find, Garry - thanks!

Just pulled the trigger on this flashlight. Looking forward to it, he he. Does anyone have experience with using optics? Any recommendations for the A8? I’m hoping to at some point turn this thing into a bright flooder with a wide hotspot…

Just received my A8, pretty happy with it. Compared to my other 26650 light the JM07 pro it’s visibly not as bright, the spill from the JM07 is also wider, although the immediate corona around the A8 hotspot is a little brighter making it a decent flooder, almost like an OP hotspot.

I expected it wouldn’t be too bright as the store I purchased this from advertised the light as 600 lumens, and from this youtube video comparison with the Keygos M10 which is consistent with what I’m seeing:

Quality seems pretty good, and it made a good combination with the JM07 while nightriding, putting out a nice floody beam, not as good as my HD2011 for a floody beam and a little spotty, however the extra runtime of the 26650 is practical and it looks better side by side with the JM07. Just wish it had an OP reflector.

Still, quite chuffed and it looks like this will be my new favourite night riding combination, and it is a nice looking light.

Remove the bezel stainless ring you will see the difference :wink:

Thanks Pok I’ll give that a try, although it’s seems pretty hard to remove. How did you get yours off? Will it eventually twist off or does it need to be forced off?

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Use plastic band to the alu bezel.

You can try spraying "glass frosting" spray paint or even "clear coat" on the reflector to make it an OP style reflector.

-Garry

Thanks Garry, what a brilliant suggestion. I’ve just done that with some clear spray wax and it works! Can’t wait to test it out again on my next night ride :slight_smile:

Just measured mine with a King Kong hot off the charger. Got a reading of 2.15A with a King Kong charged to 4.38V.

You need to get a new charger as yours is grossly overcharging batteries. It is supposed to stop charging at 4.2 volts.