Is that Thorfire? Ooops, it is a clone?? AIMAI?? Take a look see

AIMAI AK02

And... it comes in colors!! For a measly $2.91 USD. So, what the keck is up with that Thorfire? Is it yours, or what's the deal? Is it the worldwide version, so Thorfire can remain US only?

Was this discussed already and did I just now see it, or is it a scoop?

AIMAI AF04 LED Flashlight

OK, it's got to be a deal by Thorfire, to get their products worldwide. These are Thorfire products and they have to be made in the same factory, so it's all got to be tied in.

Hey, inquiring minds want to know! I have always wanted to know the truth behind all these eastern things going on behind the sense.

they really look very similar/the same. is there a chance someone cloned it?

They do look exactly the same as the Thorfire ones…

But much cheaper!

Wonder if the drivers are different though?

Like the Nitenumen NE01 vs Nitecore MH10 … Pretty much the same flashlight, except the NiteNumen one has noticeable PWM, and seems to stop charging at too high a cell voltage (i.e. much cheaper components).

I’ve assumed that these clones were the result of the manufacturing company selling off rejected or excess parts to lesser named companies so they can still make money, or at least, lose less money.

For example, if a manufacturer made 100 body tubes for Thorfire, and Thorfire rejected 30 of them, the manufacturer can take a loss and throw away those 30, or make a small profit/reduce the loss by selling those 30 to AIMAI at a cheaper price.

Its just over $10.00 Aussie dollars here.

Thorfire posted a thread here the other day asking for test and review of their headlamp, and it is a headlamp that is commonly sold as Boruit brand and also Cree brand. I was kinda surprised that they would want to put their name on lights like this.

The KL02 review I did HERE showed the Thorfire version was just a resistor driver. At this price, with a cheap pack of CR123’s, these would be great and simple emergency gear lights. The only issue I saw with 16340’s was the protected ones were too long to function, and the unprotected would be sucked dry by the simple resistor driver I think…

EDIT: I think Thorfire is only available at banggood and amazon, so this could be a clone brand…

I’ve been wanting some of these little Thorfire lights for sometime and decided to take a chance of on a few of these. I got 4 of them for just a little more than one of the Thorfire versions. Might be fun to try and mod one of them.

LOL aimai means ‘do you want to or nah?’ In mandarin. At least that’s how its used here in Singapore.Like ‘Steady, aimai?’
Steady in this context means ‘going steady’ otherwise known as going in a relationship

Well, GB is going to send me one, or one of each color, not sure, so I can review it/them. Then I can give it/them out.

Why not, you know?

Oboy. ReManG tried using QTC in his ThorFire: REVIEW: ThorFire KL02 Single mode 17340 LiFePO4/16340/CR123 area light. - #12 by ReManG

Belgium has officially three languages: French, German and Dutch.
The latter is amongst Belgians and Dutchmen commonly known as: Flemish.
Dutch people call Flemish a Dutch dialect, and Belgian people the other way around.

During the hundred year war (that lasted 116 yr) between, lets call them, “England” and “France”,
pillaging and raping and being abroad was a reasonable normal accupation for a British citizen.
Some (English) people say that the Flemish word “amai” is actually a bastardization of “oh my ……”.

Nice if they would make these pen lights closer to 500 lumens

Yeah, but wouldn’t there be a problem with keeping the electronics cool with such a small head in a penlight?

Well, Thorfire answered me. They don't seem to be too upset, so live and let live I guess. They felt the quality would be inferior and the ship times would be long, so they just passed it off as a kind of, "oh well".

We will see when I review them.

I ordered one. It was just what i needed. Perhaps an 18650 version would be better but ah well.

I will just put a warm white led inside and use it as a table lamp for outside tables in nature.

And depending on the luminance a resistor mod is very possible to increase the current if it is too dim.

Were they clear whether Thorfire knows if this product is a copy, or a batch of their rejects or factory Friday night overrun — with a different name painted on?

China Law Blog on the problem, quoting from https://qualityinspection.org/

What this means in real life — and trust me when I tell you that our China lawyers see this all the time — is that you will have spent years thinking up and prototyping your product in your home country. And then you spend many months working with a Chinese factory to develop your product further so it can be easily and cheaply produced. And then: you have nothing. No rights to your own product. No molds or tooling that relates to your own product. And maybe no files on your own product. You are back to square one. In the meantime, the Chinese manufacturer that now possesses all of these things can easily go off and sell your product to whomever it wants or manufacture it for whomever it wants. The latest trend here (of which we will be writing shortly is for Chinese manufacturers to design patent your product in these situations (and in many other situations) so as to slow you down even further.

It is a resistor, LED, dome and aluminum body. Doubt highly that Thorfire was the first with this design, and patented it.

It is a nice light in either brand, but way more affordable here in this form… If they work decent (this model) and you can find some cheap CR123’s this is a hard to beat for the price emergency light…

Not only emergency, but lantern flood lamp. Which are very rare in my oppinion.

just bought one for testing purposes, they look good