Amutorch AX4 Question

Yokiamy · 2019-09-22T18:17:56.000Z

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On amutorch AE site it is listed as18650

mertinator · 2019-09-22T18:20:28.000Z

Yes I just saw the ali page. Seems like a good light with 4x sst20s. I’m about to purchase it but I think I’ll hold back a bit and wait for reviews.

Yokiamy · 2019-09-22T19:17:23.000Z

https://www.1thedeals.com/product/amutorch-ax4-4sst20-3000lm-aluminum-titanium-alloy-21700-flashlight/

~~I hope the titanium head does not negatively influence thermal performance, alu or copper would be way better.~~

Edit, freeme mentions titanium, but Amutorch does not say a thing about titanium, they only mention T6 aviation aluminium alloy.

BlueSwordM · 2019-09-22T18:40:02.000Z

@Yokiamy, as always with Amutorch titanium-aluminium lights, the body is made of titanium, while the head is made of aluminium.

SKV89 · 2019-09-22T18:41:32.000Z

Didn’t even realize the head is titanium. That’s not good especially for dissipating heat from quad emitters. Also the click and hold to turn off will turn a lot of people away. I’m more interested in that Hanko clone quad. But it is nowhere to be found.

Yokiamy · 2019-09-22T19:11:58.000Z

SKV89:

Didn’t even realize the head is titanium. That’s not good especially for dissipating heat from quad emitters. Also the click and hold to turn off will turn a lot of people away. I’m more interested in that Hanko clone quad. But it is nowhere to be found.

Yes, freeme and banggood removed them, due to too much hassle from Hanko lovers,
I dont mind spending 50$ instead of 1000+

SKV89 · 2019-09-22T20:27:58.000Z

Yea I know about that incident. To me, besides the similar exterior appearance, nothing inside is the same. This light was made for the budget minded market that would never buy the thousands dollars Hanko; Extreme deep pocket Hanko buyers have high requirements and want top of the line everything would never have any interest in this clone anyways. If anything this would only give Hanko more business by increasing awareness of his custom lights. Oh well. Anywhere to buy them instead of Banggood?

Yokiamy · 2019-09-22T20:32:08.000Z

unfortunatley, i haven’t found it yet.
I managed to get some pictures, but google image search leads towards banggood and i end up with a 404…

MascaratumB · 2019-09-23T11:15:17.000Z

SKV89:

Yea I know about that incident. To me, besides the similar exterior appearance, nothing inside is the same. This light was made for the budget minded market that would never buy the thousands dollars Hanko; Extreme deep pocket Hanko buyers have high requirements and want top of the line everything would never have any interest in this clone anyways. If anything this would only give Hanko more business by increasing awareness of his custom lights. Oh well. Anywhere to buy them instead of Banggood?

I won’t post links but in taobao (eng) search for 18350 flashlight and I guess it will appear!

samyy · 2019-09-23T11:43:33.000Z

“I’m more interested in that Hanko clone quad.”

Do you mean this ?

Yokiamy · 2019-09-23T13:01:49.000Z

samyy:

“I’m more interested in that Hanko clone quad.”

Do you mean this ?

YES! that’s it !
Thanks mate

SKV89 · 2019-09-23T20:23:28.000Z

Thanks! That name is pretty damn hard to find by anybody. Surprised you found it!

Tom_E · 2019-09-29T11:43:36.000Z

It's about time this AX4 e-switch light came out. I got two of the AX3's which are the 2 LED version of the same light. It's an easy light to mod with a driver swap. The 2 LED version came with a 4 LED MCPCB so the AX4 is a no brainer, specially since it's the same price, even cheaper than the XPL-HD AX3. Plus looks like this AX4 comes with a SS switch while the AX3 had a plastic one.

My guess is the light is 100% aluminum, no titanium, and is an 18650 light - based on the dimensions, can't do 21700's. The AX3 plastic switch did well so I'm worried about how good the SS switch is because switch quality makes the light, but SS should be better. I think they list SS because of the clip and switch. Would have been nice if the bezel was titanium or SS, but being in black and for this price, probably not.

I got a bunch of the small/EDC Amutorch e-switch lights. All are easy to mod and I consider a great deal for the price. Ordering this via Martin's discount today - SST-20 4000K because it's showing in stock on BG.

Looks like the AX3 has been dropped everywhere now...

SKV89 · 2019-09-29T16:44:17.000Z

I found this nice triple. The copper looks nice. The price is cheaper on the english Taobao site than the Chinese Taobao site. Is this English Taobao site legit?

There are alot of very interesting flashlights that I’ve never seen before on the Taobao site and I thought I’ve seen pretty much every flashlight out there lol

Tom_E · 2019-10-21T12:14:21.000Z

No idea how things got so confused above, but the head of the AX4 should definitely be aluminum - I have almost every Amutorch light there is and none have a titanium head. This lights appears to be all aluminum - head, bezel, tube and end cap. I'm basing it on the BG and Ali descriptions where titanium is not mentioned. Was hoping the bezel at least would be SS but doesn't look like it is. Mine arrived at the local P.O. this morn, so should get it today or tomorrow.

Tom_E · 2019-10-22T11:07:16.000Z

Very impressed small light - about exact length of the FW3A (actually listed smaller), and smaller than the D4V2. The AX4 has modes and ramping, much cheaper than a D4V2. Deep pocket clip, but reversed so the head is up in the pocket - little strange but I expected this from the pics. I ordered the 4000K.

SKV89 · 2019-10-22T12:21:54.000Z

Can you confirm the UI? Is it click to turn on and off?

Tom_E · 2019-10-22T12:26:03.000Z

It's not NarsilM or Anduril, not the best:

click ON for modes, click to advance a mode level, click&hold for OFF
click&hold for ramping ON at the last level, click for OFF
ramping goes to max turbo, while for modes, dbl click for max turbo

And the head does get hot quick in turbo with the 4 SST-20's running on a 30Q cell.

For me it's a great light to mod - simple driver replacement.

SKV89 · 2019-10-22T16:45:02.000Z

Click&hold for off killed it for me. Thanks.

Tom_E · 2019-10-22T17:03:27.000Z

Agree on the UI, but for me it's moddable with a stock size BLF driver -- actually I have to verify this but was with the AX3's.

Dunno if Neal checks in reading anything, but should get the word to Neal on this UI - dunno, but maybe he would have some sway over at Amutorch.

Lately they seem to be push'n these tail/power switch lights which I have no interested in whatsoever.