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[mrheosuper]

Pls add me, hope the price will be as good as before

[atbglenn]

Please send code. Thanks!

[Ilmatic]

@JasonWW

@Ilmatic

Hey, yea sorry forgot to include the cells: 30Q BT brand new ordered from liionwholesale

Do those have the little buttons or are they more like raised flat tops?

Either way, they might be too short. You can try removing the white rings and see if you get good connections then.

Or if you want to keep the rings for short circuit protection you can pop them off and file or cut the ridges a bit lower. That way your button tops will make good contact, but the flat rear part of the battery will still be too far away to make contact.

My theory is the white rings are a tiny bit too tall.

They have the little buttons. I’m going to run it down a little and check what my D4 has the cells at. If there is still an issue, I will remove the white rings.

[Ilmatic]

@Ilmatic

@JasonWW

@Ilmatic

Hey, yea sorry forgot to include the cells: 30Q BT brand new ordered from liionwholesale

Do those have the little buttons or are they more like raised flat tops?

Either way, they might be too short. You can try removing the white rings and see if you get good connections then.

Or if you want to keep the rings for short circuit protection you can pop them off and file or cut the ridges a bit lower. That way your button tops will make good contact, but the flat rear part of the battery will still be too far away to make contact.

My theory is the white rings are a tiny bit too tall.

They have the little buttons. I’m going to run it down a little and check what my D4 has the cells at. If there is still an issue, I will remove the white rings.

Just checked them. 1 cell is 3.93, 2 cells are 4.10, and one cell is 4.18.

[JasonWW]

You’ve got something weird going on there. The carrier is 2s 2p. In your case it seems like only 3 cells are making contact so it’s running in 2S 1P.

I didn’t think it was possible. I would go over the carrier very carefully and check the voltages. Try it without the white rings.

[hIKARInoob]

@JasonWW

You’ve got something weird going on there. The carrier is 2s 2p. In your case it seems like only 3 cells are making contact so it’s running in 2S 1P.

I didn’t think it was possible. I would go over the carrier very carefully and check the voltages. Try it without the white rings.

If one white plastic ring prevents the battery from making contact, then the two sets should have the same reduced voltage compared to the other two sets, as the (reduced) current of one set should be identical.
Someone had an internal short in the carrier of a Niwalker BK-FA09S IIRC. Perhaps you can check the carrier without the batteries for the connections as well? Just an idea…

[Ilmatic]

@JasonWW

@Tom E

@Wieselflinkpro

In the TLF, two of the first received Flashlights have Problems with the battery Carryer. The pill on Bat+ was not soldered and easy to remove. It held only by the centering-Pin of the pill in a hole of the pcb. I think you will not be able to see pics: Astrolux MF-01 mit 18x XP-G3 oder Nichia 219C | Taschenlampen Forum That could caused the problems in the vudeo with the meco batteries too.

I don’t understand the use of the word “pill” here. Pictures are postage stamp size, and when clicked on to expand, some sort of logon prompt maybe?

Could you possibly expalin this more?

More like a brass button.

Okay, so I inspected the carrier and I have the same problem that was talked about on the german forum. Guy had the same issues, his cells were 4.06, 4.09x2, and 4.16. The brass button just came off with minor pressure from my fingernail. I guess just solder it back on?

[Jtm94]

Solder it back on if you are feeling handy or take it up with Banggood. I read through the German thread and it seems a few people are having issues with cold solder joints. They were hypothesizing that maybe they soldered with the plastic rings on and didn’t want things to get too hot? I checked my springs, but didn’t press the buttons too hard and though the soldering on the springs is a bit anemic they are all well attached. My Samsung 30Qs didn’t work with the plastic polarity protectors because the button wasn’t proud enough. I’ve only used it one night of the days I’ve had it and my cells continually read the same voltage.

[Ilmatic]

@Jtm94

Solder it back on if you are feeling handy or take it up with Banggood. I read through the German thread and it seems a few people are having issues with cold solder joints. They were hypothesizing that maybe they soldered with the plastic rings on and didn’t want things to get too hot? I checked my springs, but didn’t press the buttons too hard and though the soldering on the springs is a bit anemic they are all well attached. My Samsung 30Qs didn’t work with the plastic polarity protectors because the button wasn’t proud enough. I’ve only used it one night of the days I’ve had it and my cells continually read the same voltage.

I just completed a repair request, basically requesting a new battery carrier. Otherwise, the flashlight has been amazing.

[mrheosuper]

i honestly dont know where is my previous post
so, could you send me coupon for XP-G3, thanks

[L4M4]

I measured my batteries just now and I also had the contact Problem (4.19, 4.04, 4.04, 3.87)
I put oput the white thingys and one of those brass things came right off.
I soldered it back and resoldered all others (just pout a powerfull soldering iron with no solder at the tip on top of the brass thing).
My batteries are charging and I am curious if this light will be even brighter.

I highly doubt, that the Nichia Version has <8k Lumens - this thing is brighter that my 12*xg-p2 S2 FET King

[Kingjohn]

@mizou51

OK

Here are some beamshots
MT03 has a wider beam M01 is more “focus”. But they are flooders both.
I get same output for MT03 modded and MF01.

Hi!

Which flashlight LED version did you use for this MF01 beamshot picture?

[JasonWW]

@Kingjohn

@mizou51

OK

Here are some beamshots
MT03 has a wider beam M01 is more “focus”. But they are flooders both.
I get same output for MT03 modded and MF01.

Hi!

Which flashlight LED version did you use for this MF01 beamshot picture?

Nichia

[Nicolicous]

Hey Freeme

Please send us the coupon

i cant wait anymore for XP-G3

[mizou51]

@JasonWW

@Kingjohn

@mizou51

OK

Here are some beamshots
MT03 has a wider beam M01 is more “focus”. But they are flooders both.
I get same output for MT03 modded and MF01.

Hi!

Which flashlight LED version did you use for this MF01 beamshot picture?

Nichia

Yes sorry I forgot to mention that it is Nichia

[JasonWW]

Does anyone have the DQG 7x xp-g2 light? It’s like the mini version of the MF01 xp-g3.

I’m wondering if the beam color is the same. If anyone knows, post back please.

Thanks

[djozz]

A version II of the MF-01 would be very nice freeme! A bit more output as well? :innocent: Waiting for details

Has anyone done a teardown? Or did I miss that?

[JasonWW]

@djozz

A version II of the MF-01 would be very nice freeme! A bit more output as well? :innocent: Waiting for details

Has anyone done a teardown? Or did I miss that?

What would version 2 have?

Xp-g3 are already at 666 lumen each. There’s not much more left in them. Maybe go with more emmiters and a bigger head?

There is a full tear down in Lexels review. Link is at the bottom of first post.

[Jtm94]

@djozz

A version II of the MF-01 would be very nice freeme! A bit more output as well? :innocent: Waiting for details

Has anyone done a teardown? Or did I miss that?

The most thorough all in one place teardown is Lexel’s Review I’ve not seen too much else on here, but there seemed to be some stuff going on over at the German site. Someone fixed the uneven brightness levels during low by swapping in a TA driver with narsil and there’s a demo video of the light ramping.

Also I don’t think it started since I’ve had it, just never noticed, but in the lowest mode I can see that one bank is ever so slightly brighter than the others. Once the light has warmed up they all seem to even out. I did not shine the light into my eyes or anything, just ran it on turbo outside of my vision until I felt heat then went back to low and they were even.

And JasonWW:
The Xp-G3s can easily do 1000+ lumens each as long as the current is there to be supplied. The light would be pulling 60+ amps, but with 4x 20amp high discharge cells that can be supplied to get this thing cooking at 20,000 lumens

[JasonWW]

@Jtm94

Someone fixed the uneven brightness levels during low by swapping in a TA driver with narsil and there’s a demo video of the light ramping.

Is that considered a fix or a “fix”? Lol