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?
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 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.
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
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 ……”.
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".
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?
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…