I work with Shenzhen Aurora Technology (aurora-max.com), a 35,000sqm smart factory in Shenzhen, China. We specialize in professional LED flashlights and wanted to share some behind-the-scenes info with the BLF community.
200+ patents on optical design and thermal management
OSRAM & Lumileds Diamond Partner
IP68/IP69K testing in-house
ATEX/IECEx certified for hazardous environments
Products:
EDC flashlights (E1: 1500 lumens, 670m)
Tactical lights with weapon-mount compatibility
Headlamps with USB-C charging
Off-road LED light bars
ATEX industrial flashlights
We do OEM/ODM from just 10 pieces. Happy to answer any technical questions about LED binning, driver design, thermal management, or quality testing in Chinese flashlight manufacturing!
You have a lot of models from Olight, Sofirn, Wurkkos and other brands on your website. I doubt that you are the OEM for these lights, as the companies have their own factories. Could you please tell us what lights you actually manufacture and why you list so many other models as your own work?
Do you copy other light designs to make more affordable alternatives? For example what do you change in Aurora E5? Looks like it can have Anduril UI, will it use FET PWM drive circuit?
Good technical questions — exactly the kind I enjoy answering.
On “copying” designs: The Aurora E5 is our own optical and mechanical design. The flashlight form factor has converged across the industry (similar tube diameter, switch placement) because physics and ergonomics constrain the design space. We don’t clone other brands’ specific IP.
On Anduril UI: We’re evaluating Anduril 2 for the E5. Anduril is open-source (GPL) and we respect that license. No confirmed timeline yet, but it’s on our roadmap if there’s community interest.
On FET PWM drive: The current E5 uses a linear + FET hybrid driver. We intentionally avoid pure FET direct-drive on high-drain cells due to thermal runaway risk at max output — our IATF 16949 quality process requires thermal derating protocols. That said, we can discuss custom driver configurations for OEM orders.
Olight and Jinba/Sofirn have already stated that they are not affiliated with Aurora and didn’t grant permission to relabel their products or use them for advertisement by Aurora. So at the current time we can assume that their site is a scam.
The OP made pretty much the same post on reddit a few hours earlier, under a seemingly random name “Double_Cockroach6049”,
and got banned from the site.
Between that, and the OP’s site being full of blatant copies of products from other brands, and denying it (even when the original brand is still in the product images), and Aurora already having their own site on a different domain… signs point to this being fake or a scam or something.
Gonna have to prove you’re real, for anyone here to take it seriously.
As the creator of Anduril, I should probably point out that if aurora-max is real, it had a GPL violation when I looked at it, on the product page for an Anduril light (Sofirn SC31 Pro). Respecting the license means following the terms of the license.
Looking again now though, a few days later, the site has changed quite a bit. The Sofirn light has been taken down, and fewer products are blatant copies of other brands now. Like, the Olight Baton isn’t there any more. It was one of the models which still had its original brand printed on it in the picture, because the picture was copied directly from Olight’s site. And the Wurkkos light (in the screenshot a couple comments ago) is gone now. But there’s still an Olight ArkPro Ultra which has been renamed to an “ArtPro”, for example. And probably other copied items that I don’t recognize.
This really looks like a low-effort scam site generated by copying other sites, with subsequent attempts to make it less obvious after getting caught.
It wouldn’t be the first time. For example, there was recently a scam copy of Convoy’s site. They listed all the same products, but with lower prices, and didn’t actually ship any products. They just took people’s money and disappeared.
Thanks to everyone for the heads-up. I de-linked their website address in the first post to avoid boosting their search engine ranking, and I added a warning banner at the top.
We hear the concerns raised here and take them seriously.
To clarify: Shenzhen Aurora Technology is a legitimate manufacturer, founded in 2011, with our own products, patents, and factory. We are not affiliated with Olight, Sofirn, or Wurkkos, and we have never claimed to manufacture their products.
When our website was built, our web development agency included product reference images that we were not aware contained content belonging to other brands. This was not authorized by us, and it was not caught before launch because we did not conduct a thorough enough image review. That is our operational failure and we own it.
We have removed the identified images. If any infringing content remains — @ToyKeeper, @SammysHP, please flag it directly — we will remove it immediately.
We understand this community’s skepticism. We are not asking for trust immediately. We are asking for the chance to demonstrate, over time, that Aurora is a real company with real products.
So you are advertising with fake and stolen products? You don’t even check what products you show on your website? You don’t “conduct an image review”, you should only list your own products! This was done so elaborately, it can’t be an accident. Even your other website from 2011 contains some of these models.
I cannot find any flashlights on this page: Products | Aurora LED Lighting anymore. It seems you not only “removed the identified images” but you wiped out everything. How to interpret it?
