It’s a long story, but Neal (from Neal’s gadgets) used to work for Banggood and got fired over the CPS Italia Cometa fiasco. Neal was the go-between for BLF, Manker, and Banggood. Manker was making the lights for Banggood. The BLF A6 was on of the early ones. Still one of the best flashlights IMO. Manker was the OEM for the BLF lights, and totally ripped off the Jaxman Z1 design for the Cometa. In fact, they were ordering lenses from Jaxman and lying to them about the use, which were going into the Cometa.
Here’s the Cometa and the shitstorm, in case you’re interested My COMETA is a POS - does not connect with tailcap spring - burned my finger [Hobby Ending - Enough is Enough] and here WARNING: Cometa – read/fix BEFORE inserting battery
Anyway, the whole thing blew up, Neal got fired, and Banggood found a new manufacture (mateminco), and started the Astrolux brand. That was not without major f…up’s either. Astrolux is owned by Banggood.
One of the early “astrolux” lights with the wires soldered on backwards because the MCPCB. board was made backwards where the screws would short out. And what was banggood/astrolux’s fix? plastic washers… lol.
