Thanks
As I said if I didn”t already have an S70 & an S70s I would be pulling the trigger 
4000 lumen XHP70 light for $34 is a no brainer as far as I am concerned & exactly the same price as some us bought Thorfire branded S70s” for on Aliexpress a few months ago :+1:
AFAIK right now the best price for S70S is from Freeme Coupon Club :
Finally ordered my first S70, actually the S70S here for $41.61 with the $2 off: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/ThorFire-S70S-Waterproof-XHP70-LED-Flashlight-3960-lm-6-modes-Long-Distance-Searchlight-for-Camping-S70/32791830137.html?spm=2114.13010608.0.0.ayfHlb
Now it's price is listed a little bit higher at $45.90.
Never found out what the freeme deal was, but figure this has to be close. Didn't know bout the $34 deal though - that price is really incredible.
I received my S70S about a week ago, getting about the same price as you did, Tom E. I am quite happy with it, and after reading about others quibbles with the UI, I was a little apprehensive. However, I really like the arrangement, it is simple and works perfectly for my uses. I haven’t been able to stretch its legs yet, but hopefully will in the next few days.
Anyone else measure the parasitic drain? Just got my S70S today and measured 4.37 mA -- wayy too high. Should really be in the range of 200-300 uA even with the switch LED on. I posted over in this thread: https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/45722 - made the measurement for Marsalla.
I don't think they designed this driver to be run only off the e-switch. Could you turn off the older S70 by the e-switch? I don't have one.
The original s70 is turned on and off at the tail, the eswitch is for mode switching only.
A rough calculation using 5,000 mah batteries shows a complete discharge in just 47 days.
Hey guys I just fired up my new s70s from Elfeland outdoor lighting through AliExpress after………53 days of shipping. Anyway ever works perfect except I can’t get a moonlight move to show up. Anything special to make it appear or is it just likely a screw up?
press&hold from OFF - think it's the only way.
Tom you are the man. Thanks a lot, turns out this light even had a little folded document inside the box that explained everything. It’s amazing that I am so used to no instructions from Chinese manufacturers that I don’t even look anymore. My bad
Thanks again
-Joey
How much drain does the green indicator led cause? How long till it drains the batteries?
Had a weird thing happen. It was green for weeks and then I used the light for a couple of minutes. It slowly turned orange over the day but when I clicked the tailcap off and on it reset to green and has remained that way for weeks now.
Could be as low as 50 uA or as high as 200-300 uA, all depends. Also there is parasitic drain from the MCU and driver electronics. If well designed, could be 5 uA to 30uA or so. Bad design - much higher. Not sure I measured it.
Here you go.
I don’t think the switch led uses much power at all, but the driver uses a lot. If you using 5,000mah cells it should completely drain them in 48 days. This light should not be kept on all the time. It’s better to click the tail switch when not in use so the batteries don’t drain.
Hallo guys,
I would like to ask you. I would like to order Thorfire S70S, but I need as long thrower beam as possible. I tried to find some topics here about smooth reflector, but I did not. Is there some possibility as with Convoy L6, to change the reflector? Or, tried to some one, if smooth reflector for Convoy L6 will fit for ThorFire?
Thank you very much.
The S70S and L6 are not designed to be long throwers. These lights have big hotspot and decent throw of maybe 500 to 550 meters. So maybe 500 usable feet.
The L6 smo reflector does fit the S70S. This shrinks the hot spot size a little and gives a little extra throw.
There are other lights out there that give 2 or 3 times that throw distance by using a smaller hotspot.
Thanks for your comment JasonWW. So please, could you help me and give me some choices? I checked some, but the price is totaly different as on for example S70S, which is now available for 40 Dollars and low. I found some throwers, but there was price more then 200 Dollars! 
. Why is the difference in price so abysmal? Thanks.
A big thrower light needs a big reflector and it costs a lot to get a good one made. Plus you typically run a 12v emitter like the xhp35 which means multiple batteries in series and a special buck driver to run it. All that is extra work to design. Plus the size it a lot bigger which adds weight and adds to the shipping cost. A lot of times the shipping cost is added to the final price so they can say it has free shipping. So you end up with a bigger price tag.
One of the best performance to price serious throwers is going to be the soon released Astrolux MF02 at about $80. It should be good for over 1400 meters. ENEDED
Here is a handy list of thrower lights.
ASTROLUX MF-02 CREE XHP35 HI 2500lm 1.5km+ – $79 (to be confirmed)
BLF Lumintop GT with highest KCd – $150+
Manker MK35 XHP35 HI 2550lm 1420m – $155.95
Klarus G35 XHP35 HI D4 2000lm 1000m – $98.98 (not a big thrower)
Thrunite TN42 2000lm 1550m – $199
Nitecore TM38 Lite Tiny Monster XHP35 HI D4 1800lm 1400m – $360/2XX
JasonWW. Thank you very much. This Astrolux looks very very good. On Banggood is aroud 73 Euros, so this price is very good. I will think about it. Thanks.