What Legoes with What?

[hank]

Cross-reference for discussion elsewhere (Reddit’s flashlight forum)
Reddit summaries are sometimes useful when people haven’t been ‘through the wars’ as things developed and are wondering “what legos with what”
Brief excerpt follows; more at the original page of course
https://www.reddit.com/r/flashlight/comments/4jfc9f/eagle_eye_hosts/

the Eagle Eye A6 is not the A6 in the BLF A6. BLF designed the flashlight around the EE A6 and wanted/expected it to be constructed with the EE A6. However, AFAICT, Banggood couldn’t work things out with EE fast enough and contracted with Manker to produce the host. There may have been a belief that EE and Manker used the same factory. Either way, Manker produced them and it is Manker that should be held responsible for the notable issues with the BLF (and I think Astrolux) A6. AFAIK the Eagle Eye A6 is a higher quality host. Certainly Eagle Eye X6 host doesn’t suffer the quality control issues of the BLF/Astrolux A6.

EE hosts are at: http://www.aliexpress.com/store/1735126/search?origin=y&SearchText=host

And I”m wondering if there are triple spacers and optics made or that happen to fit them.

xref for discussion at BLF: Eagle Eye X6 black flashlight host on AliExpress