Thanks for posting that. It only mentions Turbo and High being reduced; I don’t see anything about what happens in ramping mode. Can I assume that when it is ramped up to those levels, it will also be reduced automatically?
I will give it a try later and post results.
When ramping high is about 1000 lumens and low is Moonlight mode which is about 1 lumen. After three minutes it looks like medium mode. Double click for turbo. After three minutes it goes down to medium mode but stays at 900 lumens for about a minute. Does this answer your question?
Does this SP32A have this bug (I think it’s a bug)?
3 quick-clicks to get to Strobe mode
then do 4 quick-clicks to Lock-out.
Now, the flashlight is locked-out in Strobe mode.
Pressing the buttons does nothing, except doing 4 quick-clicks which unlocks the lock-out, then flashlight is back to normal.
Thanks, 264. That does help. Since medium is 160 lumens, that’s what I’d have to work with most of the time. My Coast polysteel 250 will serve me better.
Yup, I got that on mine too! Never noticed before :person_facepalming:
After 4 clicks my flashlight blinks twice signifying flashlight is locked out. Everytime you press the button the flashlight blinks twice till you repeat the 4 fast clicks to unlock the light.
Hum, d_t_a was mentioning to activate lockout while the strobe is ON! 
When the light is OFF, mine behaves like you described
But when the strobe is ON, if the lockout is activated, it remains like that, the light gets locked and then you cant turn Strobe OFF.
Unless with 4 clicks to lock-out or unscrewing the threads !
I cannot get mine to lockout while the strobe flashes.
So the Strobe doesn’t get locked if you click 4 times while it is “strobing”?
There must be some bug in my light and d_t_a’s, then :person_facepalming:
Oh, just managed to lock the light in strobe mode. Mine is just like the others. Buggy.
Hum, that may be a bug of all of them!
Maybe some other users can give input on this to see if it is a “random” bug of a “unexpected” bug!
Thanks for confirming 264
I do think wanting to lockout the flashlight while it was in strobe mode was unforeseen.
The SP32a is a fun and useful flashlight. Not surprising us flashlight nuts find quirky things about different flashlights.
Reported the issue to Sofirn…
Update: just got a reply from Sofirn, which doesn’t seem to be helpful since they don’t acknowledge there is a bug…
this is the reply from Sofirn:
Yeah. The issue is very trivial. It’s nothing to fret about.
I just realized you got sent a protected battery. They now bundle an unprotected battery with these that are capable of a lot high amp draw.
I don’t really see it as a bug because I’d never perform a lock out with the flashlight on in any mode. Only for traveling or putting in my bag.
@ Rickw12
Use the flashlight in Ramping mode so you can choose the lumen output you need from 1 - 1067 Lumens. Set it to what you are needing 90% of the time and then two clicks to Turbo when you need it.
Well, I wasn’t trying to perform a lock-out, was sort of testing (or playing around with) the SP32A and I accidentally locked it out in strobe mode, and it does appear to be a bug, anyway it’s easily solved by either unlocking it, or just unscrewing the tailcap.
Re: protected battery — I ordered the SP32A twice (as the “kit” version with battery and charger). The first time, I got an unprotected 18650 (wrapper is the red “UltraFire”-like wrapping, labeled 3000mAh). The second time I ordered, they sent a protected battery (it is much longer, labeled “Sofirn 2800mAh”; and I verified that it’s protected since this protected battery shuts down when I tried it on the Astrolux S41S — shuts off when set to Turbo mode; I would presume the trigger is around 6A for the protected Sofirn 2800mAh 18650 bundled with the SP32A).
Both the “Ultrafire-type” wrapper Sofirn “3000mAh” 18650 and the protected Sofirn 2800mAh 18650 tested just around 2700+ mAh capacity (at 0.50A discharge rate, discharged to 2.75v on MC3000).
Ramping time appears to have improved in the new batch of SP32A (ordered during the special sale last end of March 2018 and arrived a few days ago; the “handled by AliExpress” ships really fast…).
(whereas in the original older batch, from Low-to-High or vice-versa, it takes about 7 seconds; in the new batch, the ramping takes around 3.5-4 seconds; there is still a very slight pause somewhere in the middle of the ramping — I’m not sure what’s the pause for…)
(testing ramping speed on new & old SP32A; new on the left, old on the right)
(sorry the stopwatch is not exactly the time, since I don’t have 3 hands to simultaneously start the testing…)
(ramping on the old batch SP32A ~ 7 seconds)
(ramping on the new batch SP32A ~ 3.5 seconds)
Checking the new batch SP32A, I also noticed these:
- it still has the “lock-out possible in strobe mode” bug
- changing modes group is also now faster in the new batch SP32A (in older batch, while in “ramping” mode, one needs to hold the button for around 7-8 seconds to change to “groups” mode; in the new batch, only need to hold for around 3-4 seconds to switch from “ramping” to “groups” mode)
- I measured a slightly higher tailcap current on Turbo mode on the new batch (UT210E ammeter w/ bare copper wire: I got around 6.5-7A on previous SP32A, on the newer one, I got momentary peak 8.+ A reading on freshly-charged VTC6 — I can’t be sure if this may just be a contact issue specific to my one sample each of the old and new SP32A though)…