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?
Thanks, 264. That does help. Since medium is 160 lumens, thatâs what Iâd have to work with most of the time. My Coast polysteel 250 will serve me better.
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 !
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 ârandomâ bug of a âunexpectedâ bug!
Thanks for confirming 264
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 wasnât 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 itâs easily solved by either unlocking it, or just unscrewing the tailcap.
Re: protected battery â I ordered the SP32A twice (as the âkitâ version with battery and charger). The first time, I got an unprotected 18650 (wrapper is the red âUltraFireâ-like wrapping, labeled 3000mAh). The second time I ordered, they sent a protected battery (it is much longer, labeled âSofirn 2800mAhâ; and I verified that itâs protected since this protected battery shuts down when I tried it on the Astrolux S41S â 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 âUltrafire-typeâ wrapper Sofirn â3000mAhâ 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 âhandled by AliExpressâ ships really fastâŚ).
(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 â Iâm not sure whatâs the pause forâŚ)
(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 donât have 3 hands to simultaneously start the testingâŚ)
(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 âlock-out possible in strobe modeâ bug
- changing modes group is also now faster in the new batch SP32A (in older batch, while in ârampingâ mode, one needs to hold the button for around 7-8 seconds to change to âgroupsâ mode; in the new batch, only need to hold for around 3-4 seconds to switch from ârampingâ to âgroupsâ 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 â I canât be sure if this may just be a contact issue specific to my one sample each of the old and new SP32A though)âŚ
I personally measured higher lux on my ceiling bounce test (531 vs. 500) with my 32A when compared to my BLFA6 (1A). So I would say that it is close to 1550 lumens on Turbo.