A couple days ago, only a day or two after I received it, I accidentally knocked my new Sofirn SF14 off the counter onto a bath mat. It stopped working. I ended up taking it apart and noticed that the LED was no longer attached to the MCPCB. I did a sloppy half-assed “reflow” so I could confirm that the disconnected emitter was the root cause, and not something like an inductor breaking loose. I confirmed the diagnosis, and in the process did an accidental dedome mod. I wrote sofirn via aliexpress. I haven’t heard back from them yet.
Sometime in the interim, I dropped the red SP10b I’ve had since ~December onto a harder surface. It still works fine.
5mm solid oak on top of 16mm birch plywood, so a 21mm pretty solid wooden floor
The UI is quite perfect: short clicks for switching on and mode changes, slightly longer click (just right) for switching off. No memory, start in low :laughing: . Just the low mode is off, way too low. I hope with another emitter it is a bit better. (I guess the low can not be adjusted, like with the Manker UI?)
LOL, he is not into women yet, he finds the girls mostly boring and annoying. He loves Australia though, there was a nature series on Australia on TV and now he wants to go there. So beware of your daughter after all :smiling_imp:
Thanks, next is not a drop test but an emitter swap, I’m going to try that high CRI Samsung led in the red one.
I had a SP 10B emitter come off for no reason except probably cold soldered . Sofirn is very easy to deal with. Sent me a new light , reflowed the old one . Stainless steel frying pan on medium heat electric stove top burner and a little solder paste works great. Vesture of Blood video gave me confidence to do it.
As in djozz situation, my new SP10 A and the SP10 B I put a new driver, both start at FF mode!
But I don’t know if they will have the same UI.
I guess that there was a transition period meanwhile where different UIs co-existed and were sold. My guess is that the “final” UI will be like I described above, but it’s just a guess as well! :+1:
Yup! The driver I bought and put on the SP10B does the same thing !! This UI is similar to the one used on Olight S1R Baton (and maybe other Olight lights)!!!
EDIT: It is not the same, sorry! What I meant was that the access to Firefly, Turbo, Strobe and last regular mode used are the same. The operation (clicks vs press & hold) are different :person_facepalming:
Confirmative, there is memory after all, and direct access from off to both lowest and turbo :+1:
Turbo is not memorised though, instead it goes to the last mode before turbo was activated.
And I found a small bug, when in any mode including turbo, long press=off, only when turbo is activated from off, a long press does nothing, instead a short press=off. After trying a first long press, a second long press does switch it off again.
Was in the can, had shorts I was changing out of, SP10A in the pocket, just slung them over the shower-curtain-rod. Seconds later, >boom!<, it hits the tile floor from about 6’/2m high.
Acted finicky at first, but I did do a TCLO before, so after snugging up the tail and the head, tried it again, and it worked perfectly.