List 2 of 2 - Sofirn AAA Twisty Project
Update 11/10/18 The first 300 are available (black only - colors coming soon)!
Sofirn Ali Express Order Page
Instructions from Sofirn to get the $6.50 price. They are manually adjusting prices, so please be patient, especially since they are in a different time zone than most.
User timbo114 was kind enough to provide some additional instructions.
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The original project has evolved, and now will be a new design, similar to the E01, created by Sofirn. For background information, discussion about the collaboration with Sofirn starts at post 165.
Sofirn is in charge of the project, but listening with interest to our input, coordinated by BLF member djozz.
Key details:
- Designer and Manufacturer: Sofirn
- Price Target: $6 USD
- Battery: 1 x AAA
- LED Type: Yuji BC 5mm high CRI, floody beam
- Color Temperature: 3200K or 5600K options
- Modes: 1
- Driver: 25 mA current
- Output: Approximately 5.5 lm warm and 7.5 lm daylight versions
- User interface: twisty
- Potted driver for maximum durability
- Compatible with Thorfire AAA Clip
- BLF-designed tail accepts center-hanging split ring, tritium vile, and 5mm magnet (not included)
Update 9/29/18 - Sofirn has built and tested the first prototypes! See actual photos here and beamshots here. Testing included a drop from the 3rd floor onto pavement, plus submerging in about 2m of water, and freezing them in a block of ice while on, and finally, driving over one with a truck.
Update 8/9/18 - Sofirn has shared an initial rendering (post 468), and an updated rendering (post 598 of the proposed design. This not final, but everyone should definitely take a look at how this project is shaping up.
Update 8/10/18 - A pair of followup surveys are available.
- Give your opinion on the possibility of tail features for owners to add a tritium vial and magnet at this link.
- Give your opinion on the overall tail design options, which will likely be finalized and shared with Sofirn as a recommendation on 8/13/18 at this link.
List preface:
This post will track interest following the announcement that Sofirn wants to produce a light similar to the E01, but equipped with a Yuji high CRI LED.
Signing up for this list is not a binding commitment, but weād like to help Sofirn be confident there is worthwhile demand to produce this light, so Iād like to request you list your quantity and color temperature(s). Iāll assume interested stated without a quantity means 1, and without a color temperature means 3200K so we at least have a category to count it under.
Format is:
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5; 0 - :sunglasses: slowtechstef (173)
1; 1 - FlashMax (168, 1231)
0; 4 - dealgrabber2002 (169, 907)
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Totals:
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5600K - 470
Last updated - 2018-11-23, 20:43 PST
I will try to update the list weekly, but sometimes it will be more or less frequently.
Sofirn has grown in my consideration and is still going up 