[Available again! - BLF special edition light] new Sofirn AAA twisty high CRI 5mm LED

why make it out of Ti? doesnt have much purpose besides the cool factor right?

I think itā€™s harder and lighter but not very good with heat dissipating. wonā€™t be an issue with the C01. But I donā€™t have money to spend on Ti. Never own one, doubt I ever will.

Sounds like the ideal woman, disguised as a flashlight.
A copper head works better, but a brass head looks better.

For titanium, there is the existing option of the McGizmo Sapphire, for the classiest of users. :face_with_monocle:

Granted, the Sapphire driver is the same as the Arc driver, which as I understand it, doesnā€™t perform quite as well as the E01 driver, and the price is well beyond what Iā€™d expect users to pay for a Sofirn twisty.

But itā€™s a really nice looking titanium AAA twisty, available with a Yuji, driven at 25mA.

Or if you want a titanium AAA that can tail stand and has a trit slot, maybe enough interest could get Mako to restart a limited run of his AAA, which even has two modes (low and lower).

Got my C01 today. I am really impressed with the overall fit, finish, and ergos of a superbly crafted torch. Kudos to all who made it possible. The tensile springing of the clip is perfect. Didnā€™t break when flexing and I mean I put the GORILLA twistinā€™ to it.

:+1:

Good for you!! :+1:

When did you order yours Streamer??

November 10

Thanks Streamer!! According to that info I have more waiting to do before mine get here. :wink:

I like the wider beam much better myself. I have two of the 5600kā€™s, and they are fantastic.

That does look pretty good I must admit. :+1:

I think so too. Makes me want to spark up a fat one and mellow out to some Hendrix and Zeppelin. My 3200ā€™s should land in tomorrows mail. They are a day late based on USPS tracking.

Well, it finally arrived! Yesterday I got my first tracking update since November 23rd (ordered 8th Nov, marked as shipped on the day after) that it had landed in London! I was starting to get worried!

What a brilliant light it is, the build is fantastic; nice smooth threads and the machining is spot on. Mine is probably from the very first batch and the pocket clip is extremely solid (I can barely flex it).
The tint is very nice as you would expect, as others have mentioned it has a slight hotspot but it doesnā€™t bother me.

I think this light is going to live on my keychain permanently. Now its time to order a trit & magnetā€¦

I ainā€™t got no news from the tracking of mine.
Iā€™ve sent message to Sofirn (on AliExpress) that asked me to check with my post office! Not gonna happen, they will know nothing about itā€¦ :person_facepalming:

I also asked about the coloured versions and Cissy said

that I presume will be within 2-3 weeks, maybe!

I hope I can get my black ones before thatā€¦ :weary:

Absolutely ! I agree. I was worried that the clip would be horrible. But my sample is perfectly done. :+1:

When were yours ordered my friend??

10th november, mate!! I guess the following day after they were released! And radio silence on tracking from 29th November on, it supposedly is in Guangzhou stillā€¦ :cry:

Thanks for the info my friend, I hope you get them soon. :+1:

I ordered mine 21 November. Latest update on mine was 11 December

By the two tracking updates at the same time on the same day, Iā€™m not sure if the package is still in China or on itā€™s way to Miami (USA). :smiley:

Oh yeahā€¦ā€¦ mine was actually not accepted by shipping partner until 7 December, 16 days after order was placed. :wink: . Funny how that works, since I got a ā€œyour order has shippedā€ email on 12 Novemberā€¦ the day after I placed the order. :person_facepalming:

But hey, such are the joys of dealing with AliExpreseā€¦. :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

  • 2018-12-11 00:21
    Guangzhou, leave Guangzhou sent to Guangzhou Express Company
  • 2018-12-11 00:21
    Guangzhou, leave Guangzhou and send it to Miami.
    ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦.
  • December 7, 2018, 8:22 pm
    Acceptance
    CHINA

Just another little update. Others have noted the contacts are quite small, so I decided to flow some solder onto them to add a bit of durability. Seems to have worked well.

Bingo, thatā€™s exactly what I do when they start to show any wear. I usually donā€™t bother until I see signs that it may wear through the surface, but you are good to go! The one thing that happened to me was I got to a point where I had to tighten the head more or it flickered. The key was the outer contacts on the BODY side. I took my Deoxit pen, which has a fiberglass point that wicks the fluid and ran it around that little ledge inside, and wiped it clean after a couple of minutes. Presto! Light twist, and it comes on solid and reliable. You could use a Q-tip and alcohol, but I think a mild abrasive is better for the aluminum, like a bit of Scotch Bright worked around there on a toothpick, or a little strip of very fine wet/dry paper. Whatever, just clean the oxidation off of the aluminum ledge when the contact gets dodgy.

Great day, my other cool and two warm C01ā€™s landed today! Ordered two days after the first cool one, and came almost 2 1/2 weeks later, so no rhyme or reason to that.

I now have quite a bit of beam variations. The first cool had the slight hotspot most seem to have, due to the ā€œreflectorā€ being engaged, and I rather like it. The second cool has a very well defined hotspot, almost like a real reflector light, starting to get a bit of throw. I thought the LED might be deeper in the head, but it doesnā€™t seem to be. The reflector surface is a little shinier than the other, but it seems unlikely to make so much difference. My last hunch is that the spread of the beam is a little wider on this particular LED, so itā€™s putting more light on the reflector surface. Funny how that can work, wider beam from the LED, tighter beam from the light head!

Then my two warm units are about in between, both have a very noticeable hotspot, but not nearly so much as the tight beamed cool one. At the end of the day, I like them all for their individual merits, and the difference in ā€œthrowā€ for the distances that they will be used for really is not significant. My Gerber Infinity Ultra mod has absolutely no hotspot, BTW, and that may be due to it using a 45 degree LED, so no light is hitting the polished reflector (my mod).

Oh, and all clips seem fine, opened them as far as needed to go over a pocket or hat brim and they snapped smartly back. All outer contacts on the PCB go right to the edge of the board, like my first one. So these issues seem to be limited to a pretty small number of lights, at least so far.

Nice work! Thanks for sharing the tip. :+1: