This light has nothing to do with the Kronos.
Wut? That's why this light even exists, as stated in the OP - because of the K70...
The K70 was supposed to be a better ThorFire S70S - better overall design, more power, etc., whcih is why I signed up for it early on wayyyy back. The SP70 is now a better K70, whcih is fine with me 
We abandoned all the Kronos stuff and started fresh.
We, Jason, really? Or THEY?
Still, they took it over before they made the changes, then they did whatever they wanted to… in a very familiar fashion. Which is why we now have an orange peel shallow wide reflector…
I like the look of what Sofirn did, obviously… I bought one. But of course I will free to change it to suit me like I always do. 
I’m not sure what your getting at. Both Sofirn and BLF worked together. You disagree?
Obviously it’s not a 50/50 collaboration. Sofirn has the final say since they are the ones making it.
I wasn’t getting at anything, I said they changed the plan and they did. I don’t usually hint around as I myself am no good at reading between the lines.
Sofirn said they were going to make an extension tube for the Q8. I spent over $200 after talking with Tracey about this and I made Ham’r, based on the extension tubes, and the plan was for it to use multiple such tubes. I spoke with Barry as well. And then THEY decided not to make the tubes. I’m into this for $230 and then some based on what THEY said, but… whatever. I still have a cool light but after going to a lot of trouble to do the 458 thing based on 4 quads, 5 drivers, and 8 cells it no longer is going to be possible to have 8 cells, so I pulled the .458 Ham’r brass out of the light. I seriously dislike being made a liar. There, that’s what I’m hinting at. Say one thing do another. Good enough?
To add to that, they did show us 7 extension tubes working together powering a Q8. If they decided not to make them they could at the very least let me in on one of them as we had talked about it all so much and I was personally into the plan to such an extent. But Nooooo! Like, they kept you so well informed through all this, right? Uh, huh. Not.
Actually, the factory prepared the material for the extension tubes. Sofirn already spent thousands dollars on the tubes, we want it to be fulfilled as you do. But factory has no time to make them so far. We don’t wanna give an easy promise.
furthermore, even though we showed in the video that the tubes work with BLF Q8 and Sofirn Q8, we still worry about the compatibility.
You know, the threads changed a bit during all those batches.
Please keep give more time and see.
Max Power (W) 29 W
Max Light Output (lm) 4292 lm
Maximum Efficacy at Binning Conditions (lm/W) 181 lm/W
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Do I read it wrongly? I am excited for SP70. It is brighter than the cree parameters announced
Cree specs are meaningless. We should be closer to 100 watts.
According to the tests: https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/49020 and https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/48661, 100 watts is about 14 amps - is that about right for the higher performance cells, which is said in the OP to be about 7000 lumens?
Just got a shipping update, the SP70 arrived at JFK, could be couple days away now.
My SP70 just returned to Sofirn 
may be due to battery inside.
That sux. 
. What country are you in?
Yeah. It’s a FET driver and with high drains cells it should pull some pretty good amps. Sofirn was never able to tell me how many, though. Maybe it will be the 18A-19A I get with my Lexel driver L6, but I’d rather be conservative until I can measure it myself.
Thank you for that information Sofirn, appreciate it and will look forward to the day…
My HD batteries were sent back by customs apparently so Sofirn have sent out some more today. My SP70 should arrive this morning according to Royal Mail.
I know BLF member DTA recieved his. He did a quick video showing the beam.
The folks in the street do not seem to care about the searchlight around them :party:
Just received mine,build quality seems ok,threads smooth and lubed,reflector OP similar to L6,anodising shiny black,not sure about UI yet,ceiling bounce a fair bit brighter than L6,will check out later when fully dark.
The texture on the reflector should be very light. The L6, the xhp70 one, had a heavy texture. I hope Sofirn got it right.
Yours is shiny black? I though they would all be matte black.
Yea they should be matte not shiny and have a slightly OP reflector. The L6 is less OP than the S70 so maybe this reflector is similiar to the L6?
This is the issue if no one gets sent an engineering sample to check.