Andúril 2 coming to Sofirn - The general Sofirn development thread

Is the AT35 available anywhere?

Just a prototype at the moment :frowning: I think that should have been their XHP35 HI light…

WOW, what is the tech? How does it make it?

The Beam Shaper might be copyrighted technology that Sofirn is not even aware of. Is it even real or just theory and computer animation? What are the down sides, big losses in lumens? We don’t know, but it’s a cool idea.

More information on the beam shaper:

http://lensvector.com/

Hi Barry, I have some suggestions about your recent flashlight launches (e.g. SD05, SP70) that use Sofirn's UI instead of Andúril/NarsilM.

Maybe you can forward and discuss them with your engineering team? I'm sure these updates will not be too hard to implement but they will certainly make your successful flashlights even more successful and more popular.

  • Please remove timer-triggered stepdowns from future drivers/flashlights. I do not see any reason to have both thermal and timed stepdowns at the same time.
  • Please allow a user defined choice of ATR thresholds (e.g. 45°C, 55°C, 65°C) just like HaikeLite did with their SC26

Thermal protection setting can be accessed by 10xclicks:

The light flashes once => turn it off to select 45 degree step-down temperature

The light flashes twice => turn it off to select 55 degree step-down temperature

The light flashed 3 times => turn it off to select 65 degree step-down temperature

Eventually, Sofirn can make 45°C as the default setting that will allow a safe and comfortable usage while flashoholics, experts, evangelists and enthusiasts can raise the threshold to a higher value they deem more reasonable, maxing out the full potential of Sofirn's powerhouse flashlights like SP70, Q8 and SP36. There will not be any trade off for customers who prefer a simpler UI than Andúril or NarsilM as they still get the chance to push their flashlights (and skin :-D ) to their very limits.

Wait, timed AND thermal? ……wow.

See SD05 that has a 3min and 55°C stepdown.

See SP70 that has a 30min stepdown from High to Medium, even though ATR triggers automatically at 60°C.

There will also be another new Sofirn flashlight that will have a 2min and 55°C stepdown.

Right, so cold winter nights be damned :slight_smile: an interesting oversight IMO, but I’m sure they have their reason.

@Barry

Is there any plan to release soon any light with USB charging and E21A emitter(s)?

My suggestion: altered SC31 (as SE21A :wink: ) with first low starting at 3 lm

I’d like to see a single emitter light like the SP32A V2 but with Anduril. Seems like it’d just need a driver upgrade.

Sofirn’s stock UI’s usually keep me from buying their lights. I just got the SP36 BLF Anduril and it’s awesome. I even defeated sofirn’s favorite glue to get the driver out and flash the latest firmware build.

Fitting an E21A in a commercial flashlight requires some skilful designing: you can not use a centering piece because the led is small, shallow and fragile, the force of the reflector via the centerpiece easily kills the led. And still the small E21A requires precise centering, even in a reflector as small as in the SC31. I have not seen a commercial solution for that yet.

We need centering rings with pegs in them like a TIR :slight_smile:

Remind me again what the advantage of a E21A is over other emitters on the market?

Extreme high CRI and a bit less shift I think. Everything else about it makes it very hard to practically use

Folomov appears to have done it… If only they’d stop inventing goofy battery types and use normal cells.

This is the EDC C2. The one that takes that stupid little 14300 battery.

http://www.folomov.com/en/upLoad/image/20190507/15571972152309263.jpg

Nice little flashlight :slight_smile: Appparently a centering piece works with that small reflector, but even there I wonder what mechanical stress the led experiences?

This. Please.

Call it “… V2A”

And chop an inch off.

  • Very high CRI
  • Very nice tint
  • High efficiency for the CRI
  • Tint-mixed quad E21A can act as a very rosy 5050 emitter. And a quite powerful one, though working around the hole in the middle makes it a flooder-only option.
  • Lov Vf which is a mixed blessing really
  • Very low profile - in a light designed for it it saves almost 1 mm compared to XP-L HI and over 2 mm compared to XP-L HD. As long as you can focus your optics properly. :slight_smile: