REVIEW: Sofirn SD05 Scuba Diving Flashlight

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I ordered the flashlight on Aliexpress. Waiting for delivery. Flashlight is simple to use rotating ring and is also suitable as a gift for the older person. You can see exactly what mode is set. It may not be easy for the elderly to select modes by pressing a button. I turn the ring and it’s done.

Cool video!!! Do you like floody or thrower as a diving light?

I prefer thrower, it helps with underwater communication in dark water

I added some better beam shots in post #11.

Hjeh, and got away lucky in the 2nd shot. :laughing:

I just saw one of the little armadillos here crunching away on catfood and busted-up cookies on the patio. Birds didn’t even touch the latter (they’re like, “Hey, wherenahell’s our bread??”), but I knew come nightfall someone would.

We had a white skunk here last year (yeah, all white but 2 parallel black racing stripes down the middle), but haven’t seen him/them this year.

Thing is, you could smell when they were in town. Their stank just carried…

Anyhoo, love the way the ’05 just lights up everything in sight, and the magswitch is a hoot!

I was eating at twilight in The Basin campsite of Big Bend NP and heard something coming up to the table. It was a white skunk with spots where stripes normally are. We jumped away and in doing so, scared the critter away. 20 minutes later, I heard little feet again. This time, it was a brown skunk with white strips. OMG! Better than bears!... I think.

Funny story: https://tpwmagazine.com/archive/2016/jun/ed_3_skunks/

Wow, I thought there was only one kind of skunk, too. Black, white stripes, speak with French accents, etc. Had no idea there were so many, especially in Texas.

But this is NYC we’re talking about, and I never ever expected to see skunks here, yet multiple kinds. Trash-pandas, sure, as they live in cemeteries where they’re relatively undisturbed, and forage for food at night. Was surprised at my possums, especially when I got to pet one which was wedged in a trash bag licking out cans of catfood. Yep, played dead when I pried him out, must’ve come to when I was showing him to a neighbor who was coming home late, and the critter saw his chance and made a waddle for it, taking off down the alley, so I let him go. (They glow red under UV, too.)

What’s really crazy about NYC is that you have coyotes . Surprised I haven’t heard of black bears there or are they?

Haven’t heard of coyotes here, but foxes were running around a few years ago.

Bears are generally more upstate than here. Joisey, too.

They can adapt to anywhere.

Oh yeah. Nature Will Win.

After the Zombie Apocalypse and all of hyu-mons are wiped out, Nature Will Win.

If they can make it in NYC, they can make it anywhere. :smiley: I wonder what a NYC coyote accent sounds like?

Hmm, so much for time-index…

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I guess it would depend on which borough they live in.

Did order 4 of these and we are using them daily for diving down to 10m (been testing for several weeks now)

So i will just add my feedback about the product

The magnetic switch will get “stuck” and hard to twist using it one handed i guess due to small tolerances and salt buildup (does not happen to our SD01)

The “snap hook” for the lanyard will break quickly wish the hole was bigger so u can just insert the lanyard right away.

The turbo mode does not work with some batteries it will automaticlly handle the light as “low battery mode” and turbo mode will be as bright as second mode.

The spring and back cover will oxidise quickly so u need to remove the spring and whipe under it. You will notice this by the light blink as low battery when its not for hours and being in “low battery” brightness and sometimes randomly shutdown.

Basiclly alot of improvement to be done to this light (SD01 works much better using it for years daily never any issues, if someone is looking for a stable diving light)

With that said the light is amazing when its brand new and with some tweaks it works just fine. I did rope the lanyard and found a battery brand that works. Then did put a bit of soder at the bottom of the cap and spring for increased surface connection and on the tip of the spring.

Looks like a pretty good deal right now on Aliexpress Sofirn store. SD05

Noticed that the SD01 costs @ twice as much. Thanks for the oxidation notes, there is a product called Deoxit Shield that I will try and preemptively use and see how that goes. Planning on using it as a salt water kayak light where it will see sand and salt, but only a bit.

I thought “standard procedure” when diving in saltwater is to take your goodies, let them soak for a while in fresh water, then give ’em one last rinse.

That should get rid of any built-up salt deposits, no? Also keep things from rusting.

It would be nice also to know how is disassembled; I arrived only to disassemble the front ring and control the glass (3 mm thick); I would get to also remove the ring of functions, so you know how to clean it and keep it healthy