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I would be up for two of the SP10DR

Don’t want to be rude but this is surprising to me. Does Sofirn really need 500pcs to solder just a diffrent LED? This is something many of us can do by themselves.
If we don’t collect the minimum order quantity, how about ordering at Sofirn the lights without LED? And separately ordering LEDs at some other store? Finally one could receive the light just requiring soldering two leads and assembling into ready-to-use flashlight? It doesn’t seem to be that impossible.
Let’s see first what would be the interest - whether we speak of 30pcs, 300pcs or maybe more…

Interested, but given the limited development resources, I’d rather like Sofirn to focus on BLF SP70 and a new C01 :smiley:

Interested in one SP10DR

Cześć 1stein, I guess there will be some kind of a minimum lot size that Sofirn requires in terms of tooling time for their machines. Furthermore, it only makes sense to buy LEDs with a certain MOQ as otherwise costs would go up and Sofirn's margin would decrease. LT1 batch #1 is 500 pcs, so I assumed this is a figure we might be able to reach with enough interest on BLF users and enough room for a reasonable margin Sofirn could achieve by selling it to us. The sales price should be in the same range as the LH351D or XP-G2 versions of their SP10/SF14 lights.

Selling hosts or pre-assembled lights without LED would probably raise less interest on BLF users and leave less margin for Sofirn unless they sell it for nearly the same price of a complete flashlight. In that case it probably makes more sense to buy a SF14 or SP10 and modify it to one's liking.

Interested in two SP10DR.

Lux-P, I guess you are right. But keeping things simple : it’s just a different LED, not re-engineering.

Is it? Wouldn’t it need a different driver? I’m honestly asking!

Speaking about drivers, bearing in mind that this would be a “different” purpose light with a probably different and specific driver (?) could it be potted? I am asking because of what I mentioned above, this is, the failure rate that Sofirn SP10A/B drivers have with impact! Last month another of mine felt and “puft” no more turn ON…

I would honestly consider that for the SP10B, but this is just an opinion! Not necessarily modding friendy, eventually, but more capable of handling a drop in the floor…

So this is a question to be asked. Are we talking on just led replacement or re-engineered partially new flashlight? Starting post made me thinking it’s about just led replacing.

The voltage of red leds is seriously lower than white leds (1V to 1.5V lower), it depends of the type of driver (I do not know what driver is used and am not an electronic engineer) if that causes issues.

So far, both XP-E2 red (620nm) and LH351B 2.200K and 3.000K work without any problems in my modified SF14 and SP10B lights. As they can be operated with 1.2V NiMH and 3.7V Li-Ion they must be using a boost driver.

I’m interested in SF14R.

Interested in one SP10DR and maybe an additional SF14DR.

Interested in SP10DR.
Thanks

I would be interested in deep red.

Count me in for two, either red or deep red, SF14 or SP10, as long as they have different modes.

Hum, so we would have either a “3 modes” light on the SF14 or a “3 + turbo + strobe + lock out” on the SP10?

I wouldn’t mind that, as long as the LED survives with 14500 cells!

Interested in either one- tailclicky or e-sideswitch.

It should work with both 14500 and AA cells. If this idea comes into closer consideration by Sofirn, I'm confident they will do some testing about the maximum current. I have no idea if they would either build some SF14s or some SP10s with these LEDs. Maybe (and if interest is high enough) they could consider offering both tailclicky and sideswitch lights with red light, so maybe 250 SF14 R/DR and 250 SP10 R/DR. However, I will try to present the idea and this thread to Sofirn next week and then I hope I can tell you guys more about its feasibility.

What is the use of a high power red light that is not a thrower?