Thank you Dale. I am following in your footsteps with a UV light build in this nice host. Will post details if I can get the thing working right. I wanted to start slow with a cruddy battery since I am not quite sure how the emitters will handle full power.
UV emitters are typically much lower voltage/current, like 700mW or 1000mW, so if you aren’t taking precaution to keep power level to their requirements you’re gonna blow 3 UV emitters in a big hurry.
While we’re on the subject, what current do you think the Sofirn driver puts out with an average battery for the C8F, no DB Custom FET mods?
I reviewed one of these and I am in contact with Dale comparing notes a lot of times also.
with everything as the light comes out of the box , I would say 8.5 to 9.5 amps would be a good average to expect from the included cell or a quality high drain cell.
Thanks Robo. I am assuming that is on Turbo.
Yes on Turbo and at the tailend.
Stupid question, but does the host come with the side clicky e switch included?
Yes it’s already installed with wire leads
If I read correctly… it does.
Did a quick search but didn’t find anything.
Did anyone mod this light with 3x sst-40 using a fet driver or other high performance driver?
If so, how much lumens did you got?
Yeah received yesterday unbranded host, quite heavy for a C8
I am not sure if I like the smooth host, a bit knurling would have been nice
I wish there would be a transparent switch cover included for lighted switch board, but I will look into it later if I can find a solution
Yeah, their hosts are unbranded. I love that they did that. My regular Sofirn C8 is the same way. Kinda wish Convoy did that.
Hello friend! Began to collect a flashlight sent from Sofirn and found that the electronic button does not have a free wheeling and is not pressed. That is, it stands in one, jammed position. What to do ? Where to buy a similar button? Maybe she understands? I wrote to the seller, I’ll see what answers.
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That is some fine machining johnkey! Those switches can be found easily, I’m on my phone now but I will get you a link later.
Why did you choose for a TIR optic?
Experiments. Boredom. :innocent:
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That is sound flashaholic reasoning. 
Nice line-up!
Wrote about the problem in the shop Sofirn on Ali.
Already sent and given a track number.
Simply good fellows!
Still found ….
I don’t understand:
Why would anyone want to replace the Sofirn triple LED PCB with a Noctigon?
Both are copper DTP.
I can understand going to the Noctigon for it’s 3 oz copper traces, have no idea why the awesome reflector was cut into a spacer in favor of the boring CUTE-3 optics though. The triple reflector is what makes the Sofirn a game changer. Much tighter beam from the reflector. But then, I’ve built so many dozens of CUTE-3 optic triples…
Just goes to show, different strokes for different folks!