Sofirn SP10A 500lm AA $9.99 on Amazon

Wellp, the old/original ’A had a bit of a greenish tint (shades of Jetbeam…), whereas the ’B is quite neutral.

Gf loves the old ’A, as it’s L/M/H only, simple and to-the-point. F could if anything just be left on accidentally and keep burning ’til the cell’s spent. Aimed at pretty much anything in anything brighter than pitch-black darkness, and you’ll never see the beam except by looking right down the reflector. She doesn’t use F, but I do. Perfect! The old ’A is exactly what she needs.

Me, yeah, I usually flick it back to F when I’m done using it, so that it comes on in F and doesn’t blind me. If I need anything brighter, I flick it to L or M. If I want bright light, I just doubleclick right to H and I’m done. Perfect! It’s almost exactly what I need. (I’d lessen the huge cavernous jump between F and L.)

That’s the nice thing about different UIs, even in the “same” light.

And the new ’A ostensibly has the same UI as the ’B. Ain’t got a new ’A (yet? dunno what these are, old or new or something else entirely), so can’t say.

So… what you mean by “the old SP10B UI”, I’m not sure. :smiley:

Sold out

This is the UI in the description and I described it above.
https://www.amazon.com/Sofirn-Keychain-flashlight-Water-Resistant-Practical/dp/B076J95YNF/ref=sr_1_1?s=hi&ie=UTF8&qid=1523411344&sr=1-1&keywords=sofirn+sp10b
From the aliexpress store I believe there all the same UI now 10a and 10b just black or colored.

Me too. :smiley:

Sorry. Woops ,sorry .

FWIW, the SP10B red I got from Amazon about 2 months ago has a moonlight mode that is significantly below 1 lumen, just based on comparison to some other lights I own that also claim to have a 1 lumen mode which is significantly brigher, like say Utorch UT01.

Again, not necessarily a bad thing - just different.

My SP10B also has some green in its tint, but it’s mainly visible in photos and not really in real life.

I bought one and sent it back because the moonlight was too dim to be usable. After reading comments from others here, I thought maybe mine was defective. But it sounds like you had the same experience, although it doesn’t seem to be the problem for you that it was for me.

Maybe someone can ask Sofirn for a SP10B coupon code?

I’m not a fan either. That’s why I am not buying another one
:slight_smile:

Got both of mine today, definitely the older UI.

L/M/H, doubleclick for strob, no soft-lockout.

SO… just what the GF wanted, eh?

I’ll just remind the general public that this light has more output (at all mode levels) when using a 14500 battery.

I have five SP10a lights and they all have the new UI. My wife gets NiMH batteries for her’s. The moonlight is about 1 lumen out of her light, but closer to 3 lumens out of mine. When you double click for the turbo, my SP10a kicks up very nicely (and throws better than I expected it would when I got it). But my wife’s when running on the lower voltage NiMH battery, hardly bumps up at all when turbo is initiated.

Anyway, she DOES use her moonlight for early AM jewelry selection (and she claims it’s fine as she lives by candle light each morning — I don’t know which we spend more on: these lights or candles?) :stuck_out_tongue:

Great powerful little beast for me, and the wife is happy enough (as she hasn’t thrown it away yet— like the 10+ Harbor Freight “free junk” lights she has over the last 5 years).

Hey, anyone have issues with the tailcap being really tight and scratchy? Lots of binding, no obvious damage to the threads that I can see, but still really tight and scratchy about midway through.

Thought maybe it was just lack of lube, but it seems pretty decently coated.

Mine are obviously ALL new Revs of the SP10a. I ran all of them today checking them out, making sure they were all the same (Version 2 ui), etc. (I was supposed to be doing taxes).

They all checked out good and they (along with three SP32s) all checked out in all depts. I took the tail caps off to measure voltages about 5 times each light— all good on mine.

Good point. The moonlight mode is fairly useless with Li-Ion cell, and it’s even more useless with a NiMH cell, at least on my version of SP10B. :slight_smile:

Current draw from Li-Ion cell is 1.2 mA.
Current draw from NiMH cell is 2.7 mA.

Some smart guy here should be able to raise low.

I received a SP10A from Sofirn @ AliExpress store, not Amazon.

The UI:

- click for ON, always on the firefly mode

- when ON, single click to change modes (FF > L > M) and “long” press for OFF (1 second, maybe)

- double click for Turbo

- triple click for Strobe

  • from OFF, 4 fast clicks to Lock/unlock
    EDIT: Long press from OFF goes to the last regular mode used before shutting OFF

Also, I bought a driver for my SP10B and it has the same UI!

What I found on this new SP10A is that only button top cells (at least the 14500s) work. There may be something different in the driver design that hinders the flat tops to work!

BUT, curiously, the driver I bought for the SP10B, works perfectly both with button or flat top batteries… This is something weird…

Also, using a Panasonic Ni-MH battery below 1.38V, the light almost doesn’t turn ON. It may be the LVP protection working. I don’t know if this supposed to happen constantly as I just tried it for experimenation purposes!

Last but not least, on this new light, and only by “eye measurement” the max level with AA / Ni-MH doesn’t seem so distant from the max level on 14500. But, as I said, it is eye measurement, not objective or accurate measure.

Now my recently obtained SP 10A does have memory if you long press from off. Short press from off always goes to FF…

WHAAAA I hadn’t noticed that :person_facepalming: :person_facepalming: :person_facepalming:
You are right, mine does the same thing!! I will correct my words :person_facepalming:

Thanks for letting us know that!!!
So…Sofirn has a similar UI to Olight :wink:

EDIT: It is not the same, sorry! What I meant was that the access to Firefly, Turbo, Strobe and last regular mode used are the same. The operation (clicks vs press & hold) are different :person_facepalming:

Oh my God, my head hurts…