Sofirn C01S SST-20 4.000K 95CRI / Low-High version available again!

Thanks for your kind feedback teacher! Roll tide! :-)

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Will report when mine arrives too (package has not left Sofirn yet)

Your welcome my friend!! :+1: . ROLL TIDE!!
I love that picture…… :beer:

Ordered 1 at $8.88 price

This video (short video C01S | By LED flashlight | Facebook) shows that C01S is starting with low mode first.

I’m confused. So which mode is first one? Low or high? Can someone clarify please? Thank you! :wink:

It looks like high- low to me. They put in the battery and screwed it in all of the way onto high, then when he put it in front of his hand, he turned it onto low and then continued the cycle.

That took 3 views to unravel: she (small hands btw) switches it on (high), then off, then on again (low) then off-on (high). The off-time after the first switch-on was short enough for the driver to detect a mode change instead of interpreting that as a switch-off.

So my conclusion: high->low

Yes, thank you, it’s in line with their description on Aliexpress page: “no memory function and default brightness is High mode”.

looks interesting, on bg its a long date ahead before they get in stock it seems :frowning: i will order it later i guess. I asume using 10440 in this light is not working ?

Low mode 3Lm seems useless to me. Optimally it would be low mode to make 10-20Lm.

Looks like a nice little light.

Depends. There will be many opinions on what the lowest brightness level should be. They are all correct for the particular user.

Myself, I prefer around 1 to 2 lumen maximum for the lowest level. Even lower if there is a Medium level as well as Low and High. My favorite general purpose pocket light has 0.5 lumens as the lowest, then 7, 70 and 250. (4 in total with the highest seldom used.)

If you are in a truly dark place that is plenty of light and usually not enough to shock your eyeballs. Totally useless if there is any amount of background light, but ideal if you are in a truly dark place.

I do prefer lights to start on the loweset setting and cycle up and back around. I can’t think of many times I have wanted a light to come on in the brightest mode.

I find 0.5 Lm to be very useful and starting on high a big disadvantage

no its not, in total darkness even 1lm is more then enough for a light and to save battery.

I find 3 lumen low pretty ideal for general use on a keychain. you don’t always use these in pitch black, so a bit more is alright.

If it had firefly/moon, I actually would have preferred a 3rd low mode at 8-10 lumen, but that’s what the thrunite ti3 and astrolux a1 are already doing.

but yeah, for me the BLF low-high version would be nicer.

But ideally, it should work like in that old discontinued pre-2014 Thrunite AAA twisty light: head fully tightened for max, slightly loose for low, unscrew further for off. That would be ideal. Too bad I missed this light back then, would buy 5 of these.

- Any word from Barry about BLF version?

- Is clear anodization essential?

  • Could we ask for copper head version?

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If this happens, I’m in for a few!

Copper version would also be great.

1)Yes it seems like there is going to be one, 200 pieces without anodisation (took half a year to convince them that there are people who actually would want an unfinished flashlight), but no confirmation about low first yet. Btw, I’m not going to arrange a dedicated group buy for this, I’d be ok with that it just goes for sale at the Sofirn store.

2 and 3) based on a longterm discussion about the C01, I believe a no-ano version is nice as a BLF-special, and it is clear from the poll that most people want the mode order to be low->high so that is what I asked as well. Sure there will be endless other possible versions thinkable (my own preference would still be purple :party: ) but I think this version is a good choice that many will appreciate.

I’d defo be getting one of clear ano versions. No matter what the mode order is. It doesn’t really matter to me in such a small light.

This not about clear ano, but no ano at all. This will look and feel more rough because it is in fact what comes straight out of the CNC machine. That is why they don’t get why we want this :smiley: .