Yeah. It’s a FET driver and with high drains cells it should pull some pretty good amps. Sofirn was never able to tell me how many, though. Maybe it will be the 18A-19A I get with my Lexel driver L6, but I’d rather be conservative until I can measure it myself.
My HD batteries were sent back by customs apparently so Sofirn have sent out some more today. My SP70 should arrive this morning according to Royal Mail.
Just received mine,build quality seems ok,threads smooth and lubed,reflector OP similar to L6,anodising shiny black,not sure about UI yet,ceiling bounce a fair bit brighter than L6,will check out later when fully dark.
For anyone interested, I have published the approved manual for Sofirn's SP70 on my sharepoint, both in English and German language.
Please click ►►►here◄◄◄
That’s all information I have received from Sofirn, so far. I asked them if their numbers may be worth being updated since JasonWW got much better results with those 26650 batteries Sofirn has apparently provided for testing the SP70 prototype. But they didn’t want the numbers in the ANSI chart to be changed. I don’t remember the exact post here on BLF but I was told the numbers in the manual result from testing with 18650 batteries. Eventually, we need to wait and see what actual numbers people will measure once they get their SP70s.
I'm mostly worried about their driver. I can't remember where/which lights, but I seem to recall some of Sofirn's drivers being subpar on efficiency and/or standby drain. I guess standby drain isn't as big an issue on a light with a rear lockout switch. I just hope it's not a light where I feel like I want to mod the driver first thing, because then I start wondering why I didn't build another L6.