Sofirn SP70 Alone $50, PM for AMZ US CODE(LIMITED)

Cree specs are meaningless. We should be closer to 100 watts.

According to the tests: https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/49020 and https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/48661, 100 watts is about 14 amps - is that about right for the higher performance cells, which is said in the OP to be about 7000 lumens?

Just got a shipping update, the SP70 arrived at JFK, could be couple days away now.

My SP70 just returned to Sofirn :person_facepalming: may be due to battery inside.

That sux. :frowning: . What country are you in?

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.

Thank you for that information Sofirn, appreciate it and will look forward to the day…

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.

I know BLF member DTA recieved his. He did a quick video showing the beam.

The folks in the street do not seem to care about the searchlight around them :party:

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.

The texture on the reflector should be very light. The L6, the xhp70 one, had a heavy texture. I hope Sofirn got it right.

Yours is shiny black? I though they would all be matte black.

Yea they should be matte not shiny and have a slightly OP reflector. The L6 is less OP than the S70 so maybe this reflector is similiar to the L6?

This is the issue if no one gets sent an engineering sample to check.

Shiny black compared to the L6, about the same as BLF Q8 and the OP is only slightly less OP than L6.

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◄◄◄

In looking over the manual and the OP, didn't notice details on the LED.

Back here Jason wasn't sure, but thinks it went out as 6000K-6500K: https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/52135/1728, but still we don't know the bin?

Do we ever get output bins from manufacturers?, and if we do get them are they correct, and are we able to check them?

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.

Sometimes. We sure got it on the Q8, after great insistence of course. Just wish'n, just say'n. If we know, that's good, if we don't, that's typical.

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.

We don’t know the exact bin.