[Canceled] Sofirn SP70 BLF Edition

...yeah. SS bezel would be cool.

Agreed. If they mess up the UI, that's where my driver will likely come from anyway.

Edit: Single XHP70.2, I'm assuming that was a typo/mistake

An XHP50.2 would burn up. You would need a current limiting driver to use that.

Interested, in max throw with a fair amount of lumins so not a flat white, don’t really like the throw from L6 and 70.2 looking at most of the throwers they are built around XHP 35 however they decide to get there.

I like the idea of being able to use 21700 or 26650

It is hard to design a battery tube and springs that can accommodate the 10mm difference in battery length. In order to get the longer ones to fit, the shorter ones become very susceptible to bump disconnecting. The existing battery tube would probably work better with 21700 (unprotected only) if you removed the inner springs and did not use bypasses. This has the side effect of increasing resistance, but would allow for both batteries. So there are always tradeoffs.

Oops, my bad. Definitely meant the XHP70.2

It’s not a problem if they add with the traditional accessories (replacement o-rings, cheap lanyard, etc) a 26100 spacer looking like this to put between the 2 batteries.


Some against this idea will say that you can loose it and I will respond that it is up to anyone to be careful with his stuff. :smiling_imp:

Since it is more a general purpose flashlight (with big hotspot and good spill) and a 70.2 CRI 80 was suggested, why stop here and not go up to CRI 90, 4000°K or 3500°K or 3000°K for people to test the advantage of much lesser back scattered light ?
It doesn’t need complicated marketing to show and explain its benefit instead to praise the same old song of the maximum output.

Love the idea of a 4000K or lower along with SMO reflector and possible ramping. Ramping is not a must but would be a great upgrade. I would buy one or two. Would really like to have the driver once developed with ramping to put in my other SP70’s.

Lux-Perpetua, I notice that you like to use a decimal point in the tint descriptor… the problem with this is that the K is not for thousands but for Kelvin, so your 4.885K actually would mean less than 5 Kelvin and THAT would be atrocious! 4885K is an actual temperature of light that we would like to see, based on the Kelvin temperature scale. :wink:

Thank you, that little detail was bugging me. :stuck_out_tongue:

@Lux-perpetua:

I like to follow this thread but you make it difficult by keeping editing the second and third post. Clicking the “new replies” always brings me to the edited 2nd and 3rd post, and after that I have to search manually for the first new posts in the thread.

Editing the original post does not affect “new replies”, moving the content of #2 and #3 to the OP makes it easier, clicking on the “new replies” then actually gets you to the new replies.

And why wouldn’t a 3V 50.2 work with a boost driver? Smaller die surface area, tighter hot spot, still in the 4000+ lumens range. That could be quite viable….

Ramping is already designed in on the stock driver.

I don’t see anyone saying that it wouldn’t work. ???

Of course, we don’t have any good boost drivers using an E-switch and running RampingIOS, NarsilM or Anduril yet. Maybe in the future we will.

I think Lexel can probably remedy that. :wink:

Constant current could be a big attraction.

(I’m not a fan, but a lot of folks are)

Lexel has been working on his boost drivers on and off for over a year now, maybe longer. I gave up waiting. :weary:

If they do come out it will be great, though.

You mean a XHP50,2 right? :innocent:

Who? You lost me.

It is, I forgot. must have been thinking of something else. This day has been dragging on, my brain has slowed down I guess.

Throw a rock at him Jason, make him behave…

A lot of Europe uses a punkt for a thousands separator and a komma for decimals - so natively to them, 4.885 is what we’d read as 4,885, and they’d say “3,0GHz CPU” when we’d choose 3.0.

I know it’s definitely the case in Germany :stuck_out_tongue: Ich spreche nur ein bisschen Deutsch.