Andúril 2 coming to Sofirn - The general Sofirn development thread

This might be the wrong topic im posting in here, but the Sofirn C01 used to come with a nice 3200k Yuji LED, now the C01S comes with a 4000k SST-20 which i dont doubt is also very nice.
The thing is im only really interested in a 3000k (or close) AAA high cri flashlight, does anyone make those nowadays?
Or is there a place where i can still buy the C01 with the yuji warm white.
Are there any plans for a new sofirn AAA flashlight, maybe even a 2700k one?
id love to add a AAA to my collection but i have a hard time justifying it seeing as i already have other 4000k lights and i would love a really warm white compact flashlight.
Maybe there is a place i could buy an incandescent flashlight from china somewhere? i own a few incandescent lights and i adore them but there are all simply too large to carry for the little light they give off.
Im sure you could fit an E10 incandescent bulb into a AAA form factor light, i might even try to make my own. but i dont know of any AAA flashlight host that would allow that.

Folomov’s keychain and penlight-sized lights use ~3000K E21A. Rosy and incredible color accuracy. UI and build quality are a bit wonky though.

@ Petelele: Sofirn C01 with Yuji warm white has been discontinued. I don't have any information if Sofirn is ever going to produce the C01 with a 5mm LED again. Maybe they could try using a different 5mm but my guess is they prefer to be using high power LEDs like SST-20 as in C01S only.

If you are interested in a red light AAA flashlight, please check this thread. https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/58847

This is however neither HighCRI nor anything around 3.000K CCT. Maybe Sofirn could consider using SST-20 2.700K 95CRI for their next batch of C01S. There are plenty of nice options for this great AAA flashlight host.

Just found this: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000246528557.html?spm=2114.12010611.8148356.4.426c5223ay9xJ3

"Sofirn IF25"

Did you see the price?

Pm incoming

Edit: you have PM disabled, maybe you have to activate it. I have a new c01 3200k available if you are interested.

Nope, I assume they'll list it soon.

There are 3 orders made for this flashlight. I assumed you got one :blush:

bloody shame, the red LED really interests me, however i have a red led on my mini Victorinox swiss army knife, and if i really need more than that i feel like id have to bust out at least a 14500 flashlight, not a co1s with a red LED, it looks great but spending 10 euros on that thing just seems like a little too much for what would probably end up being a novelty item.
though i really like aux LEDs too… both would be nice :slight_smile:

man that looks interesting, if it has temp ramping its gonna be a real banger, id love a 2 emitter version of this just for cost saving, id probably feel comfortable spending 20EUR on that and not more, and i guess that thing is gonna be 40-50 EUR. interesting light though, maybe the emisar D4v3 have temp ramping? if it has like 4k lumens and temp ramping id have no problems spending 50 bucks on it//

Temperature ramping should mean only 2 led output max. It has to stay balanced, so the middle tint would use all 4 at half power. I don’t think it will be anywhere near 4000 lumen. Then again, I don’t follow the lantern thread, maybe they can work some software magic.

I sort of assumed that the turbo mode would bypass the temperature ramping to deliver max output, besides even at half output Emisars emit plenty of light, not 4000 lumens but as long as the turbo is there for max output i could totally get excited about a light like this!
Edit: i just saw that turbo will deliver 2500 lumens, is this with the LEDs at half power or do you think there is already a sort of temp bypass in place? if not that seems like a missed opportunity.

I would assume that 2500 lumen is with both CW LEDs maxed out. The WW LEDs maxed out would probably be less. (Yes, I see the specs say max WW is 1400 lumen)

Would people be okay if Turbo did an override of the color temp? Some folks might not like that.

Since it has ramping id assume that if you ramp the light to the max it maintains the temp selected, and when double clicking it engages true turbo and overrides the temp. that is how i envisioned it at least.
so if im getting this correctly the max output of this light is the 2CW on max and the WW off? why not have them all on?

The Sofirn C01 is currently sold out and production is halted.
Buying one from a fellow BLF member is your best short term option.

However there are some relevant developments on the high-cri warm white 5mm LED flashlight front.

First, you might want to have a look a this thread: [1900k edition is in!] WTS: 1900k-5800k 5mm LED 95+ CRI
BLF member rngwn sells 5mm high-cri LEDs which seem to be at least as nice as the 3200K Yuji LED, although they are 3400K.
Djozz posted his measurements which look promising.
With these LED’s you can convert any 5mm LED flashlight relatively easily into a warm white high-cri one. This might be your best bet at this moment for a Do It Yourself project.

Second, there is also another thread where interest is collected for a Sofirn C01 host version without LED and potting, so people can add their own 5mm LED: Collecting interest for a Sofirn C01 host version
Currently interest seems stuck at around 100, which might not be enough to convince Sofirn to start a production run.

Finally, perhaps Sofirn could use the 5mm 3400K LEDs found by rngwn as a successor to the Yuji LEDs to make a new batch of the C01 flashlight?

You’ll have to take that up with the software programmer.

I just bought a Yuji 3200k from Geuzzz together with his custom S1 Mini with an sst-20 3000k in it. wasnt planning on buying any more flashlights this month (outside of the upcoming D1Sv2 i already set some money aside for when that comes out) but i got too good an offer to pass up on.

I noticed the “Sofirn IF25” tint-ramping flashlight being teased in the Sofirn FB page.

I recall last month (September 2019), it indicated that this tint ramping flashlight will be using 2x LH351D 2700k and 2x LH351D 6500k.

Now the post has been updated again (October 2019), and also they have a link in the Sofirn AliExpress store, but doesn’t seem for sale yet). Now the post indicates that this tint-ramping flashlight uses 2x SST20 2700k and 2x SST20 6500k.

I wonder what would have been better 2x LH351D each of 2700k/6500k or 2x SST20 2700k/6500k?

SST20 LEDs at low brightness level tends to be greenish, so that would be a negative thing for me…

But it looks like they’re still developing the flashlight, hope they can post some teaser videos of the tint-ramp (either with LH351D or with SST20), and maybe ask people for comments…

Tint mixed it won’t be greenish. Though it is a funny mix of CRI 70 and 95.

How so? You think they should use both 70 cri?