Andúril 2 coming to Sofirn - The general Sofirn development thread

Hey, that’s an idea…

Sofirn

…our lights don’t suck!

How about:

“Reliable yet affordable quality and propitious customer service”

I believe we had talked about this before:

There is a huge range of fonts, i.e.: Free Commercial Use Fonts

Anyway, any guidelines from sofirn?

Sofirn: Bright Products from Bright People

Sofirn: We're Not Afraid of the Dark; the Dark is Afraid of Us!

By the way, am I the only one who has clicked on the "Brand Story" tab at sofirn.aliexpress.com?

Sofirn,a young LED flashlight brand.Our goal is to create high quality and budget cheap price flashlights for flashlight players and Flashholics,we use good quality accessories, materials and techniques in production,and give the real date values after testing. Over the course of a year, many friends from all over the world have come to know us and are constantly recommending Sofirn.We are growing and will keep on making good new flashlights in the future.

Sofirn, its name comes from a beautiful lady. The founder of the brand loves flashlights, but High-quality flashlight also means high cost, in 20 years of their marriage, Ms.Sofirn has always supported his hobby and give a positive evaluation. until one day he was going to make an own flashlight brand, he feel distressed how to named it, He sat in his office and thought about what kind of name could better represent bright,beautiful and warm, at that moment Sofirn came with a cup of hot tea for him as usual,which is the warm feeling he has always been familiar with, the bright and beautiful Just beside him. Lover ,is the great conversation piece or sunshine alternative during those dark winter months. He looked up and smiled: "Sofirn, you are brighter than the light!"

Sofirn: Bright, Beautiful, Warm. Really, any three positive words will do. Sofirn: Quality, Innovation, Leadership.

Illuminate Your Future

SOFIRN

I really appreciate your input, regardless if it's meant seriously or ironically. :-)

I got some more slogans...

Sofirn...passion for light

Sofirn...your reliable partner in illumination

Anyway, I will collect your suggestions (I think I will forward the serious ones only :-P ) and hand them over to Sofirn, so they may select an appropriate one.

Put me down for Sofirn: Quality, Innovation, Value.

Sofirn, illuminates your life

Sofirn, thats what she said

Sofirn - Great Lights, Great prices, great service

Sofirn

…boxy, but cheap!

Sofirn: Bright, Done Right.

Nice list, TheIntruder.

some thoughts about Sofirn’s flashlight model numbers:

C8T appears to be left out from the list above.
C8S is the name for Sofirn’s C8 host, if I’m not mistaken, not a complete flashlight.

I’ve also been going through Sofirn’s flashlight models, but haven’t tried to read about all of them.

The MS, SD and DF appear to be “diving’ flashlights. So it’s sort of a mess to have 3 different designations.

SF uses tailswitch
SP uses a side-switch (although some may also have a tailswitch, eg. the SP31/SP31v2/SP70 have both tail+side switch)

SC has built-in charging.
However, the SP30A (I think it’s SP30A instead of SP30) also has built-in charging… (SP30A has tailswitch + sideswitch + built-in charging, so perhaps the Sofirn model-naming people weren’t sure whether to place them in the SP series or the SC series, and SC was a newer model name).

LT1 = lantern (well, there’s only 1 model for now)
IF25 = tint-ramping flashlight (only 1 model so far, but does it need a different model designation?)

The TK (TK70) model designation seems strange. TK70 is supposed to be a very similar flashlight to the SP70, but with a simplified UI.
(So far, only one model using the TK name)

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“C8x” was used since it’s a very popular model that’s also used by other brands…
“Q8” - so they decided to use the same Q8 designation since the BLF Q8 was already popular. Use the same model for the Sofirn Q8, since the main significant difference is just the LED (BLF Q8 vs Sofirn Q8)

now trying to decipher the digit.

for 2-digit models, they seem to follow these, but there are many exceptions:
0x = uses AAA (eg. C01, SF02)
1x = uses AA or 14500 (eg. SF11, SF14, SP10Av2)
3x = uses 18650 (although the SP33 uses 26650)
but as mentioned, there are many exceptions…

Their ratings are bull though. The lumen ratings are not accurate at all.

Judging by the above list, they aren’t that bright :person_facepalming:

You don’t seem familiar with the brand. Sometimes their ratings are a bit too high, sometimes too low. This may be due to the device they use to measure with. Overall, they are one of the more accurate when it comes to ratings.

It’s all relative. Maybe you should pay less attention to brightness specs and look at the whole package.

I wasn’t really being super serious, just having a bit of fun.

Sofirn are one of the best value brands out there

It looks like Sofirn have a professional integrated sphere though. I thought maybe it’s not calibrated properly but why would the ratings be all over the place?

The SP70 rated at 5500 and reported close to 7000 with their HD 26650 if I remember correctly. Ended up being 4800 to 5200 with the HD cells.

Then we go to the TK70 rated at 5500 and I got 6500 with the HD cells. The C8A was also underrated. Everything else is quite a large gap higher. It’s really strange

Having done lots of light measurements myself, I found that accuracy of the device is only one factor. Not following the standard measurment procedure can cause differences way larger than the accuracy of the sphere. As wel as battery type, charge level, starting from a warmed up or cooled down flashlight, and I’m sure I forget a few.

But if you have at least tried to keep a constant procedure, you should be able to get it right within say 20%.

They have some type of manufactured testing device that they bought. It probably cost them a lot of money, but it doesn’t always match what we measure in both lumens or throw. I don’t know the details on their device. It may have some design flaws or it might be any of the other things Djozz mentioned (battery type, charge level, starting from a warmed up or cooled down flashlight, etc…).