The magnet in the Lumintop "Tool AA 2.0" optional twist tail cap is mounted under a removable tail cap battery spring and replacing the magnet with a spacer is easy (I used a button from an old shirt for the spacer).
The "removable spring design" while not ideal for high current lights would most likely function adequately in the proposed AA/14500 compatible "Sofirn SP10S BLF edition with Andúril". I do not have access to a Sofirn SP10S and do not know how the tail cap is currently constructed.
The current tail cap is very thin, probably not enough room to add a decent magnet. For the SC31b, the optional magnetic tail cap is thicker to provide room for the magnet.
If SP10S Anduril version is allowed to only work with 14500 battery, it is easy to fulfill. But it has to work with both AA and 14500 battery, it takes time.
I personally am fine with 14500 only. There isn’t really anything out there like this even with 14500 only. I’d hate to see this project fizzle out because the AA requirement is too hard to get working.
Adding AA support would still be a good update down the road if you could keep working on it while producing a 14500 only version in the meantime.
A BLF-approved user interface for a AA compatible driver is one of the grails of BLF for many years, I would not easily like to trade that for another li-ion only driver, even when that saves months. I would be happy to still wait a bit if I know that Anduril+AAcompatibility will eventually happen.
Agreed. If It supports AA I am interested. Would make it a nice backup light for in the car. Heck, even the driver would be enough reason to buy the light!
Magnetic tail would be nice. But an indicator light is nice too. Hard to have it all I guess…
imo
Anduril is not suitable for AA
Anduril is not suitable for flicker free firefly levels
Anduril is full of blinky and clicky stuff that I dont want.
The Nitecore D10 Piston Drive UI is a ramping UI, like Anduril, but it does not require LiIon, and it does support firefly levels. There are no electronic flicker and flash modes (“candle” and “lightning”)
soooo… if Sofirn wants to build a light with a Ramping UI, but NOT Anduril, I think a D10 style driver would be suitable for an AA light.
FWIW I would likely only use 14500, AA compatibility would only be a bonus for gifting purposes. If the AA leads to poor low level flickering I would rather not even have it and focus on maximum efficiency 14500 support.