Received mine yesterday (13/07 in Australia). Shipped on 04/07.
Great light, thanks Lux-Perpetua for the project.
The shipping is much faster from Sofirns website than the Aliexpress store.
Purchased a SP40 and it was shipped on 30/06 and still not in the country according to the tracking.
Alll the red body is made for C01R, there is no C01S in red body now.
It was supposed to be "wine red" but the anodizing factory told not possible,
but I ask them to make it as close as they can, here is what we have: not as deep as "wine red" but deeper than the former red body.
Please know that the color varys in different screen.
Also there are new colors: Orange, Blue (deeper), Desert Tan, Green(picture will be updated soon)
Barry, thank you for making a unique color possible for this model!
the orange looks very nice.
Unluckily, my country is not applicable for the discounted Sofirn C01R (I ordered when it was priced at $7.99)…
I went to SofirnLight.com to purchase the Sofirn C01R, but also saw some other items there, and purchase those other items.
Now the other items are shipped out (but not yet arrived), there is a message that the C01R is not yet ready to ship.
But now, Sofirn emailed me that they cannot ship the C01R to my country, and instead I need to purchase using another Southeast Asian portal site, which has a higher price (equivalent to the $9.99 price). I’m not sure if the $7.99 will be refunded to me, or they will find another way to ship to me… 
Barry and Sofirn's engineer were so kind to check these observations. Their feedback is as follows:
The maximum current is a little more than 1A. The lower the voltage is, the higher the current gets. The multimeter makes the voltage much lower, that is why the current is higher.
My lay assumptions along with their feedback:
Maybe there’s a difference, hard to see. But thanks for fast shipping!
Edit: The high mode is blinding. Good job 
Yep...there are red lights and there are red lights. The left one is the latter one. :-D
As long as there’s something red coming out of the front it’s fine with me. Mission accomplished.
Barry, I like the orange one you put above 
Hi, I am the_holodoc from TLF,
I have got my light yesterday and posted a bit about it over at the TLF: Sofirn C01R, 1xAAA Rotlicht, 660 nm | Taschenlampen Forum
I will try to repost an English version of this over here, so that you can see the pictures as well. I am sorry if this post is a little rough on the edges, it’s my first post over here.
This is the packaging content:
Among 1xAAA colleagues: from left to right: Olight i3E EOS, Sofirn C01R, Olight i3UV EOS
Comparison of beamcolor: left: Sunwayman C21C, right: Sofirn C01R
Brightness comparison: left: Olight i3E EOS, right: Sofirn C01R on on its highest level
Brightness comparison: Zebralight SC600 with some diffusion on its 0.2 Lumen level, right: Sofirn C01R on its lowest level
Beamprofile:
Bounced flash:
Sofirn C01R:
Current measurements:
AAA white Eneloop (800 mAh), charged to 1.45 V and Multimeter (Mastech MS8268) with just the original cables and tips. At high currents some deviations due to contacts resistances adding up are to be expected, so take my result for the highest level with a grain of salt!
Low mode: 15 mA
Medium mode: 105 mA
High mode: 2.5-2.8 A
Today I improvised a little to obtain a brightness-runtime-graph for the highest mode.
I used the following setup: The light is surrounded on five sides with A4 sheets of white paper, it is tailstanding to light up the white “ceiling”. Next to it I put my smartphone (Pocophone F1) using the App “Physics Toolbox Sensor Suite” (mode: light metering, digital display, I recorded the data during the measurement, but I ended up not using these records), the automatic switch-off of the display was disabled.
I photographed this setup with my Olympus OM-D EM5II using the built-in Intervallometer every twelve seconds with fixed exposure settings (ISO 200, F/5.6, 0.5 s).
Setup without the light with room lights switched on:
Setup at work: roomlight is off, reading of remaining ambient brightness is 0 Lux
The Sofirn C01R was equipped with a white Eneloop (1xAAA, 800mAh, 10 years old). The Eneloop was charged fully half an hour before the measurement. Right before the measurement it had a resting voltage of 1.47 V. After the run the hot cell had 1.12 V. After letting the cel cool down I charged it with my Miboxer C4 V3 which showed, that it had charged 720 mAh.
Overview of every third image with each also showing the time when it was recorded:
The resulting brightness-runtime graph (readings from the images, sthe steps apparently stem from a low measurement resolution of the phone):
After a little over 15 minutes the light switched down to its lowest mode, which ended the measurement. The light was pretty toasty afterwards.
The readings for the current draw on the highest mode where apparently not that far off. It drains over 2 A from the cell to deliver that much power to the LED. On the highest mode it’s a nice little red dragster and on the lowest mode it is a sensible choice for preserving the eyes dark adaptation.
I had expected a bigger visual difference between the Sunwayman C21C red (most likely around 625-630 nm) and the Sofirn C01R with it’s 660 nm emitter.
During a round of urban astrophotography last night the lowest mode proved to be not to bright although it could be a little lower for that purpose. I guess I will have to get one more C01R for a colleague of mine…
Resume: I like what came out of this project! Good job to all contributors!
Kind regards
Frederick
Welcome to BLF Frederick, and thanks for extensively posting your findings.
Despite no updates from USPS tracking saying it had even showed up in the U.S., my C01R lights showed up today. Very cool little lights, bright is quite bright as others have said, excited for night to roll around
I had to create 2 separate orders to get 2 lights (one for me, one for the brother-in-law). I guess that’s to double the take on shipping cost?
I think it’s an issue with their website to be honest. I just went to the cart and adjusted the quantity as desired from there. Same trick worked for the new colors of the C01S that were just posted.
My little redhead was shipped on July 4th, but is since 6 days living a quiet life in Luxembourg (?).
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Edit: after 6 days, and almost 3 hours of R&R it appears to be on the move again.
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Edit 2: Ahem, it only apperared to move. After 10 days Luxemburg and 1 day The Hague it’s now in Amsterdam since July 22nd. PostNL says they (still) have not received it.
Got mine in NY today. What fun so far. Can’t wait to try it out tonight.
Thanks for this, i didn’t think AE accepted Paypal so this makes it more accessible to me. Just ordered the C01R direct from Sofirn’s website though so don’t need to sign up just yet 
Great first post and thanks for the measurements, very useful!
Received mine today on the US east coast after shipping on July 4. Fun little light - thanks to Sofirn for producing and the principals here for getting the project together!
I have noticed that my emitter or reflector has a slight flaw that creates a small dark blemish close to the center of the beam. It’s visible on medium in dark rooms or high in brighter rooms. Has anyone else observed this?