Andúril 2 coming to Sofirn - The general Sofirn development thread

Ahh… I tried to wait! :person_facepalming:

Mine just shipped, fingers crossed it doesn’t take 3 months to get here :slight_smile:

Will Sofirn consider to sell a diffuser for the SP36?

Also interested in a diffuser for the SP36…

I still think the Sofirn C8F with LH351D and 2700K/4000K/5000K/ would be a great flashlight with Anduril. The proprietary ramping is ok, but with Anduril this would really become my daily driver.

Easy mod - the C8F is an easy light to mod with a driver replacement - I've modded a few. Actually one I modded back in Nov 2018 with 351D's 4000K 90 CRI from MtnE. With spring bypasses, it draws 17.8 amps from a 40T, does 3310 lumens at 30 secs (calibrated), and 33 kcd.

@Tom E Sounds great, could you tell me where to buy the Anduril driver?

I reflow them myself from OSHPark driver PCB's. Dunno if Lexel sells them or not, for the C8F.

This is a driver I used for one of the C8F's. It's a standard 17mm size:

That light has a side e-switch and a tail clicky, yes?

I’d recommend enabling the START_AT_MEMORIZED_LEVEL option for it, if you don’t mind losing the factory reset function. Because this makes the tail switch work as a momentary mode. The side switch still does everything else as usual, but it’ll save the last-ramped level and automatically start at that brightness whenever power is connected. So the tail switch then gives it a tactical-style momentary function.

Nice! Darn, was wondering bout that. I did a couple pwr switch lights and didn't realize. A Nitenumen TK35 has a pwr switch as well - on that one, I made the LED wires long so can easily re-program

The C8F also has a lit switch. If I can get the switch LEDs to work at all with the new driver, I was wondering: Is there a good (read: easy) way to turn off the blink Anduril does when power is connected?

If I could figure that out, it’d be reason to put Anduril on my L6, too. I may be getting a bit ahead of myself though, I haven’t touched C/C in about ten years and my flashing hardware doesn’t arrive until checks notes technically today, by 9PM…

I wanted to note, on my 21700 version C8F, the driver is roughly 21mm (actual measured dimensions were ~20.8mm, and my “21mm” mountain driver came in around 21.4mm and would not have quite fit without filing).

That's weird bout the 21 mm - I'll have to check. I don't have notes on all the C8F's I modded, but I commonly use 17, 20, 21, and 22 FET+1 OSHPark drivers.

Yes. Enable the START_AT_MEMORIZED_LEVEL option. :slight_smile:

Not sure if this has been mentioned but would Sofirn be willing to make the SP70 with the SBT90.2? They could name it the SP90.2 :D, It already preforms great with the XHP70.2 and I bet it would be amazing with the SBT90.2. Just a thought. Its rated throw is 687m, could it reach 1000+ meters using the SBT90.2? Just thinking out loud :smiley:

It would require changing the gaskets (SBT90.2 is considerably bigger), the reflector hole and the driver. SP70 uses an orange peel reflector and so far I did not see a smooth reflector version except for some prototypes. I don’t know how much more kcds were measured compared to the OP reflector. Moreover, I have some doubts that 2x 26650 in series will deliver sufficient continuous currents of way more than 18A. Sofirn would need to change it to 2x 26650/21700 in parallel anyway as it’s a 3V LED.

The large body might seem likea good fit for a large LED but it’d probably double the price of the SP70, right? Those SBT’s are dang expensive!

About $ 42-46 per each, if I recall correctly. SBT90-R (the red version) is even more expensive with around $ 57 per each.

I should’ve clarified - I want the tail switches as lockouts, so I don’t want the main functionality of START_AT_MEMORIZED_LEVEL. But for my lights with lit side switches, I also don’t want the power-on flash (since the switch lights up anyway).

A few issues. It would need a high-power buck driver. I’m not aware of anything that high power except maybe on some larger-diameter (soda-can) lights maybe? But 2x26650 in series would only be asked for around 10A total with a buck driver, way easier than direct-driving XHP70.2 hard. More pressing is the reflector, which Sofirn never really got fine-tuned to our satisfaction to begin with. There were also serious issues with trying to get a SMO reflector out of them, let alone getting them to focus that right either. Those issues alone would add cost, and then the SBT90.2 itself would tack on $45-ish, so we’d be seeing a $100 light minimum by my guess. Easier would be to throw a shorty tube on there, ream the reflector hole out, and let it be another generic SBT90.2 light.

Just a side note. The SMO reflector showed only a tiny increase in throw over the very light OP reflector, but it looked ugly doing it. The OP is the better choice.

I agree with all the rest. That form factor of 26650 in series just does not lend itself very well to a high powered 3 volt light.

Yeah, my recollection was that, based on other reflectors of similar diameter, they never even got the focus right. XHP70.2 donut-holes aside.

Well, I’m finally getting around to driver-swapping mine soon. I tore the old driver out in a fit of rage at the UI a long time ago. In particular, I really wanted to be able to go off > moonlight > ramp up, and I just couldn’t. My C8F is doing the same thing, and getting the same treatment here shortly (driver swap).