Sofirn SC31 PRO, New Anduril Flashlight

@ Tom E.

Can you comment on how you removed the stock driver?

Sure. Driver is glued down, plus it has a vertical board centered for mounting of the USB connector. From what I recall and what I typically do is desolder the LED wires from the MCPCB, then use a solder pick tool to push thru the wire hole, applying pressure. If pressure alone doesn't work, I'll give it a few taps of the hammer - lightly at first, trying the minimum amt of force that it takes to break the glue seal. For this SC31B, the vertical board broke off from the hammering (most likely). You can see the white glue (or silicon) on the bottom and a little on the top.

I've removed many glued drivers using this method. With the solder pick, usually you can salvage the stock driver with minimum damage, sometimes a surface mount gets damaged bad - usually you can "feel" if the solder pick is on an IC or not.

I suspect the Pro driver is glued down as well. The brass ring around the driver on the spring side doesn't look threaded down to me - I've seen these thin brass rings used before to protect the driver from wear and tear and to make good contact with the tube. I've even desoldered those rings and re-used them on a driver replacement. For my modded SC31B, I did not glue the BLF driver - the tube threads down to hold it in place. This works for me -- don't like glue.

These are the glued driver removal tools, EDC18 driver shown:

Been using the light in 18350 configuration with the Convoy S2+ clip.
It registers well on the smaller groove of the tube.
I’m pretty happy with it.



Also for everyone info. With the magnetic tailcap installed it’s a frog’s hair shorter than an S2+ with 18350 tube.

Thank you for the detailed response Tom E!
I was thinking about doing something like that. But I definitely expected some damage would happen. But this is good information.

That's nice with the 18350 tube! Is that tube for the Pro specifically? If not, where from?

Found pics of the extra soldered on brass ring from an Amutorch AX4:

And transferred:

18350 tube is the included tube with the SP40 headlamp. Also sold separately by Sofirn.

The standard 18350 tube from sp40 works, I’m the only one who reported it barely fits so far :wink:

Mine is definitely tight. Tighter than it should be probably. But ultimately it does fit.

Hhmm, think I got a SP40, gotta check!

Mine fits perfectly as shown in my post #101.

My SP40 short tube’s threads fit like clockwork. But as mentioned, the springs on both ends are compressed about as “tight” as any light I’ve cranked down. If you were going to keep it an 18350 shorty it’s whole life I think it would work fine though. But the springs might get pretty flat after a while :smiley:

Does the SC31 PRO have a FET + 1 driver?

Can somebody test if battery check and charging functions work correctly?

Battery check of my SC31 Pro shows 4.5V and still charging the 35E cell…

Mine indicated 4.2V whereas the battery’s actual resting voltage was 4.05V. It would be nice if Andúril had some feature to calibrate the voltage measurement.

Some beamshots I took yesterday night. The white house is about 120m far away.

Sofirn SC31 Pro (Luminus SST40 6.500K 70CRI) 2.000lm

Wurkkos FC11 (Samsung LH351D 5.000K 90CRI) 1.300lm

Thanks Lux-Perpetua! Probably it is Ok that the battery check indicates higher charge than the actual one. Hopefully the built-in charger does not overcharge the cell.

Can you please try to immediately measure the battery‘s resting voltage with a(nother) voltmeter? If it’s really overcharged way above 4.25V it seems to be a severe problem that deserves further investigation. Thanks for letting us know about it.

The charger is a separate circuit and should be fine.

Btw, I added voltage cal to Anduril, but only to the 2019 version. TK changed the voltage reading quite a bit since, so it would take a little time to port. After years of frustratingly voltage cal'ing each individual mod light for Narsil, finally built it in to Anduril.

I got Anduril working like Narsil: 3C to voltage, 2C next to temp, 2C next to version #. When you are in voltage reaging mode, 4 clicks to calibration.

The problem is that I don’t have a voltmeter :slight_smile: Need to get one. Therefore I am asking if someone else tested this.
I have a LiitoKala Lii-100 charger, and it is also still charging the cell, indicating that it is not yet fully charged. So most probably it is fine.

Right, anyway an offset of 0.3V is substantial and renders the voltage check feature useless. I wonder what technical issues cause such discrepancies. I suppose this is not a Sofirn-specific problem but more likely a correlation between a certain driver component and Andúril.