Sofirn told me many times they had big difficulties sourcing Nichia LEDs, no matter if it’s 219B, 219C or E21A. IIRC, 219Bs are discontinued anyway and only some few manufacturers seem to got hands on some last reels.
I was one of the fortunate recipients of one of gChart’s MCU adapters before the shortage.
Here’s my before and after SP10S driver, the mod was as spelled out in his mod post above.
The SP10, now works exactly as in his video, fine with AA or 14500. As gChart’s already done most of the heavy lifting towards a BLF edition with Anduril2, makes me wonder why Sofirn is hesitant.
In any event, I have a new favorite pocket EDC thanks to gChart.
Interested whatever emitters are offered TBH. Just hope they don’t use too much glue this time to make swapping easier. But not having to swap LEDs is nice too.
OK, first things first, i was already very aware of this because i bought a light from him which he designed a driver for, but GCHART - youre the man, a certified genius and wizard, and a hell of a nice guy!
Secondly, LP - if the 3 emitter choices above are avaialble for this SP10S with Anduril, put me down for 6 of them (2 of each of those^ emitters, in 2 body colors each). Please, and thank you!
The 3500k LH351D U6 Bin used by Convoy also seem nice.
I always wanted know what kind of glue they use for hold the driver. Swap It would be more easy by unscrew a retainer ring.
Hope also the the head will not be glue.
keen on the progress… progress on this and the general SP10S refresh means we’re one step closer to SP10R 660nm
just please keep AA NiMH compatibility in all the versions!
Higher voltages haven’t been an issue with Anduril. The issue with higher voltage community drivers has been that 7135s are rated for only 6V, so 2-cell input is bad for them. There have been some boost drivers developed that use ATTiny series (and therefore support Anduril).