I’m sure it’s irrelevant now… But the lens bezel was indeed glued on mine… I had to put it in a soft jaw of ice wrap the bezel in tape to protect it from being scratched and I had to use a pair of pliers/vice grips to get that sucker off lol was a real pain.
I brought one of these last year. The anduril version was a little bit old. Have they updated it?
On the old version of anduril I got, the light turns on the moment the button is pressed down. By contrast, the more updated version of anduril turns on after the button pops back up. I thought that small UI change made hold for low a lot easier to use. It lets you know when you’ve held down long enough. With the old anduril version, I sometimes don’t hold down long enough. It’s kinda annoying.
Early versions of IF25A have the old Anduril (similar to the old SP36 BLF Anduril).
Seems like the later batches of Anduril-based flashlights (includes SP36 BLF Anduril, IF25A, LT1 lantern) now use the latest Anduril 1 versions (2020-03-18 for Anduril flashlights, LT1 uses 2020-06-02)
I like this light, got the 4000K CRI 95 version so some loss of brightness but still enough to be fun to play with. Haven’t flashed the version but I know I got a new version of Andruil so they are updating these.
One thing I didn’t know when ordering is that there’s a clip available now:
Is it true that the button light of the IF25A doubles as a low-battery indicator, like this review seems to suggest? https://youtu.be/INptFRO2gts?t=269
Do you guys have a pdf version of the instruction manual? I cannot find it anywhere…
Yes, the switch is an SOC indicator (although I’ve never tested it on my sample). As Anduril (both 1&2) offers a battery check option (3C from off), LED status indicator is moot to me as I rarely run a battery under 3.5V. YMMV. I’d suggest sending an email directly to Sofirn for a manual copy.
Great light!
Thanks for the reply. Just to clarify what I meant: I know that the button light in the IF25A shows the charging status while it is plugged into a power source (red light = charging, green light = fully charged).
I am also familiar with the battery voltage check feature of Anduril.
What I am unsure of is whether the button light also glows red when the battery is running low. The YT review I linked says it does (although does not show it). On the other hand I found a reddit post saying it does not.
With RGB style aux-LED and a fairly newer version of Anduril 1, the RGB aux-LED can be configured to “battery voltage”…
Taking a step further, the Noctigon K1’s RGB aux-LED is the button-LED, so I suppose the K1 button-LED (aux-LED) can be used to reflect battery voltage.
(I haven’t tried some newer Emisar/Noctigon flashlights recently, so probably some recent models may also have the same feature)
Sorry…maybe just a little difference in interpretation of SoC, as I was referring to the level of charge (0–100) vs. capacity of the cell while in use. No matter, it seems the switch LED on the IF25A does not perform the ‘red light’ function as noted in that r:// post. In my manual it does not even make mention of battery status indication by the switch LED. The website product description page is very vague, only stating the switch is supposed to provide some kind of indication of battery status, but not what it does to alert low cell voltage. All it states in the manual is that LVP kicks in at 2.8V to initiate step-down, and if the light is already at the lowest level it will shut off. Not sure if that helps your decision, but there it is.
One more question:
Sofirn claim a sub-50uA idle drain for this light in its spec-sheet.
Have any of you guys confirmed that with actual measurements, by any chance?
I read & watched all the reviews I could find on the IF25A but could not find a single one, where the idle drain was measured