A Great Little Giveaway ---- SOFIRN

All in all, Sofirn is a solid choice for affordable and quality products, but moving forward I expect them to focus more on driver efficiency and sustained brightness.

Cheers :beer:

span style=“color: gray;”>What do you think about Sofirn this year?
Sofirn has done a good job balancing what the enthusiasts community (i.e. BLF) wants with what your business can practically support. Thank you for listening and delivering descent performing affordable products.

span style=“color: gray;”>What progress and changes have you noticed that we’ve made in the past year, and what needs to be improved?
Continue to look for ways to improve your product quality and performance and resist the temptation to lower quality for profits. Once you lose your reputation it’s hard to get back.

span style=“color: gray;”>What do you think is best thing that we’ve done this year?
Continuing to support the BLF community, so that the community can and is willing to support you.

span style=“color: gray;”>What new expectations for Sofirn do you have for the new year?
Finish the SP10Pro, with suggested tweaks over the SP10V3 please.

I appreciate the fact that Sofirn is responsive to customer issues and stands behind their products when there are issues & problems.

Price wise could be lower, and lights operating duration could be better, such as better batteries or drivers.

I love sofirn and the way you keep coming up with new exciting product designs, like the if22, or how you listen to what the community has to say, like using andruil and utilizing high cri emitters.
I’d love to see a dual purpose handheld edc that has flood and throw and only uses one battery, thank you for everything and count me in

I appreciate Sofirns willingness to work with us to improve flashlights and make new ones. They say your critics are your best evaluators, so keep your ears open. There’s been so many good lights out in 2021, I don’t know how it can get any better. The fact you can make a 21700 light with a buck driver for under $40 is amazing, so I’d like to see an 18650 light with one. Also, give us a high output multi TIR like the Fireflies E07x, now that it’s unavailable, perfect opportunity to capture that market! Also, do away with your current ATR algorithm and increase the thermal limiter to 50 C. How about make a battery charger? Like one to compete with Vapcell S4+? You guys are awesome. Keep it up.

I own a few Sofirn lights now - all purchased since September. Every single one has arrived in one piece and well presented. Thank-you. I really appreciate that you sell sets that include batteries (along with USB-C charging.) I have my own batteries and chargers, but it is very handy to have the option to “charge in the field” every now and then.

Two changes to consider:

1. Take your existing and future lights and include Anduril on as many as you can - it is a versatile torch OS and I wouldn’t be without it now, although only a few of my Sofirns currently have it.
2. Add flash pads to the visible side of the driver and sell us the flashing pins/cable too! (good for those who wish to change things, perfect for keeping your torches relevant long after they are purchased.)

My current favorite EDC lights are the IF25A (for real) and the IF22A (for silliness). The beam, tint, and CRI of the IF25A is so aesthetically pleasing to me, I just love that light. The IF22A is just for showing off, but it’s impressive.

They’re both solid, lights at a great price.

Most of my favorite Sofirns (IF25A, SP36, C01) are high CRI with warm temp. Keep making lights that I don’t have to mod to get a high quality beam, and, well, I’ll probably keep buying them.

I’m pretty new to this game overall but I’m not new to the concept of great light. Just not portable. I’m still pretty much testing the water and seeing all that’s possible. That is to say that the first thing I’ve done the day my new LT1 arrived is- ordering a second one. It was such an overwhelming sense of awe. And that stems from what Sofirn apparently does right- that is listening to a dedicated user base. Not just influencer unboxers/ reviewers that will drool over paper specs and thinness of the product, but a community of people who strive for excellence in a specific type of product. We unfortunately live in a world where the supply largely dictates the demand, where a customer/ user is viewed as a consumer, an entity that consumes yet it turns out that listening to what they have to say might actually (surprise surprise) be the way to actually progress and improve.

I’m not big on brands, let alone the concept of brand loyalty, but I can appreciate a thing that’s done right by a company. To me this is exactly that. Thanks.

edited to add:
A fresh minor critique. The o-ring groove for the external orange bumper ring on the LT1 is way too shallow, the ring comes off easily, in wintery weather outside use I’ve even had it roll off on its own from fully seated position without any twist in the material. This is the case for both of my lanterns so this might be batch related but it’s not a fluke, the two have been ordered a week apart.

So there’s that. A little engineering improvement.

Never owned a Sofirn so can’t comment other than from the others peoples comments it seems I’m missing out!

Sp10 Anduril 2! Flash kit for BLF LT1!

2021 Feedback: I think Sofirn did pretty well this year. Rather than focusing purely on numbers (like max lumens) you’ve worked to deliver products with features that your customers are looking for. The IF22A is a great example of you guys reading the market correctly.

Requests/Criticisms:

  • It would be great if you would list the step-down times for the turbo modes on your lights as measured in a standardized testing environment. It would be nice to know how long I can expect to see max output on turbo, and how bright it will be after stepping down. I know this isn’t required by ANSI standards but it is very helpful when shopping for lights. Thrunite does this already for some lights.
  • Please continue to offer Neutral White emitter options on as many lights as possible. I love the SF47 I picked up this year but I would love it more if the SST40s were 5000k instead of 6500k.

Unfortunately, I don’t currently own any Sofirn lights. But I’ve been hoping to add the sc31 or sp40 to my collection (need a good headlamp anyway :stuck_out_tongue: ) c01s looks like the type I usually carry, so I plan to try one of those for sure.

My current favorite Sofirn is SP31 Pro with 18350 tube.
And, I am looking forward to Andúril 2 lights.

Woohoo, my lt1 could use a friend.

Keep the lights coming. Love my if25 and the headlamps. Keep up the excellent communication. We really appreciate it.

I have your less expensive flashlight. It works very nicely. I cannot speak to any critique, it was such good value that it’s hard to complain about any quirks.
This was great to read some of the comments and see how more knowledgeable members feel about your products! I have now some new ideas for things to look in my flashlights.
Thanks for your offerings and coupons. I always find it nice that there is options to find a good price all year around.

Affordable flashlights and always open to suggestions from the flashlight community.

I hope someday your shop will be equipped to handle copper and titanium machining.

D25LR is a great addition. Would like to see a tail e-switch only Anduril 18650 tube light (an alternative to the FW1A).

Thanks for the giveaway, I bought 4 of your lights so far this year and I like all 4 so you’re doing pretty good.

As for next year: please stop with the double clips, especially on the bigger lights. I mean: nobody is going to clip a IF22(A) to their cab or hat, the clips on those lights are handy for stopping the light rolling off the table and to locate the button in the dark, these really don’t need to be the double type. Well, personally I don’t like them on any light of any size, just make the battery-tube reversible so everybody can choose their favorite direction simply by reversing the tube and make them single and deep-carry.