Sofirn SC21 mini

Hey jon_slider! You may not realise but I am the same dude who posted the NLD on reddit. To answer your question again the light comes with Anduril 1.

aha! I did miss that detail, thanks again for your report of Anduril 1…

I hope youre enjoying your light. :beer:

I love it very much! It is so small yet it can turbo up to 1000 lumens (manufacturer’s claim).

The integrated USB Type-C 1A charger is convenient when you need to charge the battery without an external charger.

Nothing much I can say about the Anduril UI it is the best flashlight UI at the moment.

The battery internal impedance is on the higher side (reported 100 milliohms on my Vapcell S4 Plus charger), but I have a Yaorea YR1035+ battery tester coming soon that I can use to accurately check all my batteries.

I wish the included tailcap magnet can be as strong as Hank’s D4V2 :frowning:

In future I hope that there is a way to flash Anduril 2 into it.

Side note: When the light reaches the ceiling of the ramp it won’t blink once to indicate that you are at the ceiling of the ramp which is kind of strange.

Strange that it has Anduril 1 considering it explicitly states Anduril 2. I’ll test as well once mine arrives, although it still hasn’t moved… Also good to know that it has LVP. Don’t have to worry about waking up next to a dead battery if you use it as a nightlight and fall asleep.

Edit:
Out of the blue these showed up this morning. No tracking updates whatsoever outside of China. Strange, but they arrived.

Some very quick notes after unpacking;

- Anduril 1 on both apparently.

- Buttons feel very different between the 2; 1 has a nice click, the other is hard to press.

- Different settings between the 2. Did factory reset on both.

- Switch light works and can be controlled! Colour green.

- LEDs differ in brightness. 1 is noticeably dimmer than the other.

- Bezels glued.

- No manual included (as opposed to the SP10 pro)

  • 1 is a bit damaged. Not round, see driver photo.

More later, gotta run now.


1) Can confirm that mine came with Anduril 1.
2) Mine came with the stiff button type (no click).
3) I don’t have a second one to compare.
4) Mine came with the Anduril 2 manual (lol).
5) No visible damage to my light.

What the heck is that flashing pad layout again?!

congratulations on receiving your lights.

sorry to hear they are not Anduril 2.

here are some of the things that some A2 lights have, that A1 does not:

  1. Automatic lockout
  2. Hybrid memory
  3. Simple UI instead of Muggle mode
  4. SOS

Yeah,my thoughts almost exactly… in my mind it ‘heck’ was replaced with a less decent word :wink:

Pin mappings? Really want to flash Anduril 2 on at least 1, but not sure how to hook this one up. What MCU is inside? In any case another custom pogo pin setup :person_facepalming: Really wish they’d settle on some sort of standard, even if it’s just Sofirn only.

Anyone know a way to contact Barry? Could send a PM, but prefer not to do that for orders that have nothing to do with BLF. Sofirnlight’s email seems to be out of service and I don’t have FB messenger.

Edit:
Maybe mail works these days. It seems they’ve switched from service@mail.sofirnlight.com to sofirnlight@gmail.com

Plot twist: Designer saw that every flashlight has shiny pads at the driver side, each with a number or letter. So he added some as well. They aren’t connected to anything. But now the driver looks like a proper driver.

Or maybe they started from pin one and there was only enough room for six pads, leaving the important one unconnected.

Very crappy 1st attempt at using ceilingbounce that I had to cut short. Started on high, battery around 3,85V. But it’s better than nothing and it sure doesn’t look like the nice flat curve of the non-pro version. Make of it what you will.

PS: both were relatively easy to open.
PPS: it appears the switch LED does not indicate voltage. After the above runtime test the battery was at 3V, but the switch is still green. Not red, not blinking. But less bright it seems. It does turn red when charging.

Have you calibrated the temperature sensor? What you see is the thermal regulation.

Anduril can control only the green LED.

Nope, I thought that was only needed for Anduril 2… hold my beer

Edit:
I let it cool down for a while, but even then it seems to be set 7 degrees higher than the real temperature. Leaving it over night to stabilise.

I do not know what nice flat curve you mean? :partying_face:

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pic is a link to the review by Zeroair

I was looking more at the high runtime, since turbo creates a massive peak and messes with the general overview imho.

Anyway re-did it, temperature calibrated. But I need a better way to deal with the output that ceilingbounce creates. Once the pro goes lower brightness, the numbers get so small compared to turbo that they visually disappear. Not very practical. Or I’m missing something. In any case at lower levels it’s pretty flatlined.

Applying my very limited openoffice skills I managed to split it at roughly at 60 minutes.

Depends on the MCU. The SP10 Pro doesn’t need calibration since the sensor in the MCU already is, if I’m not mistaken.

Ah, so this is where folks are discussing the SC21 Pro. I had a similar experience: Two SC21 Pro’s arrived with slightly different out-of-the-box configs (one with stepped ramping, and one with smooth). They are both 5000K, but one is consistently 200-300K lower than the other (different bins, I guess). Both came with Anduril 2 manuals, but they are definitely running Anduril 1. Both bezels glued, but a couple of strap wrenches made quick work of that.

So has anyone torn down an SC21 yet? How do you get the driver out, and what MCU does it use?

Might be better to have a separate thread for the pro version. Maybe an admin can split this topic into 2 at few posts back and create a new pro specific thread?

Interesting that you’re reporting the same settings and emitter difference. I can imagine they switch to a new reel/bin once, but twice in a very short period of time… unlikely. Mine seem to have a slightly different tint, but haven’t done any proper comparisons due to having too much to do already. In any case it’s curious.

Btw, a word of caution. These suffer from the same charge problem as the HS10. After the runtime test I put it on the charger and saw it charges at just under 950mA. Sofirn rates their batteries at 750mA max. May or may not be an actual issue, but it is ~25% over their own specified limit.

Edit:
Current measurement: just under 3,5A on turbo with included Sofirn battery @4,18V

Just an observation, the SC10 Pro button indicator light changes brightness, when the light is ON above 75 Lumens:

I donk know if there is a meaning to that change in button output.

One thing Im really happy about, is there are NO double blinks anywhere in the ramp on the SC21 Pro…

about charging, it works great!
The charging rate tapers down as voltage rises:

and the green charged indicator lights up reliably, above 4.1v, and charging stops:

pocket clip works great too!
I put some shrink tubing on the ears, and it goes on without damage, and holds nice and tight… the clip is a nice deep carry configuration… I like it!

Awesome idea with the shrink tubing. I’ll have to try that. Was 0.8A the highest charge voltage that you observed?

Both of mine are confirmed to be running Anduril 1, and I am able to cycle the button LED between low, high, off, and blinking.