Sofirn SP10 Pro (AA/14500/Andúril 2) - now available!

thanks for the data

1900mAh/3.5mA per hour/24 hours per day= 22 days.

> 1.3 mA with 3.7V cell

IF the LiIon is an 800mAh cell:

800/1.3/24 = 25 days

fwiw, a Zebra AA claims 100 days on its lowest mode

Are there modes in which MCU doesn’t need to run? If yes, which are those?

When the flashlight is off the MCU can sleep as well.

The good ’ol 0.00 lumen mode, what other flashlight has a mode this low!?

Only the one that adds four more zeroes. It’s the top secret one that the military doesn’t want you to know about. You’ve probably heard about it on youtube….

What is the different between the current batch SP10V3.0 and SP10pro? Do they use diferent driver? or any other thing to be aware of?

Pro uses Anduril, V3 has Sofirn’s own UI.

I know that they use different UI/OS.

But what hardware driver did they use? Efficiency? Lower and highest mode differences?

I heard that there are problems in the early batch of SP10V3.0. Is the SP10V3.0 problem rectified? Is there a ny new problem surfacing?

I cannot find if this was mentioned, but the vapcell H10 flattop does not seem to work with my Sofirn SP10Pro. I just got one from Amazon. Maybe only button style 14500 work? there seems to be three gold conductors on the battery post of the positive terminal and they are close together. I may be missing something.

The outer two contacts are not connected electrically. They are a mechanical reverse voltage protection. A flat-top battery won’t make contact with the center contact, only the button of a button-top.

BTW where to find button top H10 shipped to EU ? Nkon and Vapcell ali store only have flat top.

The hardware is supposed to be the same, except the microcontroller was swapped for an Anduril-compatible model, so the efficiency at a given output level should be the same.

The max brightness is the same, but gchart figured out tweaks to make in Anduril to allow the the minimum brightness to be much lower.

Thank you. So the sp10pro seems to be the better choice for me. I already got an sp10pro. Thinking of getting v3.0 bit sp10pro can be simplified enough using the simple mode.

how does the LVP looks like? From my testing, it is just stepping down quite fast and that's it, you can still force it to go up for short time. Is that it?

LVP will turn the light off completely, after repeated step downs.
chart from page 1:
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however, batteries will rebound and the light can be turned on again, not for long though, it will turn off again more and more quickly, the more you try to drain the already empty battery.

So there's no blinking warning, and so on?

I just took out a 2.5V 14500, because I thought I just had not calibrate the thermal sensor, and that's why it was stepping down. And I was just forcing it to go up...

When I did 3C it just blinked 7 time, and that was not what I was expecting, so took out the battery to see the voltage...

I thought It would just turn off, and then not turn on under 2.75V or so.

I know the 1.5V Ni-MH don't have the LVP, but the Li-ion mode should have one, right?
Do I just need to buy a protected 14500 cell?

stepping down can happen due to heat, or also due to low battery

here is how the LVP Step Down and Thermal Step Down, is described in the Anduril 2 Manual:

“Anduril includes low voltage protection (LVP) and thermal regulation.

LVP makes the light step down to a lower level when the battery is low,
and if the light is already at the lowest level, it shuts itself off.
This activates at 2.8V. LVP adjustments happen suddenly, in large
steps.

Thermal regulation attempts to keep the light from overheating, and
otherwise adjusts output to stay as close as possible to the
user-configured temperature limit. Thermal adjustments happen
gradually, in steps so small they are difficult for humans to perceive.”

> I was just forcing it to go up

not a good habit, as this defeats the step downs by repeated use

> I thought It would just turn off, and then not turn on under 2.75V or so.

good thought, but if you turn it on after it shuts off, you are defeating the protection system

Learn to check battery voltage sooner… Recharge any time the battery goes below 3.6V. Do not wait for LVP.

> Do I just need to buy a protected 14500 cell?

you could, but, that creates a slightly different problem. With a protected cell, it can shut the light off suddenly and completely, even if the battery is not empty, if you try to use too high an output. I consider sudden darkness very UnDesireable, so I dont use protected batteries.

fwiw there IS also LVP for AA…

I have been on vacation with my SP10 PRO as my sole torch for the last week. I’m running a standard eneloop straight from the package. The performance has been beyond my expectations. I have run the light as a ceiling bouncer, shuffle to the loo illuminator, and rigging out pre-dawn fishing gear. I have well over 3 hours on the cell with no discernable loss of output. What a great combo.

Kudos to jon_slider for pointing out all the good things low and slow with this light.

Yay! :beer:

little update, on my SP10 pro magnetic tail drama.
Contacted the ali store, they refused to send a good one for free
(had to pay 0.8$ for shipping with tracking, well i can understand that, and it was comparable, to getting the old one refunded, and buying new one, so I accepted it)

after 3 weeks I got it, and well this one surely won't work.

Yes that's the 18650 one, for SC31 pro and so on, not the 14500 for SP10 pro.

Ps. I do have SC31 pro, but I have black one, and I already bought a magnetic tail for it, so this one is useless for me, at this time.