Yes. But matte colors, as it was planned for the C01R, are not possible for Sofirn. Dunno why. They’re all glossy. Well, maybe it’s a different red, that would be nice.
I’m not the only one in Germnany who received the light today. In the taschenlampen-forum user the_holodoc posted some nice pictures that do it pretty much justice (its really hard to make a adequate photograph because the intensity isn’t properly reflected). I’m not sure if it is allowed to link - just google: taschenlampen-forum c01r and use the link in post #124. High mode indeed gets warm very quickly.
Barry also sent me these pictures and said this is the look that represents the actual body color of C01R as real as it gets. It seems they tried to make a red that is at least a bit more saturated and darker to get as close to „wine red“ as possible. What a nice surprise! I guess the result is really good.
Thanks for the credits and many thanks to all of you for your confidence in this whole idea of a deep red keychain light. Without your interest this light would not have come to existence.
My C01R is still en route, so you will probably have the great honor to be the first to share some impressions with us on BLF. :-)
I’m flattered!
Being not completely infected with the virus, I have just a limited number of lights to compare. On the left the SP32A V2 as low as possible (XP-L2 5350-5700K), the C01R on medium power and on the right the SP40 as low as possible (XPL 4000K). I did what I could do to capture the correct color impression of the anodized C01R body.
Received mine yesterday (13/07 in Australia). Shipped on 04/07.
Great light, thanks Lux-Perpetua for the project.
The shipping is much faster from Sofirns website than the Aliexpress store.
Purchased a SP40 and it was shipped on 30/06 and still not in the country according to the tracking.
Unluckily, my country is not applicable for the discounted Sofirn C01R (I ordered when it was priced at $7.99)…
I went to SofirnLight.com to purchase the Sofirn C01R, but also saw some other items there, and purchase those other items.
Now the other items are shipped out (but not yet arrived), there is a message that the C01R is not yet ready to ship.
But now, Sofirn emailed me that they cannot ship the C01R to my country, and instead I need to purchase using another Southeast Asian portal site, which has a higher price (equivalent to the $9.99 price). I’m not sure if the $7.99 will be refunded to me, or they will find another way to ship to me…
Barry and Sofirn's engineer were so kind to check these observations. Their feedback is as follows:
The maximum current is a little more than 1A. The lower the voltage is, the higher the current gets. The multimeter makes the voltage much lower, that is why the current is higher.
My lay assumptions along with their feedback:
The current was not measured directly at the LED (i.e. behind the boost circuit which regulates voltage and current to meet the XP-E2 photo red forward voltage of 2.4V) but via bypassing C01R's tube.
The current was not measured with a clamp meter but with a standard multimeter. Most probably the voltage significantly dropped as the multimeter has an internal resistance which effectively distorts the measurement. Eventually, the boost driver had to regulate this lowered voltage by increasing the current up to 2.8A (which is the typical behaviour of boost drivers).