[Available again! - BLF special edition light] new Sofirn AAA twisty high CRI 5mm LED

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Has the question of potting come up? Will the Sofrin be potted?

I suggested it to Barry, but had to explain what it is, I’m not sure if that is picked up very well so I may have to emphasize it once more.

Being of a skeptical nature, in the meantime I did some searching for the need of potting drivers and what came up is that it is about heavy components that come loose on impact, such as thoroids with ferrite rings. This light will have a tiny boost driver that needs to produce very little current so it has a very small (lightweight) coil, that needs much larger impact to come loose than a big thoroid. So I’m in doubt if the potted driver of the E01 is overkill or not.

So before I bug Barry about this: is there any experience at all among BLFers of small lights failing from broken-off components upon impact?

Only issue I (and another member) had so far was with Sofirn SP10! Somehow the impact (1m above the ground) damage a component or link between components and the light stopped working (even with magnifying lens I was never able to figure what it was).
But the SP10B has a different architecture regarding the driver. So, concerning these even smaller lights, I never had any issue. Don’t know if this helps, but that’s my only experience :zipper_mouth_face: