Actually, the original idea of Wurkkos was to build a new colorful flashlight. As there are a lot of mediocre flashlights with colorful beams out there I recommended to involve the „BLF think tank“ to make this one special, unique and much more useful than any other colorful flashlight before. With Sofirn as their manufacturer in place the odds look promising that with joint efforts on all sides this project becomes successful.
However, I think we are right now in between both a plan of Wurkkos/Sofirn and a bunch of great ideas and concepts shared by experienced flashoholics and driver experts on BLF. As far as I have heard from Wurkkos the ideas presented so far were also well noticed and highly appreciated by Sofirn‘s management.
At this point of time I would like to find out:
- what general concept Wurkkos and Sofirn want to focus on (optic design, color mixing, ...)
- if Sofirn is capable to source appropriate components like high efficiency optics
- if Sofirn is able to adopt the Dr Jones driver design or invent/develop something on their own
- if we need to invest more efforts on giving them advices for the right driver design (e.g. linear/CC, buck, how many channels, ideal currents, etc.)
- if they have any proprietary UI in mind already or if they need our support for a more sophisticated interface like a simplified, downsized Andúril
Concerning the tint mixing flashlight they seem to have revealed some information on Facebook and rost333 was so kind to share these news here on BLF...