Review: Sofirn SC13 - a budget EDC light with great color quality and USB-C charging

The Sofirn SC13 is a very inexpensive pocket flashlight powered by an 18350 size rechargeable battery with a USB-C port on the flashlight body for charging and a magnetic tailcap for hands-free use.

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Good review. Thanks for the effort and appreciate the runtime graph. I held out on this light until it came up on the recent Sofirn “flash sale” and snagged an OD green version (my absolute favorite color in flashlight bodies) for $9.99 USD. Killer deal including the Sofirn cell. Delivered in 3 days. I really like it for its simplicity and diminutive size.

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The price is really what makes these compelling. Anything I might otherwise complain about just isn’t a big deal when it’s under $20.

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Wait a second - the X-axis of the runtime graph: how do you explain it?

Logarithmic. And it confuses, makes output look more like regulated one.

Base ‘e’?

Who knows…
Probably, high accuracy wasn’t the goal. But yes, approximately e or 3.

https://matplotlib.org/stable/gallery/scales/asinh_demo.html

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I really like the look of this light and like the small size and battery.

If I didn’t like the TS10 series so much, I would get one for sure. Liking the others a lot, I think I would never use this one so…

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I have the SC13a with the 519a as well as the TS10’s. I much prefer the TS10 because it feels better in my pocket :grinning: