【The SOFIRN budget EDC buck light new release soon】

Whoa. I never win and totally didn’t expect to. Thanks again for a great giveaway!

Too difficult for me. Probability theory blows my mind.
But I managed to calculate that I had 0.66% (edit: looks like 1.3%) chance of winning two pieces of SR12 :rofl:

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Just want to share my opinion.

ANDURIL version for enthusiasts.

{with input regards the chips, pads, etc. by active Anduril’ user}

SIMPLE UI as SP35 UI Stepped and ramping,

Add tail switch for the SIMPLE UI ,
{zero parasitic drain, no fumbling activation}.

its good if the coding allows it to override the side switch, and vice versa, and please eliminate the
xx miliseconds delay in the sp31v2 and wurkkos fc12 tailswitch

Cheers🔦

Oh, no, don’t underestimate your luck: I think you had some 1.3% chance of becoming double-winner vs. zero for others😀

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Congrats! :partying_face:

Ah love it, PM sent !

I got a rock.

How about some 519a 4000k releases? I won’t buy another Sofirn until you offer some lights with decent emitters instead of a bunch of ugly green 6500k

Will there be short tubes that fit this? I want to see how small it is with an 18350 body

While I don’t disagree with the general sentiment, I do think that what has been accomplished with Anduril 2.0 is nothing short of amazing. The amount of things that can be customized to a users liking yet still retaining a reasonably consistent set of basic commands across all of the different manufacturers, models and variants is impressive. The idea of a separate control for brightness is certainly interesting, however it is more complex to build and takes up space. if that sort of feature is ever implemented in a compact reasonably priced light I may be interested. However at the present Anduril 2.0 gets closer to what I really want than anything else and there are lights available with it in the range that I prefer. Better to make the best of the solutions available than complain about what doesn’t exist.

It is definitely not for the masses however you don’t have to be a elite level enthusiast to figure it out and appreciate the options and flexibility it opens up. Like most here I have had an interest in flashlights since I was little. I am just old enough to have gotten the privilege to watch introduction of White LED’s back in the late 90s and early 2000s. I remember the dark ages when the best an average person could but was a incandescent MagLite. I have never been on the leading edge of new advances or deep in the discussions of what high end flashlight it the best currently available. And for the better part of a decade I was happy with my Streamlight LED Strion’s until they let me down. Blissfully unaware of how far things had progressed. I have been along for the ride for a long time, and currently am really impressed where we are with options and capabilities.

I probably would not have even commented on this thread if it were not suggested in the first post that this light was to be a successor or new iteration of the SC31 pro. Which uses Anduril 2.0 and is a significant defining characteristic of the light. seeing the defining Specs of the new light and how little it has in common with the SC31 Pro, it feels a bit like a bait and switch. However that is OK, not every light a manufacture makes is going to appeal to me. I can only give my honest impression and feedback in the hope they eventually release new products that do.

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Without complaint, there is no apparent need, and without need, there is no reason for innovation.

If people had done as you suggest, then Anduril wouldn’t exist.

There is another thread here a while back with the prototype, and it showed that it had the same thread pitch/diameter as other existing 18mm battery lights from both Sofirn and Wurkkos(and some Convoy too). Unless they do something weird with production and step out of the standard they seem to have set, this thing should take battery tubes and tail caps from the entire line up.

I certainly hope so… To be honest, being able to Lego these lights for length and color, is one of the big reasons I continue buying their lights.

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I get it, people like “all the possibilities that andy opens up” for lights, but aren’t we getting it backward? it opens up all sorts of possibilities for a single-button flashlight.

Look at all the Nitecores with 2-stage switches (MH20, etc.) and dual-buttons (TM series, EC4 series, etc.).

The Lumintop ED20-T with dual switches on the tailcap.

Look at the Sofirn/Wurkkos diving lights with rotary rings and lever switches to control the functions.

Look at the much-beloved rotary ring Jetbeam RRT01 (ain’t got, but know people are gaga for them).

Look at magslider lights like the DV-S9.

The Brynites with separate switch to select red/green/white emitters.

All the dual-switch Wubens.

Etc.

Rather than building the light, then fitting it with a UI to suit, people want to fix the UI and build the hardware of the light around it. And worse, it’s only a single-button light.

Right now I’m playing around with a HS21 headlamp that has a rotary ring to select red, flood, spot, spot+flood. Noice! But now imagine it’s a single-emitter light and a rotary ring selects the brightness. THAT would be the kind of light to hand to granma. On/off button, ring to dial in the brightness.

Not everyone wants to learn Morse code to turn on a light and adjust the brightness. Dual- and 2-stage switches are way more intuitive. And for larger lights, a rotary ring, dial, lever, etc., to immediately dial in the brightness is about as intuitive as you can get. It’s a volume-control knob… but for light. That kind of flexibility is worth the extra space needed.

I just think it’s nice to have more intuitive hardware and controls and then fit in the UI to work it properly, rather than going backwards, ie, fixing the UI and building the light around that. Cart, horse. Tail, dog. Etc.

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You should appreciate that we still have one mechanical button to play with. Look at the state of the electronics industry, soon that single button will be replaced by either a touch sensitive button, or a touch screen.

Oh don’t forget about the monthly turbo subscription. Miss it and you can’t use turbo.

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I really - really want this light. I don’t need all these multiple emitters, spot/throw, infrared ‘features’ that in my daily life I will probably never ever use. Single emitter, single on/off switch, a balanced medium beam (in between flood and throw), and a stepless rotary ring which controls brightness. Solid build quality, good driver with good regulation please. And please, nobody except people with lumens fetish needs 5000 lumens in a headlamp. Please, @Sofirn or @Wurkkos or anybody - make this exact light and I will buy 10 units that very day.

Jetbeam RRT01 has all you need?

I believe we were specifically talking headlamps. Unless ofc jetbeam suddenly came out with a headlamp version.

And by headlamp I mean centered emitter, ala the Hs21 or boruit d10.

Not the inferior right-angle headlamps that are popular.

Most of those L-shaped headlamps, I just use as right-angle flashlights.

Thank you for your feedback and suggestions, we will take them into consideration and try our best to implement these features in future firmware updates. :heart:

Anduril2 version that keeps the buck driver please! Would love for it to compete with my beloved sc31pro!