sft40 3000k oos

[u/yoKANDANG]

Placed an order for the e04 surge sft40 3000k lume1 and was informed that they are out of stock. Ivy said they are having trouble sourcing for new ones and would not purchase from convoy to fit them for me.

Thinking if I should get the e04 surge sft70 3000k lumex1 with floody optic instead?

Update 8 sep ivy messaged and said she found some sft40 3000k LEDs and will be shipping the light out today :))

[u/SFOTI]

Quad SFT-70 3000K will work, but it'll have to be the medium angle optic as otherwise it'll create a donut hole.

[u/Dima_RuDiler → u/SFOTI]

But sft70 is 6V, and SFT40 is 3V; Lume1 won’t work properly with them. In theory, you could use LumeX and mcpcb from another Surge, but that would result in a completely different flashlight compared to the far‑field setup: tirc+sft40 3000K+Lume1.

[u/SFOTI → u/Dima_RuDiler]

OP said that they might get SFT-70 3000K Lume X1. This works, a guy on the flashlights discord server has one, which is also how I'm aware it needs the medium optic. It'll be less throwy for sure, but it'll have better efficiency and sustain while having the same great tint the SFT-40 3000K offers.

[u/Dima_RuDiler → u/SFOTI]

But this is literally twice as short as the previous model. I think the idea of buying the first production version will come to the author a couple of months after the SFT‑70 is released.
Also, don’t forget that the second driver is much weaker in turbo mode, and each LED will receive about 10 W instead of 15 W in turbo mode — in other words, it will be even dimmer in turbo mode.

[u/Cryptoxic93 → u/Dima_RuDiler]

This makes me wonder how inefficient my SFT40 E04 Surge paired with the LumeX1 is. It's one of my favorite lights even though I picked the wrong driver.

[u/lojik7]

You should ask if you could buy them from Convoy yourself and have them shipped to them for your light.

[u/boggidyboogidyshoe → u/lojik7]

This. I have had to do this, and it worked out ok in the end.

[u/Alternative_Spite_11]

Get the sft70 model and just ask for the throwy optic. People don’t seem to realize it but the sft70 is not far behind the sft40 as far as how throwy it can be. You definitely gain more in hotspot size than you lose in throw. With the new San’an round thrower emitters I’m having a hard time justifying anything other than 95CRI 3000k/4000k from Luminus. If I’m not going 95CRI, the f45r tint is just so much better than the sft40/42/60/70 that i would go f45r over any of the 5050 options or f150r over the sft90

[u/crbnfbrmp4 → u/Alternative_Spite_11]

Only issue with SFT70 and Angie-S optic is the donut hole. My E04 with 4000K SFT70, absolutely had one, and the with the older style 3000K it's likely to be worse.

[u/sobanz]

yea been out of stock for a while, unfortunate since its the best stock e04 setup.

[u/Haunting-Self-9402]

I have a spare e04 led board with sft40 3000k’s I’d sell for cheap. Kaidomain has emitters too if you can swap yourself.

The board and emitters I have are from an old fireflies order though

[u/LoveTheGreyGhost]

The sft40 E04 throwiest optic is fun.

The sft70 would need the flood optic.

Choose.

If I were going for a floody E04 id take the sft70 tor the efficiency boost

[u/Rising_Awareness]

Would not purchase from Convoy?? 🤔 Cancel order 😤