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I ordered two of these Sofirm C01 flashlights from AliExpress on Nov. 27th. Got the tracking number a day or so after I ordered them but haven't received them yet.
When I check the tracking it still says "Origin Post is Preparing Shipment" like it has never been shipped. Anyone else had that happen? They showed quite a few available when I placed my order (I order one of each color temp). I know the shipping is bogged down this time of the year but one would think there would be some indication of package movement when checking the tracking. :shrug:
 
Bigburly912 said:
It took mine a very long time to come in. Hang in there.
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OK -- I'm hangin' in, but I ordered a digital alarm clock from them 2 days after I ordered the Sofirm flashlights and that arrived here about 10 days ago.
I just sent their Customer Service an inquiry and they just told me that it had been shipped and to wait patiently. LOL
 
go back a couple pages and read some of the other posts, and you will discover that your delay is normal. Mine took 31 days, including almost a week within the USA to travel 60 miles.

I think small packages tend to fall to the bottom of the heap, that would explain why your presumably larger package, the alarm clock, arrived first.

when tracking shows the light has been "shipped", that does not mean it was put on an airplane, it just means it went into the sorting room, before it went into a container, before it went on a truck to the airport, before it got loaded on a plane.. then when it lands in USA, sorting happens all over again... and USPS is understaffed, and overwhelmed, even before the holidays: ;-)
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I suggest you start worrying after January 10th or so.. Just forget about your lights, and when they finally arrive, you will have a nice suprise :-)
 
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jon_slider said:
go back a couple pages and read some of the other posts, and you will discover that your delay is normal. Mine took 31 days, including almost a week within the USA to travel 60 miles. I think small packages tend to fall to the bottom of the heap, that would explain why your presumably larger package, the alarm clock, arrived first....
I suggest you start worrying after January 10th or so.. Just forget about your lights, and when they finally arrive, you will have a nice suprise :-)
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jon_slider -- thanks for the encouragement and for some insight into the shipping process. I think I saw my package somewhere in the photo! :crackup:
 
Yay!
Youre half way home now.. LOL
fun little light, was worth the wait for mine

share your joy

this Yuji LED becoming available to the masses, is a historic moment
just a few years ago, this level of High CRI was unheard of, or only in the realm of custom lights like the McSapphire
and even until recently it was rare, at this level of light quality, in daylight white color temperature
the level of the red rendering, from the Yuji, goes beyond what a 219c can do

an opportunity for the masses to experience Cool White, without Green Tint, in High CRI is revolutionary!;-)
Note how tall the RED Bar is, in the Special CRI bar chart. CRI R9 with a value of 98! is the highest value I have ever heard of in any flashlight I own. Click pic for more info.
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I keep wishing I had also ordered a 5600K and think I will now that xmas is over. what I am realizing now though is the pics posted here don't really represent the warm accurately . most show the warm as very orange . but I see a cpl where the color balance is much more pleasing and natural so it has to be peoples camera settings.

hope mine makes it soon!! :)
 
FWIW mine isn’t orange at all. Kind of a golden color but not this sunset orange I keep seeing
 
Warmcopper123 said:
the pics posted here don't really represent the warm accurately . most show the warm as very orange . but I see a cpl where the color balance is much more pleasing and natural so it has to be peoples camera settings.
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Yes, the white balance of our brain completely changes the relative color of a light source, the same as with a camera. It has taken me a long time to understand that.

Owning both the warm and cool Yuji has really helped me see the differences based on time of day when I use my lights. I dont like the cool one at all, when I wake in the dark. I dont like the warm one at all, during daylight adaptation.

When my brain has its white balance set to daylight the warm Yuji definitely looks orange, not yellow.
When my brain has its white balance set to incandescent light, the warm Yuji does not look orange, nor yellow either.

I include a daylight color temperature light in most of my beamshots, to emphasize the orange color of warmer lights, but that is Relative to cool white. In actual use, when my brain is not white balanced to cool white, the warm Yuji is very pleasant.

I definitely recommend owning both the warm and the cool Yuji. They have taught me a lot about how the white balance of my brain changes, and how it affects my opinion of a light's color temperature.
 
Batang Regla said:
in my country online shopee website, it has the blue and red option.
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I never knew Sofirn has account at Shopee as well other than Aliexpress since Google search doesn't bring up their Shopee account. :ooo: Thanks for the information. Anyway, I just placed an order of both blue & red of both emitters at their Shopee account yesterday. Will wait and see how things going from here.
 
So my lights finally arrived. I got five of them. They were over-packed into just two small and almost bursting boxes but all seem to be in perfect working order. In fact, I'm impressed. These tiny flashlights have a strange nostalgic appeal.

The head is tight but glides smoothly like the knob of a higher end home stereo from four or five decades ago. The unit body is like an ultra-light version of audio equipment from yesteryear. The open cone surrounding the LED angles like some lamps from the same time period. The golden tone of the warm LED reminds me of the incandescent light sources that might have graced those lamps. The only thing that would make this uncanny appeal more acute would be if the body were that special shade of brown that used to be popular in such things.

Those sentiments are probably hit or miss for the rest of you so I'll cover the relevant details. The projected light is pretty. It's gentle but quite usable in otherwise low light conditions. The pattern is nicely diffused for what it is. If the battery life is really as good as I've heard, this is a major win. For well under ten bucks, it's an incredible win. It's basically everything my old incandescent Solitaire wished it could be.
 
jon_slider said:
Yay!
Youre half way home now.. LOL
fun little light, was worth the wait for mine

share your joy

this Yuji LED becoming available to the masses, is a historic moment
just a few years ago, this level of High CRI was unheard of, or only in the realm of custom lights like the McSapphire
and even until recently it was rare, at this level of light quality, in daylight white color temperature
the level of the red rendering, from the Yuji, goes beyond what a 219c can do

an opportunity for the masses to experience Cool White, without Green Tint, in High CRI is revolutionary!;-)
Note how tall the RED Bar is, in the Special CRI bar chart. CRI R9 with a value of 98! is the highest value I have ever heard of in any flashlight I own. Click pic for more info.
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Hi jon,

So the yuji is better than color rendering nichia 219 bt/ct ? Im planning to buy an lumintop IYP365 or tool titanium because of the comments. But i got curious with your post.

Can you explain it in laymans term. I got overwhelmed with the technical terms.



LED_Power_Forums said:
I never knew Sofirn has account at Shopee as well other than Aliexpress since Google search doesn't bring up their Shopee account. :ooo: Thanks for the information. Anyway, I just placed an order of both blue & red of both emitters at their Shopee account yesterday. Will wait and see how things going from here.
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hi, you from the philippines?
 
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Batang Regla said:
Hi jon,

So the yuji is better than color rendering nichia 219 bt/ct ? Im planning to buy an lumintop IYP365 or tool titanium because of the comments. But i got curious with your post.

Can you explain it in laymans term. I got overwhelmed with the technical terms.





hi, you from the philippines?
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Nichia 219B with R9080 spec is about equal to these Yuji, your average Nichia is not so special
 
Batang Regla said:
So the yuji is better than color rendering nichia 219 bt/ct ? Im planning to buy an lumintop IYP365 or tool titanium because of the comments. But i got curious with your post.

Can you explain it in laymans term.
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Those lights are great options, they do things the C01 does not

the difference in the LED, besides the Color Temperature is that the Yuji has more Red Output, which makes food, and people, look more delicious ;-)
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Batang Regla said:
Hi jon,

So the yuji is better than color rendering nichia 219 bt/ct ? Im planning to buy an Lumintop IYP365 or tool titanium because of the comments. But i got curious with your post.

Can you explain it in laymans term. I got overwhelmed with the technical terms.
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As you can see from the charts the Yugi is a point or two higher on the CRI scale than the Nichias one normally finds. On the other hand, the Tool and the IYP365 both have higher outputs than the C01, which only does 7 to 10 lumens. As far as the differences in color rendition goes, there is realistically only a little difference between the Nichia219s/Yugis, but a world of difference between them and the 70-80 CRI emitters one finds in most of the other lights out there.
 
AliExpress still has only the black anodized version. Forgive me if this has already been answered, but will they have red and blue versions soon? It doesn't appear that the Shopee will service customers in the US. Or am I missing something?
 
I just ordered red and blue from Aliexpress

Modernflame, I sent you a PM

anyone else
Please PM me if you cant figure out the link, Im not going to post it, out of respect for CPF rules.
 
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