New Convoy C8 – Clearly better

Even their own? I don’t see any problems with posting one’s own address as long as one is aware of how much spam they might be inviting…

… which, admittedly, could be quite a bit.

After two and a half decades on the internet and all sorts of forums and mailing lists and newsgroups and blogs and other public discussions, I’ve got nearly 1000 unique email addresses. So I ran some numbers on the past decade of logs on my email server. Not counting work stuff, I get an average of about 900 spam messages per day, and my server fends off about 2000 more email-based bot attacks each day. Of all that, only about one or two messages per day make it through all the filters. So ~99.8% filter accuracy. If I post my address in a public place, I do it with these things in mind.

Going by volume, the biggest offenders are bots which don’t even attempt to send any messages. After that, spam bots which harvest addresses from DNS (whois) records, then public mailing lists and web sites. The next-biggest offenders are companies who sell their customer lists to advertisers, and these are usually big companies, not little ones. (One nice thing about having a thousand email addresses is I can track who sold out or who got their data compromised.) Another big source of spam is acquaintances whose accounts or computers were compromised, so their address book was harvested. And Paypal, which is its own category because they send my paypal email address to each merchant I pay through them, so a lot of people have that address and I can’t track who is doing what.

I wouldn’t want to inflict that much spammy, scammy attention on anyone who isn’t prepared to deal with it… but with the right measures in place it’s not really a problem.

Probably, yes.

If the wires aren’t long enough to allow driver access, you’ll need to un-solder those from the emitter MCPCB before pulling the driver out. And in past years, some drivers were soldered into the pill… but I’m not sure if that’s still a thing these days. And if you have any stars soldered, that could interfere with flashing by grounding pins it needs for communication.

Otherwise, you can get more info about flashing by clicking the Link in my signature.
(hah, get it? Link? … Okay, screw you guys, at least I think I’m funny)

4 letters… F O R D

I bought a brand new F150 in 2013 and made the mistake of giving them my email address and cell phone number. Email spam I can handle, but several calls a day on my cell phone from different numbers, recorded message spam ranging from “this is your last warning that your car warranty is expiring”, tons of credit card offers, and “if you have at least 10k credit card debt we can help”… etc… My “block number list” has hundreds of phone numbers on it.

I can’t believe Ford is that hard up to sell off their customer’s personal data, but evidently they are.

Point taken my friend… :+1:

If any of you think you are as internet savvy as ToyKeeper there is probably no real harm in putting your email address in a public forum. :wink:

However, if you do not have 1000 unique email addresses and a server setup with TK level protection please understand the risk involved with posting your email address in a public forum…

Indeed it is. I didn’t even know about that one before it was listed. Based on the communication drop, I can confirm that Simon is buried in work and emails…

Most decent email services are better than what I have set up. Ever looked in the spambox of a gmail account? They generally take care of all that noise automatically.

I’ve only kept my oldschool setup because I can’t help but tweak everything in reach, and I kinda like internet plumbing work. It’s not really a good thing. In the 1980s there were these computers called Lisp Machines, designed from the ground up to do absolutely everything in the Lisp language, an incredibly flexible and expressive language with no real abstraction ceiling limiting what it could do. The people who used these loved them, since they could customize literally everything about the software to their exact preferences and way of thinking. Each computer soon became an extension of its users. However, it also meant that each unit was incredibly personalized to the point that nobody else could use it. Each one basically spoke a different language than all the others.

That’s what I tend to do to almost everything I touch. It’s a bad habit.

Bumping my question

Now I will have to order a dozen of this drivers…And mod some lights again :slight_smile:

Nobody has one yet to compare. I have a XinTD C8 V4 XM-L2, but I don’t have a Convoy C8 yet. I plan on posting results after I get one though.

Both are very nice, but the Convoy C8 is a little bit shorter and has fancier firmware. Otherwise, I don’t really know any details.

Thanks ToyKeeper
D’oh….I can see how my original post reads now, I actually meant to say how does it compare on paper.
Looking forward to your results update
This Convoy looks impressive, nice job !

The XinTD is built like a tank. Other than that, they’re quite similar. Now that Convoy C8’s have an integrated emitter shelf there really isn’t a whole lot of advantage to the XinTD except for more thermal mass. Both are quality lights, to be sure.

I guess I got rid of my XinTD C8, can’t find it. But I did find my SupFire F9, similar size, nice style, don’t know if they’re making it anymore. The anodization is a sort of brown color and shiny, nowhere near what Convoy is doing. And it has the old style aluminum pill. LOL

Leave it to Convoy to show a guy how old lights once loved have become outdated….

I have a XinTD C8 and I can confirm the quality is excellent. Looking at it next to the latest generation Convoy C8 the biggest difference I see is the XinTD is roughly half an inch longer. Most of that difference is in the tail cap. I’ve read that the XinTD head and reflector are different internally and have heard arguments that the XinTD is “internally superior” to some degree. That may be true but I don’t really know. I have both but at least in the beam I do not see a XinTD advantage, in fact the hot spot on my Convoy is a bit tighter with the same emitter. To be fair both lights are modded and not by me so I can’t really confirm specifics. My XinTD C8 and my Convoy C8 are both excellent and by far the best C8 specimens I have seen.

Any word on when the new firmware/UI will be standard across the board for the other Convoy models? Thanks.

Good day! im new here, just wanna ask if Convoy c8 has unwavering output or unti-flicker features just like the other brand of lights… TIA for those who will respond.

The New drivers will have a contact regulated output based on the number of 7135’s you select.

They are also a fast PWM so you will not see any flicker or hear any whine, as I assume that os what you are talking about.

I don’t know if its in the OS, but i think so. anyway, are these driver have those features (pic below). its from the NEW C8 Cree XML2 U2-1A LED.https://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/Convoy-c8-strong-light-flashlight-cree-xml-u2-t6-torchy/330416_826040641.html

The beam that comes out of a Convoy C8 looks cleaner, less rings…from what I’ve noticed anyway. The reflector of the XinTD screws into the pill like a P60 drop-in reflector does. It seems like the XinTD has a better beam pattern with domed emitters than it does with HIs or dedomed emitters.

In the process of ordering some drivers.
A 4*7138 that I plan on configure for the modegroup with a low highest for my wife’s short S2+
And one with more chips sure I will find a light for it.

Is the Nitecore D4 charger at Convoy’s Store in Aliexpress AUTHENTIC Nitecore product? pls help… tnx! Link below :slight_smile:

https://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/2015-New-Nitecore-D4-Digcharger-Battery-Charger-LCD-Display-Universal-Nitecore-Charger-Retail-Package-EU-plug/330416_32288670432.html