When will these be back in stock?
From what store do you mean?
The Convoy store should open back up on Feb 15.
Other stores I have no idea.
That’s what I meant. Thanks
Just want to update.
Although Simon mentioned he’ll be back online on 15FEB on his store, I drop him a message on the 13FEB regarding my C8 flickering issue. Received a reply from him yesterday and by today it’s concluded. He will send me a replacement driver. While I still have to find someone to solder it for me, that’s the best customer service I’ve had from any China retailer.
Frankly with a festival as big as Chinese New Year celebration in China, I wouldn’t thought of getting any reply from him before 15FEB.
He came out top and I’m sold.
He gained a loyal customer. Awesome guy.
Yes, I can confirm Simon is back, and he offered a replacement driver for me as well. I just hope that it will work correctly.
In the meantime, I also ordered an usb programmer+clip to try to reflash the non-working driver.
Does this light better if you compare against S2+ ?
The big difference is the C8 has a very focused beam for long distance use. The S2+ has a wider beam for close use and general purposes. They are both high quality.
Good stuff. There will always be issues with any company and their product but to me, how those issues are handled is the real test. Simon proved his dedication in that area to me many times over. It’s part of the reason I do what I do for/with Convoy :+1:
how come convoy has no website ?
Once you get it up and going, that clip will be very handy. But just flashing Bistro again likely won’t fix a “lost the noinit lottery” situation. As long as you’re using the same byte for noinit detection, it will likely decay to the same state. You could flash something that doesn’t use noinit. Or wait for the noinit tracking to be revamped (I’m currently working on that). Best of luck to you!
He has the store front on Aliexpress, but no regular website because his staff is small. He’s a small company dedicated to quality products, but without inflated profit margins like Fenix and Thrunite, etc…
If he made a .Com website he would have to hire more people to run it and to process orders from it and he’d have to raise his prices to compensate. Nobody wants that, do they? Lol
Anyone have any experience with epacket delivery to the US? How long have your orders from Simon taken to get in?
thanks
Epacket varies greatly depending on overall mail load. Right now with the holiday just ending you can expect longer then normal delivery times.
Generally epacket is around 2-3 weeks for me. Although I have had it as fast as 5 days and as long as 6 weeks.
Varies wildly for sure. I’ve had some go almost a month, others much shorter.
I just placed an order for an item at Banggood on Feb 8th and received it yesterday. That’s 7 business days… I was shocked.
I really wanted one until I saw the UI. It works for most but I am just completely inept at half/whole/long presses. I have the E14 and I barely use it because of the UI. It’s a crap shoot getting into and through the special mode menu. It’s a shame cause I really wanted this one. Oh well.
It took me awhile to get a hold of how fast to click but it is not so bad once you master it.
you can also post in the commercial forum if you are interested in your own personal UI the way you like it.
It would be a shame not to use your light
The C8 driver only has fast click IIRC, which is super simple. You simply tap the power button till the light blinks off then release and it goes to the next mode.
If you really don’t like that then simply set it to 100% only mode, which will be on/off only with no other modes.
Thanks TA. I’ll add the fact that there are 8 mode groups that don’t have blinkies and they all function beautifully.
I do not mean to imply that I am in any way excusing the problem with the current drivers and I don’t have the E14 to compare it to. We are working on the driver issues but it will take time.
For most (certainly not all) the current driver will be at the very least, quite an improvement over the old 3/5 driver with the annoying blink in low. That said, “acceptable” is NOT acceptable to Convoy and I’m working with Simon on getting this issue resolved and moving forward to bring more awesomeness to the budget light world that this forum was founded on.
Cheers 
If you bought a new C8 and didn’t like the menu/UI, then you could always swap the driver for a new one from MTN Elec that has the simpler Guppydrv for like 5 bucks. A driver swap in the C8 is very easy, you only have to solder 2 wires on the LED.