New Convoy C8 – Clearly better

It can be difficult to know what’s going on with Simon because he’s the sort who prefers to get things done instead of talking about it. And difficult to know what’s going on with Gearbest because they’re not exactly the most honest about what they sell.

So… if you want to take a risk, go with Gearbest. You might get what you want for a bit less. If you’d rather play it safe, go directly with Convoy and request an updated driver.

I should have a new driver to test in a few days, I think. Tracking says it hit customs yesterday.

how? there is no convoy website to buy from anyways last i checked… and who the hell is this Simon, he who runs convoy ??

For Mortuus — LMGTFY

Yup, Convoy is his baby and one of the more reliable budget brands available. Also willing to work with customers. If Chinese manufacturing ever decides to up their game they could do worse than modeling his approach.

Simon runs Convoy. Convoy’s store is at aliexpress.
https://www.aliexpress.com/store/330416

He has an unusually good quality-to-price ratio, and doesn’t follow the usual trend of making things cheaper (worse) over time. His products are typically on par with items several times the price.

I’m making the most out of the “faster than it should be” blinky modes on Biscotto V1.
(S2+ with Biscotti V1, attached to a light painting tool).

Well said TK. :+1:

I’m going to try to be polite in responding to this not so polite post…
Convoy has never had an official website.
It is not feasible for my friend Simon to maintain a site for his company at this time due to the many complications where he lives and operates his business.
Simon Mao is the owner/operator of Shenzhen Convoy Electronics and yes, he certainly is “he who runs Convoy”.
As his officially unofficial spokesperson I can assure you that yes, he is a very real person and yes, we really are friends. Our friendship has led to many of the Convoy lights that have been produced in the last year or so thanks to my friends here at BLF and Simon’s willingness to work with us.

Kudo’s on the control my friend. :wink:

That’s trippy and cool. It looks like the light shines into a tube and you swing the tube around?

I’ve been dragging my feet on a similar project, making a RGBA quad emitter pulse in rainbow patterns so it’ll look fancy when swinging a light saber around.

That is pretty much it. The S2+ (with large o-rings around the head to add a few more mm) is stuck into one end of a lightpaintingbrushes.com universal connector, and at the other end of the connector is a denissmith.com.au lightflute CH48 (which is basically a 48cm PVC tube, with long holes on one side, and short holes on the other).

I also use the Ledlenser P7QC for red, green, and blue if required, but would be very happy if a company developed a suitably sized RGBW colour mixing flashlight.

Good luck with your light sabre project.

Very nice light art!

Waiting for my clear C8 proves to be hard :wink:

oke not easy for everyone to know that, a name doesnt mean much and since no website exist its also a bit confusing for many i bet… but now i know then. i have an C8 on my way from gearbest looking forward getting it.

Just gotta read the OP in almost any Convoy thread, search ‘convoy store’, or just nicely ask.

Check out the many other convoy lights too, quite a few really nice flashlights available.

Yeah I know about communicating with Chinese people. That’s why I wanted a mark for the new version. Since that did not happen, I now have to take a risk or wait some time and ask people who bought from GearBest if they got new version. The latter is what I am trying to do.

That’s why you simply ask around the forum.

Reminder for those who want to buy latest version from Gearbest:

“Dear Customer,

Thank you for contacting us.

We are sorry to tell you that product is not the latest version.

http://www.gearbest.com/led-flashlights/pp_488727.html

We haven’t ordered the latest version of this product.

And there is no exact plan of it yet.

Thank you for your understand.

Best regards

Jaylee

Gearbest Customer Service
http://www.gearbest.com/

Yeah that’s not the clear C8 if anyone is thinking so. That’s the older grey version. I don’t think Simon has made any current runs in that color though with the XPL-HI it can’t be too old. It’s only been maybe a year that he’s been selling the C8 with an XPL-HI. It’s quite a nice color really but this is actually the first time I’ve heard it called ”silver”. It’s quite too dark to be called silver IMO though in their picture it looks brighter than what I’ve seen in real life.

Edit:
I have to take that back. I don’t know what the heck that is! LOL
They call it silver but I went back and scrolled down and there are pictures of the clear version and they’re showing the AR coated lens that has only come stock on the silver. Then they list is as a 3/5 driver but they say it has 12 modes and they include the UI diagram for Biscotti…
:question: Huh? That is one very confused and confusing listing. Of course I went and clicked on answered questions for the light where someone asked if it had an OP reflector.
The official Gearbest response was

Seriously…you can’t make this stuff up. :person_facepalming:

Replace driver with blf A6 and be a little happier !!!, about 5 amps in tail with sanyo ga, deals more easily !!

According to comments it is actually clear version but it does not contain latest firmware (Which is updated recently).