Supfire L5-S, dual switch, 1 x 26650

I ordered one a couple days ago to make a mini Convoy L6. Unfortunately 26350 batteries are too expensive to get at the moment. :cry:

I’m having a hard time getting it out. Did you need to heat it up or just use a lot of force? Does it screw out normally or have reversed threads like some Convoy hosts have?

Got my L5-L2 Monday. It does have the alum switch, no USB charging - it's what I wanted.

Hmmm. I had very little difficulty unscrewing it. I used my spanner tool, applied a little force and it came loose. It is a normal right hand thread, so CCW to unscrew.

This tool.

Weird… one of mine is as if it was glued. I bought two, I’ll will try opening the other before resorting to violence.

Big correction here. The driver is not 29mm, it is 26mm.

I had planned to trim down one of my Convoy L6 30mm drivers to fit it, but at 26mm, it’s not going to fit. :cry:

Ugh! I’m trying really hard to get this thing apart.

I’m guessing it’s glued.

Reflector out was no problem for me, unscrewed easily. My problems are stated above.

One of yours was super tight and other not so tight?

The rear button certainly seems as if it was has hastily added. It doesn’t appear to be water tight at all. The metal cap over the rubber boot also flops around some.

I’ve only touched one of them so far. Haven’t gotten around to trying to open the other.

That’s right, it was the internal pill that is so tight on yours. My bad.

Crap! My bezel unscrewed by pressing the front against a piece of rubber inner tube.

I was able to line up 3 bungee cords and put a small block of wood on top. I pressed with all my body weight and it still slipped. I then added a bit of water to the rubber and wiped it to make it as tacky as possible and it just barely broke loose. Wow! I finally got it. :partying_face:

No glue, but super tight and with little to no edge to grip makes it tough.

I was able to straighten out the ring shape. I’ll just need to do a little touching up on it.

Thanks for the suggestion.

I guess my light got tightened up by some jacked up dude.

They now have the product listing for the L5-S up. link

Despite everything being super tight on it, it’s a really nice looking light.

I fixed the metal tail cap button from flopping around by adding a piece of thin cardboard between it an the rubber switch cover under it. So now it feels halfway decent. After looking at the design closer, it may be waterproof.

I really like the side switch. It’s a kind of a white/translucent hard plastic. The button pressure is not real high like my DQG Tiny 7x xpg2, so it’s nice to press.

Now I just need to wait for my 30mm Texas Avenger FET driver to arrive and I can trim it down to 26mm to fit. Wire up some nice power on leds to the switch, put the 26350 batteries in and then the xhp70. I’ll figure out how to get a copper block in there to add some mass while I’m waiting.

Hey, my project is done. Mostly done.

I’ve got the TA driver with Narsil M, xhp70, 26350 cells and a blue and violet lighted side switch. It’s basically a mini version of my L6.

It pulls about 7.8 amps which I’m thinking should be good for maybe 4,000 lumen. The switch lights up when the tail switch is on.

I’m using the stock threaded pill which has little to no mass. I need to add some copper to it to bulk it up. It’s for this reason I used 22ga wire to the emitter and did not bypass the tail spring.

I’m also using the stock reflector which has a big dark spot in the hotspot. I mean it’s a real noticable hole. Very ugly. So I need to swap to a different reflector, maybe a textured one or maybe add some DC Fix to smooth it out.

Other than those 2 things, it’s great. I’ll post all my pictures of the build in a seperate thread and put a link here if you guys wanna check it out.

Very nice! When you turn on the tail switch does the light turn on or do the double flash and shut off? I love the switch lights that indicate power is on:)

I told Lexel to program it to do nothing. So when I turn on the tail switch only the side button lights up to tell me the power is on.

This is nicer than my L6 which is programmed to go turbo when the rear switch is on. I thought that was a good idea for the L6, but after a while it’s annoying.