Not sure what you mean by driver boot. If depth of cavity, well I only have my review sample with separate pill, so not relevant to current production. There was enough room left that I considered packing it with a piece of thermally conductive silicone, but didn’t.
Mine takes I think a 17mm driver (screwed into the pill with a nice ring), and a 20mm MCPCB. But don’t quote me on that. The driver is mostly obscured by a big wound inductor on a hefty toroid core, taking up pretty much the full diameter of the cavity. Not the sort of square sealed component I’m used to seeing these days.
But everything may have changed since then, you will just have to take a chance and see for yourself. I don’t think you will be disappointed.
Nice inductor, not so nice current sensing resistor. 82mΩ is too big, causing a lot of voltage drop and power loss in the driver. If current for high mode is 2.8A, Pshunt = I² × R = 7.84A² × 0.082Ω = 642.88mW. Looks like sense voltage is set at ≈0.23V.
An LD-29 uses a 25mΩ shunt for the same 2.8A maximum driving current.This is much nicer: PLD-29shunt = I² × R = 7.84A² × 0.025Ω = 196mW. Sense voltage is 0.07V. How good would it fit I don't know.
I should be getting the ’F by next week, acto the email notifications from the Post Orifice.
I doubt it’d have the throw of a single big-reflector C8, but the idea of trip XP-Gs is intriguing! Wonder if it’d be floody or throwy. Best of both worlds, or worst?
Never had a multi-reflector light, so this should definitely be interesting!
My Sofirn C8F arrived today, what picture do you like to see?
I will try to post pictures tomorrow but I can’t do a full review like everyone here :person_facepalming: .
These are pictures of Sofirn C8F with stainless steel bezel for Convoy C8
I know I should have picked XP-L HI. XP-L2 is domed so it’s not really a thrower in my opinion. Of course if it would be dedomed but why bother, I have gray Convoy C8 with XP-L HI led and that has also stainless bezel Edit: I have Sofirn C8A, that has XP-L2 led.
0K, don't blame on me :facepalm: much my pals, I just rechecked my conversation with Tracy Wan from Sofirn and I'm getting the C8T. Really sorry for this, it happened because I asked someone about and he told me “the C8F because of its uniqueness” or sort of. Got a bit messed up in my mind but now, in retrospect, I'm looking at it with better eyes. At least I know how to get a proper candela figure with my smartphone.
kotobuki, what's the MCPCB size for that C8F? The very reason I just noticed I'm getting a C8Turbo is because I was wondering how could it be that Tracy told me the MCPCB was 16.8mm on the C8T…
I can see the new driver Tracy Wan told me about. The 8-pin SOIC thing and the small 3-pin stuff look like the MOSFET switches. Then there's the usual 10-pin microcontroller this OEM likes to use and an also unknown to me 5-pin whatever chunk of silicon at its left.
Any chance you could measure the spacing of the reflector? I’d like to know if it is compatible with any Noctigon triple MCPCBs. Also, would the triple reflector work in a Convoy C8 host?
Just by looking at the picture of the triple MCPCB, I'd say the distance from the emitter centers to the MCPCB center is ≈8.75mm. With this in mind, the emitters would be at ≈12.3744mm from each other center to center (equilateral triangle side lenght).
kotobuki, :facepalm: ouch!
Well, if you're daring it may be a nice oportunity to reflow some more to your liking emitters. Do some math if choosing low Vf ones. If not, I'm pretty sure Sofirn/ThorFire can provide you with a new triple board for cheap.
Edit: I have Sofirn C8A, that has XP-L2 led.
