Gnude Gnu’s haven’t been legalized for power use to date, not in the US anyway. Testing is underway to put them to work under AR confinement but the results are not in… Gnarly Gnude Gnu’s will be next. Mark my words. 
I only asked because you mentioned creamy colors and naked dies. :innocent:
Naked makes news, always! 
Still though, it’s true, the XM-L2 U4 with a clean de-dome on it throws further and burns less current than a pushed XP-L HI, MaxToch found that out in the Shooter 2X.
Found it. It was in a facebook flashlight group.
Thanks Zozz, a small gap but it looks pretty good!
Put a thicker lens in it, increase the gap, and you’ve just effectively added a cooling fin.
With these updates to the Convoy line, I wonder if there’s going to be any changes or new colors to the M series of Convoy lights…
No idea if this video was posted already, but here it is. And my goodness it’s good looking… 
[video:]Convoy C8+ - YouTube
banggood claims 1100 lumens for this, i guess its their usual marketing and its not really true?
I look again and again. I think I like the old version better.
They should make more different than only it’s looks.
The clear coated Convoy C8 with 3A XP-L HI does 839 lumens @ 30 sec on high.
The Convoy store also claims “about 1100 lumens”, so it might be true. The output current is listed at 3000mA, which is higher than the previous Convoys that use 8x7135. So, it looks like they’re using a better driver.
If I had to guess, I’d say probably closer to 1000 lumens, but I wouldn’t rule out 1100.
Pretty sure the driver is made up consisting of 8x380mA 7135 chips, making it effectively a QLite (3.04A) So actual output depends greatly on the emitter choice you make when you order the light. A 1A tint will be higher than a 4C, for example. Just how it is. Relatively simple to stack a few chips for more power.
Where are you referring to that it says this? I haven’t seen that info anywhere. As far as I know this is still the 2.8A driver and would not be putting out 1100 lumens. Am I missing something? I can see BG listing 1100 lumens but I don’t see anything like this in the Convoy store.
That’s L2 , are we talking about C8 ?
Thought I was losing it for a minute there. Yeah that is the L2 and this thread is about the C8+
Doh! Sorry. Okay, I take it back. I have no idea why BG is claiming 1100 lumens.
I got a tad over 700 lumens out of the box… maybe closer to 800 (log is at home). With a freshly charged 30Q. I replaced the driver with a blf a6 one and swapped emitter with a sliced SST40. Now it’s making just over 1600. Perfect light now.
Nice! What’s the throw like? The Astrolux C8 uses a BLF A6 driver and an XP-L HI emitter, getting around 100k candella with a fully-charged 30Q cell, at about 1300 lumens. Does the SST40 with 1600 lumens throw further?
I’ll check it tonight and post here.