Lot’s of folks on the internet that are armchair lawyer’s.
Wanna be a real lawyer, sign up for law school and have at it.
Tube lights have been around way before Convoy put some knurling on them.
How do you know this wasn’t done with Convoy’s blessing to use up some old black stock now that the colored versions are selling well?
Either way, BFD, none of our business.
You want Convoy?, buy it, you want to try Utorch, buy it.
Just thank your lucky stars Apple didn’t create the S2 because it would have proprietary battery and protected coding to prevent modding without big hassles.
I bought like 5 of them now. Got em for $7 a piece when they first came out on the app. Put a A6 driver in one and in the process of putting some 7135X8’s in the others. Beam and tint are great, just the driver sucked. Completely worth the little extra effort.
Great YouTube review. That guy was cracking me up.
Pill is super easy to remove and the driver is just held in with a retaining ring. No solder. Had to solder the new drivers in but getting the old ones out was a breeze.
Oh the driver works just fine. I probably shouldn’t have called it bad, just not my liking. The blinky modes in the mode set drives me batty. Medium and high are a bit too close in output for my liking. Other than that it works just fine. Nothing wrong with it out of the box. I just wanted to get rid of the blinky’s.
For the price its not bad for giveaway for friends who wants to own a ‘decent’ light. And maybe you can put one in the garage one in bathroom on in the kitchen etc
Agreeing with above. Convoy are NOW. well made. reliable and fairlty cheap.
I bought 3 coloured S2’s for $9 something last week for kids. Boring as, but will do a good job.
Every time you press the sw. Yeay. Light… Unlike some I’ve bought.
Same with their C8’s . and the L2/L6 are as good as anything else I’ve seen on market.
I tried a coupla U-Torches but passed them on. Didn’t suit. Shape and feel mainly.
I’ve sealed/potted half a doz of my drivers on the better ones.
Used “ceramic Epoxy” white. has no Metallic anything in there. completely inert.
Just leave open O/Night to go off.
Just mix. drip on, then leave stand on bench. Simple.
Time will tell.
Picture of the driver, no solder pads as on the 105C’s. Which I have a few to replace this existing driver. Sorry for the crappy photo. My phone won’t focus down that close but if you need values of any components I can give ya those. The spring side of the driver has XP45E printed on it.
My MonkeyECHO plugin shows me a nice historic graph about the price of the light until now. It started at $19.26 on July 21, then quickly dropped to $9.38 on July 30.
Then to $7.89 in mid August. Since then it is jumping between $6.99 and $9.38 every few days. Using a coupon it is $6.99.
I understand how this works. You buy when you are ready to spend the money. If not you may buy after the next price drop.
Like at Starbucks you pay as much as you like.
But I can’t help feeling I pay too much too often watching these games.
You got it. Terrible UI out of the box. The good part is. It’s a nice white tint and nice beam. A $2 driver fixes that up. Unless of course you want a new emitter too.
I picked up a bunch of them and just changed the driver out, 2 modes, no blinkies, the emitter and beam were fine for the purpose I am using them for. If you use the Gearbest app I think you can get them for $6.99.
Only because a friend gave me a handful of them. Easy swap, 5 minute job. I put a A6 driver in one. Only got to use it for a few minutes then my oldest son stole it from me. He hasn’t called and told me it quit working yet so I assume it’s still going strong.
