I got one of these … is it the same? I found it very interesting, in fact it seems to have 1000 lm + and it plays far away …. so the user interface I didn’t find the best …. I heard that Manker’s U22 II is better …. but I haven’t received it yet my.
Both the Wainlight C8S-G ("C8+ with Osram NM1 LED) and the Boruit C8 (also uses Osram NM1 LED) appear to use the same 7135x8 driver (the "old S2+ 5/3-mode group" driver). Only pushes the LED to around 2.8 Amps of power, based on my tailcap measurement.
I have yet to try the new Convoy C8+ with Osram NM1 LED, but if the description is correct, the power used is 4.8 Amps, which would put the Osram at near peak output and will throw farther.
Yeah, the TN32 UT is ugly and useless. But the portable and handy OSRAM C8 is an even better illuminator all-round. I really have nothing that is THIS useful at spotting stuff!
I bough mine on August the 3rd. It is still in Processing. Customer servicer doesn’t help either. I can either get a refund or exchange for something else. But I really want it. Hahaha.
Received mine. This thing is like a little laser, excellent but not very useful when using it at short distance. But its so powerful you can even use it during daylight to illuminate something under shadow.
Also its weird how there is no difference between the 30% and 100% mode, with the SST-40 there is a very small difference only noticeable at long range, definitely not worth wasting the battery life.
I see a clear difference from the low, the other 2 modes are a little bit harder to tell but the 100% is definitely the brightest
(wainlight, to be clear)
Just received my Convoy C8+ with the NM1 TG Osram in it, from Aliexpress.
Gotta say I’m a tad disappointed………it’s got a lot of nasty corona!
And I mean a lot!!!
It’s not a particularly good pic, it’s from an iPhone 10, and excuse the wall, it’s just been stripped of paper as we’re decorating, but as you can see, on 30%, it just doesn’t look right!! It looks a little green doesn’t it?
Maybe you might want to check it outside during a night walk to see if it is that bad. Judging only from this photo is not possible imho. A general rule of thumb however, the better the CRI of the emitter, the less ill-looking the corona.
E.g. I have Convoy C8+ with 95CRI SST-20 4000K, and I had no issues with the corona at all. I had one with 65-70CRI Cree XM-L2 5000K, and that was spectacularly lot worse.
Corona quality also depends on the radial tint shift of the emitters by manufacturing technology. I am not aware, that Osram NM1 emitters are bad in this matter, but e.g. Cree XP-G3 or XHPxx.2 is definitely bad at this (for them, even the 90 CRI variants are horrible). However, even “standard CRI” XP-L HI or XHP35 HI emitters are almost flawless regarding the corona.
Apparently, not any of these super thrower Osram white tints are high CRI, just around 65-70. I would be also happier, if Osram ever considered making high CRI of these - but I didn’t have one of these whites, I was scared by the blue spike in the spectrum diagram, which was provided by the manufacturer.