Transformation T̶u̶e̶s̶d̶a̶y Saturday - Convoy S8 Mod - Updated 1/17/16

+1 XP-E deep (photo) red

great build!

Very original and well done. Nice.

Nice build.

Looks awesome, love the bare aluminum color and the lighted tail cap is just great.

Bezel looks like it was made that way.
Convoy needs to make an Authorized “Pilotdog68” Special Limited Edition!
You called it the “Flagship Light” in the OP.

No changes needed or allowed :slight_smile:
Sign me up.

Here’s the Group buy list so far;

  1. Muto Qty 3

Very nicely done, top to bottom!

Now, tell me something. (this comes from my own time consuming elbow grease depleting adventures) How much would it cost to make those for sale? Totally wrecks the “budget” concept, does it not? If you only expected $10 and hour, labor costs alone would have it well over $100, right? Add in parts, materials and any kind of profit…what’s that… a $185 light? Yeah, adds up fast doesn’t it?

Well done, you should really be proud of that and the rest of us drool in our keyboards with jealousy…

You need to keep quiet on those details……

My wife knows I spent $10 on the host… and that’s all she knows. :wink:

But to partially answer you and muto, I would never make these to sell. Even starting with a pre-made host this was far too much work to willingly go through multiple times. Plus, once there is more than 1, it’s much less cool.

Mouth zipped. :smiley:

I was just busing your chops, that light is all You man.
Thanks for sharing the build.
Later,
Keith

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Thanks for all the kind words guys

Love that mod! The lamp looks very sexy with the bare silver body and glowing blue cap.

Amazing build. The amount of quality work going on by guys on this forum continues to amaze me!

” Hello, Mrs. PilotDog? Yes, I’m calling about a light your husband recently purchased. It seems that there’s a factory defect that causes the anodization to fall off, and the rear switch appears faulty.

Yes, we’re very worried this made it through quality control. If you don’t mind, I’m emailing you a fedex label now to our local collection agent, and am authorized to paypal you no less than TWICE the original sale price.

You have a very good day too, ma’am ”

Very nice job on the light. Lots of lights out there but only one just like this.

That is really nice. I love it when an intricate build comes together.

Thanks. I just re-did the tail led with the new board and added one of those ring magnets from banggood.

Very nice build! Any chance I could get the .c code you used as I’m attempting something a little similar but I can’t get the firmware to work.

Sorry I missed your post, I was working on this light again and just noticed it. If you still want the code, here is the latest iteration.


I was just coming back to say that I swapped out the driver in favor of a FET+1. I managed to stack an extra 7135 then solder them to the pcb with a piece of electrical tape under the output pin to isolate it, then solder some 24awg wire directly to the pins for the red output. Works great. My main motivation was to get the clean look of a single-sided board, but the extra lumens are a nice bonus :bigsmile: It now draws 6.2amps, good for about 2400 lumens.

Wow! Sounds like a very neat light to me. I have to learn how to flash these drivers NOW. No clue about coding at all, but with all those codes readily available, I couldn’t think of anything that I’d want that hasn’t been done…

So you get 6.2amps to the 2 XP-L and about 0,7amps to the red XP-E in each of the two max modes? That is brilliant, especially that added 7135 for more red light ouput. That illuminated tailcap is also very nice, have to give that a try someday.

Overall a very impressing light pilotdog!

The firmware is very similar to what I’m using :slight_smile: I’m still tweaking bits of mine to give me my perfect modes.

Haha. My white + red light also uses FET + 1 driver with extra 7135 stacked. Funny how similar yet different they’ve turned out. Think I’m going to build one like yours but with 219’s instead of XP-L as a gift for my brothers birthday.