@J-Dub74
Thanks man. I ordered the host from Simon, but that one is still on it’s way. The one I received is the one I ordered a few days later from Banggood. Contacted their CS about it, sent some pictures their way.
@PD68
In terms of build quality, it’s much better than the Yezl. Also in terms of heat transfer. The Yezl has it’s fins on the head, but the LED and the driver sit in the middle part. The Convoy is much heavier and feels much beefier. Yezl has side switch plus reverse tail clicky, Convoy has forward tail clicky, no e-switch, what I personally prefer in that kind of light (with the Yezl that e-switch doesn’t bother me, because I have a LD1 in there and don’t have to change grip to switch modes). Also the threads on my Yezl are really not that great, especially the none-anodized ones between battery tube and middle part, no comparison to the ones on the Convoy, which are very nice thick square-cut threads, that came lubed and feel great. The only threads I don’t really like on the Convoy are the driver retaining ring threads and the driver retaining ring itself. Threads on it are thin and the ring itself is also too thin for my taste, seems fragile to me. Had Convoy C8 driver retaining threads and ring ruined lately, also very thin ring with very little threading on it. The ring from the Convoy L2 at least is made out of brass and doesn’t appear to be that fragile.
As long as it works it’s not a real critique, it’s more of a suggestion for improvement.
Yeah, I think with the reflector I may had bad luck. I’d recommend buying this light, it’s great, and I’d recommend buying it from Simon.
I put a XP-L HI on sinkpad in there together with a FET-driver with guppydrv, that I had lying aroung, wanted to do it quick without any fine adjustments, and than see how the beam looks like and if I have to raise the emitter or so. So yeah, now there’s a XP-L HI in there, just used the spacer for XM-L2 that came along with it. Hotspot is very tight and there’s a corona that’s quite big, but not ugly, I like it.
Since my Yezl and L2 have the same XP-L HI, they should be quite comparable, although the Yezl has the 5A-LD1-driver whereas the L2 has a DD/FET-driver. I’m going to do some beamshots as soon as I can.