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n case of the BD01 it is easy, you need one to have something to give a person so that person can hav a Li Ion powered bright light yet without the trouble of educating about charging 
Sure she wants you to give safe things right 
Thanks for pics, The Miller!
Now I know I need to buy both 
Just came across this review, can’t understand him but the beamshots kinda speak for themselves. He also has another in depth review.
Thanks for the comparison pictures. You’re spot on about this being a “gift light”. I’ve pretty much considered the Convoy BD rechargeable series as just that. Safe to give people who you don’t trust to learn all they need to. I ordered a BD01 close to a year ago. I loved the quality but the mode setup and performance were just so-so. Okay thinking about it, the mode setup falls just short of so-so IMO but I’m truly a flashlight snob now. At some point I may start a thread about this but I just don’t have time now. Getting to my point, I didn’t know the BD06 was coming out. It surprised me too. I talked with Simon about this just last night. I’m waiting for him to get back to me with a few details on the driver and then we are going to redo the UI for the BD series with better modes. Most people, even modders here don’t want to tinker too much because nobody wants to mess with the charging feature as it’s too nice to ditch. I think the concept of these is brilliant and I love the quality built-in charging. The build quality is also top-notch but the modes stink… not for long though. I got this.
Awesome… I’d love to see a true moon, direct drive turbo, both directly accessible from any mode including off… AND a max efficiency (lumens per watt) medium mode.
Asking too much?
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And can we get it with 5000k quad emitters? :o)
A rebate came in the mail a couple of weeks ago and I said “yea extra flashlight money. Poppa needs a new light.” I got “the look”.
My Manker E-14 arrived today.
Fortunately it is all in good fun.
Bob
Do you have any estimated time frame? Is it days, weeks or months? I will probably wait nevertheless - bad modes are only thing that was keeping me from buying this light.
I would love for it to have similar interface to BLF A6. Or at least two decent mode groups.
Not quite yet. Days is a no. A few weeks minimum but it could be a month or more. If it helps, I think within a few weeks I will have a much more solid idea of the total time frame…
J-Dub74, everything you touch turns to “solid gold.”
Between you and Simon working on this, I’ve already formed a purchase line!
Shucks… 
I don’t know about all that, but I do like working on all this stuff with Simon. It’s a very cool thing to be a part of. 
So I should wait until the new modes to order this? I was wanting to get the L6 and BD06 at the same time but if it’d be worth the wait for the new modes then that’s what I will do.
Stumbled upon this BD06, I’m impressed with how thick the head wall is.
I’ll dig more information before purchasing one, which is very likely.
Better hurry and purchase it soon, based on what I’m seeing at Simon’s store the BD06 has been discontinued. I
It is a really nice light to give as present
The charging is excellent (4,21V for at least 100 cycles now)
Modes are simple so nice for non flashoholics
Solid construction
Good ano
Nice box
And fairly small being a 26650 light.
J-Dub74 - any progress on BD06 driver upgrade?
Has anyone posted pictures of the driver/switch/chrager setup in any of these side-switch bd models? They must have, but I can’t find one
JK, I think I did find a few pictures. Has anyone attempted a driver swap? is there room for stacking?
I have been wanting this light for modding, but have been holding back because I wouldn’t want to loose the charging circuit in favor of a new dd driver. So I’ve been working on an oshpark board that could fit into the driver cavity and hold the parts to a basic TP4056 charging circuit from eBay. I can transfer the parts over to the new board and connect to a dd driver.
Is there any interest in this idea? I’ve been thinking about starting a thread on the subject where smarter people than I could give their thoughts. Anyway…
I’m not sure about pictures but I sent my BD01 to a friend to check out and it came back with at least 10 7135s so there is some room at least but I don’t know exactly how much.
Not yet. It will happen but it’s going to take some time. Probably at least a month or more. I’ll post here if I have news. When it’s all done I may even do a new thread for it. Apparently this light has a few fans. Simon is currently sold out and waiting on another shipment. I tried seeing if we could work it out so this next batch might have a new UI but I don’t think that’s happening. There’s another firmware for Nanjg drivers that we’re testing but it may not work with the rechargeable lights. Until we test it we just don’t know. The BD series are Nanjg driver based and run off the Attiny 13a. I’m hoping Simon can test the new firmware in the BD series soon. If it works it will take less time to work it into the production models. If it doesn’t then we have to tune the existing driver UI which will take longer.