KB have you measured numbers on it?
For me the “one apology” rule does not apply to things that fly. And when it comes to Dove’s… I would usually be much better off monetarily buying “Cornish Game Hens” or a Rotisserie Chicken at WalMart……… :person_facepalming: … :money_mouth_face:
No not yet, I had like 3 other builds (L2 SD75 and 2 T90-2’s ) while testing /blowing up drivers and LED’s going on :person_facepalming: , I have to test the L6 with the XHP35 and smooth reflector when I get home in 15 day’s, ( I’ll have 10 days off) I’ll do them both and post up then. I have a few de-domed XHP-35-HD’s and XHP70’s I would like to directly swap out and see if they make a big enough difference also?
If you ask me Simon shouldnt gave the 1S L2 version up, now we are forced to buy 2s and mainly use it as a 1S: 2S is kinda bulky…plus we do have L6/S70 now
I have already builded L2 using XHP 35( D4 1A) and hornestly i aint impressed, it would never outthrow s good Dded V6 and it runs pretty hot too/draining batteries way faster
Ofc the lumen output is good
Not sure I’m following you there Mitko. The XHP-35 running at under 3A almost matches a de-domed XM-L2 U4 in the Shooter 2x at 4.5A while gaining over 50% again the lumens output. Sure, there are 4 cells to charge instead of 2, but run time should be longer on the 4 cells at 2.8A than 2 cells at 4.5A, right?
Out thrown by a slim margin, much more lumens and longer runtime. Impressive all around.
Enough so that one of the newest thrower lights from a manufacturer is using it to hit 600.75Kcd at 1550M throw. The L6 should come close to that with an XHP-35, haven’t done one yet but will soon.
The 1S battery tube of the L2 was indeed much to my liking.
Just not seeing the “runs pretty hot too/draining batteries way faster” aspect. Probably missed something somewhere…
Wow, I never heard or read about an XHP35 performing in throw close to what a dedomed U4 does. But 4.5A is kind of low for a dedomed U4 - I generally get ~5.5A out of them. In the stock Manker U21 w/XHP35 for example, I nearly doubled the kcd with a dedomed XPL V6 0D, running at 6A. But the stock Manker U21 is fairly low in LED amps, but draws about the same exact power from the cell.
I actualy ran it at 2.4amps( the XHP35) and it gave like 170k cds - thats what my driver is capable of
The heat on the other hand was quite a good ammount
At the same time the L2 V6 1A( at 5.8amps) build that i have here gives 280k cds and pretty good lumens too: a dedomed U3 0d( running at 5amps) is pretty close to that too…afaik 272k cds or smth
For some reason i aint saticfied with the results with U4 both 1C and 1A so i gave up on them
Yeah, i would order that light the moment it came out with a promo code 
Imagine what will that reflector give with a V6 emitter…or S4 2B…
Btw, i do hope for Simon to solve that reflector problems of his for good , earlier that year i got several L2s with not so good reflectors
He’s been working on that issue for a long time. Trust me when I say that nobody is more frustrated by this than Simon and he is doing everything he can to make sure that doesn’t happen again. He’s not satisfied with the smooth L6 reflectors which is why they are not yet being sold. The prototypes are good by most accounts but not up to his standards so he is not selling them yet. Simon stands behind what he sells so if you received a few of the flawed L2 reflectors that slipped through you all you needed to do was let him know.
I had a bit of fun with my XHP-35 L2 tonight. Walking the trash down to the road I spotted a grey fox about 120 yds out. Shadow, my 100+lb Yellow Labrador, caught sight of him in the light and boy he took off like a cannon shot! He was huffin, scrunched down and really hauling it across the field. The fox turned and headed away but was like trotting. Shadow closed across the 100 yd section of field and was really closing fast. The fox started trotting a bit faster. At about 30 yds away, now some 200 yds from me, the fox shifted into Usain Bolt mode and ran off and left my poor yellow freighter like an F14 fighter jet! I laughed, and I swear the fox was laughing too! I saw the fox out to about 350 yds when he went into trees across the road and in the neighbors field. Shadow lost him at the bar ditch.
So, while the XHP-35 HD was lighting everything pretty well out to 300+ yds, I came in and opened it up then sliced the dome off. The 4 little half cells, 26350’s, are charging back up but I’ll get a glimpse of how it performs before I go to bed. 10:34PM Thursday night here as I type this. 
I’ll get lux and lumens measurments tomorrow.
I have an XP-L HI in an L6 that’s making 303Kcd… the sliced XHP-35 in my L2 is now making the same size hot spot as that L6 on the wall. This should prove interesting on the meter… 
Well, a bit of a disappointing surprise with the meter on the L2 XHP-35 sliced. “Only” 208.5Kcd at 913.24M with 2380.5 lumens. (“moon” is 16.25 lumens with the LD-2 modified for 4 cells)
I did gain throw, but the lumens loss is enough to make it hardly worthwhile.
All in all it’s still pretty wicked and the overall beam profile is much to my liking so I’ll call it a win, albeit by a smaller margin than I had hoped for… I’ll double check things and verify.
What was / is the reflector problem with the L2 ???
Hi all, I have a big problem, I modded my convoy l2 new, but something went wrong, after 1 hour the reflector of flashlight become Grey and lost the mirroring as the acid corrode the cromo… I don’t know why this happened, maybe the component of solder or solder paste corroded it… Now the problem is: do someone know if is possible to buy just the reflector without all flashlight? Or maybe someone have 1 reflector to sell me? Sorry for English and thank you for help
Did you use acid flux solder?
I would contact Simon at his AliExpress store and see about getting a new reflector…
Yes I think I used an acid one… Was this the problem? :person_facepalming: Oh thank you very much, you could save my life… :person_facepalming:
“Yellow freighter,” I love it!
I’m sure Shadow had fun ‘working,’ and I’m glad the two canines didn’t meet face to face.
I don’t know that for sure but it sounds likely. Someone else might chime in and confirm or deny…
Still, contact Simon through his Convoy site on AliExpress and get a new reflector.
I tried to write him, but when I click the simon’s contact, it show me there is a problem and I can’t write him yet…
Have you joined AliExpress as a member? I think they want you to be signed in to leave a message…
Ok i contact him, 9€ and I can buy it, so the problem now is, how can I stop the corrosive effect? I don’t want to broke another reflector, could I clear contact with electric clear spray? Or do you have a better way? I have in my flashlight: driver Fet +1, xpl hi with noctigon and normal dissipating paste for CPU, then I used solder paste to solder driver and led, I think is this last paste the problem, but not 100% sure…