Convoy L6 and 26350 - Short tube or lego?

Hi all L6 (and 26350) lovers! :laughing:

I may have missed the topic inside the main L6 thread which i have skipped a couple pages and updates here and there… But since 26350 cells have become available, i’m thinking of shortening my L6 and wondering whether a ‘short’ tube was available or in the plans, or if i could lego with an existing light like the L2 (which i don’t have)?

Any hint?
Thanks.

The L6 is current controlled so I doubt 26350s will make much difference unless you intend on modding it.

Shorter with the same input voltage to the driver is what patmurris means.
So it would be a smaller light.
Interesting question!

I think the L2 tube will interchange if I have understood correctly.

Yes, L2 and L6 tubes are interchangeable.

Awesome. I had been wondering the same thing. Are the short L2 tubes available anywhere? I only see the long ones in Simon’s store.

Ah, right, I get it.
Runtimes would be reduced by half though!

Thanks!

Now to find a single 1x26650 L2 tube… I’ll ask Simon at Convoy.

I have asked Simon through the AE messages system his reply was “sorry no short tubes”. Lets hope it will be available in the future.

…same answer. :frowning:

Hmmm, if I’m following this, if the L2 and L6 tubes are interchangeable… My L2 tube has threads 1/2 way down to turn it into either a 1 cell or 2 cell light. Just buy another L2 tube and use the front 1/2 of it on the L6? Would that give you what you want? I didn’t try using one cell in the L6. I suppose I can. All I have charged at the moment are 18650 cells and one wouldn’t light the light. I’ll try again later tonight with a 26650. Or will I need 2 cells to get the voltage?

That raised a question for me. If I use part of the L2 tube on the L6 to make a 3 cell light, will it allow another cell in it for increased runtime? Will that hurt anything? :slight_smile: Other than my arm?

I already tried the L2 as a single cell light with a 18650 and it worked fine.

Maybe if someone purchased long one piece tube for L2 could have a spare short one. I have L6 and an L2 host but I want to build L2 as a single cell.

@BrianK: The L2 has a 3V emitter and only needs one cell. Its driver does allow two cells though, hence the optional long tube.
The L6 has a 6V led and needs two cells - it wont work with one. However, with short 26350 cells you can fit two in a one cell tube and build a ‘short’ L6.

Right now the only way to achieve the short 2x26350 L6 is to swap tubes with a L2.

2x26350 may be too long for convoy l2 1s battery tube

Thanks. I thought that might be the case about the voltage in the one battery L6. Would adding 1/2 of the L2 battery tube to the L6 to make a 3 cell L6 hurt anything in the L6 with the increased voltage?

Has anybody been trying this in the meantime? A 3x 26650 Convoy L6 would surely be an impressive beast. :smiling_imp:

I don’t think so… it says Working Voltage: 5.4-8.4V on the GB specs…

http://www.gearbest.com/led-flashlights/pp_360866.html

Thanks for the feedback! Would have been too nice to impress the Maglite fans even more. :wink:

i has found this

https://th.aliexpress.com/store/product/L2-L6-short-tube/330416_32803828707.html?isOrigTitle=true

is there used for replace L6 to 1*26650 ?

or use for +25560 is to 3+26650?

The Convoy L6 requires 5.4V – 8.4V input voltage to power the XHP70, so you always need two batteries. One battery is not enough, and with three batteries the driver and/or the LED could be damaged due to excessive voltage.

I.e. using the short tube you can operate the L6 with two 26350 cells. This might not make a lot of sense, but looks very cool. :sunglasses: