I recently made my first purchase and I wanted to ask if I paired the light, batteries, and charger correctly. The light is a bangood c8 ak47 7135*8 3/5 , the charger is a liitokala lii-100 , and the batteries are Samsung inr18650-30q (two pack). I know absolutely nothing about flashlights and I only ordered these so I may mount the light on a rifle I have. I know the batteries are unprotected so I’m not sure if they are good or not. Also the charger seems very well packaged and nice however I have no idea how to use it and the instructions are very poorly written.
You paired them fine, have fun with your new toys 
I am not sure , but I think the Convoy only flashes when battery voltage gets low but does not shut itself off . Just be sure to recharge your unprotected cells at that point. Also be sure to warn all other users of the light.
The driver would drive me positively buggy, with the blink-on-low to switch modegroups (with/without blinkies).
I “retired” a rather nice S2+ because it bugged me so bad, and I never got around to swapping drivers.
I’d also be hesitant to use a multimode light on a rifle. A little jitter on the switch, and you could switch from high to low at a most inopportune time, then have to click your way back to high again.
Me personally, I’d wedge the thing on high. Dunno the AK47, but on the 105C you just need one little solder-blob to force all the 7135s on (no PWMing from the µC).
The charger is a no brainer. Just plug the charger in, put the battery in the charger, it will sense the type of battery and charge it accordingly. Just don’t leave the battery charging unattended. Not saying you have to get a chair and sit next to it the entire time. Just don’t throw it on the charger and leave for vacation. Being an unprotected battery it has no built in protection against overcharging or against letting it discharge to an extreme. If you keep an eye on your batteries, use them in lights that have low voltage protection and use a quality charger (the one you have is just fine) you shouldn’t have any problems. I don’t know if that C8 you bought has low voltage protection but if not or you are unsure make sure you take a voltage reading off the battery after heavy use and don’t let it get below say 2.9 volts. I don’t let mine get below 3.0 volts but thats just me. Then throw them back on the charger and shine away. The 30Q batteries will do you great in a 7135x8 light. One of the top 5 batteries used here by most guys. Sony VTC6, LG HG2, are the others I use. Depending on what I can find on sale. Stay away from batteries that have “fire” in the name. Unless your buying Windyfire 14500, then get as many as you can. LOL
Thank you for bringing this up I’m actually a little confused on how to operate it. The instructions say ,“Turn off the flashlight and click it again,turn to the modes to the low mode,
after 10seconds the light will blink,then at this time half click the button you can have the strobe and sos modes again.” It also says there are two groups ,“Group 1:low 5-mid 50-high100%
Group 2:low 5-mid 50-high100%-Strobe-SOS”
I have absolutely no idea how to work it. I understand there are two separate groups it can operate under, I would prefer it to operate under group two so I have the strobe option, however I don’t know how to get it into group two or cycle between the modes within the group.
Switch between groups by going to low mode. Wait for light to flash, then click off and click back on. Should change the group for you. Do the same if you want to switch back to the other group.
You cycle between modes within a group by tapping the switch, which breaks the circuit briefly. Clicking the light off and on will do the same thing if you do it quickly.
Changing the mode group is easy and the instructions make a lot more sense once you actually have a light to play with. Until then, I’ll confuse you further by writing my own explanation: Whenever you enter the low mode, the light will blink 10s later. If you switch the light off then (or within ~1s or two), when you turn it back on, it will be in the new mode group. If you leave it running, it will stay in the existing mode group the next time you turn it off and on again.
I’m pretty sure that strobe is still accessible with a double tab using that driver. Group 1 just takes it out of the single-tap cycle.
What is the difference between the AK and other 3/5 mode Convoys?
I have absolutely no idea. I just bought it because it had a bunch of good reviews on bangood.
I always “reset” my lights to the lowest setting so I don’t blind myself at night. I also quite often just light up something for a few seconds and that’s it. Bad bad bad combination with the 3/5.
So I go to light up something for a few seconds, and right before I turn off the light, the damned thing blinks. In that ohnosecond immediately following, I turn off the light. Great, now the damned thing has blinkies enabled (which I hate hate hate).
Sure enough, turn it on later, cycle through the modes, and I get an epileptic fit from the strobing. :confounded:
So now I gotta cycle back to low again, wait for the blink, then immediately turn it off or just half-click it as if changing modes. Then again, verify the damned blinkies are off.
Like I said, annoying as all Hell.
You might think having strobes is “useful”… for now. Trust me, when you get so sick of cycling through the damned strobe, SOS, beacon, whatever’s in the 2 extra blinky modes, you’ll wanna turn them off, too.
Functionally they’re similar if not exact, but the 105C makes it easy to solder-blob your way to a nice 1-mode light.
Nb: this also has the side-effect of disabling the low-voltage blink and LVP, as they’re now forced on to 100% as long as there’s power to the driver board. Big deal. I often use µC-less drivers with only 7135s. When you start seeing it go dim, turn it off.
Also, even in a C8 (and especially in an S2+), I’d personally go with 6×7135 maximum, as you could run it all day and not have it overheat, whereas 8×7135 draws 33% more current for only something like 10–15 more light, hardly noticeable. But lots more runtime.
Alas, Convoys tend to use 105Ds instead of Cs, so are likely soldered-in vs held in with a nice removable retainer ring. Also don’t recall how easy it might be to 1-mode it without actually reflashing it.
Chances are the OP won’t be running it 100% nonstop, so 6 vs 8 probably won’t make a difference, and the little bit of extra light might marginally help.