Hello long time to read the thread returned to ask something if someone has the answer. Is that pouch good for the flashlight? http://www.military1st.eu/ma48-008-condor-flashlight-pouch-multicam.html
as i can read the dimension of the flashlight is:
Diameter of head : 44.5mm
Length : 143mm
Diameter of body : 25.6mm
and the pouch Dimensions: 5.3”x2”x0.8” (13.5x5x2cm)
Thank you in advance.
Wow, fascinating, and looks build quality :+1:
Can’t tell about that, but you have some specific holsters for C8 from Convoy Store 
I have the second one and has a very cheap feeling, i have the first one for convoy s2 it’s very good quality and sturdy built. thank you for the info.
Anyone here done some mod with this C8?
I put XHP50 with Noctigon, but the result, got some ring spot in the center.
Put the reflector several times, thinking it might loose, but seems not.
Any suggestion?
It is not a bug. It is a feature of XHP leds with SMO reflectors. The cross in the led make the dark center of the hot spot. Try orange peel reflector or replace the XHP50 to XHP50.2
The ring is so obvious for sure. Though my wrong setup or else.
I’ll try OP reflector later, I’m sure I have one from long time ago.
You will need to open up the bottom led hole because OP reflectors have 7mm hole.
Donut hole is not avoidable for XHP50 as it is build from 4 single dies
You can change the focus a bit getting the gasket thinner or thicker
Based on this thread I bought one of these lights. I got it from Fasttech last May. The driver has stopped functioning properly. It is stuck in moonlight mode. It will not enter the programing mode. Fasttech will replace the light but I have to ship it back to them which costs as much if not more than the light. I like the light a lot and use it constantly every day. Where can I get a new, correctly programed driver to replace the old one? Thanks for any help on this.
Well, it’s not avoidable using a mirror finish reflector. There are options that allow elimination of the donut hole.
ie: Ledil Mirella 35mm reflector with mounting base.
Illuminations Machines also makes some very worthy diamond faceted reflectors.
I also tried a “larger” emitter in mine, a Nichia 144A in my case, but the beam isn’t very good for me either. Pretty bad “egg yolk” effect. My hope is that raising the emitter up higher into the reflector will help but I haven’t had a chance to try and accomplish that.
There’s a Khatod optic, I believe, that works great over a XHP-70, it’s got a large “cup” in the top surface and vertical lines inside the TIR. This tames the donut hole pretty well, I have one in an X6 with extension tube and it makes some 5441 lumens at 10.4A from a pair of the older Samsung 20R 18650’s. Granted, it’s a 35mm optic and the C8 accommodates larger than that, but it’ll work with the lens in place, especially if using one of the holders.
Banggood sell the Convoy driver with Biscotti, in all variants (number of 7135). It’s not expensive.
Plain ol’ XM-L, but I had just the opposite in an F13. The come-with spacer was in there, it had a decent hotspot but a little fuzzy, so to try “tightening it up”, I tried pulling the spacer and using a thin PETE insulator instead, to let the LED farther up into the reflector.
Big mistake. Ringy, and the worst fried-egg beam I’ve ever seen.
Swap the come-with spacer again, and it’s back to normal, pretty smooth beam.
I had an idea which I never quite tried before.
Take a stiff spongy material that’s not conductive, make a “washer” out of it, and put that between the reflector and LED. Turn it on (hopefully not hot enough to melt the stuff) and watch the beam as you screw down the reflector. The tighter you screw it down, the more the “sponge-washer” will compress, and the farther into the reflector the LED will go. Loosen it, and hopefully the sponge will press the reflector back out.
This way you can adjust the focus to whatever you’d want, and know that it is possible to get that focus. Then, shave down a real spacer/washer to the appropriate thickness.
Beats repeated swapping of spacers/washers/whatever, trying to remember what was better or worse.
Been there, done that, F13 is spaced nicely as standard. Countersunk top of spacer thinking it was blocking a little of the side throw, which it slightly was, but not worth the effort.
Why is FastTech making you mail the light back? That makes no sense.
You can get replacement drivers from overseas from a lot of different places including Convoy itself or any of the other stores such as Banggood, FastTech or Gearbest.
My advice, since your in the US, is to buy one from Richard at Mountain Electronics. He has a ton of options. You can stick with a constant-current driver with a wide variety of different user interfaces or you can go with a fet driver and get increased output.
These lights can absorb heat really well, so a FET driver is a good option.
See if Fasttech will refund half the purchase price and you keep the light, then take that money and get whatever driver you want.
A simple plumbing washer might to the job. Soft rubber, get a thin one with an adequate inner diameter, might work
If you’re able to take it apart, a new driver can be swapped in pretty easily. You could even upgrade it at the same time, perhaps using a bistro driver from MtnElectronics. This would give you more throw and a nicer UI.
Or with some fairly cheap tools you could reflash the stock driver to fix it.
If you’re not able to take it apart, a solution is more difficult.