I got both of the Sofirn C8F’s and with the Led4Power LD-2 at 12amps, I am able to use both the push button and e-switch to (cycle) change modes, just added a lighted tail cap.
Maybe Simon could make it like this, It is really nice to be able to use both buttons, really more user friendly when you have both switches operable!
I am expecting several of these hosts after liking my version 2 C8F from Sofirn. Have some XP-L2 5000k emitters and am looking, hopefully, for ramping drivers for this and, of course, a lighted switch would be very nice. :innocent:
Any ideas or sources please? I am sure others would appreciate this as well. Have not seen driver options discussed here, though I may have missed it…
Thanks!
I have no idea what i’m looking at here:
I tried to show the rubber side button cover transparency. I putted on a flashlight lens and turned on. 
Thanks. We appreciate the pictures, guys. My order is yet to arrive, so those close up shots are helpful. At least, they help us plan ahead and let us figure out the components we want.
Aha, now i understand what i’m looking at. 
And I’m ordered 2 of those cheap SS bezels. Thanks for the link!
Found these too:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/-/32835936873.html
looks awesome with these:
https://www.fasttech.com/product/7989400
(especially in a Convoy C8 tailcap)
A C8 is too heavy for this magnet to hold. Sofirn head even heavier because more mass in the shelf and reflector. I will measure weights later.
I like the stainless switch but I don’t have the equipment to make a nice hole in tailcap and good thread. If someone make it. It will be unique.
Use some translucent rings and super glue.
(should take a better picture…)
PS: Magnet is strong enough for this C8 with SS bezel.
Maybe not for the Sofirn triple.
Nice job. Do you have some pics from assembly how everything fits?
No, but i will make another one, i will take pics and post it.
Thanks! I like the double lighted ring.
Well good news and bad news for me. Good news I have all the parts. Bad news is the Noctigon 32mm does not fit. It will not sit flush against the shelf. Bought the xp32 with LEDs already on so guess i’ll be learning to reflow LEDs on a triple :person_facepalming:
I was wondering if them Noctigons would be a good fit or not. Now we know for sure. Thanks for the heads up.
That’s strange. Dale (DB Custom) used one in his (link) and I don’t recall him saying anything about machining the shelf. Granted, that was on one of the very first units before Sofirn changed emitters, used DTP, etc. Maybe they changed the shelf in the second batch.
I know I didn’t machine the shelf, I may have used a file to reduce the 32mm MCPCB slightly. Would have done that by hand, have done that kind of thing so many hundreds of times it wouldn’t be something I’d really remember doing.
I have a 12” double cut bastard file on my work table, I lay it on the edge of the table and run a round mcpcb (or whatever) vertically down the length of the file while giving it a bit of a turn, reset my finger hold and do it again, turning every time to maintain the circular profile. (Thumb and middle finger on the sides, index finger on top, pressing down… like a wheel but not rolling, just a slight turn every pass) Takes but a couple of minutes to turn a 32mm copper disc into a 31.7mm disc for an X6, for example. Also drill a hole through the center of the 32mm board, where the center XP pads are, to keep from getting the wires in a bind.
I used 18 ga leads and they fit in the cut-outs on the base of the reflector. As I recall I sealed them in Arctic Alumina Thermal Adhesive so they’d not short out.
Jerommel, that SS switch assembly lighted by blue is really nice!
I didn’t check the e-switch CF8 to see what it was, but the shelf on the Push Button CF8 is 30.5mm. But the reflector was almost a direct replacement for my Convoy C8 Triple SST-40 Optic build using “kiribu-ra’s” spacer…need to take 1.25mm off the back of the spacer, so the bezel closes up, otherwise NICE!
Pretty racy looking Convoy you got there Scott!
Got a pair of C8F side switch hosts in the mail today. Cold and wet, they were! Must’ve been quite a trip getting here, the boxes had been wet inside the bubble wrap long enough to essentially disentegrate when I opened them to get the lights out. Nothing wrong with the lights, of course. Time to build one up and see how she be! 