Thanks J-Dub74, will be interested to hear about wether its coated copper. I think someone also asked if it was raw copper or an alloy, do you know this?
More in line with thread topic, what’s your opinion on Convoy supplying cerakote or similar style coatings in the future? Based on your experience would there be any demand for this?
Sounds good, so if made of raw copper the solution is simply to handle it often or take to it with a cloth every now and then to stop the tarnish building up. I do prefer it shiny
I’ve actually cleaned a copper light up pretty nice sitting at a restaurant waiting for my meal… used the slice of lemon they put in my tea.
Any coating will wear off, some quicker than others, but it usually looks pretty bad as the coating chips and peels off and leaves the light in a calico pattern of shiny and patina’d. There are products that are supposed to leave a protective film, but I haven’t found one that actually works in this instance. Well, I used Renaissance Wax on my Solarforce M8 pill that Bucket made for me and it’s still shiny sitting on the shelf, that’s been a few years ago now. Never use the light. Supposedly it’s a Museum quality restoration wax that was developed for priceless antiques so…
Note that these only come with the XM-L2 and the old 3/5 mode firmware by default. If you want the XP-L HI and Biscotti, start a purchase but stop when you get to a spot that lets you add a note to your order. Use that to request Biscotti and the emitter of your choice. Don’t submit payment until Simon updates the price to reflect your modifications.
If anyone’s looking for the violet, orange or cyan S2+ in the Biscotti / XPL-HI / AR glass / smooth reflector configuration, Simon has listed them as a standard version:
Wow the purple and orange looks great! I especially like the orange as it looks nearly identical to my copper S2+ host. I wonder why they don’t sell host only versions.
I just realized none of the images or descriptions for the new colors mention a clip - are clips not included with these lights like they are with the other colors?
I just received my purple and orange S2+ host. They look even better than in the pictures. I was afraid the colorful ones would look cheap but it actually looks very nice premium feel. The orange looks even much better than the copper convoy S2+. I’m guessing that’s why I read Simon wasn’t very happy with his first batch of copper hosts. I still like the copper though for the heat sinking performance.