I saw one of the reviews here for “Gray convoy S21A with luminus sst40”, where a customer mentioned that he requested for Simon to add the lighted cap for his S21A. There’s even a picture of it. Check review with photo dated 19-Oct-2020.
However the customer didn’t go into detail whether the spring with lighted cap has that bypass wire. When purchased separately, the blue/orange lighted caps have no bypass wire.
If it is a package from Simon it will reach home. Just have faith.
You can also “talk with Eva” for a little while until you get in contact with some customer service agent, and report them such a thing. They should fix it. You may need to tell Eva a few lies, though.
So it’s not just me randomly choosing options and complaining about not receiving parcel etc. just to ask a real person about why is not my feedback visible?
Hey Bro, you look like new here. As a Pole, please let me welcome you here on behalf of all the users.
Convoy makes mostly lights with a reflector which means there’s a hotspot and some (depending mostly on reflector shape) spill.
In my opinion the most flody is Convoy Z1, which can zoom the beam. By rotating the head you make the beam wide or narrow. Contrary to reflector flashlights, zoom (aspherical lens) give you more uniform beam with no hotspot. But ZOOMies has their disadvantages. Among others, they are difficult to make them airtight and they loose some light (which is emitted on too small angle to hit the lens). So if you don’t mind the disadvantages, a zoomie can give you both: focused or wide beam.
Alternatively you might want to search for flashlight with TIR lens. TIR lens replaces reflector, also loses some power (but not as much as zoomie), but can mix the beam and regulate it’s width permanently.
Today I’ve received Seeknite X6s and I’m really impressed by it. It’s like Astrolux X6, beautiful Nichia 90+ CRI beam and lots of flood. Actually it’s way more floody than Emisar D4s with XP-L HD. It’s still available and the price is IMHO awesome considering what you get.
I think the S21B uses a ∅20mm driver, but since the S21B host advertisement lacks this information the only thing worth saying is the following: Simon, pay attention and good care of the information provided with your products. Your product advertisements must provide all customer required information.
Now that I'm here, I will also seize the opportunity to say that as a rule anti-reflective coated lenses damage the tint and CRI of flashlights. This of course is a way to tell Simon that some customers would prefer to order flashlights with good quality non-coated lenses, namely those who care for tint and CRI and less about throw.
Single layer AR-coated lenses increase output very little and the price is the obvious “beam greenery”. The solution is multi-layer AR coatings (5+ layers), or no coating.
The information on the driver diameter has been kind of inconsistent, as you said the host listing is sparse, and the only information I’ve been able to find was this comment saying it was 22mm and this comment asking about using a 20mm to 17mm adapter to put in a different driver.
Now with a bit of detective work I’m sure the S21B uses 22mm drivers not 20mm, check these images I pulled from AliExpress:
Customer picture of S21B
22mm SST40 driver
20mm SST40
I still want Simon to confirm compatibility with S21B and the new 22mm 8A driver, though, since for one thing the new driver uses a pin contact instead of a spring and there might be other things I haven’t considered.