Ya know. If you bought a sofirn c01s and a suitable AA host, one that you could depopulate the driver or such, you could make it use the sofirn driver. 3-100 lumens. No memory.
I would like to thank everyone who contributed to this thread. Big to all of you!
At this moment I'm leaning towards the Streamlight ProTac 1L 1AA. Most important this light can be setup with low - high, has no memory and can run on CR123, 14500 and AA (alkaline & lithium) cells. Also important I like the design, Streamlight is well known for making reliable and good quality lights and the ProTac 1L 1AA is available in Europe.
My existing Convoy T2 will get a LED4Power driver. This is by far my most favourite (highly custom configurable) lineair driver which I'm currently using in all my recently modded 1 cell lithium flashlights.
This being said I will also try to build an Oshpark HQ 17mm boost driver for the Convoy T2 host I ordered today. Thanks to Bourbon Guy for pointing me to this possibility and all the hard work done by HarleyQuin. Thanks guys!
Which driver are you planning to build? I have a couple of working 17B’s but failed to build a working 17D. I should sit down with a multimeter and see where the problem is.
Either way I’m glad someone else is attempting them.
According to someone who used his ProTac 1L-AA with a 14500 cell the light seems still to work just fine after about 50 charges. However, configured to Low-High it seems there is only high when using a 14500 cell.
The 1L-AA does have 2-levels using a 14500 when configured as Lo-Hi. It’s just that they aren’t as visually distinctive as compared to something like the OL i5t’s 2-levels. Also, one must half-press relatively quickly (short OFF time) to switch between from one level to the other.
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Actually I should have said “(short ON time)”. To get to High from Off, simply double click quickly fom Off.
However, if the first click to Low is On for more than about 1 second, getting to High from that point requires a double click to cycle through Low-then-High.