What a great amount of detail being provided here. Simon’s attention to detail and interactiveness with the community is impressive and I’m compelled to get my first Convoy flashlight.
Btw Simon, what’s the desk lamp brand/model that you’re using in your CRI video?
There is that vexing thing called market demand. A few requests here and there may be atypical of the more prevalent and useful demand. Perhaps instead of a simple request for a light design alteration, one could explain the intention with the request. It sounds to me like Simon may be experienced enough to actually recommend an existing flashlight for the need in many cases.
Completely agree, some of the demands and requests are getting a bit crazy.
Convoy’s reputation is for high quality, budget, easy to use flashlights, with lots of emitter options.
If you want hotrods, RGB aux LEDs on disco mode, quads with mixed emitters, and having to perform factory resets after one false click, then look at lights from Hank, Fireflies, et al.
I’m going to have to agree also. I’ve got two types of flashlights;tools and toys. Convoy makes tools, physical switches, heavy wall construction, simple UI’s and reliable. Toys with flashy lights, sublights, multi step programming I buy else where. I’m guilty I think Convoy should up a few amps here and there on some lights. Build a few hot rods pushing the limits. Instead he builds light I can actually let nonflashaholics use without fear of burning themselves or screwing up the programs.
Agree, not interested in the tricked-up fancy stuff for everyday lights. Just need something that works….and is easy for the whole family to operate, grab and go without stressing if they click too many times that they will stuff up the settings. A basic UI and reliability to just work when needed is all I want.
Saving up for a couple of Convoy lights…particularly either the C8 or L21B (dedicated green Ostram and whit LED’s)
Sounds like the reflector needs to sit lower. Fc40 and sft70 shouldn’t inherently cause a donut hole or otherwise funky beam. But if you want to get rid of them simon just let me know
Yes. I had to remove some material from from the gasket, make it thiner. But now i have to add copper spacer between mcpcb and reflector to adjust focus and remive donut.
I agree with the discussion about wants and needs. I love Convoy's simplicity. There are many options out there that cover all kinds of gimmicky features already and if you want a light with many features, high CRI emitter choices, TIR lens, complex UI, ramping tints.. things starts to pile up. You can't have that with quality and ruggedness for cheap. If anyone ask me the only lights i believe Convoy lacks are quads. Simon already has preety much everything covered by now imho.
There are a few quads in the market, much appreciated ones in fact, and most of them run 18650 cells, Manker's E14iii runs quad LH351D's on 18350 but has 18650 tube as a performance enhancement available, Astrolux has the S43, Hank has the D4V2... Running a quad array from a 21700 like an "S12+" or M21B body and OP reflectors could be a very good seller since there's the demand for it. I think it would be Convoy's take on the D4 and D4S, a light similar to a Nitecore P20ix. SST-20, LH351D and Nichia options would be all the light i would ever need. Power, smooth beam, emitter choices, runtime... People have been spending money and time building multi emitter Covoys themselves, this must say something about demand tbh.
The sheer amount of people interested in a triple S2's too is crazy, people here spend almost a hundred dollars building them but it think this is too much of a hotrod for Convoy.
Anything other than this i think is a gimmick.
But this is just me, i see these lights much more as utilitarian tools than colletible items anyways and the nice thing about convoys is not minding them being scratched, dented, dirty... this is why they are always around.