A decent single led with multiple batteries?

Hmmmmm…… yeah I like the look of the Lustfire but Amazon was the first seller I saw as well (and in the $100 range). A couple other places like Alibaba and Tmart had better prices but said discontinued.

OK I found one, $45, different name, another clone of the Convoy L2, just like the Lustfire K08:

http://www.gearbest.com/led-flashlights/pp_73031.html

*EDIT OK now that ^ is out of stock?!? I’m sorry it is looking like all the clones are sold out, the Banggood Dipper clone is also sold out, so is the Wallbuys clone. Looks like there is a run on the Convoy L2 clones around…

Similar Lustfire at $31, smaller reflector head: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/free-shipping-LusteFire-D01-CREE-XM-L-T6-LED-1000Lm-Flashlight-Torch/827438284.html I don’t have this light (or clone) though. Look at this thread for D01 owners and deals: Affordable 2 x 26650 + 2 x 18650 mod host $13.60 LustFire D01

If you like the look of the Convoy L4 its also much better quality control than the Yetzl Y3 or the Smallsun ZY-T08 ( have 2 of those too). Most Convoys have good quality standards. But, if you get a Smallsun ZY-T08 modified increased output and user interface by Richard of Mountain Electronics, its going to blow all these lights away… :slight_smile:

http://www.banggood.com/Convoy-L5-CREE-XM-L2-T6-4C-2-Group-3-or-5-Mode-1000LM-LED-Flashlight-p-916742.html You also can get different tints if you look around BanguGood. Quality is really great too! Easy to mod.

Can you use extension tubes on the convoy l5 as well?

Personally I’m pretty sure I’d rather have a Supfire M6 than a Smallsun ZY-T08. RMM mods both.

B42 I think you got the short end of the stick with your Y3. As far as resistor modding, I’m sure I’ve posted about it in at least one or two places. Probably somewhere in this big thread: YEZL Y3 CNQUALITYGOODS Group buy. 3 Versions. See post 274 for delivery details.

… rather than attempting to find where I’ve explained it before, we’ll just go through it again:

  1. Find the sense resistors. The Y3 uses two resistors in parallel, a normal setup. In this case it’s R180 and R150. The R is a decimal point, those resistors are 0.18 ohm and 0.15 ohm respectively.
  2. Determine the total (net) sense resistance. Use an online parallel resistor calc to see what the total is. PARALLEL RESISTOR CALCULATOR We can easily see that the total is about 0.08 ohms.
  3. Measure the output current (current to the LED). This should be around 3 amps with the stock driver and 2s or more.
  4. Determine the sense voltage: Punch current and resistance into an online ohms law calculator or just multiply the net resistance and the measured current together… 3 * 0.08 = 0.24v
    (Or skip those steps because we already know the sense voltage is in the 0.24v to 0.26v range due to it being a QX9920 buck controller. )
  5. Determine the new net resistance we need: Now we know sense voltage and we know your desired current (say 4.0 A), we clear our ohms law calculator and punch in the desired current along with the sense voltage… or we just divide the sense voltage by the desired current. I’m going to use 0.25v here because that’s about right: 0.25 / 4.0 = 0.0625 ohms
  6. Go back to your parallel resistor calculator and see what you need to put in parallel to achieve that resistance.
  7. Purchase and install whatever resistors you need.

Tks wight. I think I lost interest in modding it after my Y3 showed up bedraggled and limping, then I had better lights arrive and I put it aside. Maybe I’ll try it soon with this simple info. I’ll need to buy a lens that actually fits before attempting to mod so I can actually use it in the prevalent rain though, the one they shipped it with is slightly smaller diameter and loose. Then I have to change out the emitter and driver for an MTG2 and get rid of the pea soup color…

Yes I’d rather have a M6 modded, I was just indicating a Smallsun ZY-T08 someone brought up doesnt have to be a bad selection if modded, M6 is just much further off the single emitter mark…

You’re welcome. I’ll have to take a look at what I have at some point, I don’t think I had lens fitment issues.

Further off the single emitter mark, but closer to the 3-4 cells mark. :wink:

Well then if we are going there, I’ll go for a modded J12, J18, or J20 and 7,000 lumens instead! :slight_smile:

As for the lens issue, yes, its so bad with so much motion it clinks while using it constantly. I call it my noisy pea soup light. CW lights make it look green and warm, the X6’s 3C NW beam color looks to be a nice 4C tint next to the Y3 (which looks white with green shift vs it), while the X6 NW is slightly white greenish vs my real 4C tint C8.

I have (2) Y3’s modded with the MT-G2. I’m running RMM’s 17mm QLite Zener Mod on one for 6.2amps measured at the tail cap, made my own adapter 17mm to 23mm, put the MCPCB on 2mm copper ,with a 120 second Turbo and man it gets HOT! HOT!!! But do able!! Now the other is built the same way “EXCEPT” with RMM’s 22MMFETDD/ZENERMOD, it needs a 60 second Turbo or even 30 second Turbo, whoa this thing is BLAZING SCARY HOT at 120 seconds!!! Just saying……

@KawiBoy1428 - how was your lens fitment? how was your stock tint & alignment?

The SunZ seems kind of underpowered and a bit homely.

Both were loose at first, I used .032” solder and made a ring out of it and put it between the bezel ring and glass, and slowly tightened and loosen till flat, worked out well. Then I found some 2mm black oring’s to replace the GITD ones. I have used in the past and it’s still on my SRK the wax paper card board that’s on the bottom of Hostess Sno Ball’s, I traced the O.D. and cut it out, screwed the bezel on and cut the I.D. out using a razor knife and the inside of the ring as a guide. Still there and seals well too? Hard to find the SRK o-ring’s at 2.5mm cause 3mm wouldn’t let the bezel ring screw down?

Stock tint was greenish, alignment meh big plastic piece that covered the MCPCB board and tried to center the over sized emitter hole, so not that well, I’m mean you could knock it around a bit, but it wasn’t repeatable if you kept loosening the head?

I have been looking for 3x18650 3S also because I think that to drive a MT-G2 well one needs the extra voltage. As such I just learned that the Courui D01 is 3P and so was dropped from my list but as it is 3P runtime should be quite good.

as a starting point

$25

For the money Convoy’s are hard to beat! Great quality!!! And YES Mr.Woodfiend you can use the extension!

IIRC dealsmachine is being tricky by not having free shipping.

Yeah I don’t prefer them either, just agreeing that if you liked them, Richard could mod them to be nice output.

Supbeam/Acebeam K50 or Olight SR51/SR52.

How about a Thrunite TN32, will run forever on it’s lowest setting.

The only torch of this config I own is the Olight SR52. And I can say it’s very very nice. Can’t really say anything negative about it at all. Of course being a multi 18650 light, it is somewhat chunky.