Convoy L6... XHP70 Beast!

Of course they will be available as hosts. We plan to make smooth reflectors for the host in the future too. This is a Convoy light after all. :slight_smile:

I will ask Simon but to be honest this is not an ideal light for 18650s as they would be drained very quickly. The XHP70 is quite power hungry and we are feeding it well with this high current driver. I would recommend investing in a pair of hi-drain 26650s for this one.

This looks great, can’t wait. What sort of lumens does the XHP achieve at 5A?

Nah, that’s not wrong. What’s wrong is when someone posts some exciting pictures of a fantastic new waffle recipe they found and someone follows it with a post that says “I’ve always preferred pancakes”. :stuck_out_tongue:

From the little research I just did I would suspect at least 4000+ lumens!

Oh well… The L6 sounds like it’s gonna be my third XHP70 light in six month… after the Fandyfire and the Thorfire.

The S70 will be hard to beat at 4k lumen plus the other goodies. Can’t wait to see how the L6 will come out. Both look very similar with the side switch.

Now to order more hi drain 26650 to be ready…

Damn! That’s gonna be awesome!

I know it, but I have a lot of 18650-s and 0 26650-s now. Just I want to try it before I invest in a lot of 26650, and maybe some other 26650 lights. I’m happy with small and single cell lights until now :slight_smile:

Not including adapters is no big deal. Adapters to use 18650’s in a 26650 light are available many places. Fasttech, ebay, …. It may be best to not offer them with the light as many users are not going to use them anyhow.

You can’t have too many XHP70’s! I like!

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Can confirm. I have an XHP70 in an S2 pulling 7.4A from two 18350s. Even with a 10 second step down on the FET driver, a 30 second run dragged the batteries down to 3.79V from 4.2V….

If it doesn’t come with adapters, a quick, cheap and easy fix is to cut a piece of poster board paper. The width of the paper should be a little bit less than the length of the tube. Wrap the paper around two 18650 and roll them up tight. If the resulting tube is too big for the 26650 tube then cut off a little and roll it back up. Tape it once you get your desired inner and outer diameter.

I started doing this with DST mods as an impromptu spacer, but it worked great so I’ve made 3 or 4 other ones for Maglites and such.

Edit: grabbing a pair of matched 26650 cells is definitely a good idea though.

Any suggestions on where to get a decent-quality, budget-friendly set that will work well in this light? I’m assuming moderately high drain capability is preferred, and button top is a requirement for this series arrangement, but most of the cells I’m seeing (illumn, liion wholesale) are flat tops. Richard has a few button tops, and of course anything coming from his shop will be solid! I’m just wondering if there are other reliable button-top options out there, especially for those of us whose flashlight budgets are about to be stretched by an XHP70 Beast… :cool:

1” Sch 40 PVC water pipe makes excellent spacers to adapt from 26650 to 18650. 1 1/4” Adapts 32650 to 26650. Easy enough to get PVC pipe, or should be.

And yes, 5+Amps should be good for 4200 lumens or so, perhaps a bit more.

KeepPower flat tops stick out enough to stack.

Purple Efest 4200mAh 40A IMR26650 seem to work fairly well. About $10 per cell. I’ve done minimal testing, but they seem to be better than 30Q’s.

I would probably avoid Basen cells. Way too many variables have been discovered with them.

Vappower 4200mAh 26650 look like they’d be great based on HKJ’s testing.

Hopefully this will be available in the usual tint options

A couple notes:

  • The L6 will not come with 18650 spacers for the reasons previously listed but a bunch of members stepped in with easy to obtain spacer options.
  • As far as tint options, last Friday Simon said only the N4-1C is available right now but he will try to get more tint options. I’ve asked to at least try to come up with something around 5000k for a decent neutral option.
  • A few people asked if the L2 tubes will work with the L6. I can now confirm that yes, they are compatible. Same threads.

Edit: I forgot to mention that Simon did a runtime test last night. The L6 in turbo ran for 80 minutes on two KeepPower 5200mAh cells at which point he describes it as very very very hot. :zipper_mouth_face: This of course was indoors with no air circulation so in actual outdoor use the heat should be much more manageable. More testing results will be posted when they are received.

Many thanks for the updates. Looking forward to the light. Compared to “that other light” I prefer the looks, but more importantly something else than cool white (ugh!). Hopefully, Simon will succeed in getting a NW option :slight_smile: