I’m very happy to do what I can and I appreciate your understanding. I thoroughly enjoy this. As awesome as Convoy is, Simon is still doing most of this himself with the help of a handful of workers to help him assemble. He doesn’t have the financial backing of a big company. He’s just a guy that started his own flashlight business. He worked for an LED encapsulation company before all this which is where the flashlight spark probably took hold. He’s done well but when it comes to business in China he is still a small player. Buying LEDs from Cutter simply would not be an option. We will keep steadily moving forward but I must ask for a bit of patience from the BLF community. I thank you all for supporting Convoy. Simon is a cool guy who started an excellent (IMHO) flashlight company and through an unexpected chain of events I find myself here. It’s given me an opportunity to play a role in the flashlight world that I never expected and I like it here!
I think a lot of us here appreciate Simon, Convoy, and you. We all have our wishes and dreams about some super light that could be possible. Don’t worry, we will come back down to reality eventually, but we want to dream first.
If it wasn’t for the flash setting i’d really like it. I like how it is the complete package: charging, USB ports, LED charge indicators, tripod socket.
Right on! Thank you. This light would not exist without the wishes, dreams and valuable input of BLF members. Each dream should be bigger. I’m enjoying the ride. Dream on!
It’s May Day Holiday over there, so once again we have a National Vacation day standing in our way and creating havoc. The next couple of days should show people trickling in back to work, hung over and sending out excuses but back at work.
You guys crack me up. Now everyone’s like “Don’t bother him or he’s gonna get mad.” Nothing wrong with asking questions.
As Dale mentioned, May Day is just winding down in China. Holidays over there are different. A one day holiday seems to mean 4-7 days of delayed business. Simon just sent me a string of emails over the last few hours and now I’d imagine he’s sleeping so no more will come until tomorrow. I don’t have a listing date to announce yet but I imagine it should be any day.
I did get the very good news that Simon found a source for neutral XHP70 emitters in Hong Kong. I don’t know the exact tint/bin yet but he said 5000K which is what I was asking for so this should be good. He said he will be purchasing them after May Day. More news when I have it. Cheers!
I’m not the best person to recommend batteries but Simon told me he tested this light using KeepPower 5200mAh cells. He also included several pictures.
In the picture below the L6 is posing with two KeepPower 5200mAh protected cells so I’m going to guess that those are the cells he used so it should support both protected and unprotected cells. Keep in mind of course that whatever cells you buy have to run in series so completely flat top cells will not work unless you use a magnet or something to make the connection from cell to cell. Some flat top cells are raised just enough to run in series. I think the purple Efest 26650 may fall into that category. Good stores like Mountain Electronics will usually state in the battery listing if a flat top cell is raised enough on the positive end to be run in series. Seeing as this is a current controlled driver based light I do not think you’d see any real gains by going ultra-hi-drain versus something with good capacity.
I’ll let the more experienced people take it from here and correct me if I misspoke in any of this.
Edit: Dale will probably be able to post numbers from a few different cells when he receives his but probably only in the unprotected varieties.
I don’t think you’ll find many protected cells at Dale’s house.
Hey! I resemble that remark! I’ll have you to know I have 5! Three AW Protected 18650 1600mAh in my Solarforce S2200, one in my wife’s PD’1, and one in my son’s little EDC from his grandpa. So there.
(I think that comes out to about 2% of my cells are protected. )